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Ramon Greenwood - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Ramon Greenwood, head career coach at CommonSenseArWork.com produces a free semi-monthly newsletter, The Career Accelerator, and Your Blog For Career Advice.
Both are dedicated to providing take-it-to-the-bank advice that enables ambitious men and women to accelerate their careers.
Greenwood advises from a base built on real-world experience in a wide variety of fields including private industry, federal government, entrepreneurship, serving as a professional director and consultant, writing and public speaking.
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- Career Coaching - How to Wreck an Interview in 14 Easy Steps
[Business:Careers-Employment] Will your next interview lead to that job you crave? It's not likely if you commit one or more of the most flagrant errors of omission or commission associated with the process. Here are 14 such bombs that can sabotage this face-to-face opportunity to sell yourself, along with advice on how to avoid them.
- Career Advice - Reverse Mentoring is Revolutionizing the Workplace
[Business:Career-Advice] Mentoring which has a strong and respected place in the world of work is taking on a new dimension as increasingly younger careerists are performing this vital service for their older bosses and associates. This new mode of mentoring has been brought about by the technology spawned by computers and the Internet. Employers, older workers as well as younger cohorts benefit.
- Don't Call Off Job Search Until an Offer is in Hand
[Business:Job-Search-Techniques] All of the vibes are good. You've had what appeared to be positive interviews for a job your really want. Now you are waiting for the offer you are sure is coming. Then, the bomb drops. You learn the job has gone to someone else. There are five lessons you learn from this scenario that will strengthen your job search.
- Career Advice - Think Twice Before Relocating For a Job
[Business:Career-Advice] Accepting a new job that requires relocating is a very serious challenge. So back off and carefully analyze your needs as compared to the cost of the opportunity. That's right, "cost", because there's a price tag on every opportunity along the career path. This article provides a guide to the issues to be considered before making the move.
- Career Advice - Are You Getting the Respect You Deserve?
[Business:Career-Advice] No doubt about it, most of us at one time or another can identify with Comedian Rodney Dangerfield's trademark lament, "I don't get no respect." That's not surprising because our need to be appreciated is not always satisfied.But stop and think the next time you are tempted to moan and groan about not getting respect and appreciation on your job. Are you sure your boss and your peers are short on respect for what you do? They may not show it in tangible ways, but are your missing the positive signals?
- Career Advice - Friendship With the Boss Won't Insure Success
[Business:Career-Advice] Never depend on a friendship with your boss to insure career success. Think of the relationship as a business deal on your career path. You have something to sell--your skills and knowledge. The boss is a buyer. The price paid is an investment by your employer that must earn a profit if the employer is to stay in business. It is also wise to avoid becoming attached on a personal basis with your peers and subordinates.
- Career Advice - Workers Feeling Job Stress, Too
[Business:Career-Advice] Yes, managers are under a great deal of pressure, turbulent times and all of us are well advised to take this condition into account in managing relationships with them. It has never been more important for everyone to focus on the job at hand, do it in the best way possible and tread lightly so as to avoid undue confrontations.
- Career Advice - How to Win the Chase For a Job
[Business:Career-Advice] No matter how you look at it, hunting for a job is hard work. In fact, there's nothing easy about it, particularly in troubled times. There is never a smooth path between effort and reward. Setbacks and frustration are the order of the day. Success requires discipline, consistency of effort, energy and a big dose of positive thinking.
- Career Advice - Don't Kill Your Resume With Dumb Errors
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] Don't doom your resume and cover letter to the trashcan by sending them out with dumb mistakes such as misspelled words. Incomplete sentences or missing words can also kill your chances for getting even a cursory review of your resume, to say nothing of serious consideration. There's no excuse for such errors when there are steps you can take to avoid them.
- Career Advice - Tension's Brewing Over Internet Use - Know the Rules
[Business:Career-Advice] There's tension building between employers and their staffs over use of the Internet at work for both personal and business uses. Wise careerists know and follow the guidelines employers are enforcing for use of electronic devices.
- Career Advice - 10 Steps to Protect Your Career in Tough Times
[Business:Careers-Employment] We are in one of the worst economic downturns since the Great Depression. Layoffs are being felt across the board. Indicators suggest that more are yet to come before a turn-around begins. There are 10 steps you can take, beginning now, to protect and advance toward your career goals in these tough times.
