Career Development

Frequent Secondments Can Cause Employee Ineptitude (A True Story + Tips You Can Use)

If you're an employer or an organizational decision maker, this article will interest you. It's about how a talented employee's development of on-the-job proficiency can be stifled by frequent redeployments - unless conscious efforts are made to prevent that problem from occurring. This is a true story about an experience I had early in my […]

To Succeed, Treat Even a "Demotion" As a Good Thing

Imagine you get a letter from your boss notifying you of management's decision to temporarily redeploy you to a position that's about 2 steps below your current management grade? If you're like most people, you'll most probably interprete such a career move as a demotion. This article presents a different perspective that you can adopt […]

Make Your Boss Look Good, & You'll Fly High!

What I'm about to say here applies to any person in paid employment. If you can learn to study and understand what needs to happen to make your boss look good at her job, she'll do everything in her power to reward and also make you look good in return. Your position in the company […]

Use Coaching To Maximize Employee Productivity

One of the best ways to boost a company's productivity is to get high flyers in the team to help others maximize their potentials at work. Few decision makers realize this however. And that's why their company's best hands are rarely encouraged to show others how to do what they do. Let Those Who Know […]

A Perfect Solution For Workplace Conflict

Every organization, regardless of its size will periodically experience conflict between and amongst the team members. The success or otherwise of that entity will depend greatly on how effectively it is able to handle such conflicts when they arise. This article describes a time tested strategy successfully used by decision makers in a large corporate […]

Do You Need to Play Office Politics?

Every employee desires career progress. But people differ in terms of what they're willing to do to get that reward. Considering how messy it can get, and how painfully it can cost those who play it, is office politics worth adopting as a strategy to get ahead of others in your workplace? "Vicious backstabbing" as […]