Showing posts with label Career. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Career. Show all posts

Monday, December 8, 2014

Hope--as important as education, training, luck

December 08, 2014 Business , Career 0 Comments
If You Can't Instill Hope, You'll Fail Miserably As A Leader

Kathy Caprino, Dec. 2, 2014, Forbes

This struck a deep chord in me, as my 18-years in corporate America was anything but hope-inspiring. In virtually all of my jobs, I watched senior leaders demeaning their staff, managers behaving abominably, and employees so threatened that they seemed to live only for crushing the hope out of anyone who might be deemed a threat.

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Saturday, July 5, 2014

Women Professionals: What's Blocking Your Peak Career Performance? --Unknowingly hindering herself...

July 05, 2014 Career , Women's Issues 0 Comments
By Debra Woog, Jun. 30, 2014, Forbes.com

Often we think of peak career performance in terms of momentous events, like publishing research or closing a huge sale. These are commendable high points. Yet by keeping our focus solely on a few accomplishments, we can miss out on developing the key skills that will get us to them reliably. Without learning and practicing these skills, you’re limited to a finite number of peaks, and even these may feel a bit too “hard won” to celebrate.

What if peak career performance were not a small number of wins, but a series of brilliant moments that could extend indefinitely? What if, as smart talented women, we could set ourselves up to have regular, frequent “moments” where our skills, interests, and qualities intersect in work that is truly meaningful and valuable to us and to those we serve?

Consider Jocelyn. A gifted writer and strategist with a bachelor’s degree from Stanford, a Master’s from Harvard, and a long list of happy clients, Jocelyn put off making a major decision – one with the potential to advance her career.

Despite a long list of evidence that she’s good at what she does, Jocelyn felt anxious about whether the skills, interests and qualities she brings to the table were good and valuable enough. Recently rejected by committee for an award she applied for, Jocelyn worried that she was not worthy of achieving the next level of success in her chosen profession.

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