Guest Post: Five Career Skills You Won’t Learn in College
College offers you great experience and knowledge, but skills like those above are ones you won’t pick up during ‘the best years of your life’.
Category: Professional Development
Building skills on the job
To Gift or Not to Gift: Tips for Office Giving During the Holidays
‘Tis the season for gift giving, and that means we have to figure out what to give to our office mates, bosses and subordinates. For many of us, this is an exercise fraught with anxiety; we worry about how much to spend, what is appropriate, who might be giving to us that we were not expecting, and the biggest question: whether we should give anything at all.
In the Blink of an Eye: First Impressions Count
Everyone hates the idea of being judged, but it’s simply a fact of life.
Guest Post: How to Deal With a Depressed Coworker
Depression is a difficult illness for everyone involved. Obviously the person living through depression has it the worst, trying to reconcile persistent negative thoughts or to express feelings to other people. But depression also has a massive impact on people who interact with those afflicted by it. Friends, family, and coworkers of depressed individuals often … Continue reading Guest Post: How to Deal With a Depressed Coworker
Hot Cognition and the Crocodile Brain
Decisions to like or dislike something – or someone – are made quickly, and generally without thinking. What we want, and what we like comes early in our processing, and it’s the crocodile brain doing the processing.
Constant Career Planning Part Two
In a previous post, I wrote about author Rita McGrath’s theory of the “transient advantage,” the idea that if you are constantly thinking about what’s next, you’ll be more successful. Everyone should have a reactive and proactive strategy for your next career move. McGrath provides a great quiz to determine if you are ready for … Continue reading Constant Career Planning Part Two
Constant Career Planning
McGrath, who is a professor at Columbia Business School, says that what she calls “transient advantage” – constantly innovating and trying to determine which skills will be most valuable next—is what will make you successful over time in your career.
60 Percent Sure
We watch our male colleagues take risks, while we hold back until we’re sure we are perfectly ready and perfectly qualified. We fixate on our performance at home, at school, at work, at yoga class, even on vacation.
Signs That Your Job May be in Jeopardy
You may just be having a bad week, but you’ve been feeling something in the air at the office. Trust your instincts; your job may be in jeopardy of any of these things start happening on a regular basis.
Expand Your Network in 30 Minutes or Less
Finding common ground with new people is a powerful way to increase your visibility and influence, and it only takes a few hours each week to build a strong network.
