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Onboard Yourself
Onboarding Onboarding is the process that organizations use to get their employees up to speed enough to do their jobs. Another term for it is “organizational socialization.” Organizations have informal and formal methods for the knowledge transfer or processes, tools,… Continue reading
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Trust me, damn it!
Demanding Trust Doesn’t Work I once had a boss demand that I trust her again. We can talk later about how I made the mistake of letting her know that I didn’t trust her (not a good career move, and… Continue reading
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Promoted to Manage Your Peers? Awkward.
They’ll Hate Me! If you spend enough time climbing the corporate ladder, or if you work in a small organization, eventually you’ll be promoted to manage your peers. This is one of the toughest developmental experiences there is. It’s hard… Continue reading
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Become a Great Leader
Do You Want to Become a Great Leader? How you think about leadership has a profound affect on your success in becoming a good leader. We all have our individual idea of what a good leader is. Then we assume… Continue reading
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Flip the Switch
A Story I’m going to tell you a story so that you can learn an important lesson without having to go through what I went through to learn it. How’s that for a deal? Then you’ll be able to do… Continue reading
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Is That Smoke Smell Your Burnout?
Are You Burned Out? Here are the symptoms: Everything looks bleak You don’t even have enough energy to care Your tolerance of other people is very low You feel unappreciated You feel like you’re going through the motions It doesn’t… Continue reading
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Diversity Makes Work Work.
Work Has Gotten More Diverse. No Duh! Have you noticed how diverse our work lives have gotten lately? Not so much at the top of organizations–we still have a long way to go there–but in terms of getting actual work… Continue reading
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What If Your Leader Won’t Act?
What if my leader won’t . . . I get this question all the time. My leader won’t make a decision; what do I do? Why won’t the leadership in my company LEAD? Things go up the chain, but nothing… Continue reading
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Are You A Wannabe?
Are you an Executive wannabe? An entrepreneur wannabe? An artist wannabe? A marathoner wannabe? An author wannabe? Do you put one of those on your New Year’s Resolutions list? How about your career goals list? What Is Stopping You? Look… Continue reading
Jo McDermott 