Career Management Tips – Smart Lemming – Career Management Guide
Manage your career or it will manage you
Check out my the new Smart Lemming library. I've rated my personal library, recommending the best business books for every career stage More →
Smart Lemming Diary: It’s all about Goals & Objectives
August 6, 2005 Yesterday, Amanda made a comment alluding to her absence of goals from Tom. She quickly softened the comment with a follow-up statement, but it was clear that she felt she didn’t have something to shoot for. Of course, she knows she must close as many sales as possible for the new channel. [...]
Read more →12 Questions for Career Mindfulness: #1 How was Last Day of your First Job?
Mindfulness is the practice when a person is intentionally aware of his or her thoughts and actions in the present moment, in a non-judgmental manner. Self-awareness or mindfulness isn’t easy. It requires us to look at ourselves with an open, non-judging mind. You can meditate or reflect on questions like: Why did I do that? [...]
Read more →How to Create a Business Goals, Value, and Features Map
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 [...]
Read more →Smart Lemming Diary: Behind the Curtain
August 5, 2005 Recruiting Process: Behind the Curtain Not only was this my first week as Director of Marketing, but I observed how my new CEO recruits new hires. Tom believes in hiring based on personal work references. He’s open to a referral under the following conditions: the former colleague was a good employee, you [...]
Read more →Smart Lemming Review: Bergstrand’s Reinvent Your Enterprise
What it is: Bergstrand’s Reinvent Your Enterprise. What it’s about: Improving results – better, faster, and cheaper – in today’s Knowledge Age The new book offers people, who are not satisfied with their organizational results, a management system that focuses on doing the right, and doing them right. The Good: A proven framework, complete with [...]
Read more →Smart Lemming Action Items: Career Moves, Building Skills, and Job Survival
10 Action Items to Proactively Manage Your Career Now 1. Don’t Know Your Next Career Move? Write a Five-Year Strategic Plan: write your mission, vision, and values in your strategic plan to help you discover your next career goals, making the thought of work more meaningful rather than pointless. 2. Master’s Degree: Is It Worth [...]
Read more →Speedlinking: Brad Pitt, The Soloist, Slowing Down to Enjoy Life
Why the obsession with Brad Pitt? How the new movie, The Soloist can inspire you to make sustainable change. Middle managers don’t get respect. Understanding motivation and motivators, to get through the stress of job uncertainty during this recession. Speaking of recession, how can you get promoted during this scary time? Are you the youngest [...]
Read more →Smart Lemming Career Management Brief: Career Lessons from Einstein, Will Smith, and Marshall Goldsmith
This week’s Smart Lemming Career Management Brief provides career management highlights on career lessons of Albert Einstein, Will Smith’s success, and advice on managing stress during this economic uncertainty.
Read more →
This work by SmartLemming.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License
New in the Smart Lemming Library- What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential
- The Professional: Defining the New Standard of Excellence at Work
- The Little Black Book of Innovation: How It Works, How to Do It
- Great on the Job: What to Say, How to Say It. The Secrets of Getting Ahead.
- Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life) Book Review
- Selling Microsoft: Sales Secrets from Inside the World’s Most Successful Company Book Review
- A Sense of Urgency Book Review
- In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders Of The Twentieth Century Book Review
- Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization Book Review
- Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion Book Review
BloggingStream by 