What Are Soft Skills – Building Blocks to Career Success
I must admit I had no idea what are soft skills when I graduated from college. I quickly realized on my first job at McKinsey how my lack of soft skills were affecting my performance reviews. Here are some of the soft skills I lacked at that time. Read more
Five Reasons CEOs Need Advisory Boards
Volatility has established a new norm in this country. We can pinpoint when it started and the reasons for it, but we can neither control it nor predict its demise. The only other alternative is to respond to it more aggressively with more structure and better ideas. That means CEOs need better, more immediate advice to the problems they have always faced and the new ones that have reared their ugly heads. Advisory boards provide armament in this newly-defined conflict. Read more
What Are the Most Powerful Leadership Skills?
Some leadership skills are inherent in our personalities and individual traits. Yet others are learned and developed over time through patient and diligent practice. It is true that most leadership skills can be learned but not everyone has the same desire or capacity to learn needed to become an effective leader. So yes, anyone technically can be a leader but in reality, few will take on the challenge to the degree required to be successful at it. Read more
11 Tips to an Organized Job Search
So, you are searching for a new job? Perhaps you are making a voluntary career transition. Maybe you have been laid off, or worse, fired. Regardless of the reason for your career move, one fact remains true: if you are conducting a job search, it is vital that you take an organized approach. Managing this search is just like managing any other major project. You must create an infrastructure that allows you to operate in an efficient and productive manner. A successful job search requires forethought and action. Here are some tips for conducting an organized job search. Read more
How to Find a New Job in Today’s Economy
In today’s economy, many people want to know how to find a new job and are looking for job search ideas. Yes, you can always check the classified ads in the Sunday newspaper, but you might the options listed to be rather limited. Here are some tips on how to find a new job and some job search ideas that might help you in your quest. Read more
Career and Job Planning
Each individual is responsible for building his or her own career. In this ever-changing world, everyone is looking for new ways to earn living. The purpose of career and job planning is to develop strategic plan based on one’s talents, aspirations and background, leading to a happy personal and professional life. Career planning involves identifying your choices, and then forming the goals that suit your individual needs, and the realities of job world. Read more
Who’s More Important The CEO or Your Boss?
Tom works in a cubicle in the marketing department. Glenna runs machines in a factory. Jeff is out on the road selling most of the time. Read more
10 Smart Steps to Success
Success is not a destination, it is really a journey. For you to enjoy the ride, you need to prepare yourself for it. To enjoy success, here are ten items to pack in your bag. Read more
10 Job Interview Mistakes to Avoid
If you’ve read one or several of the countless publications about job job interviews and how to avoid messing up the interview, you may have some good tips and suggestions.
Most of that information may be just fine, however here are 10 common mistakes made in one fashion or the other. Consider these just the “cliff notes” version. Read more
Successful Life and Career Planning
Each one of us indulge in some or the other activity that helps us to live and grow. We all do something regularly and name it as our ‘job’ or ‘work’. For life cannot continue without work. This ‘work’, ‘job’ or ‘career’ is our source of getting something from life in exchange of our sincerity and commitment to doing something. Read more