The incompetent – this is the chronically under-prepared speaker. They don’t understand their topic, but this doesn’t seem to stop them. They will arrive with overhead slides (yes overheads), photocopied in black and white cheaply at the newsagents.
When you set a career goal you are highlighting that there is something about your current circumstances that you want to change, and that you will be happier when you achieve your goal of changing your circumstances. Such thinking means accepting two premises: firstly, my current circumstances are not making me happy (if they were why change?), and secondly, that when I achieve my goal I will be happier.
Most of us have had to endure some of the extremes of management dogma throughout our careers, and most of us submit to some form of performance management at work. If you ever suspected that some of hoops you were made to jump through were unnecessary, unhelpful or unfair, then you might want to make Jeffrey Pfeffer your pin up boy.
I have decided that I have become unemployable. This does not reflect some mid-life crisis of confidence, rather I have just realised that every career move I have made has been the result of near death experiences in meetings.
Enlightened employers implement policies that provide flexible working hours, or condensed periods of work that provide for more “leisure time”. Yet for many of us, we still seem to be at the office 24/7, or we harbour the guilty secret that our work actually gives us more or “kick” than our so-called leisure-time.
Long day of training folks on realities of chaos theory of careers. Then at the end of the day I saw a client in the classroom - I am on the road again in Melbourne. The client told his story - it was moving and engaging. I made some comments. He ...
What sorts of personalities perform best at work? It is a question that seemingly all of us have an opinion about, but this deceptively simple question has no straight answer.
