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The Carrot Factor
The ability to recognise the power of incentives and harness their value doesn't come to everyone. Certainly not to managers, as Adrian Gostick (communications director for O.C. Tanner Recognition Co.) and Chester Elton write in their new book, The 2 ...
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Steps to Creating Senior Executive Buy-in
With so many competing priorities, headcount reductions, and budget cuts companies face these days, how can you ensure that your initiative makes the 'short list' and gets the go-ahead from the senior executive? Here are some methods and approaches f ...
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Prepare your Performance Review Before you Start the Job
When you start a new job, you probably realise the first three months are critical to your long-term success. Everybody's eye is on the 'newbie' as you learn the ropes. 'Does anybody want to go to lunch?' is the wrong thing to say in a run-during-lun ...
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Moving Up The Ladder
Some career experts say that the day you start a new job you should begin planning for your next job. And you know what? You should! Just make sure that you stay focused enough on the job you were hired for that you succeed and excel in that position ...
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Avoiding the Autopilot Syndrome
Are you bored with your job? Has your work become one endless task after another? Many people are so caught up in getting things done that they lose sight of the purpose of their work and quickly get bored. In fact, the more secure and stable a job b ...
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How To Fall In Love With Your Job All Over Again
Remember how exciting it was when you first fell in love? Your heart did somersaults every time you met the one you loved. The two of you sat up talking all night. And you always seemed to have so much energy. The thrill of falling in love is wonderf ...
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15 Tips For Thriving in a Cubicle Environment
If your organisation uses a cubicle environment, you probably get complaints about the noisy and uncivilized habits of co-workers, the general lack of privacy, or some perceived loss of status. Welcome to the open office, or the cubiclization of Amer ...
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Managing Your Career Management
Examining Scope & Opportunity To help you find the right career, you need to look at the scope and focus of different employment opportunities. Consider the sector, size, and structure of different workplaces - these may be deciding factors in yo ...
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10 Tips to Moving Towards Career Freedom
Begin focusing on what you want instead of how much you want to escape. When you find yourself sharing the latest horror story, stop in mid-sentence and say, 'What I want to have is...'
Create an image that describes you in your job. Are you on a ri ...
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Assessing Your Career Management
Evaluate your current career management by working through this simple questionnaire. Be as honest as you can and answer with the first response that comes into your mind. If your answer is 'Disagree', award yourself 1 point (Option 1); if it is 'Agr ...
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Assessing Your Current Situation
We are all at different stages in our lives and you may want to take stock of your present situation because you feel you need to make a change. Check and analyze your progress to see exactly where you are now and what may lay ahead.
Checking Your P ...
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Develop Your Career Mission Statement
The business world is always attaching itself to the latest 'in' topics and buzzwords. In the new millennium, every corporation, large and small, has developed a company mission statement. Not that they did not have a mission before. Just that it was ...
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5 Ways To Beat The Monday Blahs
Having trouble returning to work on Mondays? Feel like you never really left? Enjoy your job, but hate getting out of bed?
You may be struggling with the blahs which may not necessarily be a reflection of your like or dislike for your job. Your Mon ...
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10 Tips To Help You Make A Good First Impression
You know how it is. Early on in life you learn its importance. As you learn about job-hunting, its value again gains prominence. And now, as you are about to start at a new job, it reaches a critical state. What is it?
It is the impact of first imp ...
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Another 10 Tips To Help You Make A Good First Impression
Avoid Office Politics and Gossip As with any social organisation, the workplace is full of rumours and gossip. Your mission is to keep your nose clean of all of it - and be sure not to associate too often with the office gossips or risk having your i ...
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The Future: The Changing Face Of The Workplace
Change in the workplace has never been more rapid. There is no 'long term' in today's working environment - the concept is dead. A job for life and gold watch retirement are quaint traditions of a bygone era. It is predicted that we will no longer ha ...
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Growing A Successful Career
As a career coach and consultant, individuals often ask me to share a tip or two about careers so that they can succeed. My reply to them is you cannot succeed in a career simply by doing a thing or two. Career success is a strategic juxtapositioning ...
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Keys To Career Planning
The most important piece of advice I can offer today's job seeker is to first figure out, as best as you can, exactly what you want to do. This is the first and possibly the most important step in the career planning process. If relevant career optio ...
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Managing Stress
The demands of modern life, particularly for those of us in inner city areas, create tensions for us all. It is an occupational hazard. From the workaholic who just can't switch off to people who suffer stress, from doing boring repetitive work, lear ...
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Setting Goals & Targets
Thinking about goals involves envisaging where you want to get to and how you intend to get there. An essential first step is to focus on your ultimate aims. Then set key career markers on the way that you can view as your targets.
Defining your go ...
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Simple Tips To Relieve Stress In Your Work Day
Volumes of articles, books and manuals have been written on time management and organisation in the workplace. We read all with good intentions, but seldom follow through with any real commitment. And yet we feel overwhelmed and stressed at work. A l ...
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Prioritising Your Day to Accomplish More
Prioritising is a very important function of being organised. It is another method that puts you in control of your work responsibilities. In order to effectively prioritise, learn to recognise the difference between the important, the urgent and the ...
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Understanding Career Management
Managing your career is not an option but a necessity in order to halt or prevent career drift. Be proactive in developing your career plan so that you do not miss out on the rewards that more focus, drive, and direction can bring.
Clarifying your ...
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When to Say "I Quit!"
Jason Baker asked me the question during my appearance on KCMO talk radio in Kansas City. 'How do you know when it's time to walk into the boss's office and say, “I'm out of here?' So many emotional and individual circumstances are inherent in our ...
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