Work, success, and meaning at every stage of your career
You’re never too old to pivot in your career. That’s the advice of career coach Patrice Lindo, CEO of Career Nomad, a consulting firm, in an online article from CNBC Make It. We’re learning that the pandemic created a sea change in the way people think about and manage their careers. From wanting more work from … Continue reading Career Change Late in Your Career: Focus on Your Strengths Rather than Your History
Annette Simmons is the author of Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins: How to Use Your Own Stories to Communicate with Power and Impact. Her book is intended to help you get into “story thinking,” using stories as tools for persuasion in your personal and business life. One of the most important stories you can … Continue reading Why You Should Tell (True) Stories about Who You Are
Annette Simmons is the author of Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins: How to Use Your Own Stories to Communicate with Power and Impact. She wrote the book to help people bring storytelling back into their repertoire of persuasive tactics, and she offers many tips for telling better stories. One of her most important ideas … Continue reading Validate Before Trying to Persuade
Annette Simmons is the author of Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins: How to Use Your Own Stories to Communicate with Power and Impact. Her book is intended to help you get into “story thinking,” using stories as tools for persuasion in your personal and business life. She defines stories as “a reimagined experience narrated … Continue reading Telling Better Stories
Annette Simmons is the author of Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins: How to Use Your Own Stories to Communicate with Power and Impact. Her book is intended to help you get into “story thinking,” using stories as tools to bring emotion back into the decision-making process. She writes, “We know everything will change tomorrow … Continue reading The Stories We Tell Ourselves (and Others)
A recent survey conducted by HR consultancy Gartner of nearly 3,500 respondents found that 50 percent of candidates accepted a job offer between May 2022 and May 2023, backed out, then started working for another employer. SHRM’s blog says among nearly 2,000 respondents who recently started a new job, 47 percent said they were still … Continue reading 50 Percent of New Hires Change Their Minds
What time does a meeting start? The agenda may start at a specific moment (give or take 10 minutes, in my sad experience), but you can be very productive in the minutes before a meeting actually begins. Those of us who are always early know this. In fact, we’re early for two reasons. One is … Continue reading The Meeting Before the Meeting
I am a person who is almost never bored. I have an active mind and plenty of projects and plans to keep myself occupied. I’m also a voracious reader, so there’s always something new being planted in my brain. Nope – never bored. But now I’m thinking that might not be a good thing. Nicola … Continue reading On Being Bored
Data drives almost every business decision in almost every modern business. Even creative industries like art and music rely on data to figure out what sells to whom for how much and how often. We have access to more data than ever; in fact, if you’ve got a big enough server farm, you can access … Continue reading Quantitative Intuition
I’ve been writing about – and making a living – doing gig work for over a decade, but I’m still learning about ways companies and skilled gig workers can collaborate. I’d never heard the term “fractional employee” until I came upon it in a great article by Scion Executive Search. The post positions fractional employment … Continue reading Fractional Employment: A New Model for Gig Work
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