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Teachable Moment: The Pitfalls of Being Too Emotional at Work
Emotional people at work are toxic. If you’re an emotional worker, what are your actions communicating? You’re an unhappy person. You lack control and discipline over your emotions, and that may cause you to do dumb things. I don’t like people who do dumb things. It also signals that your emotions affect your judgment. An [...]
Read more →Smart Lemming Diary: Developing and Managing Inexperienced Workers
January 21, 2006 New knowledge workers need coaching, mentoring, and oversight to be successful. When I manage younger workers, I make sure they don’t miss deadlines because they didn’t understand the assigned tasks. I sometimes call a meeting under the disguise that I’ve forgotten an action item. This allows me to show them my personal [...]
Read more →The Smart Lemming’s Daily Twitter Digest: October 20, 2009
The Smart Lemming sent out the following tweets, recommending these additional resources from news, articles, and posts on business life, career management, management and leadership, and women in business: Getting Things (Re-)Started: Dealing with Mental Blocks How to Be Your Own Life Coach and Save Some Cash From the Archives: 20 Annoying Habits You Must [...]
Read more →Teachable Moment: Business Lessons from Star Trek – Take the High Ground
To succeed in your career, you have to learn how to admit mistakes, and to take the higher ground. You also have to assess if you’re really ready for that promotion you want, or if you’re just being impatient. Managing your career takes patience, grace, and wisdom, all of which are mastered with time and [...]
Read more →The Smart Lemming’s Daily Twitter Digest: October 19, 2009
The Smart Lemming sent out the following tweets, recommending these additional resources from news, articles, and posts on business life, career management, management and leadership, and women in business: When You Hate What You Do A Must-read Career Management Post: Are You Building Your Career Pyramid? Attn Managers: The Top 5 Job Description Mistakes How [...]
Read more →Teachable Moment: Business Lessons from Star Trek – Keep Your Ambition Under Control
To get your next promotion, you have to learn how to take initiative, have patience, master your body language, and not burn bridges. Don’t walk over peers and superiors either. “The Best of Both Worlds – Part 1,†an episode of the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation provides valuable career management lessons on [...]
Read more →Smart Lemming Diary: Don’t Undermine Peers, Find Alternatives to Get Your Point Across
January 15, 2006 I thought it would never end. Our Governor declared a state of emergency for our area. The region has suffered flooding in so many parts of the Puget Sound. On our property, we had flooding that nearly washed away our private road. I had to complete sales training deliverables remotely during this [...]
Read more →The Smart Lemming’s Daily Twitter Digest: October 18, 2009
The Smart Lemming sent out the following tweets on recommended news, articles, and posts on business life, career management, management and leadership, and women in business: Do Not Be Influenced by Others’ Negative Opinions of You Women in Business Carol Bartz Interview: Imagining a World of No Annual Reviews How to Make a Winning Impression [...]
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