Archive for Barbara’s Random Observations
Pew Report: Young, Underemployed and Optimistic
Next generation issues and boomerang kids continue to interest me. If those topics interest you too, here’s a report announcement from Pew with some information about young people trying to find employment. ### From Pew Research Center – Feb. 9, 2012 A plurality of the American public believes that young adults are having the toughest [...]
Relationships Are the Key to Career Strength
What’s the most important thing to learn if you want to advance your career? How to foster, develop, and manage relationships effectively. In today’s emerging right-brain economy, the hard skills taught in schools provide only the baseline of what is required in most professions. Professionals who have the edge — those singled out for high-potential [...]
Listening – the Key to Reaching Just About Anyone
In my various roles – strategy consultant, executive coach, mother of teen-aged boys, Board volunteer – I’ve run into people I don’t understand and with whom I can’t find common ground. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does, you’re stumped. In talking with colleagues about this phenomenon, we could all describe what happens: there [...]
How Proving Your Value Costs You Money and Loses Clients
Today’s guest author is Sherri Garrity from TheCorporateFugitive.com. Sherri writes frequent posts on her blog about what it takes to transition from a corporate employee to a self-employed entrepreneur. Her useful tips about personal positioning related to how to price your services is outline below. Guest Author: Sherri Garrity on Value Pricing If I were [...]
WFMY-TV Personal Positioning & Creative Resumes
Yesterday, Dana Arquilla, WFMY-TV web reporter and camerman Chris Keimig came by to ask me about a local artist, Thomas Roam, who is using Google Maps to position himself online and to further enhance his attractiveness as a potential employee. The clip of the interview (at the bottom of the page) captures only a portion [...]
Are You Using Your Assets to Get Americans Back to Work?
Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s contributions to the business of work discourse are usually very good, but the March 1, 2010 post on the Harvard Business Review site (www.hbr.org) was exceptionally relevant and inspiring. Her title was “Getting Americans Back to Work.” Small and Do-able Ideas Great, you’re thinking, lots of people are writing about that topic [...]
Master of Applied Positive Psychology Now Available at University of Pennsylvania
I’ve mentioned the folks working on Authentic Happiness before on this blog; they are led by Dr. Marty Seligman and located within the University of Pennsylvania. I first learned about Seligman via his book, Learned Optimism, which I read in the 1990s and still find reasons to think about (on a fairly regular basis) today. [...]
Personal Development – One Word at a Time
Gail Fritz, a writer friend of mine recently shared the following essay with me. I was struck by the possibilities of the exercise she describes for both the individuals and the organizations with which I work. When a company or nonprofit is trying to articulate its vision, one of the most difficult things is to [...]
MIT World™ – A World of Learning for Free
MIT World™ is a fantastic, free, and informative website sponsored and maintained by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is a database of more than 600 videos of from significant public events at MIT. This is a free and open site with on demand videos that a coaching friend of mine pointed out to me [...]
Changes to LinkedIn Layout
I wanted to mention that I was working with a client on his LinkedIn profile today and noticed that my page was looking different! And especially different than his. So, I wanted to warn some of you who heard me talk about LinkedIn’s 3 column layout that they are changing to a two column layout [...]