- Career Advice - Beware! Scumbags Are Working the Job Market
[Business:Job-Search-Techniques] Beware of scam artists who are exploiting those who are struggling to land a job in these turbulent times. They are stealing identities and collecting fees by offering to land jobs that don't exist. With other venues for turning a fast illegal buck drying up these criminals are mining the job market.
- References Can Make Or Break Your Job Search
[Business:Job-Search-Techniques] References are golden assets in building a career. Nurture them with great care. There are six career tips that will help you make sure your references assets work to your advantage in your search for a job.
- Job Opportunities in Tough Times
[Business:Careers-Employment] Career Coaching Make no mistake about it. These are turbulent times. The winds of change are sweeping through the workplace. Managers and their troops alike are expected to learn new skills and to accomplish more with fewer resources. Pressures are ramping up on employers to improve their return on investments.
- Career Advice - Don't Take a Blind Leap Into a New Job
[Business:Careers-Employment] You are out of work. Or you are stuck in a dead end job, desperately wanting to change the course of your career path. You've been searching for a new job for what seems like ages. Finally, the telephone rings. You've got an offer. Every fiber in your being says, "Take it. A bird in hand is worth two in the bush." But hold up. Should you take a blind leap into the first opportunity that comes along? What do you really know about the potential employer? Is the offer a step forward toward your career success or is it a back hole?
- Career Coaching - How to Score With the First Impression
[Business:Careers-Employment] There is no second chance to make a good first impression. That's for sure when it comes to a job interview. This article contains career tips on how to conduct an interview to achieve a favorable first impression.
- Career Advice - Why Do People Make Bad Decisions?
[Business:Career-Advice] It is wise to spend some time examining the question as to why people make bad decisions because there's an inescapable correlation between the quality of one's decisions at work and the total of one's career success. "Think Again: Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How To Keep It From Happening To You", a new book co-authored by Sydney Finkelstein, a professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, provides some keen insight on the issue.
- Listening and Silence, Powerful Communications Skills
[Relationships:Communication] Communications must be a two-way street--sending messages and receiving messages--if it is to be effective. That's just common sense; but it is too often ignored, as organizations and individuals spend millions of dollars and countless hours annually on sending messages and make little focused effort on improving listening skills. Silence, a powerful communications tool, is necessary for listening.
- Career Advice - How to Survive the Career Tsunami
[Business:Career-Advice] The world of work is experiencing changes of tsunamic proportions. Career paths are being impacted on a scale not seen since the Big Depression of the 1920s-30s. New opportunities are opening; old ones are going up in smoke. Conduct a reality check to determine if you are prepared to survive and achieve career success in this changing, volatile environment.
- Career Advice - Stick to the Truth in Your Resume
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] No doubt about it. These are tough times. Jobs are hard to come by and to hold. It is not surprising, then, that job seekers may be tempted to pad their resumes. That is, be less than truthful about their skills, experience, even their references. Don't, don't do it; stick to the facts. There may appear to be benefits to lying on your resume in the short term, but in the longer view it threatens ultimate career rewards.
- Career Advice - How to Be One of the Top 20 and Gain Job Security
[Business:Career-Advice] Eighty percent of the work is done by twenty percent of the people employed. This rule of thumb proves to be true no matter the type or size of the organization.
- Update Your Resume, Just in Case
[Business:Resumes-Cover-Letters] Those who are committed to achieving career success know that it is a good idea to maintain an up to date resume. There are at least four benefits to be gained by following this practice.
- Career Advice - Eight Steps to Soften the Blow When You Have to Fire Someone
[Business:Career-Advice] Firing people is a tough and unpleasant task no matter how you slice it and dice it. Career paths are disrupted. Hopes for career success are dashed. But when it's necessary, there are eight steps you can take to soften the blow.
- Career Advice - What Makes a Leader a Leader?
[Self-Improvement:Leadership] Leaders come in all shapes and sizes. This article explores the five traits that make a leader a leader.
- Career Advice - Are You Packaged For Career Success?
[Business:Career-Advice] Like it or not, the personal package you present to the world--your dress, your demeanor, the appearance of your workplace, even your personal hygiene--is a critical factor in determining your career success. This article provides career tips to help you to present yourself in the best possible fashion.
