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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 ...]
Job Satisfaction
Managing Your Boss to Manage Your Work
In an ideal world, you would have an ideal manager: One who makes time for you, mentors you, defines her expectations, gives you feedback and supports you in getting your job done. But in the real world, you might find that your relationship with your manager is less than ideal. In fact you might have [...]
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 [...]
Career Change Without Leaving Your Organization
You love the company, the culture and the people. The problem is that you’re bored in your current job. Things are too predictable and you’re no longer challenged. But you’re not ready to chuck it all. You have too much invested. Many of us will change our career a number of times in our working [...]
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 [...]
Job Satisfaction: Do You Feel Boxed In?
How do you see your present job: as a rigid four equal sided box with no give and take or irregularly shaped which has a certain amount of flexibility? Most professional jobs can be molded or shaped that will lead to a better fit with your talents and interests. In most cases, that will lead [...]
Advance Your Career: Get Out of the Shadows and Get Noticed
Do you sometimes feel your hard work is “invisible”? Do you dread the idea of tooting your own horn? Do you think self promotion smacks of showing off? In a fast paced, changing workplace, it’s who sees you and knows your work that counts. Don’t assume people will notice the wonderful quality of your work [...]
Career Resilience: How to Overcome and Grow From Challenges Part 2
Do you let your failures or missteps derail your dreams or do you bounce back quickly? In Part1, I examined resilience – what it is, why we need it, and how to develop it – to keep on moving forward towards your goals. The good news is that even if you’re not a naturally resilient [...]
Career Resilience: How to Bounce Back From Challenges Part 1
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – American inventor, Thomas Edison Edison, despite struggling with failure throughout his work life, never let it get the best of him. He kept experimenting and learning. His resilience gave the world the light bulb as well as these amazing inventions phonograph, the telegraph, and [...]
10 Job Stress Tips
Life’s little hassles mount up until you say to yourself, “If one more thing goes wrong today, I’ll explode.” Stress. Pressure. Anxiety. Tension. Whatever you call it, there is no shortage of it in today’s fast-paced workplace. Can we totally eliminate them? No. The trick is to manage the stress versus being overwhelmed by it. [...]
Criticism: How to Handle Negative Feedback From Your Boss
Has this happened to you? All along you thought you were doing fine. Then you get hit with this bomb from your boss: “Peter, we need to talk about your team. I’m concerned about……..” As you listen to the criticism and your adrenaline starts to flow, pause – take a deep breath – and heed [...]
