Career Tip #11 – Natural Born Brown-Nosers

Published in August 31st, 2009

Posted by Linda in Classic Brown-Nosing Techniques

I used to think that Brown-Nosing was a learned skill developed in response to some magical yet sad combination of extroversion, incompetence, and psychological torment by authority figures when one was young. Then I learned about David.
Just the other night, over dinner with a friend of mine, I learned that her son, David, was meeting [...]

Career Tip #10 – Know Your Business

Published in August 30th, 2009

Posted by Linda in Career IQ, Classic Brown-Nosing Techniques, Culture, Current Affairs, Purpose of Work, Visibility

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To take your career to the highest level possible you must first know your business. After all, how can you expect to add value to the organization if you
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Career Tip #9 – Sychronizing your Brown-Nosing Skill in YOUR Culture

Published in August 27th, 2009

Posted by Linda in Connecting, Culture, Networking, Positioning, Visibility

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You may have noticed that all four of the brown-nosing skills I've mentioned here – Networking, Connecting, Positioning, and Visibility – are virtually always used in conjunction with the others. They work together in a seamless attempt to garner you some favor with those people that have the ability to make something good happen for [...]

Career Tip #8 – Creating visibility when you’re a peon

Published in August 26th, 2009

Posted by Linda in Visibility

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Becoming visible is all about getting the word out about yourself. Yes, you must toot your own horn. (A former colleague of mine actually used to keep a

Career Tip # 7 – Do you understand the concept of

Published in August 26th, 2009

Posted by Linda in Career IQ

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There have been plenty of times in my career when I played the brown-nosing game like a master. I

Want a Promotion? Speak Up!

Published in August 25th, 2009

Posted by Linda in Visibility

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Imagine this painful moment with me —- you are sitting in a meeting (told you it would be painful) that has 'gone long'. You have a ton of work to do and you hear yourself talking — to yourself—
"Oh, please, just shoot me now. Put me out of my misery. How much longer is this [...]

Career Tip #6 – Don’t bury your talents

Published in August 24th, 2009

Posted by Linda in Classic Brown-Nosing Techniques

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Strider’s power to make things happen

Published in August 21st, 2009

Posted by Linda in Networking

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I'm not going to launch into a discussion about all the types of Power structures at work. I'm simply going to share a story about Strider – my little Chihuahua.
Strider weighs 10 lbs. and hangs around his big sisters – Loosha, a Rottweiler and Kayla, a Shepherd mix – who collectively outweigh him by about [...]

Job Promotions and Fairness

Published in August 20th, 2009

Posted by Linda in Career IQ

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I have an interesting discussion going on with some adult graduatae students — 20-40 somethings – who seem to think that it is unfair when companies pass over qualified candidates for promotions.
I've heard this before and am always amazed at this argument because it only comes from people who feel they didn't get what they [...]

Career Intelligence – What’s Your CQ?

Published in August 19th, 2009

Posted by Linda in Career IQ

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The other day it occurred to me—
We have ways to measure people's intelligence (IQ) and we now can measure emotional intelligence (EQ), so why not measure people's career intelligence (CQ)? It seems to me that we spend a lot of time learning our trade or profession, but very little time learning about how to design [...]

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