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How to Conduct Yourself in Meetings

How confident are you in meeting situations? Could you get more out of them and could you be presenting yourself more effectively? Here we have put together some thoughts on how to conduct yourself in meetings and get the most out of them. We’d also like to invite you to join us in our Being [...]

Digging Out of the Daily Email Palooza

I have 700 law students with whom I work on a regular basis plus a myriad of private clients so needless to say, I get a lot of email every day. The volume is so tremendous that I can find myself chained to my desk if I don’t pro-actively tackle the email Palooza that is [...]

Are Your Work Expectations Realistic?

Expectations. We all have them. Our expectations motivate us and drive us to do things both good and bad. We might expect a great time at a party or expect to get bored at grandmas. We have all sorts of work expectations. We have expectations of our peers, our boss, our company, and even our [...]

4 Healing Tips For The Broken-Hearted Job Seeker

Someone once told me a corporation was a nasty thing to fall in love with – because it will NEVER love you back. This is something every job seeker should realize. The rules of loyalty in the work force are changing. No one can deny that. However, knowing this doesn’t change the pain of getting laid [...]

How a Coach Can Help Distinguish You in The Workplace

Having a personal career coach for C-suite executives is expected as part of their continuing professional development and it also makes great business sense. Coaches can also be helpful for non executives in various stages of a career. A career coach can help polish your communication skills, develop and implement effective leadership strategies in your [...]

Mastering the Art of Follow Up

“I’ll follow up with you tomorrow.”  Only that follow up never happens.  How does that make you feel?  It makes no difference what the follow up was going to be. It can be a call back from a job interview all the way to your work associate following up to tell you if they can [...]

Motivating Millennials at Work

If you work in an organization where you have colleagues between the ages of 18 and 35, you probably have something to say about the millennial generation.  In 2014 the millennials will comprise 36% of the workforce and by 2020 they will represent nearly half of those working. I read a great piece by Jenna [...]

10 Ways Not to Let Redundancy Knock Your Confidence

If you’ve been made redundant, it can be a very challenging time. It can knock your confidence and it can be hard to get back on your feet. We know what it takes to move past redundancy and to get yourself back into the job market and so we’ve put together these tips to help [...]

What to do When the New Job is a Big Ugly Surprise

You did a bang up job interviewing and landed a job you thought might be fairly good.  Perhaps it wasn’t all the things you had hoped for, but it looked good enough to accept.  Now that you’ve been on the job a few months and past the dust-settling period, you’ve discovered you’ve gotten yourself in [...]

You Don’t Have to be a Manager to be a Leader

I think that many people when they see something about leadership or being a leader automatically dismiss it as not pertaining to them.  After all, if they aren’t a manager or don’t intend to manage, the information really doesn’t have anything for them to pay attention to, right?  No, not necessarily. Leadership skills are something [...]

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