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Leadership Development Congratulations! You’ve just been given greater responsibilities, a bigger pay cheque, and a fancy new title. And your headaches are getting worse. Do you find yourself struggling to go home on time? Having difficulty juggling your own work and the demands of your staff? Does your boss pressure you to do more, better, faster, without ever telling you how? Unfortunately, most companies offer little or no support to newly appointed managers. And even if you have experience as a middle manager or team lead, nobody prepares you for the required mind-shift when you move further up the chain. Drawing from our own personal experiences, and from the best minds the world of leadership and management theory has to offer, we can help you develop an effective leadership style, and improve your leadership performance. Read some of the Success Stories from our clients – and then call us to discuss how to help you. |
Latest Career Pointer That's right: 6 out of every 10 jobs were never advertised ... so how do people find them? By now, most people know that “networking” is the way to get a mid-level to senior job these days. In fact, almost 60% of respondents to a large scale survey quoted “through contacts” as the way they’d landed their job—through business contacts, through family members, tipped by a friend or schoolmate, or recruited by someone who already worked there—in short, through a process of referrals. Read more...Top 10 Reasons Why Resumes Suck Stand out from the crowd. That’s what a good resume will help you do. Unfortunately, most resumes suck at this. Maybe, if you’re honest with yourself, it’s time for a no-holds-barred, critical review of your current resume. Especially if one or more of the following Top 10 Reasons applies:
1. The resume has no objective. If you can’t articulate what it is you’re looking for, specifically, you’re leaving it up to the junior HR clerk, who gets stuck with the screening process, to decide for you.
Don't want to be a manager? Good! Management doesn't think you can be, anyway Today I left a comment on one of J.T. O’Donnell‘s posts, on her site Careerealism. The article was about why most managers don’t think any of their staff would qualify to be a manager themselves, so it’s just as well that a large majority of employees indicated in a survey that they don’t want to move into management. As one of the reasons staff have such a jaded and unkind view of management, J.T. cites what she calls “The Office Effect”. The way the manager of the fictitious paper products company is portrayed in the TV series “The Office" conforms to the widely-held notion among office workers everywhere: managers are clueless, petty, uninspiring, pompous idiots, who have “risen to the top through lack of (intellectual) weight.”. According to a recent survey by Adecco, more than 1 in 4 employees consider their managers to be “completely incompetent”. And in another survey, fully 69% of respondents indicated that they would not want their manager’s job. J.T.’s articles are always a great read; you can find this article here. Continue to read my comments on the post ... Read more...How Internal PR May Save Your Job When working with career transition clients - line managers, project managers, team leads, even senior management - one topic inevitably comes up in the first few weeks: why did you get laid off? The emphasis here is on you. After all, unless the company went entirely out of business, or the entire department was shut down, other employees were kept on, so what did you do (or not do) to find yourself out of a job? And to be sure, plummeting market conditions may well have been the trigger to spark a round of lay-offs… But why you? It’s not a superfluous question at all, nor is it designed to allow the client to wallow in self-pity for a few extra weeks ... No, to be clear, my intent is not to lay blame, or to make my client feel horrible. The point I try to make: did anyone in charge know exactly what you were doing, and how much value you brought to the company? And if the answer is “No”, then my next question is: why not? Read more...Do you know how much you're worth? Read more... |
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