Posts Tagged ‘career success’
This week’s most clicked
What a Navy SEAL learned about leadership from 72 sleepless hours; a beach made of beautiful bottles; and why bosses should be models of good behavior. Read about all this and more in this week’s top five most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Leadership: How Hell Week taught a Navy Seal the meaning of leadership 6 traits [...]
Live from #SHRM11: Richard Branson on how to hire great people
I’m reporting live from the Society for Human Resource Management‘s annual conference in Las Vegas. The opening keynote featured Richard Branson, founder and president of Virgin Group. Among the highlights of his discussion: He credited his mom for fostering his independent streak, sharing a story about her dropping him off about a mile from their [...]
How to manage your boss the right way
This guest post is by Bruce Tulgan, author of “It’s Okay to Manage Your Boss” and founder of RainmakerThinking, a management training firm. The vast majority of employees in the workplace today are not getting enough direction and support from their bosses, research conducted by my firm suggests. “Undermanagement” is very bad for the bottom [...]
How pretty do you have to be?
Last week, Penelope Trunk wrote a post on BNET’s Personal Success blog, arguing that appearance is such an important factor in whether you do well in business that people should hire personal trainers and even get plastic surgery if they hope to succeed. I’m not a proponent of that extreme philosophy, but I can’t resist [...]
Take the next leap in your career
SmartBrief and JobAngels were delighted to welcome many of you to La Tasca in downtown Washington, D.C., on last week to celebrate the launch of a new book from Jason Seiden, one of our favorite career writers. At “Take the next leap in your career,” Jason spoke briefly about how workers often undermine themselves at [...]
Today’s bonus tracks: The experience you didn’t know you had
One common problem for both new grads and career changers is their lack of experience. In today’s last bonus track, Lindsey Pollak encourages workers to think broadly about where their relevant experience can come from. “When it comes to selling ourselves, we often don’t see what’s right in front of us. Yes, it’s important to [...]
Having the scary conversations
Today’s guest post is by Joseph Grenny, author of the New York Times-bestseller “Crucial Conversations” and co-founder of VitalSmarts, an innovator in corporate training and organizational performance. Read more at Crucialskills.com. My co-authors and I have long observed people’s fear of holding crucial conversations. The reality is that when it comes to talking about high-stakes, [...]
Why you want people to like you
SmartPulse — our weekly reader poll in Smartbrief on Workforce — tracks feedback from leading managers and HR practitioners. We run the poll question each Wednesday in our e-newsletter and feature analysis from Lance Haun, vice president of outreach for MeritBuilder, the main guy over at YourHRGuy.com and a member of the SmartBrief on Workforce Advisory [...]
