December, 2009

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4 ways to "manage up"

On The Job

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Wednesday, December 16, 2009 4 ways to "manage up" Many people feel "stuck" these days. They feel powerless as they struggle to do much more work with available resources, and wonder if their career has hit a dead end with this rough economy.

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The Best of Lateral Action 2009

Lateral Action

Image by Elizabeth Audrey New Year is a time for looking back and reviewing the events of the past 12 months – and that goes for blogs too. 2009 was the first full year of Lateral Action, and we’d like to say a big thank you to all our readers, guest writers and interviewees for […]. The post The Best of Lateral Action 2009 appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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Personal Highlights of the '00s

Creative Think

The '00s are at an end. On a personal level, I can say the '00s were a good decade. I spent most of my fifties there (I aged from 51 to 61). I had some wonderful experiences , met some interesting people , and created a few things along the way. Here are some of my personal highlights from the '00s: • I Imagined that a Rhombic Triacontahedron could be broken into 30 pyramids.

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Announcing: Brazen Careerist Top 50 Places to Work | Penelope.

Penelope Trunk

Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Announcing: Brazen Careerist Top 50 Places to Work Posted to: Job Hunt December 16th, 2009 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook My company, Brazen Careerist, partnered with PayScale to come up with a list of the Top 50 Employers for Gen Y.

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Professional Development and Training

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ - transforming video engagement with two-way interactivity. With Qvio viewers can ask questions and get instant answers from the content owner's Author-Controlled AI™️.

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Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y?

On The Job

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Tuesday, December 1, 2009 Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y? When I graduated from college, my priorities were: getting a job doing something I loved, having opportunities for advancement and making enough money to pay the rent.

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What Would You Do If Someone Challenged Your Copyright?

Lateral Action

Supposing you came across a website selling works that looked very similar to yours. To you, it looked like a straightforward case of copyright infringement. So you asked the owner to stop. But instead of stopping, they took you to court, to challenge the copyright in your work. And supposing that the way the legal […]. The post What Would You Do If Someone Challenged Your Copyright?

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Novel Omission

Creative Think

Click HERE to follow me on Twitter! For the past month, I've been Twittering — and having a lot of fun doing it. I was an early adopter of Twitter — March, 2007 or member #1,810,431 — but didn't much do with it until recently. One thing that has helped make the experience enjoyable is the Tweetie app for iPhone. Now, I can take a few minutes here and there and check what's happening in the "river of Tweets" that flows by.

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Why Thinking Is Overrated

Lateral Action

Image by Brian Hillegas Imagine you have no head. I’m serious. Imagine you have no head. Right this instant. You can feel your arms, legs, hands, feet, stomach, chest and back. But your bodily sensations stop at the neck. There’s nothing there. At this moment, you can feel, touch, see and hear – but you […]. The post Why Thinking Is Overrated appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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How Good Is Too Good?

Lateral Action

Image by watercolors08 Far above the streets of Paris, scattered across the rooftops, parapets and pinnacles of Notre Dame Cathedral, is a collection of monuments to perfectionism. These are the gargoyles, sacred figures, finials and other sculpted details that constitute the icing on the cake of this magnificent building. If you take the rooftop tour […].

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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RSS Creativity – Guest Article for The 99%

Lateral Action

You might like to check out the guest article I’ve just written for online magazine The 99% – RSS Creativity: Routines, Systems, Spontaneity. If you like Lateral Action, you should enjoy The 99%. Their take on ‘productive creativity’ is nicely aligned with the Lateral Action approach to ‘creativity + productivity’ The 99% is the think […].

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10 gifts to give your career

On The Job

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Monday, December 28, 2009 10 gifts to give your career As the gift-giving season draws to a close, it’s time to remember that you still have one more gift left to bestow: The gift of a better career. No one can really predict what the several years will bring in the job market, but it’s clear that everyone has to make more of an investment in their fu

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Is your employer clueless about your needs?

On The Job

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Monday, December 21, 2009 Is your employer clueless about your needs? As you can see from the previous post on Generation Y, anything to do with stereotypes in the workplace generates a lot of discussion.

