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Figuring out how to motivate your staff and adapt your style for their particular “career anchors” can turn all employees into higher performers.

Content: Article | Author: Anne Field | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Career, Management

Executives often feel overwhelmed by an employer’s perceived power during job-offer negotiations. But by stressing the long-term benefits of the marriage over the wedding, you can maintain parity and keep the interaction positive.

Content: Article | Author: Douglas Richardson | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Career

Martin Seligman, a renowned psychologist and clinical researcher, has been studying optimists and pessimists for 25 years. Pessimists believe that bad events are their fault, will last a long time, and undermine everything. They feel helpless and may sink into depression, which is epidemic today, especially among youths. Optimists, on the other hand, believe that defeat is a temporary setback or a challenge–it doesn’t knock … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Martin Seligman | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

It doesn’t matter to your audience if you have ten days or ten minutes to write a speech. You still must deliver. Here are tips for speeding your speech prep.

Content: Article | Authors: Nick Morgan, Phillip Khan-Pami | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

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If there’s been unusually high turnover in your company’s ranks, take a look at each employee’s first week on the job. Too many managers let snap judgments made during that time affect a new employee’s whole tenure with the company.

Content: Article | Authors: Jean-François Manzoni, Jean-Louis Barsoux | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior

People tend to become so engrossed in activity that they lose sight of purpose.

Content: Quotation | Source: TechRepublic | Subjects: Personality / Behavior, Work

For all the talk of layoffs and the Amazing Shrinking Job Market, more than 25 million Americans quit their jobs last year. If you’re ready to jump ship yourself, here’s how to say goodbye to your boss — without saying goodbye to your career.

Content: Article | Author: Paul O’Donnell | Source: MBA Jungle | Subject: Career

One of the greatest myths going is that you’ve got to create a family-friendly company in order to recruit and retain talented employees. Well, you absolutely have to do so, but the myth is thinking that family-friendly policies are going to solve the problem of overwork. I know company after company with generous family-leave policies that enable employees to take sabbaticals and to take time … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior

The rhythms of existence require a time of reflection as well as of toil.

Content: Article | Author: David Whyte | Source: Context Magazine | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

The key to an effective presentation? You have to capture your audience in the first few seconds. Here are six ways to get off to a strong start.

Content: Article | Author: Beverly Ballaro | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Marketing wiz Jay Abraham provides some powerful strategies for boosting your career or business in Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got. Abraham believes that anyone can advance in life by tapping into hidden assets and developing the right mindset. He writes, “You are surrounded by simple, obvious solutions that can dramatically increase your income, power, influence and success. The problem is, you … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Jay Abraham | Subjects: Career, Marketing / Sales

If you think it’s getting harder to both make a living and make a life, economist and former secretary of labor Robert Reich agrees with you. Americans may be earning more than ever before, but we’re paying a steep price: we’re working longer, seeing our families less, and our communities are fragmenting.

With the clarity and insight that are his hallmarks, Reich delineates what success has … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Robert B. Reich | Subjects: Career, Miscellaneous

Thirty years ago, hardly anyone understood the question, “What color is your parachute?” Today, it’s the job hunter’s mantra. Richard Bolles reckons with what has changed in the world of careers — and, perhaps more important, what hasn’t.

Content: Article | Author: Daniel Pink | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Career, People

Managers must be aware of their strengths, limitations, motives, and values in order to make the appropriate trade-offs between fit and learning opportunity when selecting a position.

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

If leaders want to connect with all of their staff, they need to combine three styles of effective communication: emotional, factual, and symbolic. Here’s how to leverage all three.

Content: Article | Author: Theodore Kinni | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Career, Leadership

Is it time to downsize my dreams? What’s the smartest way to change careers? How do I keep my people working harder if I can’t pay them more? How do I lead for the long haul? Twenty-one make-or-break questions about your current job, your next career, and life inside your company — and no-nonsense answers from the world’s savviest experts. You’ve got questions? We’ve got … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Career, Human Resources

Balance is not a math problem: It’s not a matter of shifting a few hours each week from one activity to another. If it were that easy, everyone with a PalmPilot would look as serene as the Dalai Lama. Balance is a design problem — a matter of coming to terms with your values and priorities, of reckoning with the trade-offs that they require. Balance … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Time Management, Work

This useful guide to modern public speaking in business situations begins (as did public speaking) with the ancient Greeks. It’s an auspicious start: the Greeks’ influence lasted into the 20th century, even after television made our relationship with most of the speakers we hear far more intimate. Morgan, the founder of a communications coaching company, proposes what he calls “the audience-centered presentation process,” in which … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Nick Morgan | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Networking is constantly hyped as the best way to find a job or project, but, as experts explain, if you don’t have a solid 30-second pitch ready, time spent networking is time wasted.

Content: Article | Author: Abbi F. Perets | Source: TechRepublic | Subject: Career