stand out career development
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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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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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Create a Stakeholder Plan For Your Career
I’ve been working a lot with Stakeholder Plans for large organization change lately, and I was thinking that it would be a good idea to create one for a career plan. For those who haven’t had the pleasure of creating… 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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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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It All Starts With That First . . . Step
Know What You Want I used to be in charge of Executive Development for a large corporation. One day a middle manager came to talk to me about her career dreams. Within the organization, she had been designated a “hi… Continue reading
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WOW! Yourself
Do You Stand Out? When was the last time your boss, your employees, your customers thought “Wow!” after dealing with you? You know, the way that Jeremy Lin has recently “wowed” us all. If it hasn’t happened in a while,… Continue reading
