Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

But I still need to remind myself that being liked is not my goal—it is a secondary outcome and sugary sweet is not the way to get there. Being true to your principles and ethical background almost always leads to being “liked&# for the right reasons, and by the right people. Visit her blog: www.LeadershipMutt.com.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Wouldn’t it be great to simply plug in your dreams or goals for your life and career and have someone tell you in a very confident assuring voice how to get there? It is common this time of year to set goals. We’re often so much better at setting the goals than keeping on track until we reach our destination.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Earlier this year, a colleague shared a book with me called Setting Course , that’s produced by the Congressional Management Foundation.      Set strategic goals and use them to guide critical early decisions such as budgeting and staffing.   There’s a lot of sound advice there. 

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

The goal is to get a response from 1,500 women over the next 90 days. . “Dear Diary&# is a questionnaire designed specifically for women to gather feedback on their thoughts around achievement, fulfillment and relationships, past, present and future. Will you help?

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Address personal fears, listen to your own instincts and intuition, and start believing in yourself to have the tenacity and drive to see your goal of business ownership actualize. Offer support to others with similar goals of business ownership. Be proactive; take action Sometimes our biggest obstacle to success is ourselves!

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 28, 2010

As we approach a new year and an opportunity for that fresh start, look no further than inside yourself to keep a resolution, start a new habit, break an old one, be a better person, achieve new business goals, find a job, etc. So look no further because “there’s no place like home.” I wish you all the best and much success!

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

How often have you found yourself avoiding challenges and playing it safe, sticking to goals you knew would be easy for you to reach? In addition to her work as author and co-editor of the highly-regarded academic book The Psychology of Goals (Guilford, 2009), she has authored papers in her field’s most prestigious journals.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Earning stacks of money, starting a family, and going on expensive vacations are goals that we can all probably relate to but they are not the right answer when asked about career goal examples. Professional development goals are an entirely separate category of aspirations and they need to be prioritized if you aim to succeed in them.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Every professional must embrace a set of ethics: Things for which each professional holds himself/herself accountable. Realistically attainable goals. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter. All rights reserved.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 4, 2011

If you want a team of dedicated employees working diligently to accomplish goals, helping each other succeed, and helping you reach new heights in your business, consider a guilt-prone hire. The findings? The link between guilt and performance is clearly there. Translation: Guilt is good!!

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Finally, don’t go to networking events with the goal of giving out as many business cards as you can. Be strategic about give-aways. What product or service positions you best? What will provide a good intro so that people will want to purchase more? Collecting cards from the people you have good conversations with is much more important.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Time Management: As a solo entrepreneur, I find myself toggling between prospecting for new business, meeting with clients, administrative responsibilities, networking, planning, strategizing, and, oh, I almost forgot…actually doing the work! Business Goals: Goals, like those leg warmers and jelly shoes, go out of style.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

Small, informal celebrations are many times more effective than a once a quarter or once a year formal event.Employee appreciation and recognition are critical to achieving organizational goals. Graham Weston, co-founder and CEO of Rackspace Managed Hosting, gives the keys to his BMW M3 convertible for a week to his top performing employees.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 21, 2014

Whatever methods (legal and ethical of course) you use, you need to discover at least these SIX key things about your candidates BEFORE you hire. Drive: Are they self-motivated to achieve their goals and yours? Talent Management Best Practice 2 – Maintain Up-To-Date Job Descriptions. It is mind-boggling!

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Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

I recommend that diversity audits, quality control reviews, ethics programs and other important regimen be conducted as part of Strategic Planning, rather than as stand-alone, distracting and energy diverting activities. By seeing the daily changes resulting from the planning, companies are poised to rise above the current daily crises.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2011

As men and women work together on business focused goals everyone learns. Culture shift is very difficult and ambiguous. Facilitating advocacy is a powerful culture shifting strategy for organizations. As an executive coach, I often see highly skilled, talented women plateau in an organization largely due to lack of mentoring.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 23, 2014

Mergers do not count as alliances, because in a true alliance players must keep their autonomy while working toward common goals. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter. Recommended Resource – Reviving Work Ethic.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2015

The mentor requests pro-active changes of mentee, evaluates realism of goals and offers truths about path to success and shortcomings of mentee’s approaches. If you cannot take the dirtiest job in any company and do it yourself, then you will never become ‘management.’ Values, customs, beliefs, goals, benchmarking.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

Small, informal celebrations are many times more effective than a once a quarter or once a year formal event.Employee appreciation and recognition are critical to achieving organizational goals. Graham Weston, co-founder and CEO of Rackspace Managed Hosting, gives the keys to his BMW M3 convertible for a week to his top performing employees.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

It’s also important to celebrate your progress, because each step, no matter how small, gets you closer to your goal. We want them to be loyal, grateful, ethical, engaged, and kind to the people they work with and for. I don’t know anyone who rode a bike perfectly the first time. Insight #2: Leading people is messy!

