Archive for the 'Career Management Tips' Category

Unleashing Potential: Harnessing Business Enablement

In an ever-evolving business landscape, standing still is the fastest path backwards. Successful companies – those that adapt, embrace innovation and harness enablement’s as fuel – emerge victorious over time. Now is an opportune moment for enterprises of any kind to examine some key enablement’s that could take them even further ahead. Photo by Razvan […]

Financial fitness courses return a 3-1 ROI for employers and $500 for employees

In this day and age, getting highly qualiofied and capable staff is harder and harder. Some innovative employers are now reaching out to financial professionals to add value to their employee benefits program with financial fitness courses. One expert claims  it provides a 3-to-1 return on investment for employers and benefits employees $500 in the […]

Why I get people to write their own letters of reference

If you’ve subscribed or followed my blogs, you know by now about my concept of antimimeticisomorphism – Doing out-of-the-ordinary things to create extra-ordinary results with the least amount of effort and lowest cost. Early in my career, a mentor got me to write my own letter of reference. He explained that as the requestor and […]

10 Things that seriously irritate your boss

This list of pet peeves is so prevalent it begs to be printed and framed in every office lunchroom. Each is the soure of a Career Limiting Move (CLM) that usually goes unspoken much to the frustration of the irritant who is usually clueless to the infraction and then usually escalates his/her behaviour committing more […]

Praise At Work

I am not an advocate of feeding Praise Junkies as spotlighted in the BBC article hyperlinked, but praise does go a long way to motivating employees. Here is a useful infographic to help you motivate your team.

So, you want to quit your job… Don’t make this common mistake

Quitting a job or starting a new business is part of the circle of ‘business’ life that is now well accepted and expected. The reasons include a faster-changing world, accelerating with new technologies, the desire to expand one’s reach beyond a single industry and/or role and of course life-cycle changes following a life-changing event such […]

Considering a Change in Career? Here are 3 Tips to Help Your Decision

At some point in your working life, you may want to change careers. If you aren’t enjoying your current job, then chances are you will not be performing at your best either. Moving into another career, one that you like or have an interest in, can help you become more involved in your work and […]

Unhappy Employees = Unprofitable Business

We understand the logic: Unhappy employees = unproductive employees = an unprofitable business The issue begins when we deal with employees as a GROUP – Employees only exist as individuals, just like you EXIST right now, reading this sentence. ONE person at a time is reading this sentence. Even though there might be several or […]

Bad Boss: A Case Study

Today’s blog post is from a friend who is ‘stuck’ working for a ‘bad boss’. I thought you would like to listen in to the conversation… I have indented my inserted responses in line. Hi Marc, I am looking for some feedback, if you are willing. I’ll do some project to return the value to […]

Fixing A Mistake Takes Courage

Every once in a while we all make a mistake, a faux pas or a business blunder we’d like to take back. Rebekha Campbell very eloquently and courageously shared her mistake in a recent BRW Magazine article. It’s definitely worth reading…