- Career Advice - Make Sure Your Career Goals Are Realistic
[Business:Career-Advice] It is very difficult for any of us to be totally realistic about ourselves. Yet the nearer we come to a state of realism concerning our strengths and weaknesses, as well as our problems and our opportunities, the better our chances of attaining our career goals.
- Career Advice - How to Market Yourself For a Job
[Business:Career-Advice] If you are looking for a job, think of yourself as a product to be sold...for example, a box of cereal or a new service from a bank. Think of employers as buyers. You need a marketing plan to make the sale. Such a plan contains three elements: (1) what you have to sell; (2) where to sell it; and (3) how to communicate the selling message to prospective buyers.
- Career Advice - 13 Steps to Help Secure Your Job
[Business:Career-Advice] There may be forces at work beyond your control that can disrupt your career path and put your job at risk, but there are at least 13 steps you can take to help secure your employment and advance you toward your career goals. Come to work early and stay late.
- Career Advice - How to Handle the Stress of Success
[Business:Career-Advice] Success is not an unalloyed panacea. Success almost always produces stress and pressure of one kind or another. For those who can't cope with these conditions, success can lead to negative results. This article provides four career tips that will help you in dealing with the stress of job success.
- Career Advice - Use Skepticism As a Positive Force
[Business:Career-Advice] Skepticism has gotten a bum rap in the lore of career coaching. The fact is that skepticism is a positive force that successful managers apply regularly in reaching their career goals. As individuals, those with real-world smarts accept few things at face value, while organizations tend to accept without questions the decisions made by the system, especially if they are based on reams computer printouts. There are six common sense rules that guide careerists in the skillful application of skepticism.
- Career Advice - Friendship With the Boss Won't Insure Success
[Business:Career-Advice] Never depend on a friendship with your boss to insure career success. Think of the relationship as a business deal, a step forward on your career path. You have something to sell--your skills and knowledge. The boss is a buyer. The price paid is an investment that must earn a profit if the employer is to stay in business.
- Career Advice - Admit You Need Help, Build Your Strengths
[Business:Career-Advice] Never be afraid to admit you need help and then ask for it. Many careerists, otherwise smart and capable, hamstring themselves by believing they lose face if they admit they need assistance. Career Tip: To the contrary, asking for help is not a sign of weakness. It is just the opposite; it is a sign of strength and maturity.
- Career Advice - Bosses Are Human, Too, in Tough Times
[Business:Career-Advice] Bosses, by their very nature, are not always warm and cozy figures. Turbulent economic times don't make them any easier to get along with. The wise careerists double their efforts to take pressure off the boss and make him look good in the eyes of the organization.
- Career Success is in the Details
[Business:Careers-Employment] Successful bosses concentrate on the "big picture." That's what counts on a successful career path. Leave the nitty-gritty details to the troops. Micromanagers never make it to the top. Those are among the biggest myths in management lore.
- Bosses and High Achievers Are Like Peas in a Pod
[Business] Maintaining a positive relationship with a boss is difficult for most people, particularly high achievers. After all, accepting authority is basically at odds with the attributes of career success, such as ambition, confidence, the desire for more responsibility and authority. In any case, common sense says three things: (1) you'll always have a boss; (2) you cannot escape the reality of the pecking order; and (3) you'd be wise to learn to manage it in a positive and effective way if you want to enjoy career success.
- Career Advice - Can You Work at Home Successfully?
[Home-Based-Business] The idea of working from home, empowered by telecommuting technology, is enticing. But can you achieve your career goals in this mode? This article explores the pros and cons of tele-commuting.
- Career Advice - Are You Trapped in a Mid-Life Crisis?
[Business:Career-Advice] The mid-life crisis syndrome is real. It is a tough challenge. This trauma can occur at any age, but it most frequently strikes about the time of the dreaded 40th birthday. No one is immunized against its devastating affects; but there are steps than can be taken to manage this threat to career success.
- Career Advice - Your Job May Be in Danger!
[Business:Career-Advice] Wise careerists recognize and deal with the fact that job security is a thing of the past. They keep their antenna on alert for signs that their jobs may be in danger. They have stand-by plans to act if they get the pink slip. This article sets out warning signs and provides five actions steps to survive a pink slip if it comes.
- Career Advice - Lead, Follow, Or Get Out Of The Way
[Business:Career-Advice] Your life will be more effective and happier when you come to realize that it's perfectly okay to choose the option--lead, follower, or get out of the way--that best suits your needs and desires. Your career success is not defined by what someone else expects of you. Genuine career success is what you define it to be.
