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Casual Articles - Snooze Alarm: It's Time to Wake Up to a New Workplace Reality
If watching TV shows like Law and Order or old Ally McBeal re-runs has you thinking you would love a career as a legal assistant, you may want to look into the real world of one before entering the paralegal job market.Working as a paralegal can be interesting and very rewarding work, but no one should enter the field with delusions of becoming an Erin Brockovitch. Listed below are some of the qualities a good paralegal should have.1. You must love research. Not only must you love it, you should be the kind of thinker who can find innovative ways to find facts as you research cases. Maybe your research will require surfing the Internet for days on end, or you may find yourself neck deep in old files at the county courthouse. You may even find yourself searching through old newspaper articles. If you do not like research, find a different career choice.2. You must be organized. As a paralegal, you are not only organizing cases and files for yourself; you are also organizing them for use by attorneys and other case workers. Having your own system o
We began our work from the "inside out".
What that means is that we started our work together by discovering what "made them tick". Using a variety of well crafted assessments, we explored what
Customer relationship management, or CRM, refers to reliable systems, processes, and procedures that allow companies to better manage customer relationships. It is a corporate level strategy that focuses on creating and maintaining effective communication with its customers. Ideally, a sound CRM strategy should develop an end-to-end process that encompasses sales, customer service, and marketing.A successful customer relationship plan can manage all business-related operations and interactions with customers simultaneously. It often includes special software programs, called CRM programs, which aid companies in tracking and organizing their customer base.Customer relationship management is just that: learning ways to manage the happiness of your customers by giving them what they want, increasing the effectiveness and profitability of your product or service by adapting them to customer preferences, and creating communication channels between sales reps, sales managers, and the customers they serve.What are some ideas for successfully implementin
While we can point to endless examples of rapid change from the Internet, globalization, outsourcing, mergers and mass retailing, what I think we need to pay attention to is how to prepare ourselves and our children to interact, respond to and add value within the new realities of work.
Preparing yourself for a new job or a first job requires introspection, self-appraisal, research, preparation, dedication and discipline. Success in the new marketplace requires you to give thought to what makes you Who You Are? What is your Behavioral Style? What do you value? What is your vision of what is possible for you? What are your internal obstacles? How comfortable are you interpersonally? How do you present visually, verbally and non-verbally? Once you get a clear picture of these specific issues, and only then, should you begin to assess your skills, abilities, experiences, education and other more standard components that are engaged in a job search.
For a number of years I was a senior Outplacement Counselor at a "boutique" outplacement firm in New York City. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term outplacement,it is a coaching and advisory service provided to individuals (by their employers) who have been severed from their jobs for any number of reasons: fired, downsized, mergers, relocation, outsourcing, and voluntary severance.
My job was to help them work through their next career step, be it to another job, transitioning into a new industry or into the non-profit arena, into entrepreneurship, or even retirement.
We began our work from the "inside out".
What that means is that we started our work together by discovering what "made them tick". Using a variety of well crafted assessments, we explored what
Do you know where your career is going? As staying with the same company for life becomes rarer, more and more people aren’t sure. If you’re one of them, then maybe it’s time to take time out, sit back, and have a think.It’s all too common to find that you’ve got into your job through a series of coincidences, each one taking you a little further away from where you were aiming to go when you started. There is simply a huge gap between the jobs that people get and the jobs they wanted. No-one aspires to work at a paper company, but someone’s got to do it. Once you’ve been there a few years, you suddenly realise that your only options are to either move sideways into a similar job somewhere else, or move upwards in the hierarchy and become a manager.So what do you do. The answer is to finally answer to yourself that most elusive of questions: what do you want to be doing five years from now? Ten? Twenty? If the answer isn’t “what I’m doing now” or “I want to be a high-level manager”, then what you need is drastic action.What you might not realise,
Preparing yourself for a new job or a first job requires introspection, self-appraisal, research, preparation, dedication and discipline. Success in the new marketplace requires you to give thought to what makes you Who You Are? What is your Behavioral Style? What do you value? What is your vision of what is possible for you? What are your internal obstacles? How comfortable are you interpersonally? How do you present visually, verbally and non-verbally? Once you get a clear picture of these specific issues, and only then, should you begin to assess your skills, abilities, experiences, education and other more standard components that are engaged in a job search.
For a number of years I was a senior Outplacement Counselor at a "boutique" outplacement firm in New York City. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term outplacement,it is a coaching and advisory service provided to individuals (by their employers) who have been severed from their jobs for any number of reasons: fired, downsized, mergers, relocation, outsourcing, and voluntary severance.
My job was to help them work through their next career step, be it to another job, transitioning into a new industry or into the non-profit arena, into entrepreneurship, or even retirement.
