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Innovation at Work - Seven Questions to Ask Before You're Hired by Dee McCrorey - Jan, 2010 In an ever-changing marketplace, innovating your way to career success means keeping your "innovation potential" at peak performance. You risk a career setback by accepting a position that doesn't excite you or working with a company incapable of keeping your innovation threshold humming at a higher level. As a talented professional, much of your success depends upon the partners you select and how you collaborate and innov... |
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Nail Your Next Job Interview - Seven Key Strengths to Leverage During Negotiations by Dee McCrorey - Jan, 2010 Everyone has a unique negotiating style that when effectively used becomes your calling card in building healthy relationships. So often in business, professionals focus on their weak areas and less about the value they bring to the deal. How does this apply to you when interviewing for a new position inside your organization or outside the company? Interviewing for a new position provides you with an opportunity to conn... |
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Outside Your Comfort Zone - Assessing Your Personal Risk Taking Style by Dee McCrorey - Jan, 2010 When was the last time you assessed your preference for working outside your comfort zone? Although a no one-size-fits-all risk taking style exists given the different criteria that can influence how you approach workplace situations, generally you can assess your comfort zone when dealing with unknown outcomes. Your Personal Risk taking Style You can begin by taking this self-assessment and answering the fourteen statem... |
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Responsible Risk Taking in the Workplace Begins With You by Dee McCrorey - Jan, 2010 It begins with assuming responsibility for managing your career life cycle in front of your personal and professional inflection points. But in order to do this, you'll first need to get clear about what you consider to be outside your comfort zone. Begin with a review of 2009 and identify the peaks and valleys of your personal and professional life. You could do this "low tech" by placing twelve self-adhesive poster-sized ... |
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Responsible Risktaking - Diversifying Your Career Portfolio by Dee McCrorey - Jan, 2010 In the new world of work it's about differentiating yourself both in the workplace and in the marketplace. One quick way to do this, particularly in today's fearful environment, is to put more "skin in the game"--in other words, take responsible risks that can help you stand out in the crowd. Responsible risks are the ones you're prepared to take without putting your personal life or your career in jeopardy. Managing You... |
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Are You Risking Your Team's Success in 2010? by Dee McCrorey - Jan, 2010 I was asked to "shadow coach" a junior program manager in his new role. His first big challenge was assessing the skills of a team who had been together for months, but who were behind schedule in launching their product. This new PM was now responsible for figuring out who would remain with the team and who would be replaced. My role was to walk him through the process of asking the required questions and reviewing the res... |
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Three Steps to Achieving your 2010 Goals and Dreams! by Bernadette Boas - Jan, 2010 We all know that life goes so fast and at a blink of an eye another year will be over. We are already a full week into the new year (unless you are like me and consider new plans, goals or resolutions on Mondays) and realistically before we know it Winter will be over and it will be Spring soon. I don’t say this to sound negative or with the glass half empty, but to be sure we are all being realistically of how important it... |
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Is A Raise In Your Future For 2010? by Mary Sherwood Sevinsky - Jan, 2010 Are you considering asking for a raise, but are fearful about the outcome? It may be time to ask for a raise if it has been a year or more since you received a raise or you have done exceptionally good work in the past 6 months. Do not ask for a raise unless you this is the case. If you are uncertain about your standing with your company, you may want to read, “Am I Being Leveraged Out Of A Job?” Good employers want to kee... |
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Two More Guerrilla Job-Search Success Stories by Kevin Donlin - Jan, 2010 Most job seekers you talk to are struggling right now. You can do what they’re doing. But you’ll probably struggle, too. Or, for different results, you can try something different. The two “guerrilla” job hunters in this article did. And they’re working now. What can you learn from their stories? Approach #1: Do Lots of Little Things Right Remy Piazza, from Toronto, Ontario, accepted a job offer in November 2009... |
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Are You Happy In Your Job? by Suzanne Bates - Jan, 2010 Last night on WGBH TV’s Greater Boston with Emily Rooney I was invited to be on a panel discussing a new survey that shows record numbers of people are unhappy with their jobs. The Conference Board’s poll, widely reported yesterday in every major publication, concludes that “Americans of all ages and income brackets continue to grow increasingly unhappy at work.” The survey is based on the responses of 2,900 American worke... |
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