nonprofit jobsReaders of this blog probably fall into one of the following categories: - you are actively looking for a new position - you are considering the next stage of your career - you are looking to hire someone for your organization - you lead an organization and wonder how it can be even better Into [...]
Mindful of accusations of naivety or over-simplification of the human condition, Dr. Fredrickson does not deny the necessity of negative emotions. But, she has shown that the ratio of negative to positive emotions is about 1 to 3 if we want to navigate effectively through life. So, if you find yourself feeling frustrated or angry, you need to compensate by having three positive emotions to avoid each bad feeling dragging you down.
By chance more than planning, I have found myself delivering Career Development seminars to MBA students in Massachusetts and California in the past week. The first group with whom I worked were all women wanting to follow an entrepreneurial path, and the second group was comprised of future arts management professionals. The key takeaway [...]
Renee was the consummate professional. For ten years, her career was the model of upward mobility. Yes, she had had a slow start, but after her first couple of jobs trying things out, she accepted an entry-level position and soon hit her stride. She was eager to learn, she worked hard and she found a [...]
Bob Johansen, a professional Forecaster, has written a book called “Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World”. He writes about the VUCA forces operating in the world today, referring to the increasing amount of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, that individuals and organizations are forced to face every day.
I am working with a experienced client who just accepted a leadership position with an organization on the other side of the country. To displace his rumbling sense of guilt at his act of “disloyalty” – did he place his own career interests ahead of his allegiance to his current organization where he has been treated well for the past 13 years? – he is anxiously wondering how to prepare himself for his new role so that he makes and has a strong, positive impact from the start.
Now we are here, and the reality has not at all lived up to its billing. We are in the third day of a nor’easter that has brought high winds and driving rain.
I am reading the novel Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter Carey. It is based on the travels of a young French nobleman, Alexis de Tocqueville, who visited the United States in the early 1800s and wrote about the young country.
In preparation for an upcoming workshop I am conducting with a Board of Directors, I have been rereading the excellent book Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen. The need for this workshop arose during the last Board Meeting I facilitated when it became clear that the work of the Board, and consequently of the organization, was hampered by poor communication.
People often adopt a myopic attitude at work. They focus on what they, themselves, need to do, lock themselves into their own universe and are often blissfully unaware of the impact they have on other team members or stakeholders. Communications are scattered via cyberspace, and electronic noise proliferates while human voices grow silent. Unity, community and alignment [...]
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