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Don’t Lose Track of High Performers Who Take a Hiatus

Harvard Business Review

When I work with employers to develop return-to-work programs for professionals re-entering the workforce after a career break, one key question always arises: “Where do we find these returning professionals?” With the large numbers of returning professionals and other career transitioner populations (e.g.

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Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Responsibilities

Harvard Business Review

You’re ready to make a career move, up to a higher level or into a different industry or an entirely new field. Initiate whatever needed to ensure projects’ success. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards.

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What to Do When You’re Returning to a Company You Used to Work For

Harvard Business Review

” Perhaps you originally left because you “felt dead-ended in your career and now have an opportunity to come back at a higher level.” Do: Project maturity by acting more formal and reserved in your first few weeks on the job to showcase how you’ve grown. ” Principles to Remember. She returned in 2015.

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Vacation Policy in Corporate America Is Broken

Harvard Business Review

New research from Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage , also shows that contrary to conventional wisdom, vacation just might be great for our career , too. American workers already forfeit a large percentage of their existing paid time off (Project Time Off says it was 169 million days in 2013.)

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The Big Picture of Business: Why a Company Would Improve? The Art of Learning From Failure to Get Better.

Strategy Driven

Attempting projects without the proper resources to do the job well. Failure to effective networking techniques early enough in my career path. If we document our own successes, then these case studies will make us more successful in the future. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.

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The Art of Strategy Is About Knowing When to Say No

Harvard Business Review

You have half-baked projects all over the place. The single best tool I have found to help unlearn the yes-man ways of a startup CEO is a single-page document we call our MSPOT. The most painful portion of that document are the Omissions. Remember that Foursquare grader project? We gave it a run, and we moved on.

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3 Ways Tech Companies Are Offering Parental Leave

Harvard Business Review

Female leave-takers risk triggering a documented stereotype —mothers are less competent, less committed to the company. A 2013 study by Laurie S. This fuels attrition : mothers often leave their employers not because they have lost their career commitment, but because their employers assume they have—and good work dries up.