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Holding the Mirror Up: 6 Practical Truths about Career Development Today
Guest Post by Karen Voloshin, DesignArounds Whether you call it "developing a talent pipeline", "employee growth", or "career development", the aim is the same: helping everyone develop and bring their best strengths and talents to the organizational table in a way...
Common Career Advice That’s Well-Intended, Well-Worn, and Well – Full of It!
Over the course of your life, how much career advice have you given? Received? Acted on? How much of it was right on the mark? How much of it well, full of it? Too frequently well-meaning individuals, in an effort to share their experience and inspire others, offer...
Context Changes Everything
The actual, unedited text exchange to the right between my son’s girlfriend and his loving mother (me!) might leave the uninformed reader confused. What could possibly be good or exciting about salmonella poisoning? Why the celebratory tone around news of such a...
Team, Group, or Train Wreck?
Teams and teamwork are among the most frequently written about and searched for topics in business today. From senior executives to frontline supervisors, leaders everywhere are looking for strategies to get the most from others. The first and most fundamental...
Confluent, Convergent Communication
I love it when things flow together. Ingredients in a recipe. People on a team. Colors on a canvas. Activity streams on a project plan. There’s something magical about different personalities, flavors, events, qualities blending together to create something new - a...
Career Development Takes a ‘Do It Yourself’ Turn
The following excerpt is from my article with Beverly Kaye, "A Leader’s ‘Crashless’ Course: Helping Employees Drive Career Development," that appears in Training Industry Quarterly. The do-it-yourself trend has taken hold across industries and within organizations...
Managers, Mentors, and a Lot More
Chip Bell and Marshall Goldsmith have just introduced another gem into the leadership development world. Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning is now available everywhere books are sold. It’s a rich resource, filled with wisdom, perspective, and...
Give ‘Em Enough Rope….
I like to start each day with an early morning yoga class. And, if I get there early enough, I stretch out my spine by hanging upside down from ropes that are anchored to the wall. A friend recently walked into the studio, announcing, “There’s Julie. Give her...
Want to Kill Young Workers’ Motivation and Drive? Utter These 4 Words
Commencement season is in full bloom. And many organizations are looking forward to an influx of freshly-minted graduates within their ranks. Potential and excitement fill the air. The opportunity to develop, inspire, engage, and grow these new workplace entrants is...