Jobs are like busses, if you get on the right one, you arrive at your destination
Abstract: Career planning for job security – Visibility, choosing the right employer, your brand and importance of a Mentor.
Are you in the career you planned when you were in college? Have you had more than one career? Do you know where you want to be in three, five or seven years? Do you know how to decide? Do you know how to make it happen? Continue reading 'Job security through career planning'»
Branding, Coaching, Management strategies, Promotions, Uncategorized, career advice, career development
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age discrimination, ageism, career advice, career development, executive career, executive careers, get promoted, job search, job security, Rita Ashley, six figure jobs
Impostors need not apply
“The Imposter Syndrome is a psychological phenomenon in which people are unable to internalize their accomplishments.” Wikipedia
Is your success just luck? Do you feel if people really knew, they’d know you are really a fraud and it is just a matter of time before they are found out?
Are you proving to yourself you are worthless and a victim by avoiding the proper steps towards finding a new job?
Or worse, do you overcompensate for your feelings of inferiority and take every opportunity to tell people you are a thought leader of grand stature and remind them of your accomplishments? Are you sabotaging your job search efforts to prove to yourself you are not who you appear to be? Continue reading 'Are you an impostor? Is that why you didn’t get the job?'»
Branding, Coaching, Management strategies, Uncategorized, career advice, career development
| career advice, Dr. Valerie Young, Evelyn Kalinosky, Forbes women, fraud, impostor, job search, menwithpens, Nathaniel Branden, Rita Ashley, self esteem, Taylor Lindstrom
The price seems high the rewards, intangible; the value, great. So difficult to make that decision to hire a coach. Last night, I reviewed the statistics for a few of my recent job search coaching clients. Here’s what I found.
Client 1: Granted interviews with every company (10+) to whom he was introduced. Was told his resume was impressive and organized. Of seven options, it was he who declined to go forward with six companies, not the prospective employer. Once he decided on the two companies where he’d most like to work, received offers from both. Negotiations improved the offer of his choice. Continue reading 'More proof coaching works'»
Coaching, Management strategies, Promotions, Uncategorized, career advice
| career advice, career development, employment advice, executive careers, job search, leadership, management, Rita Ashley, six figure jobs, turnover
Is there a tug of war to get your team to do what you need done?
When was the last time you had a new idea and spent most of your time ‘selling’ it to your direct reports? Or worse, monitoring to insure they do what they committed to doing?
How do you spend your time? Do you feel you spend 80% of your time with personnel issues instead of getting product out the door or landing that big sale? And how is turnover? A bit high? We know how expensive that is.
Frequent complaints professional employees make and in fact, reasons they change jobs are:
- I don’t feel appreciated
- My ideas are not acknowledged,
- I have no say in what I do.
First step. Abandon the idea you are responsible for the solution to every challenge. Let the team be the hero. Sure, you get the final vote, but if you are committed to a quality outcome, let your team participate in the decisions. When it’s their own, they have vested interest in a successful outcome.
Second Step. Approach all challenges from the standpoint of solutions, not problems. Teach your team a new vocabulary. Use this approach as you instruct them. Get the direct reports on board with reminders that stating the obvious isn’t a conversation starter. Have them tell you a solution, even if it isn’t a viable one; it starts the conversation and it changes the content from negative to positive: Here’s the situation and here’s what I propose to fix it. Continue reading 'Get what you want from your team the easy way for lowered stress, reduced turnover'»
Management strategies, career advice
| career advice, career development, career management, employee retention, engage teams, executive careers, job search, management tips, Rita Ashley, turnover
Are you a Ferrari or a Ford? You can't be both.
How’s your personal brand doing? Have you Googled yourself lately to see where you land and why? If you aren’t coming up on page one for your domain, get blogging. Don’t forget to log off any Google products including Gmail before you search on your name. Continue reading 'Did you blog today?'»
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