Restructuring - A Career Opportunity
Business Management, Career advice, Job Search, Recruiting No Comments »Restructuring is tough, usually because it’s imposed change. We are rarely in control of the process. If we decide to stay, we ride it out, and are relieved when the ride ends. As you have decided to say, this means your employer has the right to expect you are all in. By that I mean that you will keep to the rules around post restructure. These rules are:
· No harking back to the “good old days” - and no saying “that’s not my job”. It just might be now!
· No saying “that’s not how we used to do it”
Are Seven Percenters Killing Your Business?
Business Management, Career advice, Employment, Human Resources, Job Search, Recruiting No Comments »In my world of working with companies to achieve their strategic plans through execution, we’re always developing goals and objectives to work on achieving during a calendar year. So in the prospecting side of my business I met many executives and business owners who tell me how well they have things covered, but still wonder why business is not doing as well as it should.
Recently I was invited to spend sometime with a company and determine how what I do may be of use in improving the businesses. Now this is a substantial business with a few divisions. The first meeting I attended was a typical example.
How Strong is Your Leadership Bench?
Business Management, Career advice, Leadership, Management No Comments »Many times the coaches with the stronger benches are more successful. And with more and more talk about the need for the leaders of organizations to also be great coaches, it is interesting to consider the sports analogy of building a bench with that of planning for future leaders of your organization.
So many organizations are very sophisticated in how they control their financials and their processes. Yet the same organizations may fall down in developing one of their most important assets - people. And people are the ones who drive those numbers and processes. Many organizations unfortunately look at their “bench strength” only when there is an opening.
Moonlighting Trend - Employee by Day, Entrepreneur by Night
Career advice, Employment, Job Search, Recruiting No Comments »In today’s economic climate, employers are facing the ever-increasing situation of employees taking on additional jobs outside of their full time employment. Many employers are encountering various issues with moonlighting and are left wondering what they can do to ensure they are getting the best from their employees as the primary employer. This can be a very tricky situation for both employers and employees.
Many employers wonder if they can institute a policy that prohibits employees from accepting outside employment altogether. Preventing an employee from obtaining outside employment is typically not legal.
Many states have enacted “lawful conduct statutes” that say employers can not take adverse action against employees for lawful off duty activities the employee may engage in outside of the workplace, which would include moonlighting. Outside of these statutes, constricting employees’ off duty activities is generally frowned upon by society unless there is a legitimate business reason for concern.
“Goals are for the future; Values are for now. Goals are set; Values are lived. Goals change; Values are rocks you can count on.” ~ Shelton Bowles
I received a book as a gift entitled, You Can’t Send a Duck to Eagle School, by Mac Anderson. The title in very intriguing, but the idea is one we all need to pay attention to.
How many times have you hired an employee because they were like you? How many times have you begun a relationship because you were attracted to what you are not?
Better Title, Less Money, and More Responsibility - Corporate Jobs of the Future?
Business Management, Career advice, Employment, Job Search, Recruiting No Comments »The big joke in the 80s and 90s was that everyone was climbing the ladder successfully in the companies they were working for, they had better titles, but they were actually bringing in the same money or less money than they were previously.
Today, large corporations know that due to supply and demand issues they are able to hire workers, middle managers, and executives at almost half the price. So you may get to have a job with a great title such as vice president of a business unit, however all this great career success may not reflect in your paycheck.
That is to say you have a better title, and more responsibility, but you will be making less money with fewer benefits. One has to wonder, if this is the corporate job of the future that everyone is talking about? Many folks are disenchanted with Corporate America for this very reason.
Leadership Development - Becoming a Leader Who Needs No Title Or Position
Career advice, Employee motivation, Leadership No Comments »Imagine: if you were to lose your title and position of authority as a leader, would anyone still be following you? This is a tough question for any leader, but the answer will tell you exactly where you are in your process of leadership development.
If you have any doubts that people would still follow you if you lost your title and position of authority, it is very possible that you are not yet a leader. Does this idea bother you? If it does, then keep reading because you are about to discover how you can get yourself on the right track with your leadership development.
Ten Characteristics of Meaningful Work
Career advice, Employment, Job Search, Recruiting No Comments »It seems to me if we are working 8+ hours each day, that work should add meaning to our lives and thus make us feel fulfilled, satisfied and happy. Leaders lead first by example (find meaning in their own work) and then by inspiring others to find meaning in their own work. What are the characteristics of meaningful work? Here are 10 characteristics:
1. It doesn’t feel like work. First of all work that is meaningful doesn’t feel like work at all. To outsiders it may look like work but to you it is something you enjoy and want to do.
Career Change Strategy - Creating Your Personal SWOT Analysis
Career advice, Employment, Job Search No Comments »If you want to find and develop a satisfying career, you need to create a solid career change strategy and an important part of that is your personal SWOT analysis.
What exactly is a SWOT Analysis? It’s simply an evaluation of your strengths, your weaknesses, the opportunities which present themselves and the threats which could block your path to success.
Once you have established your career goal, you can start your personal SWOT analysis by getting hold of several application packs for relevant jobs. Take out the job descriptions and the person specifications and use these as a guide to help you establish your strengths and weaknesses in relationship to this specific career. You can do this with the details of just one job, but using several will give you a broader view of the industry or the career.
The Best Career Advice You Ask? Well, This is No Time to Get Lazy
Career advice, Employment No Comments »One of the most popular topics we see in the newspaper, reading magazines or even online today is career vice, employment ideas, and ways to build up your resume to get a decent job. The reason we are seeing so much of this is due to the huge uptick in unemployment.
Unemployment has been rising at a rather troubling rate. In many counties in California the employment rate is at 15%. In Detroit the jobless are now over 25%, and in many other cities they are also at a boiling point. If anyone needed good advice on their future employment, well, now would be the perfect time indeed. The jobless numbers are not expected to turn around to positive territory until 2010.
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