There is a degree of posturing required to survive most roles within any career, from prime minister to newly-hired coffee runner. Posturing is about taking a stance that conveys a message, and then with a little extra effort, looking ultra-comfortable, even bored, in that stance. It’s a true art. And we all do it at…
Job Seekers – Don’t be Shy with Recruiters When talking to a recruiter, job seekers should not be shy about asking clarifying questions. Many job candidates are overly-deferential in their initial conversations with recruiters; that inclination can dilute the value of the conversation. Posturing in order to appear professional and in-the-know can cause you to nod…
Yet many workers are confused about the rules of the game… When employees realize that the name of the game in career management is not ‘do your work well,’ it sometimes comes as a shock. The game is, rather, ‘constantly ensure there is a strong connection between the latest demands of the business world and the solutions you…
Work-life balance isn’t about doing everything well at once. It’s about making choices, and loving yourself despite C-minus performance in some categories. When managing a life, a career, and a household of any size, each one of us struggles to feel we’re succeeding because we allow ourselves to set multiple and conflicting concurrent goals: There…
The long list of goals you acquire over time can become an albatross, a dead weight of unrealistic or completely conflicting goals (e.g. find more free time to spend with family AND get next promotion that will require me to travel weekly, and thus spend less time with family). You’ve got to listen to yourself, vs. others, and drop…
You can imagine that as a company grows, becomes more efficient, and realizes greater profits, it’s easy to make some people very happy, starting with shareholders. (Show me the money!) But we can’t cheer too loudly about profits when that growth doesn’t always have a direct impact on the paychecks of the employees who do…
When you say a word too many times, it starts to sound like an alien word. It loses its meaning in your head, doesn’t it? Does that ever happen with the word “diversity?” Do we use it too much, as if it’s important just as a rule? Do we start to let the logical demand…
Running any organization in a digital era requires expert communications skills. And with the right tools and templates, everybody’s a professional communicator. Large organizations employ broad teams of professional communicators in order to ensure the company’s customers, shareholders, and employees are effectively informed. Doing this on a global scale requires a complex web of communications…
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