Speedlinking: Keeping Your Job, Overcoming Career Setbacks, and Thriving at Work
Submitted by Lori Grant on July 17, 2009 – 11:11 amNo Comment
Work is scary right now. We’re in the worst recessions since the Great Depression. Those of you who have jobs feel lucky to have it, but probably hate it. How can you protect your job while thriving in it by developing confidence or getting over your excessive need to be yourself? Perhaps you decided to reinvent yourself, but the recession hit and now you’re really stuck. How can you overcome this setback? Check out this week’s Smart Lemming Speedlinking for great advice from across the Internet.
- The Scariest Part of Work: What’s on your list of the scariest part of work? Check out Michael Wade’s list. My list would include lack of goals by my boss, a management team that was incompetent, a narcissistic boss, a boss that tried to make me feel crazy, and coworkers that constantly tried to undermine me.
- Will Flextime Set You Up To Be Laid Off?: before the recession hit, allowing a flexible work schedule was one of the ways employers retained the best talent. Some staffers opted to telecommute a few days a week. Others worked a compressed workweek of four 10-hour days. As the economy has worsened and layoffs multiplied, many of those employees are wondering if their flexible schedules are making them targets for layoffs. They fear that out of sight means out of mind–and out of a job. Find out how you protect yourself with a flextime work schedule.
- How to Survive When You Hate Your Job: with 9.5 percent of American workers unemployed and on the job hunt, you feel fortunate to have a job, but you hate your job. Find out the five strategies to surviving the job you hate.
- How to Fix a Career in the Dumps: Michelle DeAngelis’ new book, Get a Life That Doesn’t Suck: 10 Surefire Ways to Live Life and Love the Ride, offers people strategies for coping. Learn how to close the gap between what you think about and what you actually do.
- Overcoming Setbacks: we hear of a career changer’s success story, where a major setback preceded a successful reinvention. Setbacks are a catalyst for change. In reality, career reinvention may be more lead to misfortune. Learn how to overcome these types of setbacks.
- How to Succeed by Failing: Failures as an opportunity to managers improve themselves. Learn the growth mindset used by the NBA great, Michael Jordan, who shares, “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
- Marshall Goldsmith’s Do You Have an Excessive Need to Be Yourself?: the positive traits that helped make us successful can eventually morph into negative ones as we move up the ladder. Our need for perfectionism in our own performance as knowledge worker allowed us to achieve excellence. As a manager, this need for excellence may hinder our efforts to be an effective manager by projecting unrealistic expectations on our direct reports. Learn how to get over your excessive need to yourself.
- The high cost of rudeness at work: are you rude at work? Discover the consequences to your rudeness, so you can course correct so you can improve performance.
- Ever think about being an ‘intrapreneur’?: “intrapreneurs create a new process, product, or service where they currently work. It’s like being an entrepreneur, but without venturing off to start your own business.” Learn how you can become an intrapreneur in the job you love or hate.
- To Lead More Effectively, Increase Your Self-Confidence: feeling a lack of confidence when you’re on stage giving a presentation or working with your team on an important project? Confidences lie within you. Ask yourself Baldoni’s three questions you can ask yourself to help you uncover your triumphant self.
