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Managing Yourself
Articles, Strategies, Worksheets, Plans
Your intellectual horsepower got you on your career path, but it's your strategic approach to your career and your life, your social and emotional intelligence, and your leadership presence - how you look, what you say, and how you act - that are the ultimate drivers of your success.
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The Sound-Bite Strategy for Getting Noticed
If you're tired of having to actively market your accomplishments at work and you want to be sure that the outstanding work you're leading gets cast in the right light to the right people, put a sound-bite strategy in motion. Here's how. . . .
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When "I'm Sorry" Isn't The Answer
Denise Brouillette
How often in a day do you apologize when you likely don't need to? Apology is the right thing when the situation calls for it. But for a number of women, "I'm sorry" is used to their disadvantage out of habit. Here are three examples of unnecessary apologies and what you can say instead. . . .
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Getting Past GO When You're Feeling Paralyzed
Got a project, either personal or for work, where you can't seem to get going? And thinking about what to do next has become a burden? Whether it's where to get started on a massive project, how to get yourself noticed by those who make decisions about your future, or ways to take better care of yourself, here's a quick way to make some headway today . . .
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Get Heard When You Talk
Are you in meetings where you put out your ideas, suggestions and opinions, and someone else talks right after you, saying just about the same thing you just said, and they, not you, get the credit for the contribution? If yes, then you may need to take stock of how you're communicating. Here are 4 tips that can change that for you. . . .
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Get Your Boss to See You As Promotable
Find out how you get your boss to see you as promotable when all he can say is that you're not ready to take on leading anything more than the one difficult team you already have reporting to you right now. . . .
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Are You Being Smooth-Talked Out of a Job?
You're a quiet star. The person you work with has the brain of a small dog, yet they're on the rise. How is that happening? Because they're smooth talkers; they know how to get people on their side. They're also street savvy; they've learned how to use the right words at the right time to get the right people on board with them. They take your ideas and those of a few select others, use them as their own, and in doing so, parlay their way to stardom. Here are 3 things you can do when you find yourself working with someone like this. . . .
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Can't Say No? Start By Buying Some Time
By Denise Brouillette
How many times in the last week, month or year have you said "Yes" to something, whether it's personal with a friend or professional with a colleague, when what you really want to say is "No?" And then you look at your over-committed life where you're going from morning 'till night for everyone else BUT you and you just want to scream? We've all been there. . . .
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Avoid Being a Layoff Casualty
by Elaine Fortier
We're in a severe downturn which, in turn, creates a fear-based economy. Avoid being a layoff casualty and secure your job for the future. And while we cannot guarantee that your job won't be eliminated, we can help keep YOU from being eliminated. . . .
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Stay Employed. Become Indispensible!
When it's time to downsize, the people who avoid the chopping block and live to work another day do three things that others haven't. Here's what they are. . . .
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Build an Egoless Personal Brand
How do you stay alive in a cut-throat employment market and through the RIFs in your organization? Build an egoless personal brand. Don't know what that is? Read on . . .
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Bashing Your Company? Here's the Door.
Do you work with someone who constantly complains, gossips, rants, whines, back stabs, and predicts the worst-case outcome time after time? Are you that person? While it may feel good for a moment, it could easily get you on the next RIF list. . . .
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Make Your Boss Look Brilliant
During times of high stress and tough decisions, it's a dead certainty that your boss is also feeling the pain. This is the best time to demonstrate your high worth. Use these 3 ways to gain the most leverage with your boss and put yourself on her loyalty list. . . .
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Making Mental Room for the Vital Few
Denise Brouillette
Got so much on your spinning plates that you'd like to just toss the entire set of china out the window? You're not alone! Everyone's on overload, what with the economy in the state it's in and with more downsizing in vogue, the work of 10 is now piled on the plates of 4 or 5. What does that mean for you? . . .
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Finding Balance in a Life Filled with Multi-tasking and Perfectionism
by Denise Brouillette
Saying "yes" to too many things coupled with waiting until some unparalleled level of excellence is reached, are challenges that face a lot of women. The two are the cause of overstretched and stressed out lives that are uncontrollably out of balance, and result in the slow and painful death of visions -- of doing what brings us to life -- because there isn't time or pleasure left in our hearts to make it happen. . . .
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Ready for Change? Here's Some Advice
Denise Brouillette
Ready for change? Who isn't at some point in our careers. We look around at how fast the world is changing and we know we need to keep up with it if we want to stay on course with our lives. It's a dilemma because change doesn't always seem all that attractive. But it doesn't need to be that way if you know yourself well enough to understand how your change process works from the inside out. . . .
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