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Tips on Protecting Your Job During a Recession - Click To Read Article
Be realistic about your situation. Even if you are an exemplary employee, you are not immune to the potential impacts of a recession. Remember that valuable employees tend to earn more, which makes them candidates for layoffs.
Making the Transition After a Layoff - Click To Read Article
Here’s something you should know - traditional career search strategies like online job postings, advertisements, and employment centres represent about 20% of the available jobs in the market, but more than 80% of people use these methods to find their next position. On the flip side, 80% of jobs are available through networking, friends and business contacts, but only 20% of job seekers use their contacts to find work. Now is the time to make yourself extremely visible and to promote your credibility.
The Two-Minute Drill - Click To Read Article
A co-worker who has been a critic of your work in the past is promoted to become your supervisor. What's your best career strategy?
In this situation, you not only want to survive, you want to thrive. And, believe it or not, you can do well in these circumstances. Here is a three point plan for success.
Empowering the People in Your Organization - Click To Read Article
In the workplace, the word “empower” is often thought of in its traditional definition, of enabling someone, or equipping them with an ability. The task of empowering usually falls to an organization’s managers. To succeed in empowering their employees, they need more than a vague idea of what empowerment means. They need an entirely new approach to management.
Get on the right track with executive onboarding - Click To Read Article
Most organizations offer some level of orientation for new leaders. But without a well-defined plan for integrating the new leader, the risk of poor performance and failure is high. Executive onboarding has grown out of traditional orientation to provide a more comprehensive and systematic plan for helping executives transition into their new role. Onboarding reinforces conventional orientation and training programs with highly focused one-to-one leadership coaching, targeted skills development, and timely objective feedback. The goal is twofold: first, ensure that new executives find their footing quickly and avoid costly missteps; second, help them build effective alliances with their direct reports to ensure continuity and cooperation in achieving organizational goals.
Tapping into Our Creativity ~ Poetic of the Soul - Click To Read Article
Creativity has been painted as a path to our imagination, an expression of our spiritual nature, and as a business success application tool. In our search and in the depths of creativity comes what we may find we are having difficult articulating and acknowledging - the poetic language of the soul.
Creativity is a Powerful Way of Thinking and Being - Click To Read Article
I often hear people say, "I’m not a creative person!" In truth, as humans each of us is inherently creative by virtue of being part of Nature - the essence of creativity itself.
I believe to be creative means to use what comes naturally to you with the responsibility to share that gift with the world. Uncovering your unique gift and learning how to tap into your creative energy are defining steps that allow for the release of ideas and desires that further enhance your ability to create, resulting in the potential of living a fulfilling and meaningful life. Understanding the potential of your unique creativity, and then actively and consciously creating leads to greater success in manifesting the results you want for your life. If we are all naturally creative as human beings, what holds us back?
I am a senior woman in an organization whose power structure is dominated by men. How do I succeed in this game without losing track of who I am? - Click To Read Article
Women who have attained senior positions in an organization often find it lonely at the top. A 2006 Catalyst Canada study shows that only 4.2% of FP500 companies have a woman as CEO or president. Women make up nearly half the work force, but rarely make it into the ranks of corporate officer. In fact, only 7.3% of so-called “clout titles” belong to women.
As a woman in a senior position, you can maintain your personal momentum by staying true to who you are, knowing your strengths and having the confidence to show them off, as I describe below.
Back down to Earth after the boss returns - Click To Read Article
The scenario: Your immediate supervisor is returning to the job after an extended leave. It means you will no longer be the acting department head and will have to revert to your former second-in-command status. How do you make the adjustment in terms of your ego and desire for responsibilities?
Instead of viewing this situation as a step back, view it as a step aside, with potential for two steps forward from there. Keep your professional future in mind by concentrating on the few areas outlined below.
How to give your family a wellness makeover - Click To Read Article
In this day of cell phones, pagers, blackberry’s and emails you think it wouldn’t be hard to reach someone in your family but the truth is it is more challenging than ever… to reach them in a way that keeps you connected. So, how do you stay connected? How can you turn the abundance of quantity in to quality time? How can you give your family a ‘makeover’ in a meaningful way as if you just showed up to your favorite spa for a few hours of a meditative makeover?
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Cassandra Gierden founded Prophet Coaching
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