- Career Advice - Out-Of-Control Egos Pave the Way to Disasters
[Business:Career-Advice] Career success requires self confidence...a healthy ego, one under control. How else can one have the courage to makes decisions and direct the activities of others? But egos out of control pave the way to disasters for careerists and the organization that employ them. A regular check-up of one's ego is necessary. This article provides an 11-point questionnaire for such an inventory.
- Career Advice - It's A Jungle Out There - Beware Of The Wild Beasts
[Business:Career-Advice] Tarzan hardly looked like the King of the Apes when he arrived at his treetop home late one evening. His mate, Jane, was dismayed to see him limp through the front door, a look of exhaustion clouding his handsome face, his loincloth in tatters. "Tarzan, you look bushed," she said.
- Career Advice - Don't Try to Hide Bad News
[Business:Career-Advice] Sooner or later everyone is faced with bad news. Experience shows that it is wise to deal with it immediately with candor. There are three vital steps a manager can take to minimize the damage and make the best of a bad situation.
- Career Advice - How're You Doing on Your Job?
[Business:Career-Advice] An honest assessment of your job performance will accelerate your career path. This article contains a questionnaire that will enable you to carry out such an assessment. It also provides career counseling on how create a plan of action, based on what you learn, that will help you to reach your career goals.
- Career Advice - How to Improve the Boss Relationship
[Business:Career-Advice] An honest assessment of your relationship with your boss and actions to improve this vital connection will accelerate your career path. This article contains a questionnaire that will enable you to carry out such an assessment. It also provides career counseling on how create a plan of action, based on what you learn, that will help you to reach your career goals.
- Career Advice - Real Leaders Know How to Get "Votes"
[Business:Career-Advice] If you truly want to be a leader and gain career success you must sell yourself and your ideas to three constituencies: your friends and loyalists; your adversaries; and the undecided. After all, what you accomplish as leaders comes through the persuasion and influence you exert with other people. This article provides career coaching on how to deal with these three groups.
- Career Advice - Understand Your Boss to Advance Your Career
[Business:Career-Advice] A clear understanding of your boss is essential to career success. This means identifying his strong and weak points, as well as biases and blind spots. Wise careerists do not leave such an understanding to chance. Instead they conduct an organized analysis and execute a plan of action based on the information revealed in their study. This article provides key questions for such an analysis.
- Career Advice - 12 Steps to an Effective Speech
[Writing-and-Speaking:Public-Speaking] Sooner or later you will have to make a speech, that is if you are going to move forward in your career, Trauma time! Research shows that fear of speaking before a group is one of the top horrors most of us can imagine. Some managers who are confidence personified in one-on-one situations turn to quivering Jell-O when called on to speak to a group. Others, who can deliver their messages clearly and forcefully from behind a desk, mumble, ramble and otherwise fall flat on their faces when speaking before an audience. This article sets out 12 steps you can take to conquer fear and do a better job the next time you are called to the platform.
- Career Advice - Six Proven Job Tips For Career Success
[Business:Career-Advice] Achieving career success is not an exact process. Nevertheless, there are common sense rules that winners follow to achieve their career goals. This article explores six of those real-world career guidelines that are critical to developing and executing a successful career path.
- Career Advice - Decisions Are the Essence of Career Success
[Business:Career-Advice] Every one of us makes many decisions each day. Few of them stand alone as "make or break" choices, but in total they determine our career path and quality of our lives. Despite this fact very few of us take the time to think about how we make decisions, and what prohibits us from doing a better job in this process. This article examines three major impediments to making good decisions and provides common sense advice on how to deal with them.
- Career Advice - The Job Interview Is Your Time At Bat
[Business:Career-Advice] After months of searching for a new position you have finally been invited to come in for a face-to-face interview. What are you going to do to maximize your chances of getting an offer that will advance you toward your career goals. This article provides career coaching on specific steps to improve the odds of getting a job that will advance one's career path.
- Career Advice - Are You a Frog in Hot Water?
[Business:Career-Advice] Career Advice: How do you feel about your job? If you are among the huge number of those who are "unsatisfied" with the path of your career, it's time to get cracking with an action plan to improve your life on the job. Left uncorrected such a state of mind slowly but surely breeds frustration and ennui, which in turn sap your strength and abilities to build a successful career.
