The One Mistake Employed Professionals Make That Could Cost Them Thousands
Jul 28 Carolann Jacobs on July 28th, 2009
(Reposted from today’s eZine… which you can receive, gratis in your Inbox by registering on the Events Page.)
Did you know that 89-90% of jobs right now are found through business networking?
In robust economies, online job postings work, but in slower economies, many employers don’t bother to post job openings, even on their own company websites. [...]
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Inspired Workplace Q&A: When is it Time to Go?
Jul 23 Carolann Jacobs on July 23rd, 2009
Q: I have grown to hate my job. I feel the dread coming on sometime around 6:00pm on Sunday night. I don’t want to get out of bed in the morning. As hard as I try, I am not doing a very good job (lord knows neither the people I report to nor the ones [...]
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Middle Manager’s Dilemma: Differentiating Pushback from PITA
Jul 21 Carolann Jacobs on July 21st, 2009
Are you the gal who’s known for pushing back on every proposed change? Do you know that gal?
Almost every one of us knows someone who sees the downside to every initiative, and one of the challenges that my client, Negative Nellie, reports is that it’s hard to get people to take her seriously. She’s frustrated, [...]
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Practical Middle Management Tips: When Your Boss is the Hoover
Jul 16 Carolann Jacobs on July 16th, 2009
After Tuesday’s post, I got several private messages about the boss’s suckage. What? No comments on the blog?
So, what do you do when your boss sucks the air out of a room like a human tornado?
Quit.
OK, you knew that and it was too easy. And, we’ll get back to that.
Let’s start with looking at what [...]
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Practical Middle Management Tips: What to Do When Your Boss Thinks You Suck Like a Hoover
Jul 14 Carolann Jacobs on July 14th, 2009
Don’t you just love it when you think you’re working your fingers to the bone, you’re doing the best job you can and your boss lets you know that you are the Hoover Windtunnel of suckage?
If you’re more fortunate than I was for the vast majority of my career (and my clients and friends careers), [...]
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Brain Food For Middle Managers: How to Keep the Creativity Alive
Jul 9 Carolann Jacobs on July 9th, 2009
I just got back from vacation. Sorry about the long stretch not posting on the blog, but the site was undergoing some changes. And, when I go on vacation, I go offline.
That most middle managers can’t go on vacation without being tethered to the office by a laptop or other mobile device is not only [...]
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