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- Need interviewing tips? Ask your mom
- I found a nice little succinct list at Businessmouth.com, of five simple rules for a great job interview. These five practical tips may not get you the job if you're not qualified but they'll go a long way toward making a good impression on the interviewer: Eye contact - Look directly...
- Tags: Personal Development, Interviews
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- How to be a good public speaker
- If my e-mail is any indication, it's probably a task that most IT pros fear most--having to get up in front of a group of people and give a presentation. Even seasoned pros have that moment of panic before they step up to the mike. I've rounded up some great...
- Tags: Success, Personal Development
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- 3 tips to improve your executive presence
- One of the most frequent issues clients ask me for help with is "executive presence". It's one of those beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder issues to some extent. What works for some people is a turnoff to others. Approaches or styles which are considered appropriate in one organization may be the...
- Tags: Team Management, Personal Development, Performance Appraisals/evaluations, Management Style, Leadership, General, Career, Business Intelligence
- Blog posts 2007-07-20
- How's your career?
- I'm frequently asked for tips and tactics which people can use to be certain they are making the most of their career. Obviously there are many lists and books out there on the subject. And based on those, it seems there are many "experts" who can provide the...
- Tags: Preparedness, Personal Development, Performance Metrics, Management Style, Long Term Goals, Leadership, HR, Career Path, Career, Business Intelligence, Accountability
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- Bringing in the big guns to defend your reputation online
- A couple of months ago, I wrote a blog about how some prospective employers use search engines to check on job candidates. (According to what survey you listen to, 1/3 or 1/4 of all managers do this.)The problem I addressed in that blog was when your name was confused, in...
- Tags: Success, Reputation, Personal Development
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- Pavlov's dog and the hypnotherapist
- OK, now I've heard it all. I do a lot of web surfing to find articles and ideas for professional and personal self-improvement that I can pass along to you. Sometimes I'll run across an idea that strikes me as pretty cool. But other times I come across something like...
- Tags: toni bowers, Success, Personal Development, Humor, Career Development
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Strategic alignment: Use it for your career too
- I think most people in IT have heard the term "strategic alignment" more times than they can count. Pundits are crawling out from under rocks everywhere to stress how important it is for IT to align itself with corporate business goals. Strategic alignment helps clarify and chart an organization's direction...
- Tags: toni bowers, Success, publishing gal, Personal Development, Career Development, Career
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- 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
- Essential career links for IT professionals
- Looking for a job is a job in itself. Its only the first step to develop the skills that you need in your line of work. Then you have to know where to look for a job and what to do to develop contacts that will help you get your...
- Tags: toni bowers, publishing gal, Personal Development, Interviews, Career Development, Career
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- 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
- Can you really have a job you're passionate about?
- Lately, theres a lot of talk about passion. People everywhere are talking about, "pursuing their passion." They say things like, "Im passionate" about this or that.But, have you noticed that most people you ask will admit that what they do for a living is definitely NOT what they are...
- Tags: General, Management, Career, Leadership, Coaching, Performance, Personal Development, Women In It, Mentoring, Career Development, Success, Job Satisfaction, Workplace Strategy
- Blog posts 2007-03-15
- "The Secret" is the most downloaded movie online. Why?
- Do you watch Oprah Winfrey? No? Then you may be missing all the noise about a new movie that is making its producers more money in one month than many mainstream movies make in total theatrical release. Its called The Secret. And if you havent heard about it yet -...
- Tags: movie
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- Coping with a screw-up
- At some point, everyone steps on a landmine on the job. Things are going along fine, and then out of the blue, you realize you just did something which makes you feel like a total amateur. What then occurs can range from being fired to simply being scolded....
- Tags: career
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- Don't Be a Powerless Leader
- A client of mine once put it so eloquently: We lead most effectively when we aren’t trying to be a leader. — Precisely. — In our over-marketed society, any intentional attempt to lead comes across as a sales message and thus, especially among young people, triggers skepticism and defenses....
- Tags: Accountability, Blohowiak, leader, Leadership, Management Skills, Mindset, Personal Development, Power, Self Examination
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- What jobs are hot for 2007
- According to a recent study by T placement agency Robert Half International Consulting, the hottest jobs for 2007 lie in the Networking arena. The agencys national poll includes responses from more than 1,400 CIOs from a stratified random sample of U.S. companies with 100 or more employees. Next in line...
- Tags: agency, Career, Career Development, job, Personal Development, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- Is it possible to have a great job and a great personal life?
- One of the reasons there are fewer women than men leading our companies and organizations is that women have usually tended to be more focused on life balance. As a gender, are less inclined to give up aspects of their personal lives to devote more hours to their career....
- Tags: Boss, Career, Career Development, Coaching, job, Job Satisfaction, Mentoring, Personal Development, Success, Uncategorized, women
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- Worst Boss Ever
- My clients come from a broad range of industries. But regardless of their specialty - tech, telecom, media, broadcasting, real estate, travel, performing arts, retail, banking, finance, whatever - almost all of them have stories about crappy bosses.Doesnt matter what level the individual is working at; I hear as...
- Tags: Boss, Career, Coaching, Job Satisfaction, leader, Leadership, Management, Meetings, Performance, Personal Development, Teams, Workplace Strategy
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- Lead On
- Next to the weather, leadership is probably the most talked about topic most of us do little about. The weather may make us feel helpless (with deep complexity, chaos theory, and all that) but leadership certainly shouldn’t — even if it does put us in the realm of having...
- Tags: Blohowiak, I&rsquo, m, Leadership, Personal Development, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- 2007 Your Best Year Ever. Part 4 of 4
- The mechanics of this process. Attempting to attain a high level of professional success by using the same short-sighted methods that, to date, have delivered only marginal – or no – results is simply an exercise in futility. The...
- Tags: action plan, Career, Career Development, life plan, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Strategies
- Blog posts 2007-01-23
- 2007 - Your Best Year Ever. Part 3 of 4.
- Creating action - without becoming one of them. Far too many individuals are not as successful as they think they should be, or as wealthy as they’d hoped they would be as an ambitious youth looking forward. Not coincidently, very few of people have a personal life action plan....
- Tags: Coaching, Personal Development, Job Satisfaction, Workplace Strategy
- Blog posts 2007-01-18
