There has never been a more critical time to take an active role in your planning career advancement than now. With hundreds of thousands of top salary jobs left unfilled due to lack of qualified candidates having both the hard and soft skills to fill them, yet millions of people out of work, it is clear that there was a lack of career planning on many fronts. Keep your career ahead of the curve and develop and implement an intentional career advancement plan. Here is a quick list of some of the things you should consider when developing your career advancement plan this month.

It’s no secret that the workforce is changing and if you want to stay competitive in your job, there are a few things you can do to make yourself stand out and be promoted faster. In our latest video, we give you a few quick tips and tell you how to apply these them at [...]

Sarah, a 56-year-old woman who has been working in Silicon Valley for more than 25 years, attended a recent Anita Borg Institute TechLeaders Power and Influence Program. During the final exercise, she turned to me and asked, “Have men known these things all along?” When I nodded yes, she frowned and returned to doing calculations [...]

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.

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.

Failure and success are cohorts. You can never have one without the other. Just look at some of history’s greats. And there are several contemporary examples as well.