Career Management Tips – Smart Lemming – Career Management Guide

The Smart Lemming curates career management tweets, saving you time by highlighting career resources from news, articles, and blog posts on business life, career management,  leadership, management, and women in business. Below are the list of tweets sent out on February 3: Business Life 10 Ways to Be Happier and Healthier at Work via @Careerbright [...]

Do you know what you’re good at? Do you admit your weaknesses? Are you willing to allow others to know your weaknesses, so they can step in, playing to their strengths? Is it possible that others see you as someone who has no idea of their shortcomings?

October 17, 2005 Fulfilling a Promise: Mentoring Jonathan’s a new knowledge worker (KW). As his manager and as his friend, it’s up to me to help him become self-aware, but also develop business life skills and self-promotion skills. I promised to help him develop into a high functioning knowledge worker. Now, I need to start [...]

Are there things that you would like to change about yourself at work? Do you make too many mistakes in writing/typing emails? Do you want to gossip less? Do you want to worry less? Think of anything that you would like to change, and then make a list of the top three things you would [...]

Of all the mindfulness questions, this is a scary one. Do we really want to know the truth? Can we handle the truth? What would you ask a former boss? I would ask my former boss, “What was the real reason for eliminating my position?” I think I know the answer, but how close is [...]

The fourth question of the 12 Questions for Career Mindfulness Series is meant to remind you of something that changed your life and the course of your career. Was there one phone call that changed everything for you? Did you receive a phone call from a friend of a friend, who wants to network with [...]

Low performers negatively impact coworkers and companies. No one aspires to be a low performer. Sometimes it just happens to knowledge workers, who are unhappy with their jobs, employers, or lives. How we know if we’re an underachiever at work? If you’re a manager, how to manage one? According a LeadershipIQ survey, employees say that [...]

What things did you do or love as a child that explains how your work today? This third question is meant to help you discover any tendencies or pre-dispositions that you have had as a child that now surface in your career. Surely, there must be clues we leave as children, showing our parents what [...]