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- Keep your private life private, thank you very much
- One of the most uncomfortable work experiences I've ever had happened a few years ago while I sat in my boss's office waiting for a meeting. For reasons known only to him and God, my boss had the habit of listening to his voice messages on speakerphone. It was bad...
- Tags: Office, Job Satisfaction, Humor, Co-workers
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Shyness hurting your career? Here's some help
- If youre an introverted person, IT is not a bad field to be in. But sometimes if, for example, youd like to move into management, you might wish you were more comfortable with social interaction. You can always bone up on your technology skills, but is it possible to overcome...
- Tags: Personal Development, Communication, Co-workers, Career Development, Career
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- Team Building exercises -- Are they too contrived to work?
- verywhere you look, you see articles and books that claim to have the secret of effective corporate team building. In fact, consultants have carved out an entire industry deveoted to the subject. Ive been on both sides of this issue -- Ive been on a team and Ive managed a...
- Tags: Co-workers, Teams, Job Satisfaction, Communication, Coaching, Career Development
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- 7 levels of delegation
- Are you a micromanager? Or maybe one of those generalists whos so vague giving direction that your staff never know exactly what to do? Clients frequently ask if delegation is a style thing that can be learned. Or is it an art thing which is more intuitive;...
- Tags: Workplace Strategy, Women In It, Teams, Success, Power, Performance, Morale, Mentoring, Management, Leadership, Job Satisfaction, General, Company Culture, Coaching, Co-workers, Career, Boss
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- 4 outdated ideas. Or maybe not.
- Here are a few things to "noodle" today:1. Does it really matter if a leader has a strong sense of integrity?In a study done by Fast Company magazine last year, 1665 respondents were asked about the importance of ethics in company leaders in todays business climate.The good news: 95% of...
- Tags: Office Politics, Morale, Mentoring, Leadership, Job Satisfaction, General, Company Culture, Communication, Coaching, Co-workers, Career Development, Career, Boss
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Does anyone take notes in your meetings?
- Last week I led a management development program for a large TV broadcasting network. During the course of the discussion, we landed on the issue of meetings. Of course this is a subject that is discussed all the time. And most people have opinions about them in every...
- Tags: Workplace Strategies, Teams, Success, Project Management, Power, Performance, Meetings, Management, Company Culture, Communication, Coaching, Co-workers, Career, Boss
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Should we trust people to manage their own job life?
- More and more companies are moving toward a work-scheduling system designed to allow individuals at all levels to determine what days, hours, even weeks they will be working on the job or at the office.All evidence points to this becoming the way of the future. Its been well established within...
- Tags: Workplace Strategies, Teams, Success, Staffing, Staff, Reputation, Personnel, Personal Development, Performance, Office Politics, Morale, Mentoring, Management, Leadership, Job Satisfaction, Hiring, General, Employees, Discipline, Company Perks, Company Culture, Coaching, Co-workers, Career, Boss
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- "Subtle" sexism is still a problem
- I had a professor in college who was a militant feminist and a nun. I never could quite reconcile that in my mind, but anyway, this woman taught Womens Literature. Although I was grateful to her for introducing me to the works of female authors (sad to say, up until...
- Tags: Women In It, toni bowers, Sexual Harassment, publishing gal, Office Politics, Morale, Job Satisfaction, General, Co-workers, Career
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- The best managers? They're not afraid of looking dumb.
- Ever noticed that some managers believe they are supposed to know everything about their area of responsibility? They dont usually last very long. Often their organizations dont either.Great managers and leaders realize that they can never know everything. And theyre comfortable with that. Poor managers...
- Tags: leader
- Blog posts 2007-03-23
- Getting around to procrastination
- Oh, weve probably all done it: Put off doing something that you dont want to do. Some people procrastinate on purpose because they work better under pressure. But unless youre a trauma surgeon or work for a daily newspaper, youre not doing anyone any favors, including yourself.Procrastinating consistently can hurt...
- Tags: Career, Career Development, Co-workers, General, publishing gal, toni bowers
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Managing Up. Not the same as Sucking Up.