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Women on Business

JANUARY 13, 2011

Getting our basic needs met; the rest of our time is spent trying on different masks, cloaked in various costumes being who we need to be to realize those primal goals. That’s really what life is all about, right? Well, maybe that’s a bit over-simplistic, but at the core of survival is selfishness…as it should be.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

A Roadmap For Recovery Stimulus dollars are headed toward businesses that support these Recovery Act goals: Healthcare : Modernize the healthcare system with electronic medical records systems. To secure your little corner of the recovery, you’ll need to be at the right place with the right business plan.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 5, 2012

Advocacy ‘s positive promotional methods provide a comprehensive, actionable way of dealing with these influencers with the goal of benefiting the organization; making it a StrategyDriven recommended read. Recommended Resource – Reviving Work Ethic. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The main goal of bidding is NOT get the best product. The main goal of bidding is get the cheapest price. Let me give you the good news, and the sales news… There are several strategies you can employ to get around the bidding process, or legally and ethically change the bidding process. That’s the bad news.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 10, 2011

The benefit of maintaining and managing your own account is that you claim your identity and no one else can pretend to be you and/or invite others based on your name. When you claim your profile, you may also link to that profile in places like your blog, company website, or other places you’ll need some references.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

And if you’re a hiring manager, you may have found that the best way to shrink that pile of résumés on your desk is to weed out the seemingly ‘overqualified’ workers first. These same relationship-building skills can help hiring managers connect with the candidates who are the right fit for their companies. Here’s why.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Time is something we either manage well or have no sense of. If we are lacking in time-management skills it could take away from the time and love we get to share with our families. How great would it be if everyone would operate with the ultimate goal being love? It’s that simple of an equation. Interesting thoughts.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Quality is not something that managers assign others to achieve. Rather than assume all is wrong or right with an organization and take a defensive posture, management must view quality as essential to their economic survival or growth. It is not enough for management to endorse quality programs; they must actively participate.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

I bring this up today as it is currently the time of year when we are fired with resolutions, goals, plans…. Marlene Dietrich didn’t speak often, but in this instance it was worth waiting for. It’s all in the Timing: Post by Frances Cole Jones, contributing Wome… [link] [.]

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Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

Even though the chosen path resulted in the realization of my goals and dreams, I quickly became completely disinterested in corporate culture and, unwilling to jump through any more hoops for the big bucks. My former employer decided to downsize our management group within two months of my planned exodus.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2011

This discovery has been repeatedly borne out by rigorous research in psychology and neuroscience, management studies, and the bottom lines of organizations around the globe. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and earned a Masters from Harvard Divinity School in Christian and Buddhist ethics. This isn’t just an empty mantra.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

When you do, please tell him my goal is not to point fingers—what I’m after is a better understanding of the situation.” (Note, please: don’t, then, point fingers. If you have the sense they are covering for someone else, it can also help to suggest they speak directly to the person in question.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

Win the hearts and minds of individuals, so they share and work toward your organization’s goals. How well do you know your employees’ skills, work ethic, and willingness to embrace change? Improve communication at all levels. Make critical decisions faster, with deeper buy-in from stakeholders. Today’s call is even more urgent.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2012

Finding common ground about the zeal and joys inherent in running a company results in better buy-in and support of the goals. Be ethical. The mentor requests pro-active changes of mentee, evaluates realism of goals, offers truths about path to success and shortcomings of mentee’s approaches. My gut is usually right.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Without trust, people respond with distraction, fear, and, at the extreme, paralysis. Carl had a Ph.D.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Human beings live to attract goals. Organizations get people caught in activity traps…unless managers periodically pull back and reassess in terms of goals. Managers lose sight of their employees’ goals. Mutually agreed-upon goals are vital. Goal attainment leads to ethical behavior.

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