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How to Propel Your Career in 10 Minutes

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But what about career management? There’s a well-publicized notion that professionals spend more time planning a vacation than planning for their careers. That’s an unfortunate truth for many of us, even though a successful career is much more important to our happiness—a research-backed fact. Peruse job openings.

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25 Career Options in Leadership Development

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Interested in a career in leadership development? Mid-level or Senior Manager : m anagers developing the managers below them. Leadership Trainer or Training Manager : c onducting or managing leadership and management training programs. Sales or Marketing Manager : s elling leadership programs and services.

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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

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Perhaps it starts within your organization, then within your industry? At some point in your career journey, have you started to focus more on status as a leader than the job at hand? How about reengineering, total quality management, performance management, learning organization, value analysis, managed care, or employee satisfaction?

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A Systems Approach to Leading Through Transfomation

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When I joined Merchants Fleet as CEO in 2018, I knew I was joining a team of some of the most experienced professionals in the fleet industry. we were able to build upon many of the old habits and traits that had worked in the past to quickly transform into the fastest-growing company in our industry.

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Mentoring Moments and More for Millennials

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Guest post by Dianna Booher : Millennials drop an employer quicker than they leave a boring party when they see no career-growth opportunities. Career development is the cool calling card––a powerful tease to job seekers you’d like to have join your team. They actually want these career-development opportunities for themselves.

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Why Every 21st Century Sales Leader Needs to Be a Creative Problem Solver

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In my work with SalesGlobe I’ve developed Sales Design Thinking SM to help sales leaders solve problems around any sales or business challenge, like sales strategy, organization design, sales capacity, sales compensation, change management, and of course quota setting. Manage Change. Manage Change.

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Leading with Trust

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Employers underestimate the importance of personal and career development on employee retention, vastly overestimating the importance of salary and benefits. They are also winning the war on talent: SAS receives 200 applications for every opening and have the lowest employee turnover in the software industry at two percent per year.