Business Boot Camps
There are plenty of programs for students to learn more about career choices and industries in their field (think internships and co-ops). Why do businesses stop doing that for experienced people? What if you could build a bootcamp / externship-type program for your business where you bring in talent from other industries to work in […]
Learning How to Learn for A New Role
Taking on a new role in an organization or a new company is an interesting opportunity that can make people experience a myriad of emotions ranging from being charged up and motivated all the way to feeling imposter syndrome. When the role is out of the traditional field or work that the person has been […]
Measuring Your Career Through Nervous Excitement
Are you taking the right risks in order to progress your career and your opportunity for learning? When looking back at your career, can you remember the times where you were nervously excited because of a decision you had to make? Originally, I was going to call this post “measuring your career by gut wrenching moments” but I […]
Being Positive or Negative in an Interview
Did you ever get the type of interview question that asks for your opinion on what that company could do better or what you would change about XYZ product? As I’ve asked that question to someone I’m interviewing and have been asked that question as the person being interviewed, I’m always interested to see whether […]
Accelerate Your Career Growth by Understanding How Promotions Happen
When you start to analyze how and why people get promoted in any large organization you can see that interesting patterns have developed. The important part in understanding those patterns is making sure that you are using them as you develop your career plans. I imagine every organization is different to some degree, but there […]
The Most Valuable Skills a Co-op or Intern Can Learn That You Help Create
What’s the most valuable skill you can learn as a college co-op on a six month assignment at a big company while you’re still early in your college career? As a leader, what’s the experience you hope your co-op gets while they are in your group for those six months? Let’s talk quickly about these […]
Finding the Payoff in Your Work
When I was a little kid I was always on the search for odd jobs. A couple times my Uncle Mike brought me to a warehouse he managed where they distributed VHS training videos in all sorts of subjects. One of the jobs I did there was to take huge boxes of VHS video tapes […]
Improving the Annual Performance Review with Linkedin
As part of many companies’ annual performance review process, employees are asked to submit the names of people they have worked with so their bosses can ask for feedback. Cross-pollinating that with the Linkedin recommendation section may be an interesting way to add value or participation to the overall experience. How would using a recommendation-like […]
Does Interest In Your Career Influence Your Outcomes
How much does interest in your career influence your performance or rewards? Can you really be effective if you’re not interested? Over the lifecycle of your career, how has your level of interest coincided with what you were doing or what moves you’ve made or your general performance level? To demonstrate this, take out a […]
Making Decisions With Your Internal Board of Directors
Companies use them as sounding boards for big decisions so isn’t it time that you developed your own Board of Directors? Running your decisions by a group of people you admire and respect and who could look at things from various angles could yield amazing insight. In order to get the best Board of Directors […]