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, and management. Below are the list of tweets sent out on February 10: Business Life Does Your Work Wife Get a Valentine? Some Co-Workers Want to Acknowledge a Deep—Yet [...]

Is there an easy way to brainstorm the your product, service, or personal brand’s value proposition? Use the Business Goals and Values Map to brainstorm your product, service, or personal brand’s value proposition.

In my latest Smart Lemming Rundown podcast, I discuss how much I love a new tool that I discovered in the book, Passion at Work by Lawler Kang and Mark Albion. Creating Structure in Time Management and Workload I have seven projects that I spend my time on. I found myself feeling randomized, since I [...]

February 21, 2006 Creating something from nothing is my specialty. I get bored maintaining things, but love the act of creating new stuff. Currently, I’m in the process of creating the new day-to-day sales management and channel management functions in my Marketing department. Yesterday, I outlined the sales management function into its major work blocks [...]

You’re managing a product or service. Can you articulate the compelling reason your customers should buy the product or service? What’s the value proposition? You’re in marketing and have to write key messaging for everything, ranging from your website content, your product data sheets, brochures, RFPs, and proposals. What’s the quickest way to come up [...]

Mind mapping is a simple tool that all knowledge workers should try out, using it to organize thoughts, projects, or brainstorms. I use it mostly for visual thinking. What is mind mapping? According to Wikipedia, ” A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged [...]

Nothing happens by accident. You must have a vision of yourself and of where you want to be in order for anything to happen. If you don’t, you probably aren’t ready, or you don’t know that you have to be proactive and always thinking about what your next move should be. Ask Three Basic Questions [...]

Practical CI Experience Over Time How do you collect competitive information? How does this type of information turn into “intelligence?” As a product marketing manager, product manager, and VP of Marketing and Sales Operations, I’ve had to create repeatable competitive intelligence processes. When I was a product marketing manager for the first time, I learned [...]