- Most of todays more-thoughtful managers believe that the best way to improve their results is to ensure that their subordinates, or team members, are working at their own best levels. Consequently, a great deal of time is spent working with their folks as individuals, or in team meetings. By...
- Tags: Boss, Career, Career Development, Co-workers, Coaching, Company Culture, Job Satisfaction, Leadership, Management, Meetings, Mentoring, Office Politics, Reputation, Women In It, Workplace Strategies
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- One size fits all?
- A "one size fits all" approach in management style doesnt work any better than it does with clothes. Every year, the International Coach Federation surveys businesses and organizations about various subjects and issues being faced by individuals and companies. Last year the world’s largest coaching association asked...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Management, Staff, Personnel, Career, Co-workers, Boss, Leadership, Teams, Coaching, Performance, Women In It, Mentoring, Success, Job Satisfaction, Workplace Strategy, marker
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- Good communication isn't just about good grammar
- Good communication is not merely about keeping your participles from dangling or your infinitives from splitting. Its about taking the time to understand the way the person youre speaking to receives and interprets information. I learned a long time ago that if I want to talk to my husband about...
- Tags: Co-workers, Communication, Good communication, information technology, IT Pros, Job Satisfaction, publishing gal, toni bowers
- Blog posts 2007-01-23
- Meetings are a waste of time. We need more meetings.
- Part 1 of 2. Why are both of these opinions so prevalent in most organizations? Is it simply that most of us are surrounded by a bunch of whiners? No. And (although that guy in the Accounting Dept. may seem to tear-up pretty readily,) its fairly clear...
- Tags: Boss, Career, Co-workers, Coaching, Communication, Company Culture, Job Satisfaction, Leadership, Meetings, Performance, Presentations, Teams, Workplace Strategies
- Blog posts 2006-10-18
Additional Resources
- Manage Contingency Workers
- When the project requirements exceed the employee resources, experienced contingency workers can help to pick up the slack. One can use legal contract or covenant templates to clearly state the needs for almost any contingent hiring situation. Contingency workers are a cost-effective solution for flexibility and fast response in today's...
- Tags: Hiring, Worker, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Webcasts
- White Paper on Data Quality
- This paper is intended to identify challenges and opportunities that present themselves with respect to maintaining and improving the quality of workers compensation data. It will explain the value and nature of workers compensation data commonly collected and used by The Workers Compensation Insurance Organizations WCIO members. The paper presents...
- Tags: Data Quality, Workers Compensation, Workers Compensation Data, Benefits, Databases, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-07-01
- Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performance and Results From Knowledge Workers
- This webcast addresses what every company must know about knowledge workers and how to manage them. Knowledge workers create the innovations and strategies that keep their firms competitive and the economy healthy. Yet companies continue to manage this new breed of employee with techniques designed for the Industrial Age. As...
- Tags: Performance, Knowledge Worker, SAS Institute
- Webcasts
- How the Chinese Rural Workers Choose Occupation: A Case Study of Nine Villages in the Northeast China
- Education as a main human capital or market factor clearly helps the rural workers secure local non-farm employed occupation and migration but not local non-farm self-employment. In addition, the second important human capital - farm or non-farm skills significantly encourage the rural workers to work off-farm. In other words, the...
- Tags: Occupation, Worker, Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Case studies
- Out sourcing desk top support
- I have been reading about this and watching TV. Mr Bush wants to allow more H1 visa's, 40,000 or so. It seems that the people in the USA do not want to keep up with technology and we are too lazy learn any thing new! It seems that we...
- Tags: worker, zlito@..., windows, security, usa, career, sourcing
- Discussion threads 2006-02-12
- How to diffuse gossip among managers and co-workers
- I have been with this company about 9 years, in the course of the 9 years I have had good performance appraisals. The past 2 years I have been under a managers that is very unprofessional. They gossip about me to other co-workers which has drawn a wedge between me...
- Tags: co-worker, hlane721@...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-25
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