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October 2014

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October 31, 2014

Ask Dana: How to Push Your Career Ahead When Your Current Job Takes All Your Time

Being intentional about advancing your career takes time, and it's easy to let life get in the way.  Dana Manciagli is back today to offer practical advice on making your career growth a priority.  Dana is a veteran career coach, global career expert, highly sought-after speaker and author of The Business…
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October 30, 2014

Hallmarks of Effective Leadership

We think of leaders so often as being the big wigs, the men and women at the helm of an organization.  But leaders don't always hold a management or executive role; they can just as easily be among subordinates and even entry-level workers.  Knowing some common qualities of an effective…
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October 29, 2014

Motivating Your Staff: Continuous Feedback

By: Maurice Gilbert When I was a tennis coach, I would begin a training session with my student by communicating my objectives to her in advance of hitting the first ball.  All throughout the lesson, I would provide relevant feedback so she would be able to make adjustments.  Invariably, progress…
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October 28, 2014

What New Hires Really Want

By: Maurice Gilbert Once you’ve narrowed the field and selected the best candidate from among the crème de la crème, you can turn your attention toward on-boarding. Regardless of the new employee’s level of experience and the depth of her skill set, on-boarding ought to be a requirement for every…
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October 27, 2014

Test Your Cover Letter Acumen

Taunee Besson, career transitions expert and President and Principal Consultant at Dallas-based Career Dimensions has many years of experience coaching hopeful hires in the job search process.  So when she offers guidance into how to be more effective in using the primary tools associated with finding jobs (resumes, cover letters, networking), we…
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October 24, 2014

What Happens When a Talent Pool Dries Up?

By: Maurice Gilbert It used to be that past performance was the best predictor of future success.  Perhaps not so anymore. Executive search firm Egon Zehnder partnered with Harvard Business School to survey sizable organizations across diverse industries and locales and found that we are entering a new era of…
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October 23, 2014

Change Management Made Simple

There's nothing certain in life but death and taxes.  And change, of course.  We can count on change as sure as we can count on the sun rising in the morning.  As Sam Cooke sang it years ago, "a change is gonna come."  This is doubly true for businesses, where…
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October 22, 2014

5 Questions About Leave as a Reasonable Accommodation Under the ADA

While the ADA has been in effect for nearly 25 years, many employers still have questions about what qualifies as a disability and what reasonable accommodations must be made for affected employees.  For instance, where does FMLA end and ADA begin?  This can confound even experienced HR professionals.  Fortunately we…
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October 21, 2014

Sick? Keep it at Home!

By: Maurice Gilbert Sickness – and preventing it – is top of mind these days.  You can hardly turn on the radio or TV without hearing mention of Ebola.  This may be even truer here in Dallas, where to date we’ve had one person succumb to Ebola, two more contract…
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October 20, 2014

Answers to Career Questions, Part 1

Moving up in one's career almost necessarily means taking a risk here and there.  Today's post is by Taunee Besson, career transitions expert and President and Principal Consultant at Dallas-based Career Dimensions, who is here to answer common questions from clients facing major career choices. — Maurice Gilbert Finding new challenges, interview…
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