We began our work from the "inside out".
What that means is that we started our work together by discovering what "made them tick". Using a variety of well crafted assessments, we explored what
I well remember during my first working visit to Africa, nearly twenty years ago, that on discussing the visible corruption where I was working, a young African said to me, ‘but of course you don’t have any corruption in your country, do you?’ I gently told him, yes we do, but on the whole, there isn’t much publicity about such things.Now we are in the year 2005 with vastly expensive computer systems, layer upon layer of audit and inspection, risk management, good governance and compliance, not to mention Tony and Gordon, and waste, poor management and corruption have been minimized – haven’t they? Well if you have been on holiday on Mars for a while, you might think so, but those of us who operate at ground floor level know that this is just not the case.During the last eighteen months I have carried out several investigations relating to good governance, compliance and fraud. My work has highlighted how easy it is for public and voluntary bodies to become complacent ‘because they have the necessary safeguards and systems in place’. In principle quite
For a number of years I was a senior Outplacement Counselor at a "boutique" outplacement firm in New York City. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term outplacement,it is a coaching and advisory service provided to individuals (by their employers) who have been severed from their jobs for any number of reasons: fired, downsized, mergers, relocation, outsourcing, and voluntary severance.
My job was to help them work through their next career step, be it to another job, transitioning into a new industry or into the non-profit arena, into entrepreneurship, or even retirement.
We began our work from the "inside out".
What that means is that we started our work together by discovering what "made them tick". Using a variety of well crafted assessments, we explored what
Companies can survive the massive disruption of a pandemic—but only if they take steps now to inoculate against the threat of contagious misinformation and fatal chain-of-command breakdowns.That warning comes from one of Canada’s most experienced disaster managers, who says even where a company has developed an emergency plan, few employees know about it, fewer are familiar with it, and nobody has tested it.“The most comprehensive plan isn’t worth the paper it’s written on if no one has read it,” says Steve Armstrong, who worked on incident command protocols during his decades with the Canadian military, and subsequently managed disaster responses for the Canadian Red Cross. Now the principal of Paratus Group, a disaster management consultancy, he advises organizations on creating and exercising emergency plans.“It’s common to draft a plan and then put it on a shelf in somebody’s office. Some organizations might put it on their Intranet. But there’s no incentive to read it, so nobody does—until a crisis starts.” At that stage, he says, it’s too
My job was to help them work through their next career step, be it to another job, transitioning into a new industry or into the non-profit arena, into entrepreneurship, or even retirement.
We began our work from the "inside out".
What that means is that we started our work together by discovering what "made them tick". Using a variety of well crafted assessments, we explored what
In today’s business world, the pressure for financial performance has created a supercharged atmosphere in which the only goal seems to be to make as much cash as fast as possible. Few industries have changed under this pressure as much as the advertising industry.Industry professionals are caught in a crossfire between clients who demand ever increasing return on investment (which generally means lower price) and their own managers who seek ever escalating revenues. Today fewer people are doing more work than ever before and earning less. The resulting pressure has taken a lot of the fun out of a business that was traditionally focused on delivering big ideas and powerful solutions.The problem has been exacerbated over the last fifteen years as the ad agency business has gone public. Estimates vary, yet most agree that over ? of the U.S. advertising billings roll up to eight publicly traded agency holding companies. During the ‘90s, these financial enterprises bought almost every agency of size and character in America. An industry that once saw its rev
We began our work from the "inside out".
What that means is that we started our work together by discovering what "made them tick". Using a variety of well crafted assessments, we explored what were their preferences in terms of how they operated in the world. Were they outgoing, forceful, introverted, perfectionistic, spontaneous or deliberate as well as a host of other aspects. What was important to them in their lives? Was it community involvement, the arts, financial arenas, theoretical and knowledge acquisition or something else?
Why is this inside-out approach so important? Because a successful career path demands that you bring your full self to any endeavor and you can't achieve that if you haven't gotten a clear picture of who you are, both strengths and opportunities for development.
Today "lack of time” is the new poverty. We spend increasing amounts of time at work, even when we are away from the place of work, on weekends, vacations, traveling we are often plugged in with little opportunity for down time and rejuvenation. With that as our reality, if you don't enjoy what you are doing every day and if you feel that your job is always in threat of being lost, you'll ask yourself, "What's the point?".
The new awareness that is bubbling up is that it is more risky NOT to know what you really love and then do it than to take or stay in a job because it sounds right, pays X amount of money or because that's what you've always done.
All jobs are one step away from ending.
And, if that is the new reality, doesn't it make sense to pursue what you really care about, to invest your energy because you love what you are doing and choose work that makes you feel alive?
Now, if you think this line of thinking makes sense, you may
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