- Career Advice - The Boss Is Not Always Right, But He's Always The Boss
[Business:Workplace-Communication] You are well served on your career path when you accept this fundamental truth that the boss is not always right, but he's always the boss and learn to deal constructively with it. Your boss and the organization that employs both of you will also be better off. The article is loaded with common sense career tips about how to deal constructively with the boss when he makes a mistake.
- Career Advice - The Reason Careers Fail
[Business:Career-Advice] Failures or shortfalls in careers do not usually result from the lack of education and training. The number one reason for such disappointments is most often not knowing "how to work". Said another way, the difference between winners and losers in the world of work is that achievers know how to translate their "know-what-to-do" skills into "how-to-get- things-done" strategies and actions.
- Career Advice - How To Identify Achievers And Be One
[Business:Career-Advice] The surest way to become a high achiever on the career path is to adopt the traits of those who have earned that status. Winners are identified by 13 indicators.
- Career Advice - Turf Hogs Are Dangerous Beasts
[Business:Career-Advice] These marauders are easy to identify, but difficult to deal with. Left to their own devices, they will run amok. They can disrupt your career path. Turf Hogs work hard at gaining credit for the ideas and work of others. They assume authority where none has been granted. They claim to be team players while invading the territory of others. When confronted, their usual defense is "Who, me? I was just trying to be a team player and help others for the good of the organization."
- Career Advice - Do You Want To Be Boss?
[Business:Career-Advice] Surveys show that over two-thirds of those in the work force in the United States don't want to accept the responsibilities and headaches that go with being boss. At the same time, organizations cannot thrive, or even survive for very long, without a hierarchy of bosses. There is good news in this dynamic for ambitious men and women who step up to fill the need.
- Career Advice - Career Success Is Not For The Faint Of Heart
[Business:Career-Advice] The path to career success is not an easy road to travel. The way is littered with doubts and fears and hard knocks. It is often lonely; it demands courage and true grit day in and day out. A wise man has said: " It is a hard rule of life...that no great plan is ever carried out without meeting and overcoming endless obstacles that come up to try the skill of man's hand, the quality of his courage and the endurance of his faith." This article explores 12 examples where courage is required in the pursuit of career success.
- Career Advice - Are You Too Busy To Take An Aspirin?
[Business:Career-Advice] Career Advice: Bosses who truly want to achieve career success delegate as much responsibility and authority to their subordinates as they can handle. Therefore, they have more time and energy to advance toward their career goals by shouldering duties of greater visibility and value to their employer. Effective subordinates take on as much responsibility and authority as they can carry. This is the way they can grow into more rewarding jobs. There are six actions an ambitious careerist can take to capitalize on this situation if he is willing to act aggressively with common sense as your guideline.
- Career Advice - How To Get And Accept A Raise
[Business:Career-Advice] No one likes to ask for a pay raise. It can be a traumatic experience It is much better for rewards to come unsolicited from someone else. But, if you are interested in achieving career success, there are situations when it makes common sense to go for it. This article sets out dos and don'ts on how to handle this delicate situation without drawing hostile fire.
- Career Advice - The Myths Of Success Are Exposed
[Business:Career-Advice] I'm fed up with being bombarded daily on the Internet and via snail mail with get-rich-quick myths about career success. How about you? This article exposes the myths that are offered in the name of career advice.
- Career Advice - Are You Meeting Their Expectations?
[Business:Career-Advice] Career Advice: Understanding what your boss, your direct reports and your peers expect from you and meeting those expectations is essential your career success. This article describes what each constituency wants.
- Career Advice - Learn To Trust Your Gut Reactions
[Business:Career-Advice] You may call it intuition, gut reaction, hunch, imagination or sixth sense. Whatever, until you are ready to depend on that "quick and ready insight" (Webster's definition) that empowers you to make decisions based on "just knowing" beyond hard facts and figures, you will not function at full speed on your career path. There are four steps in intuition-based decision making.
- Career Advice - 4 Tactics To Accelerate Your Career
[Business:Career-Advice] It's surprising how often ambitious men and women fail to employ four basic tactics in their pursuit of career success. These are easy to apply; they are common sense in action. There are just two requirements. One, you are sincere in your feelings. Two, you must dampen your ego.
