Bufferemailprint photo credit: geishaboy500 There are lots of articles about how to talk to people in higher levels of management. Most of them start with the wrong premise. For example, many writers consider an opportunity to speak to upper management more on the level of meeting royalty. One article put it this way: “If you… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Job Skills
3 dangers from unclear goals
photo credit: CodeFin SMART Goals are foundational for all clear and unambiguous goals. If constructed correctly — and if they represent your work and not something driven by corporate that doesn’t care about your work. In other words, even though goals may look SMART, they are not. When your business goals are unclear, your chances… Continue Reading
Experience does not equal a job skill
photo credit: Another Pint Please… Experience, told by those with lots of experience, trumps everything. When angry, experienced people yell at clouds in the job market for not getting work, experience is the mantra. Not job skills. Not fitting in with the team. Not the motivation to do the work. Nope. Experience. Experience trumps everything… Continue Reading
3 reasons workplace negotiations fall apart
photo credit: EJP Photo Workplace negotiations are central to resolving conflicts at work. We all have conflicting priorities, projects, and tasks. A superior soft job skill to have is negotiating agreements to resolve conflicts. So we do. Or, we at least think we’ve negotiated a workplace agreement. Then we lose it and go all frustration… Continue Reading
3 reasons job skills require technology tool skills
photo credit: HVargas Job skills involve an entire range of work — teaching skills for many, nursing skills, project management — the list can go on and on. If you work in a cubicle, though, all those skills won’t get used very well unless you master the critical information job skill: your technology tools…. Continue Reading
E-mail: the problem with processing and time management
photo credit: ario_ Most e-mail articles tell you to sit down and go through your e-mail several times a day. But, not every five minutes. That little pop-up message, though, telling you that another e-mail has come in (begging you to read it) is too often too tempting to ignore. Especially ignore for a while…. Continue Reading
Your job skills don’t match your job
photo credit: katiew Let me make a brash, unjustified, unprovable statement: your job skills don’t match your job. You are doing your job, of course — job skills or not — but I’ll still contend your job skills don’t match your job. There are some good reasons for this condition — and some that are… Continue Reading
Cubicle Warrior — Job Skills
What critical skills do you need to manage your career and stay in work that you like to do? It’s a hard, but critical question to answer if you are to be a Cubicle Warrior — a person who survives, and even thrives, in corporations. Job skill is the sauce upon which careers are built… Continue Reading
