| Career Tools Cast #2: The First Rule of Higher Education - Get Good Grades |
12/19/2008 |  Download File (21.39 MB) |
This cast makes the case for the most important thing you do at the beginning of your professional life: get good grades in College/University.
This is the first in a series of what surely will be many Career Tools casts about college and university as preparation for one’s professional adult life. As with so many other [...]
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| Smart Interviewing In A Downturn |
| 12/15/2008 | Download File (28.40 MB) |
This cast describes how to interview effectively during a downturn, particularly for difficult to fill positions.
When you get to fill a position during a down market, it usually means it’s a critical position, and/or one that’s been open a long time. Because you’re in a buyer’s market, it’s usually pretty easy to find a [...]
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| Career Tools Cast #1: How to Handle Location in an Interview |
| 12/11/2008 | Download File (32.19 MB) |
This cast describes a simple way to handle the interviewing question, ”What’s your location
preference?”
Many people lose great job opportunities because they don’t know how to talk about WHERE they
want to work without scaring the recruiter. There’s a right way to do it. It’s okay to prefer a certain location … but you’ve also got to reassure the recruiter that your choice isn’t ONLY about location.
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| How to Provide a Reference |
| 12/8/2008 | Download File (19.67 MB) |
This cast describes effective ways to provide references when asked.
Your directs and former directs are going to ask you to provide them references. Yet you’ve probably that providing references is generally frowned upon. More and more, HR says you can’t. But you can.
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| Simple Stakeholder Decision Analysis Tool |
| 11/30/2008 | Download File (22.08 MB) |
This cast explains a simple technique to consider the impact of decisions on multiple stakeholders.
Decision-making (which is more than choosing!) is a core part of our jobs as managers. But yet again, there’s not a lot of training or development spent on it. Everyone hates learning it on their own…but then they visit [...]
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| Facilitating Ground Rules to Start a Meeting |
| 11/23/2008 | Download File (28.49 MB) |
This cast shows how to facilitate the capture of Ground Rules when starting a meeting.
Finally we return to discussing presentations! Both Mark and Mike have recently been in the audience
for professional presentations, and it was an eye opening experience for both of us. We think every
manager – and by definition if you’re a manager you have to assume you’re going to be a presenter –
ought to have presentation training.
And we think we’re the ones to do it. ;-)
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| Facilitating Ground Rules To Start A Meeting |
| 11/23/2008 | Download File (28.49 MB) |
This cast shows how to facilitate the capture of Ground Rules when starting a meeting.
Finally we return to discussing presentations! Both Mark and Mike have recently been in the audience
for professional presentations, and it was an eye opening experience for both of us. We think every
manager – and by definition if you’re a manager you have to assume you’re going to be a presenter –
ought to have presentation training.
And we think we’re the ones to do it. ;-)
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| Making Decisions Effective, Part 2 - One Action! |
| 11/17/2008 | Download File (20.74 MB) |
This cast describes how to make a decision effective by NOT working on other actions or plans after you’ve decided.
Too many of us feel good about a “decision” we’ve made (when actually it was a choice, and not a decision), and then we mess up the “decision” by failing to act aggressively on it. [...]
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