If you aspire to a leadership position, you need to know that executives are changing the list of essential attributes they want to see in their successors.
During times of change you will discover opportunities for career advancement. These are only three strategies to lead you to them.
Leanna Cruz Editorial Director Much has been written about leadership, focusing mostly on attributes, usually explained as some combination of intelligence, initiative, confidence and vision. But this may be only half the story…or less even. Some of the newest, most cutting-edge research integrates existing research with evolutionary analysis. This analysis involves a simple premise that [...]
Its the season of events and a great time to dust of those networking skills. Learning tips of networking is vitally important in today’s work environment because a strong network is a major key to career success. No matter your industry, networking is essential to career advancement and important to your professional growth and development. Its [...]
Candid feedback and discussions have given way to political correctness by most to avoid offending and alienating others. Most remain quiet to be seen as a team player or to avoid criticizing the idea of someone held in high regard or someone who has presented an idea with great confidence. People don’t speak their minds because it’s easier not to.
In the workplace, soft skills are essential for career advancement. It is easy to determine how to gain the hard skills for career success, hard skills being education, experience and training. Soft skills, however, are more often personal attributes, traits and characteristics that are less likely to be formally taught, though they can be learned. These are essential to accelerate your career success.
By Susan M. Grant As a reader of Positively Successful, you know that your career success relies on you taking charge of your own career. As the CEO of You, you can glean some lessons from the process of starting and growing a business. Your Business Plan The old adage says if you fail to [...]
Given the positive impact that collaboration can have on an organization’s ability to get things done and to launch innovative products and services, there can be no argument against building effective collaborative networks and teams. Taken from a article in a recent issue of Positively Successful magazine, here are 7 things you can do to foster collaborative relationships in which all parties are willing participants ensuring successful outcomes.
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.
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 [...]
