If the right people don’t know about your success stories the rate of acceleration of your career success may be slower than you have patience for. Avoid the frustration and find opportunities to share your success stories.
Tell me about yourself seems like a vague statement, but not being able to answer means you don’t know how you can help the department reach its goals and that you can’t handle ambiguity, and in times of constant change as we are experiencing currently, you will face ambiguity.
A survey conducted by the Center for Creative Leadership which looked at executives from Fortune 100 firms whose careers stalled found that failure to redirect efforts from monitoring work to inspiring improvement caused career stagnation. It is the smart manager who assesses current skills against those required for the sought after leadership position, and then puts a professional development plan into action.
Everyone can tell you about at least a couple of career mishaps on the way to the top. The faster you make them the faster your career advancement. Just don’t make the same mistake more than once.
It’s a truism, that we all have our strengths and weaknesses. They make us complete. But it’s the former that make us successful.
When McDonald’s forayed into the Japanese market in 1971, the registers were not ringing as expected. This had the entire hierarchy wondering what had gone wrong? The answer came from one of the store managers from Japan. He told the management that the problem lies in the way the food is ordered and served at [...]
Meetings, after all, are where important announcements are made, and smart employees and board members network, get to know each other and maybe meld together a little better as a team.
Assertiveness is a skill you will need to develop to continue to be effective and experience career advancement.
The job market is opening and having reviewed several resumes recently we want to make sure our readers have success gaining their desired promotions and dream jobs.
There is only one thing more humiliating than failing in your new position. Failing because you were too embarrassed to ask for help! There is a simple way to avoid both.
