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Will Your Style Get You To The Next Level?
You have gotten to where you are based on a lot of things, but a key element of your success is your style. Are you the “expert/straight-forward/opinionated” person? Are you the “social/make everyone comfortable/cheerful” person? Or are you the “large/take… Continue reading
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The Water You Swim In
Understanding Your Organization’s Culture Organization culture for people is like water is for fish. It is there. It is critical to how the organization works. It shapes people’s interactions. It guides how work gets done, what is considered success, who… Continue reading
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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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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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Keeping Up
Why Should I Care? I talk to people who want to get promoted. I talk to people who just lost their job. I talk to people who want to go work for a cool company they know about. I talk… Continue reading
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New Job? Here’s What You Do:
First Thing The first thing you do is remember that you don’t know what you don’t know. Be very careful about your assumptions. If you had the same job in a different organization, remember it might not be the same… Continue reading
