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Apr 17, 20172 min read

New Growth in Spring: Time for Professional Development

Being noncommittal to your professional development is like walking a tight rope across two tall buildings – once you fall off, it is...

Mar 20, 20172 min read

Execute is One Key for the Executive: The Optimal Package is The Goal

Creating and maintaining an effective strategy for an executive career is more work than most people can envisage. Networking, branding,...

Feb 20, 20172 min read

Staying Upbeat: Be Courageous, Dream On, Get Inspired

The winter months take their tolls on the psyche. Staying positive is important year round, and can require redoubled efforts when the...

Jan 16, 20173 min read

Being the First: Who or What is First in the Work Life?

Being the first, means you are a leader – you are key, cardinal, head, or premier. As a career practitioner, you lead your clients into...

Dec 19, 20162 min read

Outside the Box: Using Resources Beyond Your Desk

Despite sounding ordinary, in and out are very powerful prepositions. Someone may be “out of a job”, or “in a career search mode.” We are...

Nov 21, 20162 min read

Work As Identity: The Job is but one Story in Life

Discerning work’s meaning to the individual is like trying on masks at a costume shop. Quite often more than one is picked up, placed on...

Oct 17, 20162 min read

Technology Techniques: Apps & URLs & Social Media – Oh My!

If you think back to the days when all this technology at our finger tips did not exist (or are you too young to recall that), you may...

Sep 19, 20162 min read

Intergenerational Teams: Achieving Goals ~ Working with Differences

Stereotypes. You try to ignore them and they pop up again. They work for you, especially when faced with a team of players that you do...

Aug 15, 20163 min read

Performance: Examining Optimal Levels of Productivity as an Organization, Employee or Job Seeker

Dictionary.com offers eight different meanings of the noun performance and 19 synonyms were listed on thesaurus.com. Both include the...

Jul 18, 20162 min read

Soft Skills and Leadership: Developing and Implementing Traits that Go Beyond the Task

Effective leaders do not take for granted soft skills. New workers may ignore discipline, empathy, and motivation as hardly more than a...

Jun 20, 20162 min read

Change Happens: Aim for a Blend of Introspect, Retrospect and Prospect

Some people prefer to perceive change with their own eyes, ears or other senses. Yet other people prefer to follow their intuition or gut...

May 16, 20162 min read

May Mortarboard Momentum: Hail to the College Graduate!

Transitioning from backpacks to briefcases is no longer a cut and dried line on graduation day. Many students have already experienced...

Apr 18, 20162 min read

Overcoming Bad Career Moves: Forward Focus From Now On

Just because you have made one (three? sixty?) bad career moves, doesn’t mean you need to continue that pattern. Unless you have ossified...

Mar 21, 20162 min read

Warming Trends: Career Areas Are Springing Into Action

As one reads about the unique opportunities that exist or are coming into existence, it would be easy to fall into the trap of dwelling...

Feb 15, 20162 min read

How to Work Like an Entrepreneur: Whether You Are One Already or Aspiring to Be!

“Yes…And” – two key words entrepreneurs must learn to use wisely. Spoken to a customer, it sounds like this, “Yes, I can do this for you...

Jan 18, 20162 min read

New Year, New Hires: Helping New Employees Feel Welcome

If you can remember your first day at your current job, or the very first day of your very first job, you might recall feeling excited,...

Dec 21, 20152 min read

Tips from the Non-Business World: Career advice is not just for or from business professionals

Business is not the enemy. There is no need to abjure the business world. Yes, there is much to be learned from business professionals...

Nov 16, 20152 min read

Working for a Purpose: Strive to Banish Meaningless Activities

Watching a four-year old play, with an educator’s eyes, it is fascinating to see the movements of the body and imagine the activity in...

Oct 19, 20152 min read

Working Internationally: A Passport to an Enhanced Career

Ordinary people may fear there is something abstruse about wanting to work in another country. But it doesn’t take an adventurous calling...

Sep 21, 20152 min read

Positive Reactions and Healthy Encounters with Disabled Workers: Ameliorate the Ignorance

Movies and television can have substantial influence on our perception of the disabled when we do not have a living example right next to...

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