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 plan, you plan [...]
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 [...]
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.
A majority of the 6,300 top executives surveyed feel that a candidate with a better understanding of global markets is given serious consideration for appoints to higher level positions.
You’ve probably experienced the frustration of seeing someone promoted who is not necessarily the most talented candidate available. Unfortunately the most frequent reaction is to conclude that top leaders are clueless. But the real reason is that the candidate who was promoted is the one who does have a clue. He knows that it takes more than talent to get noticed and be pulled to the top.