- Career Advice - Rude People Foul The Nest At Work
[Business:Career-Advice] Career Advice: Building a successful career is no walk in the park. Competition is fierce. Pressure and stress are always lurking around, ready to make things more difficult. Tempers get frayed. Good manners are often overlooked in this environment. It doesn't take a career counselor to know that rude people foul the nest for everyone. By the same token those who are civil and considerate in the work place have a leg up on the competition. Here are three steps to dealing with rudeness on the job.
- CareerAdvice - 20 Sure-Fire Ways To Sabotage Your Career
[Business:Careers-Employment] Career Advice: Sad to say, there are many ways to sabotage a career. Here's a list of 20 of the most "popular" timebombs. How many of them are at play in your workplace? Are you endangering your chances for career success by engaging in any of them? A career coach advises that if you are nursing ticking landmines that can wreck your ambitions run, don't walk, away from them as soon as possible, that is if you want to achieve success.
- Career Advice - We've Got A Failure To Communicate
[Business:Career-Advice] Everyone agrees--at least pays lip service to the idea that effective internal communications are necessary to have a smooth-running organization. Organizations spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year on employee attitude surveys, newsletters, brochures, videos, audio cassettes, face-to-face meetings, and other tools of internal communications. Big bucks are invested in training managers to be better communicators. Yet communications between management and the rank and file of employees gets bad marks. There are five major reasons for a breakdown in internal communications.
- Career Advice - Success Is Only Four Steps Away
[Business:Career-Advice] The formula for career success is really quite simple.
In fact, success in the world of work requires only that we complete four basic steps. Anyone can do it, given a reasonable amount of energy and common sense.
- Career Advice - You've Been Passed Over, Now What?
[Business:Career-Advice] You've been passed over for the promotion you believe you deserved. This is the time to get a realistic picture of why you didn't measure up and what you are going to do about it. This article sets out a plan of action to turn this setback into a net gain.
- Career Advice- Dreams Don't Make The Car Payments
[Business:Career-Advice] I'ts very difficult to get there if we don't know where we want to go. Do you know of anyone who disagrees with the common sense wisdom of setting a final destination and having a plan for the journey before beginning a trip? Dreaming about it won't make it a reality. Then why do many of us act as if we can drift along day to day, thinking somehow we can achieve our dreams of career success without defined personal goals, as well as plans to reach them? Identify the excuses you may be using to avoid planning your future and how to deal with these roadblocks.
- Career Advice - The Secret Key To Motivation
[Business:Career-Advice] The ability to get things done through other people is the greatest skill you need to become a successful manager. Achieving this capability is easier said that done. However, there is secret key that successful organizations and managers use to open the door to motivation.
- Career Advice - How To Make Meetings Work For You
[Business:Career-Advice] Meetings are here to stay, so it makes sense to make these sessions work for you. There are eight things you can do to reach this goal.
- Career Advice - Nothing Happens Until You Sell Yourself! How To Promote Your Career
[Business:Career-Advice] Here are five ways to promote your career. A well- known adage advises that you have only to invent a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. Forget it! Until the world knows about what you have to offer you won't get the rewards you deserve.
- Career Advice - Winners Keep On Keeping On
[Business:Career-Advice] Winners in the career chase know persistence is a daily necessity if they are to achieve their goals. They are guided by the adage that says "Winners never quit and quitters never win".
- Career Advice: How Do You Rate As A Boss?
[Business:Career-Advice] Honest answers to a few basic questions will reveal how those who report to you rate you on the attributes they expect a good boss to possess.
- Career Advice: You Can't Get There If You Don't Know Where You Are Going
[Business:Career-Advice] No one in his right mind would start out on a journey without having a destination in mind and a map as to how to get there. This truth applied to careers as well as the trip across town. There are four crucial step to creating and following a road map to success.
- Career Advice: How To Make Gossip Work For You
[Business:Career-Advice] Gossip exists where you work whether you participate or not. Most of it is worthless; some of it downright destruction. But it may also include valuable information that can impact your career. So, you need to be sure you are plugged in. There are six steps you can take to make the gossip mill work for you.
- Career Advice: So-Your Boss Is A Jerk
[Business:Career-Advice] You will always have a boss who is the gatekeeper of your career. Unless you are the rarest of the rare there are times when you think he is a jerk, a real pain in the rear. When you understand what makes this character tick you'll be better able to cope and to manage your relationship with him. As a result, your career will be accelerated.