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How to bounce back | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog How to bounce back Posted to: Goal setting December 11th, 2009 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook This is what I thought yesterday: I thought, today is the day I’m going to start going to the gym again. I am certain that no one recovers from sadness until they go back to the gym : Endorphins, routine, self-control, these are all the pieces of getting back t

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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How to deal with unemployment in the face of holiday cheer.

Penelope Trunk

Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog How to deal with unemployment in the face of holiday cheer Posted to: Job Hunt December 21st, 2009 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook The end of December is one of the hardest times of the year to be unemployed.

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How to keep a New Year's resolution | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog How to keep a New Year's resolution Posted to: Goal setting December 29th, 2009 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook I’m not a fan of New Year’s resolutions. We know that people keep less than 5% of New Year's resolutions, and I think a big reason for this is that anything we are trying to change in our lives is really about self-discipline.

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On the Job by Anita Bruzzese: Are You Stuck in Gender.

On The Job

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Tuesday, December 8, 2009 Are You Stuck in Gender Communication Traps at Work? I grew up with two sisters and 10 girl cousins. No boys. Then I got married and had two boys. The only female in my house for years besides me has been the dog.

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Popular posts of 2009. Sort of. | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Popular posts of 2009. Sort of. Posted to: Fulfillment December 28th, 2009 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook It’s the time of year when I list my top posts of 2009. When I first started doing this top-posts-of-the-year thing, I felt obligated to actually give you the real version of what was most popular.

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eWOW 2023 Virtual Summit #OwnYourGrowth

At eWOW, we are all about holistic growth – personal and professional. Growth that goes beyond a job title and paycheck. This year, eWOW 2023 virtual summit focuses on owning your growth – an action plan that will help you chart your path to success that is unique to you.

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Welcome, San Francisco Chronicle Readers | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Welcome, San Francisco Chronicle Readers Posted to: Self-management December 7th, 2009 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook It looks like a lot of people are coming here from the article in the San Francisco Chronicle: Big City Blues, Could a more affordable life, away from the Bay Area, actually be better , by Rob Baedeker.

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Asperger's at work: Why I need a sick day to register my car.

Penelope Trunk

Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Asperger's at work: Why I need a sick day to register my car Posted to: Diversity | Self-management December 1st, 2009 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook The guy who sold me my car cancelled the plates the very next week.

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How to put blog comments to good use | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog How to put blog comments to good use Posted to: Learn to take advice December 8th, 2009 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook I don’t usually write about my life in real time, because the difference between a blog post than reads like a diary entry and a blog post that someone would want to read is usually just time passing.

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My birthday post | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog My birthday post Posted to: How to blog December 10th, 2009 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook It's my birthday. I'm going to give a gift to myself today. I'm going to post five posts that make me happy.

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Cancel Quiet Quitting: Detoxing Corporate Culture & Engaging Top Talent

Speaker: Jennifer Brick, Career Strategist and Author

Your employees have checked out. The last few years have been a wild ride, with countless changes to how we work and our workplace cultures, like the sudden shift to remote work, the return to office, and trends like quiet quitting. With productivity, profitability, and your employer brand on the line, leadership is turning to HR to engage employees and recreate your culture in different working models.

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Underrated career skill: Asking questions | Penelope Trunk's.

Penelope Trunk

Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Underrated career skill: Asking questions Posted to: Managing Up | Networking December 15th, 2009 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook It might be that the only useful thing you ever learned in school (besides how to make small talk at a party) is how to ask a good question.

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How to hit a wall at work, with grace | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog How to hit a wall at work, with grace Posted to: Career fulfillment | Knowing yourself December 22nd, 2009 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook I am lost. I have been lost before in my career. It’s just that I did not write about it while it was happening.

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There's no magic pill for being lost. | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog There's no magic pill for being lost. Posted to: Parenting | Self-management December 4th, 2009 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook When I was in the mental ward , it was mostly girls in their teens with messed up track records and eating disorders.

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