The Rolodex of Experience
“Every time we are asked to help, we need to flip through the rolodex of our experiences to get to an idea of what we can offer…”
Relating to Your Staff: What a Two Year Old Can Teach You
Today, email, Twitter, Instant Messenger, LinkedIn messages and more are a predominant form of communication. However, the insightful leader understands the importance of relating person to person.
Fulfilling Role Demands Without Compromising Values
Sometimes people choose very distinct personas – that is, they choose to play a particular role for a period of time (or even their whole careers)
How to Write a Resume for a Correctional Officer Position
If you are adept at making quick decisions, physically fit, and able to maintain your cool in stressful and even dangerous situations, then a career as a correctional officer may be worth considering. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median income for the estimated 450,000 correction officers in the United States is $43,540.
Top tips for encouraging a work/life balance in your business
According to findings from the American Institute of Stress, 42% of U.S professionals say that job pressures interfere with their family or personal life, with 82% stating that they feel stressed at work.
The Little Jobs Can Bring the Biggest Rewards
But I always like to keep my hand in on a few smaller projects at all times too. They keep me grounded. They bring me out to real people, living real lives, with real housing issues. No matter how small their individual project may be on the global scale, for them, it is the biggest project in the world.
The Constitution of Leadership
“Leadership is a word on everyone’s list said Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus….The young attack it and the old grow wistful for it. Parents have lost it and Police seek it.
Engage More to Increase Employee Performance
It seems like everybody has a different way they prefer to communicate be it via text, email, Facebook, or face-to-face. This challenge is not uncommon for many of us that work with or live with people from a variety of different generations.
Potential Unused Success
I recently was looking at the definitions of the word, “potential”, and I came across a very interesting definition. The word potential in one definition means, “Unused Success.”
Executive Presence: Why It’s an Essential Leadership Quality (and How to Develop It)
Imagine walking into a meeting where you’re going to deliver some tough news to your team. You expect pushback. You know you’ll have to come up with good answers to potentially tricky questions. You’re not exactly looking forward to it.
How to Make A Superior Candidate Experience
Frequently I will hear my clients complain about the same thing- when they send in a resume or application and never heard back from a potential employer. Ghosting is a phenomenon that has taken over hiring and recruiting. For those of you that are unclear, ghosting is the practice of ending a relationship by suddenly withdrawing from all means of communication without an explanation.
Servant Leadership For The Win
If leaders are able to reframe their role and responsibility as that of servant leaders, productivity will grow and engagement will grow.
How to Write a Resume for a Police Officer Position
The demand for police officers is expected to increase by 7 percent over the next 18 years, according to the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics. Despite this relatively healthy rate of growth, competition for positions tends to be high because it is a profession with a low level of turnover.
Information Governance Insights: FAQ – Cybersecurity
If you’ve been working in the Information Governance field for a while there are certain questions that continue to pop up. Some you will have a standard answer for and some that will change over time as technology or best practices evolve. In this article I would like to continue the series and give you another question and how I answer it so you can be ready for them as well.
Being Committed: What I Learned by watching the Blue Angels
One of the best-known events and a highlight of the U.S. Naval Academy Graduation ceremony in Annapolis every May is when the Blue Angels fly over the Severn River in honor of the graduates.
Independence or Interdependence: Change and Career Success
A friend has reminded me that “in 1776, most of the 55 members of the Continental Congress signed the parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence.”
Starting in the Middle
Have you ever been invited to a meeting only to find out the other invitees have met multiple times before? Have you ever been asked to provide your input on a project after a lot of time an effort has already been spent on it by others? Have you ever started one project only to realize multiple prerequisite projects must be completed first?
Telltale Signs Your Government Resume Is Holding You Back
Between the lack of transparency in the application progress and longer wait times, professionals often feel that their resumes have been swallowed by a giant black hole.