You’re barreling toward the next year, bent on doing it better, faster, smarter than … what? If you look back over the last several months, certain behavioral issues have already surfaced as leading contenders for top problems. What impact are they currently having on your business and what can you do to course correct before [...]
Career Management
Tom (Dick, or Harry) has a problem. He’s in way over his head. Competent, well educated, articulate, he’s scared of the slippery slope that lies ahead. He could veer off the path, but he’s chosen to stay the course. And he’s relieved it will soon be over. They’re going to fire him, he just knows [...]
It’s a crazy world out there. Weird weather, uncertain employment, foreclosures, freak accidents. It’s as if we’re all leaning forward, tensed in advance of whatever might hit us next, in a collective anxious anticipation. I don’t know about you, but I find it utterly exhausting. Like living under seige. Right now there’s a lot of [...]
Warning to Workaholics on Vacation No beach is warm enough, no pool deep enough, no book long enough to keep you from the next call, the next report, the next conquest. No companion is fun enough, no escapade strange enough, no catacomb deep enough, to keep you from the next deal and the next plane [...]
Mercer, who conducts the What’s Working(TM) survey, has asserted that “half of all US employees are really not happy.” When the economy is down, people understandably stay with jobs they don’t find satisfying. There is no support for transitioning to a different, more satisfying job. The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s recent article: “Nonprofit Employers Don’t Meet Worker’s [...]
Back in the ’80s, a synth-pop-spiky-hair kinda band released a song called “Obsession”. Watch the video – it’s a hoot. The refrain went like this: You are an obsession, you’re my obsession Who do you want me to be to make you sleep with me? Sometimes I blurt out this lyric when working with clients [...]
A recent letter writer suggested that employees, the newly hired and the barely there, would benefit from understanding that employers have some very basic expectations of them. I heartily agree. In fact, here’s one boss’s secret copy of Here’s What I Didn’t Tell You Because I Thought You Knew. This place is called “Work” Get [...]
Frustrated folks are stuck at the crossroads of Many Possibilities. They’re torn between their parent’s dreams and their own fantasies.The strongest sentiment they express is, “what if I choose the wrong path? I don’t want to commit myself to the wrong future.” With that fear firmly in place, they remain stuck. They prefer the angst [...]
Last week I meet with four very talented and very disagreeable employees whose careers were on the chopping block. They had one universal complaint: No one told them they were going to get fired until it was too late to do anything about it. Were they told in advance and did they have sufficient time and support [...]
Guest Author: Michele Woodward You don’t know what to do. Oh, you’ve got plenty of ideas about what you could do. About what’s possible. About your dreams. Or maybe you’re really, really busy – pursuing a hundred leads at once and reeling from all the potential paths available to you. But somehow nothing’s really happening. Nothing’s [...]