From Michael Dell to Forrester to the International Institute for Analytics, leaders across all industries predict big data analytics will be the next trillion-dollar market to significantly impact businesses of all kinds. The big data analytics field, which is...
How to Leave Your Job or Career: The Bridge Dilemma
Job and career transitions can be messy. Letting go and moving on are emotional rollercoasters. Sometimes you don’t get a choice whether to stay or go if you get fired or made redundant. Other times you make the leap because you need a change or life sucks. The one...
A Creative Approach to Interview Preparation
By Ann Eastham Contributor, Career Coach Interviewing can be one of the most stress inducing aspects of a job search, especially when you are new to the process. Speaking with someone you don’t know can be challenging under ideal conditions, much less when your goal...
A Side-By-Side Boss
In the CBS television show, Undercover Boss, senior leaders in these companies learn about the work lives that their employees experience, although in an unusual and perhaps somewhat directed, way. But the concept is solid. In the high performance, values-aligned...
Coaching for Inclusion: A Whole Person Accommodation
In recent years, much emphasis has been placed on hiring and retaining talented professionals with disabilities. And, great strides have been made to provide reasonable accommodations where needed to ensure these individuals are able to perform their jobs optimally....
3 Steps to Build a Strong Personal Brand
Congratulations. After weeks, or months, of job hunting, not only did you locate your “dream job” but they liked you and even hired you. You’re excited to start contributing to this organization, especially as they appear ready to let you implement your brilliant...
Corporate Culture: Unintentional Values & Behaviors
As a speaker, author, and executive consultant I work with leaders at all levels of all kinds of organizations. Because of my strong culture focus, it is impossible for me to go into an organization without automatically assessing the culture of their work...
Information Governance Insights: You Have Mail!
For over a year we've worked together to create a Information Governance program for your organization and its a beauty! We've created a place for everything and everything is in it's place, right? Well, not necessarily. There's still this hidden undercurrent of...
Use a Decision Tree in Your Quest for Answers!
Do I know how to ask questions? What seems like a rhetorical question at best and an absurd question at worse, I am thinking the answer may be a soft no. I would like to think I know the grammatical and punctuation rules accompanying written questions, but some may...