Tag Archives: skills
What Motivates You?
What gets you out of bed and into your workplace every day? Do you feel stimulated or challenged by your job? Are you in a field that you’re passionate about, and that passion means more than your salary? Do you feel that you’re making a difference to your customers, members, or clients? Boredom and not [...]
- Monday, July 19th, 2010,
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What Wedding Planning Taught Me About Project Management
I’m getting married. Yes, I’m thrilled. It’s going to be a small wedding on the shore of the lake. Beautiful spot for a beautiful day. I’m pretty busy with the wedding planning. Even though it’s going to be small, we still have almost all the elements and decisions that come with a big wedding. Perhaps [...]
- Friday, July 16th, 2010,
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Competence or Confidence?
Competence or confidence. Which comes first? Do your ever-improving skills grant you confidence? Or, alternatively, is it your confidence that catalyzes the growth of your skills? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? You can certainly have one in spades and suffer a conspicuous lack of the other. Some people are brimming with confidence [...]
- Thursday, June 17th, 2010,
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Why Being A “Jack Of All Trades” Works
In the workplace of yesterday, most jobs existed as a fixed set of clear-cut, unchanging duties. Rarely did the nature of the work vary, and in many cases a worker’s ability to repeat the same exact process and produce identical results was commended. Just ask an assembly-line worker or a railroad builder if “outside-the-box thinking,” [...]
- Friday, May 14th, 2010,
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Unemployed? Use Your Time to Learn Essential Skills
If you’re looking for work, you’ve probably been told to turn job seeking into a full-time job itself. This message has its heart in the right place (i.e., get off the couch and turn off the TV), but in reality, I know few job seekers who literally spend 40+ hours per week in their job [...]
- Wednesday, November 4th, 2009,
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Tell Me Exactly Why You Deserve This Job?
That’s the question consciously or unconsciously running through the mind of someone looking through a stack of resumes. That person will often not find the answer if there’s no cover letter from you. Resumes list the information about your skills and experience. Cover letters pinpoint why you should receive serious consideration for a particular job. [...]
- Tuesday, July 7th, 2009,
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Changing Careers: Build on Your Transferable Skills
I help some of my clients consider, plan and execute career changes. This process can be exciting, challenging, daunting or energizing. “Simple” is one thing it usually is not. After you’ve made the decision to change careers and decided which one you are going to break into, it’s time to figure out how you can make [...]
- Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007,
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