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Savvy Professional Career Wisdom by Caroline Dowd-Higgins
This is Not the Career I Ordered is read by thousands of careerists around the globe. With savvy tools, inspiration, and resources, this timeless book empowers you to enjoy your career, and love your life!
Leadership Lessons from Ted Lasso and What to Ask Your Boss
The resources on leadership can be overwhelming from books to podcasts, to TED Talks, research, methodologies, and beyond. While I value the volume of resources available, these 12 lessons from Ted Lasso, the award-winning series on Apple TV about an American football coach leading a British soccer team are simple and powerful. The Ted Lasso […]
Does Your Company Have a Culture of Quiet Retaliation?
I read an amazing piece in the Harvard Business Review. Does Your Company Have a Culture of Quiet Retaliation? Quiet forms of retaliation are incredibly common and can be contagious in the workplace. The organizations that accept this form of retaliation as a standard practice have difficulty hiring and retaining great people. Retaliation — in […]
Perfect Your Hiring Process: Five Tips to Building the Right Team
For start-ups and entrepreneurs especially, the hiring process can be a grueling period in a company’s life. Those first few weeks where you’re trying to look for great talent but are also desperate for a workforce of any level calls for an immediate trimming and systemization of a proper hiring process. Getting people to sign […]
The Best Ways To Impress Bosses And Advance Your Career
This post was contributed by Beth Jones. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and expertise, Beth! Most people would like to earn the highest wages possible from their jobs. However, it’s difficult to get into that higher-rate tax bracket without many qualifications. With that in mind, I thought you could benefit from some advice about […]
Top Talent’s 2016 Career Question: Should I Stay, or Should I Go?
The world of work is changing fast with unemployment on the decline and the Talent Wars in full swing. The major skills gap is still a reality and the buyer’s market is highly competitive for qualified candidates. The Millennial Generation talent pool will comprise 50% of the workforce in 2020 but their values don’t focus […]
How to Get a Raise in 2016
The US Labor market is picking up speed and your promote-ability could follow suit. While asking for a raise may be something you look forward to as much as a root canal, being well prepared will help reduce your anxiety and up your chances of getting a promotion. Remember, you’ll never get it of you […]
Career Inspiration: 4 Books To Help You Chart Your Course in 2016
It’s a brand new year, and with it comes a fresh start and new or renewed goals. If 2016 is the year you’re looking to reinvigorate your career, whether that means making a change or growing where you are – here are four books that can help: This Is Not The Career I Ordered. I […]
Give Yourself A Gift This Season: 5 Tips For Self-Care During the Holidays
At this time of year, chances are, you’re doing things for everyone but yourself – tracking down those special gloves for your aunt… snapping the family picture so you have a prayer of getting cards out before New Year’s… online shopping for all the kids in your life. You’re cooking…baking… stuffing… wrapping…while, at the same […]
The Benefits of Becoming a Pharmacy Technician
With the New Year approaching, I am featuring blogs about career opportunities that are on the grow. As the population ages, careers in allied health are more in demand than ever. A career as a pharmacy technician is one of the many options available to you. Not only is it an interesting field to explore, […]
15 Leadership Lessons to Invigorate Your Career
As the year draws to a close, I am reminded of the great leadership lessons I have learned from colleagues, mentors, sponsors, coaches, and a myriad of incredible people I’ve encountered on my professional journey. May these words of wisdom give you the courage and fortitude to chart your unique path with confidence so you […]
Office Holiday Party Etiquette: Do’s and Taboos
It’s been a great year, you’ve worked really hard, and your company has brought back the holiday party to reward the team for a job well done. Before you pop the champagne be mindful that your behavior at the holiday bash will impact your professional reputation come Monday morning and beyond. Here are some tips […]
How To Fascinate Knowing Your Advantages
These days, advertisers have a whopping five to eight seconds to fascinate and entice a consumer to make a purchase, according to an INC. article on marketing trends, and Sally Hogshead, author, speaker and founder of Fascinate, Inc., says it’s no different when it comes to you and how you impress an interviewer, new client […]
Make This The Season for Gratitude and Giving in Your Career
Hollywood has depicted the stress of the holidays with iconic movies that make us laugh (or cry!) because of the relatability of the zany characters and dysfunctional scenarios in life and career. I encourage you to start this festive season with a different mindset so you don’t get caught running on the hamster wheel of […]
Finding Your Center: 7 Everyday Ways To Meditate
Do you have a case of the “should’s” when it comes to meditation? Many of the women I talk to in my coaching practice and on the road during speaking engagements certainly do. They feel they should be meditating, and believe that the only way to do it is to sit cross-legged on a mat […]
