Career Tip - A Return to Basics
Business Management, Career advice, Employment, Recruiting No Comments »Today I want to encourage you to keep your eye on the ball. Get back to the basics. Focus on the fundamentals. Remember what really matters. Identify the simple principles and actions that are crucial to your success at work and at home. Simplify, Focus, Execute - Jon Gordon, author of The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work
If you’ve been working for any length of time in any capacity or industry, you have likely faced stressful points that make you want to scream. But as you’ve been working for any length of time, you know that a “pillow” is the only one who can take those screams, in a calm and supportive way.
What we get from these experiences is a chance to step back and reflect on what’s happening and how much we really control what’s happening. No, I’m not speaking in riddles; but I am making a point.
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”
9 Ways Super Zoomers Can Increase Their Managerial Power & Influence in 2010
Business Management, Employment, Recruiting No Comments »Super Zoomers — those managers over 60 and still actively involved in the workplace must work hard to build their power and influence so they don’t get looked over or shoved aside in this “Great Disruption.”
Pick Two: To work on to focus your efforts.
Ask For: Help on one item from a trusted colleague. Invite her/him to do the same process.
Ask Your Boss: “Which one would you like me to work on?” S/he’ll probably name 3 or 4. Thank her/him. Ask her to pick the top one. When I’ve done that. Go back to her/him and say, “What’s next.” I can be sure s/he will be impressed. My pile of influence chips will increase. (If s/he’s a great boss, s/he will get into it as well.)
9 tactics Super Zoomers can use to increase their organizational power and influence:
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.
Employee Referral Programs - The Good and the Bad
Business Management, Career advice, Job Search, Recruiting, Uncategorized No Comments »Employee referral programs can be an outstanding tool for bringing top talent into your organization.
Most of the best companies have put lucrative employee referral programs in place. Though these programs, employees are empowered to refer job candidates. And, in return, they can earn referral bonuses that can range from $1000 to up to $8000 if their referrals are hired and stay with the company.
What Are the Total Costs of a Bad Hire?
Business Management, Employment, Job Search, Recruiting No Comments »Business guru Peter Drucker has said, “Of all the decisions an executive makes, none are as important as the decision about people because they ultimately determine the performance capacity of the organization.” Warren Bennis, professor of business at the University of Southern California and author of Managing the Dream, calls the search for top talent “the most significant problem facing all organizations.”
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.
7 Tips to Keep Your Mastermind Group Alive and Kickin’
Business communication, Employment, Job Search, Management, Recruiting No Comments »Mastermind groups are formed by professionals for a number of reasons. The three top reasons being:
1.To generate new ideas and share best practices in an effort to increase revenue and create efficiencies in each member’s businesses.
2.To establish a space for accountability, goal setting and encouragement amongst entrepreneurs who are not necessarily reporting up to or being pushed by a Manager. (They are the captain of their own ship)
3.To network and cultivate possible referral relationships with other professionals.
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.
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.
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