- Career Advice: Share Power To Get Power
[Business:Career-Advice] The first step toward getting more power (a.k.a. responsibility) is to hand off those tasks that others can perform as effectively as you can, so you will gain the time and energy to concentrate on the more demanding and visible tasks that will enhance your career.
- Career Advice: You're Fired - Get Over It
[Business:Career-Advice] Anyone can get the axe at any time. It happens to good people and bad ones...hard workers as well as slackers.
There are 13 steps to survive and prosper if you lose your job.
- Career Advice: You're Not Paranoid; They Are Watching You
[Business:Career-Advice] More and more employers are monitoring their employees' use of e-mails and internet surfing. The primary objectives are to prevent leaks of confidential information and block viruses and hackers. Inevitably, monitoring also turns up personal information. The common sense career advice is to never post anything on the company's computers that the sender or receiver wouldn't want to see on the bulletin boards in the workplace.
- Career Advice: True Leadership's Not Based On Popularity
[Business:Career-Advice] You will never become a truly effective manager and leader as long as you feel compelled to have everyone like you.
Of course, your task as a leader is made easier, and more pleasant, if your associates like you. But your becoming an effective manager and leader over any period of time will not be based primarily on your popularity. Instead, it will depend on the respect followers have for you and their feeling they can trust you to do the right things at the right time.
- Career Advice: Negative Thinking Is A Good Thing
[Business:Career-Advice] Winners are positive thinkers. But without exception they also know that the powerful force of positive thinking must be leavened with a proper dose of negative thinking for Class A performance. They ask themselves six basic questions of their performance as they begin each day on the job.
- Career Advice: A Camel Looks Like A Horse Designed By A Committee
[Business:Career-Advice] Committees consume a great of time, much of it wasted. The problem with committees is that they are chaired by people with all of the human faults. Despite all of that, committees can be useful tools, if they are properly organized and managed. Here are some tips for making committees effective tools of management.
- Career Advice: Is Your Career Path Blocked?
[Business:Career-Advice] If you are between the ages of 20 and 40 there is a major roadblock standing in your career path. It's called "The Gray Ceiling." There are seven steps you can take to break make a break-through.
- Career Advice: Say No To Acclerate Your
[Business:Career-Advice] You must learn when and how to say "no" if you really want to accelerate your career. Because so long as you say "yes" to every request for your time and talent, you are allowing your friends and associates to consume your most precious asset--your time--to serve their agendas rather than advancing your own. There are four steps to mastering the art of saying "no".
- Career Advice: Winners Don't Depend On Atta-Boys
[Business:Career-Advice] Everybody wants to receive atta-boys from the boss, but they are harder and harder to come by as one climbs the career ladder. Winners in the world of work understand and deal with the reality of this paradox. They provide there own compliments for jobs well done.
- Career Advice: Never Let Your Boss Be Surprised By Bad News
[Business:Career-Advice] There's only one thing worse than delivering bad news to your boss. That is not sounding the alarm when you know trouble is brewing, because it is a cardinal sin to let your boss be surprised. A crucial ingredient in career success is knowing how to deliver the negatives as well as how to receive them. Learn how and when to manage your boss with bad news.
- Career Advice: 9 Steps To New Job Success
[Business:Career-Advice] Success on a new job is by no means guaranteed. Nearly one-half of those in new jobs
are out the door in 18 months. Nine basic guidelines are the key to success on the new
job.
- Career Advice: What's Happened To Your New Year's Resolutions?
[Business:Career-Advice] By this time most people have fallen behind in accomplishing their resolutions for
2006. Many have abandoned them entirely. But it's not too late to turn good
resoluations into accomplishments. Here are 10 action steps to make that happen.
- You've Been Named Boss; Now What?
[Business:Careers-Employment] It's a whole new ballgame advancing from the rank and file to be the boss. Success
depends on getting things done through other people, rather than doing everything
yourself. This article provides common sense advice as to how o succeed as the boss.
- Who's To Blame If You Are Not Promoted?
[Business:Careers-Employment] There are four reasons careers are stymied. Deal with them to revive your career.
- What Should You Expect From Your Employer?
[Business:Careers-Employment] Every person has a right to expect that his employer will provide the tools and the
environment where career success is encouraged.
