Blogs About "career development"

I love the title of Jane Horan’s book, because it captures my impulse for starting up Women Advance as an online career accelerator for younger women: “I Wish I’d Known That Earlier in My Career.” The subtitle, “The Power of Positive Workplace Politics,” captures one of the five career accelerator skills around which I’m building the site curriculum: social capital, networking, power, politics. Different words, same meaning:...

When I met Heather Ladage five or six years back, she was circulation and marketing director of the Austin Business Journal, and it was easy to see that she was a rising star. I admired her talent, her energy, and her generous spirit. She’s someone you want to spend time with, and learn from. So I wasn’t surprised last month when Heather was named publisher of ABJ, after the retirement of...

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

The whispering at the water cooler.  The venting during lunch with colleagues.  The justifications people use for showing up late or sneaking out early.  The rants we subject our family and friends to after...

 

HBR's John Coleman and Bill George provides us young 'uns some important considerations when setting goals for ourselves this year.

 

1. Find a trustworthy mentor.

 Embrace the robocalypse!

While you may not associate the activities below with traditional business-folk-type of activities (read:  Jack Welch doesn't "do" web design), there are important correlations between the skills in employees employers find valuable and these not-so-typical hobbies...

When "Marie" began coaching with me, she felt unrecognized and unappreciated in her job. Like so many talented women at mid-career, she had become so proficient at her work that everyone depended upon her to "get things done." She was so busy with her head down, putting out fires and saving other people's butts, that she had not developed any kind of executive profile. When a...

Once upon a time, when managers made implicitly gender-biased judgments about which staff got the pay raises and the promotions, we called a spade a spade: gender discrimination. When Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Betty Dukes et al. was recently heard by the Supreme Court, we gained a new euphemism for structural sexism in the workplace: “excessive subjectivity.”

This phenomenon is no news to most women: When a company fails to establish objective...

I taped the last episode of the Oprah show and watched it with pen in hand since I knew she would be sharing some amazing wisdom worth repeating and I wanted to take notes. My biggest take-away was that nobody but you is responsible for your life.  As Oprah eloquently said - “You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you are...

As a career development specialist, I have studied personality and how it impacts communication in the professional workplace. Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator™ I have helped shape strategies for individuals and organizations who previously hit road blocks when trying to establish trust and open lines of communication.

One need not be certified in MBTI to encourage better communication at work. You do need a basic understanding that...

A couple of years ago, I attended an amazing presentation by Lynette Lewis, author of the popular book "Climbing the Ladder in Stilettos - 10 Strategies for Stepping Up to Success and Satisfaction at Work". I was so inspired by her suggestions on how to build my personal board of directors that I purchased her book right away and read it from beginning to end. Up until that point in my...