Career Advice
One Career Mistake You Are Probably Making
Whether you are happy in your job or looking for a job, I can assure you there is one mistake you are probably making that is hurting your career. It’s one of the most common career mistakes made. Executives are no exception….and probably the worst offenders of making this mistake. It can often be disguised…
Read MoreThe One Bold Salary Negotiating Tactic Only High-Achievers Can Use
The One Bold Salary Negotiating Tactic Only High-Achievers Can Use Many popular job search coaches give the executive salary negotiating tactic to hold out and not say a say range when asked. Well, this is great in an ideal world and in reality it works occasionally. Except I can tell you first hand, as a…
Read MoreHow Executives Use VUCA to Get Ahead
Business instability thwarts the best laid plans. Yet volatile and dynamic market conditions offer executives the opportunity for game-changing achievement. Volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) are here to stay. Once considered a cyclical process, technical and financial expansion—and contraction—cause ripples of change on a weekly basis throughout global economies. If you are an executive,…
Read More7 Moves to Protect Yourself During a Merger Or Takeover
7 Moves to Protect Yourself During a Merger Or Takeover Last year, Investor Place reports, the deal volume of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) was the highest since the financial crisis. The pace in 2015 is supposed to top that. This reflects the drive to enhance competitiveness. Those strategies could include adding new product lines, increasing…
Read More7 Steps to Take Now When Your Boss Might Be Fired
Your boss might be fired. That’s the rumor in the grapevine. Or there’s the confidential information credible source shared with you. Your department is now holding its breath. Your boss might wind up terminated. What’s at stake? How that actually plays out is irrelevant, right now. What counts is that in the period of uncertainty,…
Read More6 Strategies on How to Use Conflict as a Powerful Career Tool
Conflict is one of the most underutilized career tools. When conflict presents itself, you want to run, but I suggest that you don’t. Many professionals go to great lengths to duck conflict. That’s because, as Peter T. Colemen and Robert Ferguson explain in the book “Making Conflict Work,” it “elicits anxiety.” Yet, managing conflict is…
Read More