Do You Really Need a Coach?
If you are in any type of transition regarding work or life, or you are considering a transition, then you may have thought about getting someone to coach you through the process. For example, you may be seeking a new direction for your future because it’s clear what you’ve been doing isn’t working any longer. …
Which ‘Self’ Should You be in a Job Interview?
You’ve probably run across articles or blogs that advise job hunters to “just be yourself” to succeed in a job interview. Ostensibly, this would seem to be rather sound advice. After all, no one enjoys dealing with a phony or someone who comes across as disingenuous. Still, I’ve always had problems with such advice, primarily …
Successful Salary Renegotiation
Successful salary renegotiation is a complex, multistep process that takes time. Just like anything else, there is a right and wrong way to approach it. Employees who walk into their boss’ office and ask for more money leave the meeting empty-handed and afraid of losing their job.
Roughly 70% of the job seekers whom I …
How long should you sit on your Kingdom?
After all your hard work.
Isn’t it time to sit back and relax?
It’s so compelling to think about it. It’s so alluring, but don’t go there … It’s a Trap!
Today I was listening to Marc Benioff. Founder and CEO of Salesforce. The pioneer in the “No Software” movement. He was asked about some …
What Millennials Seek, Desire in an Employer
I just read an interesting article online entitled, Stop Treating Millennial Employees Like Enigmas, written by Sara Roberts and Michael Papay and featured on Fastcompany.com.[1] As the title suggests, the article focuses on how businesses can best utilize the skills and talents of Millennials, generally defined as that 80-million-strong cohort born between 1977 and 2000, …
You were just hit by a bus, now what?
What is your bus coefficient?
Meaning, if you were to suddenly be removed from your role what would happen.
Imagine that metaphorically you were just hit by a bus.
What are you going to do now? What will happen to your projects? What will happen with your team?Of course, I hope you weren’t really …
Career Stalled? NOW is GREAT Time for New Job Hunt!
If you’ve spent the last four or five years (or even longer!) laboring in “stable misery” at your current job because, among other reasons, you were just thankful to stillhave a job, now would appear to be the best time in years to peek over the edge of your self-imposed foxhole and check out the …
Effective Interview Preparation
While preparing for an interview, it’s imperative to know what will and won’t persuade a recruiter or hiring manager. Attempting to convince an employer that you are competent by outright stating, “I am competent,” will have the opposite of the desired effect.
Hiring managers are most easily persuaded when they think an idea is theirs. …
Don’t Prolong the Rejection
Sometimes we don’t want to put our art out there for fear of it being rejected.
That was the case with Jeff Kinney.
He is the author and creator of the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series of bestselling books.
After a successful stint at drawing a comic strip for his college newspaper he found …
7 Ways to Innovate and Prove You’re Worthy
The terrible truth of work is that almost anyone can do anything. I don’t want to make you paranoid, but open up the UCLA Extension course catalog, a MOOC or watch a few “how-to” YouTube videos, and you get my drift. Education and skills are the easiest things to acquire.
Leaving out advanced neurosurgery, the …