Interview Tip – “Don’t Forget to Ask for the Job!”

June 23, 2009

Just a few months ago, I was consulting a recent college graduate on her job search process.  With a graduation date coinciding with times of intense economic distress, the odds were stacked greatly against her – even as a dean’s list scholar and multiple-honors graduate from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.  I had been [...]

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Are You Learning?

June 16, 2009

If you thought that graduating from college was the end of your intellectual growth, guess again.  Learning is a life-long endeavor that happens in so many contexts.  The only difference after college is that the context and environment in which it happens just shifts.  Every new experience, project, meeting, training session is a new opportunity [...]

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Journaling – A Way to Mentor Yourself

June 5, 2009

There are many ways to self-evaluate, inspire, and coach yourself along your career path, and the tools or products to facilitate the process are abundant today.  What I want to highlight, however, isn’t so much another book or seminar series that usually contain phrases such as ‘…for dummies’ or ‘your way to…’.  Rather, I want [...]

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Give Credit Where it’s Due – Transparency in Information Exchange

May 30, 2009

If you sit and think about it, the sheer amount of information we receive, process, and pass on during any given day quite incredible.  In a workplace context, much of this information passing happens in a formalized fashion, or even as part of a standardized process (think various documents, reports, spreadsheets, emails, meetings, etc.).
Throughout our [...]

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4 Tips to Communicate Effectively on the Phone

May 24, 2009

When communicating face-to-face, non verbal cues such as facial expressions or body language serve an important function of providing instantaneous visual feedback to the speaker.  This feedback allows the speaker to gauge how the audience is processing what is being spoken to them.  For example, a nod communicates acknowledgment or agreement, while a slight tilt [...]

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