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Marcia Zidle, a certified career strategist and business coach, works with high potential, high impact executives, managers and professionals to advance their careers and grow their leadership capabilities. [Read more ...]
Career Advancement
Career Success Part 1: Don’t Let Your Guard Down
Do you want to know how to jump-start or advance your professional career? There are three keys. Here’s the first one: Monitor your changing environment so you won’t be caught off guard. Visualize your career environment as one huge jigsaw puzzle. It consists of your present job, your company, your industry, your profession, your regional, [...]
What’s Your Career Success IQ?
There are three kinds of people! Those who make it happen; Those who let it happen; Those who are surprised by what’s happened! How well are you making it happen in your career? To make it happen starts with taking a hard look at how well you are managing your career in today’s very changing workplace. [...]
Four Career Challenges That Can Bring Your Down!
Let’s admit it – most of us are on cruise control! Then suddenly we realize our career may be in jeopardy. All of a sudden we’re scrambling to do something fast! The Solution: Pay attention to these four situations that can put you in the “hot seat” and your career in a potential down spiral. 1. [...]
Are You Connecting With the Right People?
Friends, colleagues and family can be great resources for career planning and career advice. But we also need relationships with a variety of individuals and groups to help us succeed. For example, we need people who can offer information or expertise; who are influential or can provide political insights; who will give us candid feedback [...]
Office Politics: Love Or Hate! It’s Here To Stay
“There’s too much wrangling and maneuvering going on. Joe really knows how to get on his boss’s good side. I hate this politicking….I just want to do my job.” These are things I hear in my career management and development programs. Are these the types of comments you might make as well? Whether you hate it, admire it, [...]
Career Management: Insights From the African Bush
I came across an African proverb recently and it has some relevant lessons we can all apply to our day to day lives and managing our careers. Here it is! “Every morning in Africa, a gazelle awakens. He has only one thought on his mind: To be able to run faster than the fastest lion. [...]
Career Advancement: Have You Hit the Glass Ceiling?
Do you feel that you’ve gone as far as you can with your current employer? Are there sign that you’ve hit what’s known as the “glass ceiling?” This is the point at which you can clearly see the next level of promotion yet, despite your best effort, something is stopping your career progression. If you [...]
Make the Right Career Move: Part 2
Imagine that you’ve been offered two different positions and you have to decide which one you want. Or perhaps you’re already in a good job, but something that seems to be a better opportunity comes up in another company. To make a wise decision you must operate on two levels: The rational with our head (see part [...]
Tips For Starting a New Job
Starting a new role can be both exciting and stressful. It’s moving from the familiar to the unfamiliar; from knowing the main players to determining who they are; from feeling very positive about your abilities to feeling somewhat insecure. But that’s true of every new situation. So what do you do to regain your confidence and competence? 1. Clarify expectations [...]
Advance Your Career: Strengthen Your Company Network
”I’m known as a steady worker but don’t get the choice projects. I know I need to get out there more but I’ve always been shy and don’t want to toot my own horn. What can I do?” This was asked of me by a financial analyst during a career management workshop. Actually, there was a lot [...]
