Coaching Tip

AUGUST 18, 2011

With smaller staffs, higher stress levels and uncertainties around the economy, are employers changing what they look for in prospective employees? Who gets hired or promoted today? The short answer is: The person who is not afraid to take on new challenges, can pull support, lead others, and complete tasks on time. Someone who actively looks for opportunities to make improvements, who is a good fit with the organizational culture and backs corporate values and principles.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 19, 2011

Conventional wisdom holds that there are happy people and unhappy people; that's just the way they are, and there isn't much that will change them short of life-altering events. In fact, research has shown that pleasant or unpleasant temperment does remain relatively stable over time, and certain aspects of motivation are stable, too. But the big news from research is that most people's inner work lives shift a great deal over time as a function of the events they experience--not as a function

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 16, 2011

It may not pay to be nice in the workplace. A new study finds that agreeable workers earn significantly lower incomes than less agreeable ones. The gap is especially wide for men. The researchers examined "agreeableness" using self-reported survey data and found that men who measured below average on agreeableness earned about 18% more—or $9,772 more annually in their sample—than nicer guys.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 13, 2011

Are you one of over 40 million self-employed in the U.S.--31 percent of the labor force--who form an increasingly important part of the economy? More Americans are working as consultants or freelancers, either having given up or been forced out of the salaried world of 9 to 5. It's a trend that began after the economic downturn of the late 1980s, when I became a management consultant like many other laid-off professionals who became consultants.

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