May 2012
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Work As We Know It Is Changing–Get Ready!
That Was Then My maternal grandmother went to work when she was thirteen years old at a china factory that made dishes for hotels and restaurants and, eventually, naval ships. She stayed in a rental room with her two-year-older sister… Continue reading
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There’s Networking, and Then There’s NETWORKING
Do It Before You Need It I started this blog out of frustration. I had just talked to my umpteenth client/friend/student/colleague who found him/herself out of a job with a stone cold network and a total freak out about what… Continue reading
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Are You a Good Fit For Your Organization?
What is the Culture of Your Organization? Two key components of managing your career to success are to know yourself well and to understand your organizational environment. The next step is to evaluate your fit within your organizational culture. All… Continue reading
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Dealing with Feedback You Hate
It’s pretty easy to deal with being told that you are great, that you’ve nailed the job, that you are the best thing since sliced bread. Unfortunately, that isn’t the feedback most of us get most of the time. We… Continue reading
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Selling Your Brand
Have You Thought About Your Brand? Have you ever thought about how your boss thinks about you? Not what he thinks, but how he thinks? What about how the organization thinks about you? How about the top leadership in your… Continue reading
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Career Check-up
Why a Career Check-up? Those of us who do what we should have annual physical check-ups. People who practice preventative health care are much healthier. We take our cars for their regularly scheduled maintenance milestones. Our cars last longer, drive… Continue reading
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Let’s talk about the most marketable skill of all
Which Skill is So Marketable? What is that, you ask? What could possibly be the MOST marketable skill? EXECUTION. Execution comes in all flavors–marketing, IT, Project Management, Human Resources, strategy, operations, software, finance and on and on. Organizations spend tons… Continue reading
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Moms At Work
Happy Mother’s Day On this Mother’s Day, I thought would I write about women at work. I grew up not only with a mother who worked outside the home, but with a grandmother who always had as well (starting when… Continue reading
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Do a Personal SWOT
Most of us have done a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) for our organization at one time or another. It is a part of most strategy development efforts. Try doing a personal SWOT as a part of your career development… Continue reading
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What The Heck Are Unwritten Rules?
Four Problems There are four problems to being able to understand the unwritten rules in your organizations. The first is that you believe you know the rules (these are your beliefs about how organizations are supposed to work) and that… Continue reading
Jo McDermott 