On The Job

AUGUST 30, 2007

I remember when my older son was just learning to read and write and I found his name written boldly in pen on the white marble of our fireplace hearth. “Did you do this?” I asked him, pointing to his name. His big blue eyes looked boldly into mine. He shook his head “no.” “Then who did?” I asked him. His chubby little finger quickly pointed at his infant brother, who was happily sucking on his sock as his older brother tried to sell him down the river.

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On The Job

AUGUST 28, 2007

The report was just sitting there, almost under your nose. OK, so it was on the boss’s desk and you were sitting a few feet away, but you have really good eyesight – and the ability to read upside down – so it wasn’t really your fault you read a co-worker’s recent performance evaluation, was it? And it wasn’t really snooping when you were looking for a pencil in a colleague’s desk and came across her pay stub – your eyes just accidentally happened to focus on how much she makes a month.

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On The Job

AUGUST 27, 2007

I spend much of my time listening to people gripe about their jobs and their bosses. That’s why when I had two surveys land on my desk that show – gasp! – that not only are some people happy at work but – double gasp! – think their bosses have a good sense of humor – I knew that either I’d fallen down the rabbit hole or things weren’t really as bad as sometimes portrayed.

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On The Job

AUGUST 23, 2007

They are often the unacknowledged heroes of the workplace – the assistants. Not many companies could get by without them. They know tons of critical stuff – from how to fix the office copier to how to set up conference calling with Switzerland to how to get a company party catered for 200 with less than 24 hours notice. They are smart, tough and critical to the success of their bosses, and yet they can be treated like doormats.

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Professional development

On The Job

AUGUST 21, 2007

I’m the first to admit I have never been a math whiz. In fact, when my kids have homework that starts off with something like “If a train leaves the station and is traveling at 80 m.p.h…” I sort of hear this buzzing sound in my ears and my vision starts to blur around the edges. But I know that math is critical in our world, and I still hold in high esteem anyone who managed to make it through Miss Boren’s algebra class.

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On The Job

AUGUST 14, 2007

I spend a lot of time trying to be a good communicator. Sometimes I’m better at it than at other times (anyone related to me by blood never seems to understand my request to take out the garbage), but I keep at it. Despite technological advances, trying to communicate effectively can be frustrating. Trying to connect via e-mail or phone can be tricky when everyone is so busy.

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On The Job

AUGUST 10, 2007

My oldest son, a teenager, has been a busboy/dishwasher for about two years now, and he recently told my husband and me that he had come to an important realization about his job. “You get yelled at for doing something wrong, but no one ever says anything to you if you do something right,” he said, in apparent disgust. “And it’s the same thing, every day.

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On The Job

AUGUST 9, 2007

If you've never heard an honest-to-goodness Okie accent, you might want to check out my interview with Peter Clayton at Total Picture Radio. Peter and I have been trying to hook up for months, but he's been busy moving (I understand after moving five times in 13 years), but we finally got together. The interview was fun and interesting, and of course, the first subject we discussed was how I lost my perspective -- and got it back.

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On The Job

AUGUST 6, 2007

When you went to school, did anyone ever tell you to be sure and choose the “wrong” answer on a test? At work, does your boss regularly tell you to make the “wrong” decisions? Probably not. From the time we are children, we are counseled to make the “right” choices, and how to look “right” and how to do the “right” thing. That often continues in the workplace, that need to be ”right.

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Education

On The Job

AUGUST 2, 2007

Several months ago when I got caught up in the frenzy of thinking I needed to get involved in anything that came into my line of sight (see previous post), I was told about LinkedIn. Immediately I visited the Web site and realized that a) it wasn’t a porn site and b) it was in English – so I signed up. If you had asked me at the time what LinkedIn was exactly, I could not have told you.

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On The Job

AUGUST 8, 2007

OK, this doesn’t really have a lot to do with career advice, but then again, maybe it does. It’s more a note to myself (and maybe someone else can learn something from it). When my book was published, Feb. 7, I did the first thing any author does: I checked my Amazon.com ranking. When I wasn’t No. 1, I checked a few hours later. Hmmm…still not No. 1.

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