career goals
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Keep Up Or Fall Behind
If You Want To Stay Employed To stay marketable in today’s workforce, and to be considered for continued promotions, you HAVE to keep up. Maybe back in the day that wasn’t as necessary–maybe you got to be an expert within… Continue reading
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Get a Mentor. Use a Mentor.
Get a Mentor I know you’ve heard it. If you’ve been reading this blog, you’ve heard it from me. You need a mentor to help your career. Easier said than done, right? Typical questions about mentors and mentoring are: What… 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
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Promoted! Now What?
Congratulations! You just got promoted. Or you just got reorganized into a new department. Or you just got a new boss. How do you make this a step in the right direction and keep from crashing and burning. Ok, crashing… Continue reading
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Get Your ‘Get Up and Go’
I spent much of Sunday morning watching a few hundred people participate in their first triathlon. It was sixty-something degrees and drizzling. What would possess these people—all ages, shapes and sizes—to come out in the rain to inflict discomfort on… 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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You Have To Start To Succeed
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it. I saw this quote yesterday and LOVED it. I searched the Internet to try to find the author unsuccessfully, but discovered in the process that this… Continue reading
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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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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
