Gears For Careers
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Who’s your advocate?
We are familiar with mentors and how they can help us. Advocates do more; they proactively promote you and increase…
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How to handle credit snatching
There are few things that deflate morale more than claiming credit that is due to others. Most people expect to…
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Hone your questioning skills
 Questions are a great tool for learning. When properly crafted and used, questions generate rich ideas, bring clarity and…
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Create a Personal Board
 We all know how important a board of directors or trustees is to an organisation. They provide strategic direction…
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How to respond when challenged
Last week, I talked about how to disagree with your boss effectively (without committing career suicide). Learning to respond well…
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How to disagree with the boss
 What do you do when you don’t quite agree with someone, especially if that someone is your superior? Keep…
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Ditch the ‘drama’
Every organisation has its share of ‘drama’; office politics, managers with big egos, constantly complaining staff; fact is we each…
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What’s your CV saying about you?
CVs; we know are important career advancement tool. A well thought out and written CV can open doors. Unfortunately, many…
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Are you getting into a rut?
‘Comfortable’ and ‘stable’ can be good but when you enjoy it too much, you start to stagnate and eventually ‘you…
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Feedback can be a gift
For many people, feedback is synonymous with criticism. But feedback can be beneficial if received and mined for whatever good…
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Is rationalising getting in the way?
One of the things that stops people from achieving their goals is ‘rationalising’, finding reasons and convincing themselves that there…
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Craft ‘Game plan 2011’
Last week, we evaluated our 2010 performance. Let’s now turn our attention to developing a Game plan for 2011’. I…
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Time for your personal annual report
 As 2010 comes to an end, we start to think about 2011 and what our resolutions and goals will…
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Build your personal brand
What three words would you use to describe yourself? What makes you stand out among your peers? What would your…
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Assess your career journey
Stock taking – organisations do them and so should you. Taking stock helps you to re-strategise for the future and…
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What’s your relevance score?
 Relevance is a notch above just having skills and competencies. It’s combining them with the right attitude, mindset and…
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Don’t trip yourself up
What do you think is the biggest thing that could stand between you and achievement? Yourself! You do this when…
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Delegate to develop not dump
Delegation! It’s a core skill for everyone, particularly managers. It allows you to use others strengths and to grow other…
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Are you too tuned into WIIFM Radio?
Focus is seen as the mark of people going places. But increasingly employees are being valued more for their ability…
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Groom your power of self
To live your best self, you need a good understanding of who you are, what makes you tick, how you…
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