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Dealing with a Difficult Boss - Click To Read Article
If you are blessed with a fantastic boss - one who is supportive, encouraging, competent, and confident, who wants you to be successful and cares about your professional advancement - then you’ve hit the jackpot. Nurture this relationship and work hard to show that your boss’s investment in you is worthwhile to him/her. Unfortunately, not everyone’s boss is close to this ideal. The following are examples of difficult bosses and how you can make working for this person more manageable.
Bouncing Back from "Bad" Feedback - Click To Read Article
Feedback is someone's perception of you, it is not you. You get to evaluate its accuracy and meaningfulness. What you do with the feedback is up to you. You can evaluate it, act on it or ignore it. If it comes from a supervisor or employer, you may be required to make changes, but you can choose how to approach it.
Networking is Not a Dirty Word - Click To Read Article
Networking doesn't have to be overwhelming, it is a valuable tool that enhances our job search, your career advancement, and enables you to find a satisfying and rewarding career path. Overcoming the resistance to network is crucial to your career.
Mistakes Happen! - Click To Read Article
Most of us have made mistakes in the workplace. They happen! Some are small and can be easily rectified. Others may seem larger, impact other people and projects, and may cause embarrassment, frustration and self-doubt. What do you do in order to rebound from an error and continue moving ahead professionally?
Doing, Doing, Done! - Finishing that Big Project - Click To Read Article
During a large project it's easy to become distracted. Procrastination sets in, you lose focus, you become frustrated, and you check email 47 times a day. You doubt your competence and ability to do what you set out to do. These factors pull you away from the task at hand. What is needed to stay on track, feel good about your progress and finish? In this article, you will learn two perspectives on tackling the project along with 7 ways to ensure increased productivity and completion.
What is Work/Life Balance, Anyway? - Click To Read Article
Work/Life Balance is heard often in the media with magazines, talk-shows and self-help professionals offering solutions on ‘how to get it’. This is a great disservice as it assumes that Work/Life Balance is an end state – something that you accomplish and then reap the benefits. Work/Life is a journey, not a destination. This article outlines four actions you can take to move you forward on your journey.
Career Tune-up: Maintaining your Professional Path - Click To Read Article
As 2008 begins, it’s the perfect opportunity for a Career Tune-up. The New Year provides a natural time to evaluate how your career progressed over the past year and to determine what you want for the year ahead. Investing time in assessment and planning will enable you to have a greater impact on your professional development.
The Past Year
When you review your career milestones of the past year, you’ll want to take a candid look at what worked and what didn’t work for you, your clients and your organization. Defining this will help you to make decisions about next year.
Worry in the Workplace - Click To Read Article
Worrying does not serve you at any time. It takes you away from your priorities, diminishes your focus and prevents you from engaging at your full level of competence and confidence. It robs your company or organization of your full capabilities and talents.
Delivering Difficult Messages at Work - Click To Read Article
Whether the information needs to be shared with an individual, a group or an entire organization, these instances can truly become an opportunity for all parties involved. Opportunity arises when the outcome of the interaction leads to greater awareness, learning, motivation, support and creativity as well as a call to action. In this article you will learn how to deliver difficult messages while at work.
The Opportunity of Conflict - Click To Read Article
You will feel better about your professional role and see greater accomplishments. Here are several areas in which you can reconsider the role of conflict and apply different approaches to it.
Sorry No More - Click To Read Article
Do you find yourself saying “I’m sorry” too often at work? Have you noticed a pattern of prefacing feedback or sharing of your ideas with an “I’m sorry, but?” Clients often come to me noticing their overuse of this phrase and the negative impact it has on their professional stature. What place does saying “I’m sorry” have in the workplace?
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