Career Management Tips – Smart Lemming – Career Management Guide

A key to success in this company is to learn from past crises. It’s also the ability to compartmentalize, separating our Management Team duties from our functional responsibilities by keeping our respective departments focused on existing priorities.

What makes a perfect summer read? The author has a strong voice while offering an extraordinary insights. The book should be a quick read that allows you to easily make changes in your life or work to support your career goals. Below are Smart Lemming recommendations for this week’s summer reading list. The Power of [...]

It’s hard not to react to situations that make us unhappy or threaten us. If we’re always reacting to these things, people, circumstances, external events can control us. By having the discipline to not react, we control our emotions, coping with the situation. For example, I’ve worked at three companies that had to layoff part [...]

What if you finally got what you always wanted? Perhaps the real question is, “What do you want to do?” I know that I like building things. I like working wherever I want, whenever I want. Even if I had unlimited resources, I’d still be building things. Would I want to create a company with [...]

“What if” questions are dangerous. They’re like the “road not taken” question. But really, what if you didn’t get that particular job? I know that if Group Health Cooperative in 1996, right after my MHA program, hadn’t hired me, I wouldn’t have gone into healthcare marketing. This was the job that gave me experience in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]