3 Ways to Tout Your Accomplishments (Without Being Obnoxious) LearnVest. The Daily Muse always has invaluable tips and advice for females in the workplace.
Check out their latest, which you’ll need going into review season! Ask just about anyone what personality trait grates his or her nerves the most, and a braggart is bound to top the list. So, it makes sense that most of us are loathe to toot our own horns, for fear of coming across as obnoxious. Especially in the office. This obviously makes standing out in the workplace a bit of a challenge. With that in mind, here are a few things to keep in mind that’ll help you impress your boss with your stellar skills without coming across like an egomaniac.
No Splashing in the Shallow End When you’re first starting a new job, or even a new role, it’s important not to make a big entrance right off the bat. Instead, start small and subtle. Pay it Forward. Myers Briggs MBTI Famous personalities for famous INFJ. Job dissatisfaction report. We are what we think- Charles Haanel, The Master Key System. The Manager's Cheat Sheet: 101 Common-Sense Rules for Leaders. From the organization’s point of view, there are two goals. Coaching and Development Goals. Coaching and Development. Evaluation Goals. Evaluation Conflicts. The purpose of employee evaluations. Tell and sell, tell and listen, and problem-solving. Tell-and-sell method. Tell and Listen. Feedback. Feedback examples. Inquiry and advocacy. [The outboard motor] analogy to performance appraisals. Ambivalence from managers and directs. Ambivalence. Risk of too much positive and too many general statements.
Steinbeck’s outboard motor analogy. Harnessing the Power of Feedback Loops. In 2003, officials in Garden Grove, California, a community of 170,000 people wedged amid the suburban sprawl of Orange County, set out to confront a problem that afflicts most every town in America: drivers speeding through school zones.
Local authorities had tried many tactics to get people to slow down. They replaced old speed limit signs with bright new ones to remind drivers of the 25-mile-an-hour limit during school hours. Police began ticketing speeding motorists during drop-off and pickup times. But these efforts had only limited success, and speeding cars continued to hit bicyclists and pedestrians in the school zones with depressing regularity. So city engineers decided to take another approach. The signs were curious in a few ways. In other words, officials in Garden Grove were betting that giving speeders redundant information with no consequence would somehow compel them to do something few of us are inclined to do: slow down. A feedback loop involves four distinct stages. 30DrSeuss_quotes.jpg (620×1900) The secret to achieving goals and dreams. Using the 4 D's to find more meaning and purpose in life. Many people desire more meaning, purpose, and calling in life.
Jeff Bezos: What matters more than your talents. Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation. Finding happiness in work. Happiness is not found in money. Motivating vs hygiene factors. Hygiene or dissatisfiers factors must be addressed. Job dissatisfaction report. Conference Board report on dissatisfaction. Right Management survey results- Forbes. Right Management recommendation. The Paul Principle. Not long after he took the helm of General Electric in the early 1980’s, Jack Welch had his Eureka!
Moment. Just like Archimedes, Welch was bathing when he decided that GE would quit doing business in all industries in which they could not be the number-one or number-two players. It was that decision more than any other that is credited for positioning GE as the belle of the ball for the remainder of Welch’s corporate tenure. But I think the secret to the success of Welch’s decision was less about his insight than his ability to implement that insight. Any manager who has ever cut a business line, killed a department, or halted a promising product’s development knows that the decision to quit pursuing one path in favor of another course is one of the most difficult decisions to make.
100 Websites You Should Know and Use. Entertainment Meet David Peterson, who developed Dothraki for Game of Thrones There are seven different words in Dothraki for striking another person with a sword.
Among them: “hlizifikh,” a wild but powerful strike; “hrakkarikh,”a quick and accurate strike; and “gezrikh,” a fake-out or decoy strike. But you won’t find these words in George R. R. Culture. Why Great Leaders Are in Short Supply - James S. Rosebush. By James S.
Rosebush | 9:06 AM March 30, 2012 We’re living with something of an irony right now regarding leadership. On the one hand, the topic has never been more studied and written about; my recent Google search for leadership research by academies and institutes returned some 375,000 hits. On the other hand, we are experiencing a dearth of leadership in society. We see fewer prominent leaders who seem genuine and highly capable, and many who have been compromised, deposed, or defeated. If you can conceive it you can achieve it. Friends and enemies - Machiavelli. The rule of reciprocity. The law of reciprocity - Charles Haanel, The Master Key System.