Personal Change
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Face What’s Holding You Back
What Do You Think is Holding You Back? What do you tell yourself about what is holding you back? You need another degree? Your boss doesn’t like you? You have to relocate for the next step? You’re too old? Too… Continue reading
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Career Accelerants
Do are you know people who are about your age, have about the same experience, and aren’t more talented/smart/capable than you, but who are more successful in their career than you? Are you puzzled about what they have that you… 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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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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Get Off Your Butt! DIY Executive Development
I’m going to rant a little l talk to people all the time who are sitting around waiting for their company to “do something” about their development. They know that they are talented (and for the most part, the company… Continue reading
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Take Feedback, Especially Bad Feedback, As a Gift
My “Bad” Feedback I remember the first time that feedback got my attention. It didn’t get enough attention, but I kept thinking about it—for a really long time. My mentor told me, “Well, you didn’t get where you are on… Continue reading
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Don’t Take Your Needs to Work
Basics/Needs/Wants My first exposure to the idea of how my needs impacted my career came from Laura Berman Fortgang’s book, Take Yourself to the Top. Fortgang divides things into basics/needs/wants. Most of us can tell what the basics are–enough food, housing,… Continue reading
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Dealing with A**holes
For some reason I’ve talked to a lot of people in the last couple of weeks who were having problems with people in their lives—mostly at work. The problem when you have to deal with people who are difficult is… Continue reading
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Can You Really Earn a Living Doing What You Love?
Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow You hear it all the time. “Do what you love and the money will follow?” But is it true? I’d have to say, “Kind of.” When you are working doing things you… Continue reading
