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Are your current capabilities limiting you? by Christine Hassler - Jun, 2011 A woman at a seminar I was at last weekend stood up and shared an “aha” moment that I thought was brilliant so of course I want to share it with you! She said, “I am realizing the importance of focusing more on possibilities rather than my capabilities.” The crowd made a collective “ooohhhh” as we all realized the powerful distinction she made. How many times have you wanted something but you’ve used the excuse of “I don’t... |
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Common Mistakes To Avoid Before Starting Your Career by Jeff Rose - Jun, 2011 You've graduated from college, degree in hand, the next logical step is to put that degree to use and start your career, right? Maybe not. The time after graduating from college is a huge transition period. You are going from the sheltered life of a matriculated student with a meal plan, support from parents, not a lot of bills or expenses to an actual real life adult with responsibilities. This is a time to make some impor... |
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Personality Assessment for Personal Branding by Debra Wheatman - Jun, 2011 Who are you and in what type of workplace do you thrive? A personality assessment can tell you a lot about the sort of environment that might best suit your personality and work style. Will you function best at a large international organization, or at a smaller firm with satellite or home-based offices? Using Myers Briggs or a DISC assessment, you can gain valuable insight into the things that drive you, in turn enabling ... |
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Five Keys to Finding Motivation by Heather Mundell - Jun, 2011 Earlier today I was really unmotivated to write a blog post. But as you can see, I went ahead with it. Most days I talk to at least one person who is having a hard time getting motivated. Motivation is one of those things we can never have enough of. Often it becomes impossible to find when there's a task ahead that is either daunting, dull, confusing, or uncomfortable. And sometimes we're not motivated to do anything, e... |
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How to Fight Boredom and Become More Motivated at Work by Tai Goodwin - Jun, 2011 Once you’ve decided to make the transition from employee to entrepreneur, it can be extra challenging to stay engaged in your day job. Especially if the work you are doing is not challenging. When you’ve got exciting business ideas that you are itching to execute the doldrums of your 9-5 can feel like a straight jacket. Maintaining motivation on a daily basis in the face of boring assignments, office politics, and a chaotic en... |
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Make Your Career More Social: Show Up and Engage by Walter Akana - Jun, 2011 It often seems to me that many people in the career transition space continue to party like it’s 1999. That was the year when we were all concerned about defending life-as-we-knew-it from the looming Y2K Bug. Had disaster struck, it would have included a setback for job seekers who were just discovering the newly minted monster.com that promised to ease the process of applying for jobs. Fortunately, catastrophe was averted, an... |
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Makeover Your Career By Unleashing Your Leadership Potential by Tai Goodwin - Jun, 2011 There is a steady flow of information in the form of books, articles, white papers and training all in the context of, “what is leadership” or “how to develop a leader”? In this issue, I will avoid those two questions and write about two others that I believe might be on the minds of a lot you readers and they are: 1.Why does better leadership make a difference? and 2.How does better leadership achieve those differences? ... |
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My Physical Response to Job Loss by Norine Dagliano - Jun, 2011 Loosing a job is quite an emotional experience – looking for your next opportunity leans more toward the cerebral. Until you can come to terms with the first, it is difficult to tackle the later. I recall my last job loss more than 10 years ago as if it were yesterday. I have always had the reputation of being the logical, analytical one who doesn’t get sidetracked by the emotional aspects of life. There is some truth in th... |
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You Have to Put Yourself Out There by Norine Dagliano - Jun, 2011 Many years ago, when I was between my first and second marriage, I found a delightful little book entitled The Divorced Woman’s Guide to Meeting New Men. The basic premise of the book was that you need to “put yourself out there”. Go where single people go; talk about subjects single people talk about; dress and act like a person who is interested in a new relationship. Not only did the book contain all kinds of great “network... |
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Brand Story in a Social Media World by Walter Akana - Jun, 2011 At the invitation of Sarah Behunek, Director of Alumni Relations, I had the privilege of doing a video shoot, with Tonya Riggs Clement, for the University of Colorado Leeds Business School. In case you don't know who she is, Tonya is one of the Everest Peace Climbers. In fact, she’s the twentieth American woman to scale Everest, and the fifth of just nine American women to have reached the top via the treacherous North Rid... |
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