- Ambition Is Just Word Until You Act
[Self-Improvement:Success] True ambition is not dreaming and talking about what you want to achieve. Ambition is
knowing where you want to go, how to get there, and doing what it takes to reach the
goal. The key is to combine ambition, which means desire, with initiative, which means
action.
- Career Advice: Success Requires Management of Change
[Business:Career-Advice] Change, like death and taxes, is constant. Careerists who learn to embrace and
manage change and ambiguity, its handmaiden, will find success.
- Career Advice: It's Wise to Put Off Big Decisions
[Business:Career-Advice] Successful managers have learned to put off making big decisions as long as possible.
They can develop options; in the meantime time may solve the problem. Sucb
controlled procrastination is a vital tool of management.
- Grab All the Responsibilities You Can Handle
[Business:Careers-Employment] Just to accept responsibilities is not enough to gain career success. Those who reach
out aggressively to grab all the responsibilities they can are handle are the ones who
take home the gold.
- Real Winners Learn How To Lose
[Self-Improvement:Success] We cannot win without playing; we cannot play without taking risks; and we cannot take risks without losing some of the time. They are willing to take risks in order to win. Real winners in the world of work know how to lose strategically by letting others win when their are options to the right answer. Everyone wins when the victories are spread around.
- Learn The Truth About Your Boss
[Self-Improvement:Success] Career success requires understanding and managing the boss relationships.
- Boredom and Burnout Are A Deadly Pair
[Self-Improvement:Success] Everyone is bored one time or another at work. Boredome, untreated, can lead to
burnout. Boredom and burnout can destory health and career. Advice for dealing with
these maladies.
- Time Wasted Is Opportunity Missed
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] Average worker waste 2 hours per week. Cut that in half and gain 31 days of
productivity per year. This is bound to show up on the positive side at annual review time...
- Think Twice Before You Change Jobs
[Business:Careers-Employment] The strongest Fall hiring season in years, this is a good time to change jobs. But before you jump be sure you have a good, sound reason to make a change. Can you achieve your goals in your present job? Searching for a new job is a serious and difficult undertaking. Plan you job search. Have a firm offer before you let it be known you are looking.
- How To Make Your Job Easier
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] Technology has made life at work easier and more pleasant, but there's more the technies could do. Here's a wish list of technology to ease the stress of our jobs...
- Build Your Career Decision By Decision
[Business:Careers-Employment] Career advancements go to those willing and able to make decisions. But the human
tendency is to avoid the risk of making decisions. This creates a vacuum of opportunity
who are willing to step up to the plate.
- Fun At Work Leads to More Success
[Business:Careers-Employment] Those who have fun at work enjoy more career success. Good sense of humor makes it easier to get hired...
- The Case Of The Missing Vacation
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Missing vacations is hazardous to your health and career. Seven step guide to a vacation from work...
- Don't Let Difficult People Derail Your Career
[Business:Careers-Employment] There's no escape from dealing with difficult people. They can wreck your career if these relationships are not managed to your advantage...
- Don't Get Caught In The Security Trap
[Business:Careers-Employment] When security becomes more important than opportunities i you apply the brakes
on building your career. Employers cannot provide security. The only true source of security is when you can deliver benefits the market will buy...
- Warning! Meeting In Progress; May Be Hazardous To Your Career
[Business:Management] Most meetings burn up resources that could be spent on useful purposes. These
sessions are either not necessary, or they are so poorly organized and conducted that they achieve only a fraction of their purpose...
- Few Things Are More Destructive Than An Insecure Boss
[Business:Management] An insecure boss creates an insecure organization. People spend more time looking over their shoulders than looking ahead to achieve success. Seven traits mark the insecure boss. Seven actions can mitigate such a negative situation...
- Conflicts With Your Boss Are Inevitable, But Can Be Healthy
[Business:Careers-Employment] You are certain to have conflicts with your boss if you are a pro-active
type. But you can manage these dust-ups to your advantage.
- Managing The Boss Is Essential To Career Success
[Business:Careers-Employment] Your boss is the gatekeeper of your career. Unless you are able to
manage a positive relationship with him at each step of your career you
will fall short of your potential.
- So, Your Made A Mistake
[Business:Careers-Employment] Mistakes on the job are important. Put those you make in perspective.
Rearlize every one who plays the game makes mistakes. That you make
mistakes is not nearly as impotant as what you do about them. Here are
guidelines for capitalizing on your mistakes
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