Category: Communication

You Know In-Person Networking Can Help Advance Your Career. But You’re Still Not Doing It.

by candacemoody

Rack up another casualty of remote work and pandemic lockdowns: professionals are reluctant to reach out to other professionals, even as 70% say “your network matters more than your resume.” That’s one of the findings of Resume Now’s latest Networking in the New Job Market Report, based on a survey conducted with 1,000 U.S. workers … Continue reading You Know In-Person Networking Can Help Advance Your Career. But You’re Still Not Doing It.

How To Give Better Criticism – and Take it Better from Others

by candacemoody

In a terrific article by Arthur C. Brooks for The Atlantic, he talks about how we humans love to criticize but hate to receive criticism. In other words, we love to dish it out, but can’t stomach receiving it. I believe that’s why internet forums are so popular and so toxic; we can hide behind … Continue reading How To Give Better Criticism – and Take it Better from Others

Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way

by candacemoody

In a previous post, I introduced the Smalley Personality quiz, a quick take on personality types in the workplace. The types are categorized as animals: Lion, Otter, Golden Retriever, and Beaver. Otters tend to be energetic, optimistic, and enthusiastic, especially about new, shiny ideas. They’re team players and the team cheerleaders. Beavers, on the other … Continue reading Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way

When Too Many Otters is a Bad Thing

by candacemoody

Nancy Pulciano is a producer and the CEO of Silent Crowd, a clothing company based in San Diego. She’s a manager with experience in Hollywood as a producer and in the action sports and restaurant industries, so she knows a thing or two about managing creative, diverse, and sometimes difficult personalities. Writing for Rolling Stone … Continue reading When Too Many Otters is a Bad Thing

Walk Me Through Your Resume

by candacemoody

A resume is one of the classic tools for career transition. On its own, though, it’s simply a piece of paper that takes a backward look at your career and your education. It doesn’t really predict how well you’ll do on a new team in a new role. Doing that is your job, and savvy … Continue reading Walk Me Through Your Resume

Acceptance is Your Leadership Superpower

by candacemoody

American-Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross first wrote about the five stages of grief in the 1960s. They were designed to help people cope with loss by giving them a checklist of human reactions to terrible things. First shock and disbelief (this can’t be happening to me), then anger (I don’t deserve this), then bargaining (if I … Continue reading Acceptance is Your Leadership Superpower

Interviewing a Gen Z Candidate? Be Prepared for these Issues.

by candacemoody

Boterview is a Switzerland-based company that offers an AI interview preparation tool. Their CEO says the next generation of jobseekers don’t conform to expectations in many ways, including how they conduct themselves in interviews. The company’s site ​​coach helps jobseekers “strike a professional tone, craft the appropriate answers, and ace job interviews.” Their interview AI … Continue reading Interviewing a Gen Z Candidate? Be Prepared for these Issues.

Loyalty and Respect

by candacemoody

In a previous post, I wrote about Value-in-Action stories, inspired by Annette Simmons, author of Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins: How to Use Your Own Stories to Communicate with Power and Impact. She says that when you tell a story about how you chose to do the right thing, even when that choice was … Continue reading Loyalty and Respect

You’re a Liar. It’s OK; I am, too.

by candacemoody

Pamela Meyer thinks you’re a liar. It’s nothing personal; she thinks we’re all liars. And the science bears her out. Her 2011 TED Talk “How to Spot a Liar” has been viewed over 23 million times. She says studies have shown that strangers tell 3 lies to each other, on average, within the first 10 … Continue reading You’re a Liar. It’s OK; I am, too.

Let Me

by candacemoody

In this post and this post, I have written about a book that’s sweeping through the internet like a fresh cool breeze: The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About by Mel Robbins. Mel says that we waste an enormous amount of time, energy and emotions trying to … Continue reading Let Me