Six Secrets of Successful Mentoring
Mentoring at its best is a magical elixir which shaves years off your learning curve through mistakes unmade. Thank God, we’ve experienced the transformational spirit of amazing mentors.
Expert Advice and Strategies for Successful Negotiations
Negotiation is an important subject for women in their careers, whether they are job searching, seeking a promotion, or just wanting to learn this skill. I find that this is one of the most difficult topics for women to understand and act on appropriately.
Best Practices, New Practices, and Culture in a Vacancy
One of the significant challenges employers face when an employee leaves is the loss of that individual’s institutional knowledge.
Improve Your Self-Esteem: The Postage Stamp Method
If you think about success, you will feel strong and competent, but when you think about your mistakes, you will inevitably feel sad and weak.
Big Data: Garbage in, Garbage out
A strong information governance program actively removes redundant, obsolete and transient data from the system which improves the quality of information stored in the data lake or warehouse.
The Fundamentals of Launching Women into Leadership Opportunities
This is the most crucial time for women’s voices to be heard. Women inside the White House are being paid like it’s 1980 and we’re not advancing gender diversity like it’s 2017.
Alternatives to College
The long-term answer is figuring out how to preserve the culture and life lessons learned at college and how to endow graduates with the necessary career skills required by employers.
How a Postage Stamp Saved My Life
The primary function of a stamp is of course, to pay for mail, but if you take the time to really examine a stamp you’ll have the opportunity to learn about many subjects on a vast array of topics.
Information Governance Insights: Cyber Security
Cybersecurity is really everyone’s business. The information technology department can only do so much to keep the wolves at bay. It is up to everyone to be aware of tactics being used, how to respond to them and for Management to understand that the risk of deferred maintenance has become more critical
Seven Easy Ways to Enjoy Your Work Day
Maybe your job isn’t all that enjoyable either But YOU can do a few things to bring some joy into even the most unfulfilling day.
An Interviewing Mistake That Will Cost You the Job
The key is to do your homework and articulate why your skill sets add the most value for THIS job at THIS company.
Statements Can be Turned Into Questions Can’t They?
In your next meeting, you may want to assign someone to track how many questions you ask and how many statements you make.
This Is What You Can Do When Facing Ageism
Unconscious biases are often at the root of ageism. We’ve all got our prejudices. Part of the trick to tackling them is to make them conscious.
Sheep Don’t Kill Sheep
Could we not have agreed from the outset that we do not kill each other?
How an “Off-Kilter” Day Still Turned Out Okay
It was a Monday. The day of the week I typically plan to be a high productivity day to power through client and personal responsibilities. However, this one was not starting out that way.
7 Things Your Rock-Star Employees Want to Hear You Say
Not every high-performer is looking to be promoted. And that’s fine. You need rock stars in every role. But every high-performer is human and longs for appreciation, connection, and wants to be heard. It’s so easy to direct our attention to the folks who need our help the most. Be sure to pay attention to your top 20% as well.
Forget Time Management. Try This Instead.
Let’s face it: How many of us really want to be the passenger on an airplane with an exhausted, pilot at the helm? When you’re in a leadership role, managing your own energy is vital to your ability to impact and influence others.
We are busy.
In fact, we’re busier than we’ve ever been.
Workplace Culture
There is something important to consider when selecting a job, key to remaining happy in a job, and part of many decisions to stay or leave a job. I am, of course, talking about workplace culture.