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What is Corporate Culture?
June 29, 2010
For an excellent article on identifyin clues for interpreting a corporate culture check out this article By Mira Saraf in At Work, Internships/Co-ops, Students & Grads, Summer jobs on June 28, 2010
Nice job Mira – thank you!
http://talentegg.ca/incubator/2010/06/what-is-corporate-culture/
Self Employment & Career Management Skills
June 29, 2010
#10 Time Management
Note: Since Self Employment is going to be the major means of employment in the future as the economy comes back, each of us needs to prepare for that reality. The previous 8 Career Management Skills and future Self Employment Skill sets will be merged in one significant tool for your assessment and learning purposes.
Time Management.
Time is the most personal tool for transformation. For the self employed person, the use of time measures our days. We need to be efficient, but we don’t want to be driven. We need to be relaxed but not comatose. The continuum of activities that you and you alone are responsible for is overwhelming. There’s just so much to do, and how do you know what is important? The best guide is to check in with our values to determine our priorities – and I’ll be writing more about that. But for now, let’s review some of the skills you’ll want to pick up on the way while developing your business and transforming yourself.
The ability to develop a list of goals on a weekly basis of things that have to be done and somehow stick to most of it.
Being “comfortable” with the balance of time spent working “on” the business and “in” the business. (not too judgmental, but able to take feedback and correct actions)
Manage to accept there will be days and weeks when I don’t get enough done, but somehow I acknowledge what I did accomplish.
I regularly take time completely off from work, as I know it’s the only way to keep myself sane.
Rank yourself in terms of how competent you are in this skill area from 1 – 5
1 being “not at all” and 5 representing “mastery.”
Self Employment & Career Success Skills
June 9, 2010
Note: Since Self Employment is going to be the major means of employment in the future as the economy comes back, each of us needs to prepare for that reality. The previous 8 Career Management Skills and future Self Employment Skill sets will be merged in one significant tool for your assessment and learning purposes.
Creativity and Visioning #9
Ths is one of my most favorite skill sets and I deleted it from the original list when I started with this blog. (You can read about the full range of Career Management Skills in my book lifeworktransitions.com and you can also receive a free copy as one of the “get to know me” gifts.
Creativity is probably the most important skill set when it comes to being self employed. You’ll need it to initiate new activities and to create a “buzz” of originality to your products and services. And the creativity you garner at the start of a project will be re-stimulated again and again, so make it one of your top skills if it isn’t already.
Creativity & Visualization
The ability to act on something so compelling that is right in front of you
Intuitive knowing what can and must be done
The ability to initiate, develop and maintain ideas, synthesize, adapt and improve.
Rank yourself in terms of how competent you are in this skill area from 1 – 5,
1 being “not at all” and 5 representing “mastery.”
Career Management Skill – #8
June 7, 2010
The last Career Management competency is overall Growth and Development and this consists of creating a plan to for continuous self development and life long learning. We need to stay passionate about our subject matter and motivated from within to master these skills as well as others essential to your performance. Mastering this final skill set will set you up with a plan for life long learning.
Growth and Development:
Creation of a plan and identification of resources to realize your goals of continuous learning
Commitment to become all you can be and realize your potential
Identification of low ranking skills and creation of a plan to increase mastery
Competency #1
Competency #2
Competency #3
Rank yourself in terms of how competent you are in this 8th skill area from 1 – 5,
1 being “not at all” and 5 representing “mastery.”
Career Management Skills #7
June 4, 2010
Computer Technology
Computer Technology competencies may seem fairly simplistic in nature, but for the mature worker it’s an essential skill set to master. The ability to learn new databases and integrate the latest social media is a key determinant of successful entrepreneurship. I learned to research an entirely new subject, create a powerpoint presentation and present a webinar within the first month of leaving my previous position. All new skills. (Well, I’d done power point before, but it was awhile ago!) Some of my friends will laugh at me listing this as a skills et, but I know how important it is and my mastery level is low, but functioning. How are you doing?
Computer technology:
Knowledge and practice of online resourcing such as internet and email community accessibility, database management and retrieval, and word processing;
The effective use of social media – including accessing and updateg your information as well as posting it.
Rank yourself in terms of how competent you are in this 7th skill area from 1 – 5,
1 being “not at all” and 5 representing “mastery.”
