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Career Advice: Use Skepticism as a Positive Force By : Ramon Greenwood Skepticism has gotten a bum rap in the lore of career coaching. The fact is that skepticism is a positive force that successful managers apply regularly in reaching their career goals. Career Advice: Conflicts With Your Boss Are Inevitable By : Ramon Greenwood If you are a get-things-done type, sooner or later on your career path you will come in conflict with your boss. The same sort of assertiveness and confidence that leads you to have a mind of your own has enabled him to earn his position. Career Advice: Learn To Trust Your Gut In Making Decisions By : Ramon Greenwood Learn to trust your gut reactions when it comes to making decisions? You may call it intuition, gut reaction, hunch, imagination or sixth sense. Career Advice: Admit You Need, Build Your Strengths By : Ramon Greenwood Never be afraid to admit you need help and then ask for it. Many careerists, otherwise smart and capable, hamstring themselves by believing they lose face if they say, "Hey, I don't understand this problem, much less what to do about it. Please help me." Asking for help is not a sign of weakness; it is a sign of strength and maturity. When you ask for help, you are paying a compliment to the one you ask. You are saying, "You know something I don't know. I trust you." Career Advice: Friendship With The Boss Won't Insure Success By : Ramon Greenwood Never depend on a friendship with your boss to insure career success. Think of the relationship as a business deal, a step forward on your career path. You have something to sell--your skills and knowledge. The boss is a buyer. Career Advice: Admit You Need Help, Build Your Strengths By : Ramon Greenwood Never be afraid to admit you need help and then ask for it. Many careerists, otherwise smart and capable, hamstring themselves by believing they lose face if they admit they need assistance. Career Success is in the Details By : Ramon Greenwood Successful bosses concentrate on the "big picture." That's what counts on a successful career path. Leave the nitty-gritty details to the troops. Micromanagers never make it to the top. Those are among the biggest myths in management lore. Bosses and High Achievers Are Like Peas in a Pod By : Ramon Greenwood Maintaining a positive relationship with a boss is difficult for most people, particularly high achievers. After all, accepting authority is basically at odds with the attributes of career success, such as ambition, confidence... Career Advice: Can You Work at Home Successfully? By : Ramon Greenwood The idea of working from home, empowered by telecommuting technology, is enticing. But can you achieve your career goals in this mode? This article explores the pros and cons of tele-commuting. Career Advice: Are You Trapped in a Mid-Life Crisis? By : Ramon Greenwood The mid-life crisis syndrome is real. It is a tough challenge. This trauma can occur at any age, but it most frequently strikes about the time of the dreaded 40th birthday. Career Advice: Your Job May Be In Danger! By : Ramon Greenwood Career Advice: Wise careerists recognize and deal with the fact that job security is a thing of the past. They keep their antenna on alert for signs that their jobs may be in danger. They have stand-by plans to act if they get the pink slip. Career Advice: Are You Too Busy To Take An Aspirin? By : Ramon Greenwood Bosses who truly want to achieve career success delegate as much responsibility and authority to their subordinates as they can handle. Four Tactics to Accelerate Your Career By : Ramon Greenwood It's surprising how often ambitious men and women fail to employ four basic tactics in their pursuit of career success. They are easy to apply; they are common sense in action. There are just two requirements. One, you are sincere in your feelings. Career Advice: Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way By : Ramon Greenwood Your life will be more effective and happier when you come to realize that it's perfectly okay to choose the option--lead, follower, or get out of the way--that best suits your needs and desires. Career Advice: Out-Of-Control Egos Pave The Way To Disasters By : Ramon Greenwood Career success requires self confidence... a healthy ego, one under control. How else can one have the courage to makes decisions and direct the activities of others? Career Advice: It's a Jungle Out There; Beware of the Wild Beasts By : Ramon Greenwood The world of work is populated with humans who bear striking resemblances to wild beasts in the jungle such as monkeys, gazelles, alligators, owls and peacocks. Career Advice: How're You Doing On Your Job? By : Ramon Greenwood An honest assessment of your job performance will accelerate your career path. This article contains a questionnaire that will enable you to carry out such an assessment. Career Advice: Understand Your Boss To Advance Your Career By : Ramon Greenwood A clear understanding of your boss is essential to career success. This means identifying his strong and weak points, as well as biases and blind spots. Wise careerists do not leave such an understanding to chance. Career Advice: 12 Steps To An Effective Speech By : Ramon Greenwood Sooner or later you will have to make a speech, that is if you are going to move forward in your career. Trauma time! Research shows that fear of speaking before a group is one of the top horrors most of us can imagine. Career Advice: Proven Job Tips For Career Success By : Ramon Greenwood Achieving career success is not an exact process. Nevertheless, there are common sense rules that winners follow to achieve their career goals. Career Advice: Decisions Are The Essence Of Career Success By : Ramon Greenwood Every one of us makes many decisions each day. Few of them stand alone as "make or break" choices, but in total they determine our career path and quality of our lives. Career Advice: The Job Interview is Your Time at Bat By : Ramon Greenwood After months of searching for a new position you have finally been invited to come in for a face-to-face interview. What are you going to do to maximize your chances of getting an offer that will advance you toward your career goals? Career Advice: Are You A Frog In Hot Water? By : Ramon Greenwood How do you feel about your job? If you are among the huge number of those who are "unsatisfied" with the path of your career, it's time to get cracking with an action plan to improve your life on the job. Career Advice: Real Leaders Know How To Get Votes By : Ramon Greenwood If you truly want to be a leader and gain career success you must sell yourself and your ideas to three constituencies: your friends and loyalists; your adversaries; and the undecided. Career Advice: The Boss Is Not Always Right, But He's Always The Boss By : Ramon Greenwood The boss is always the boss, but that doesn't mean he is always right. You are well served on your career path when you accept this fundamental truth and learn to deal constructively with it. Career Advice: How To Identify Top Achievers And Be One By : Ramon Greenwood The surest way to become a high achiever on the career path is to adopt the traits of those who have earned that status. Winners are identified by 13 indicators. Career Advice: The Reason Careers Fail By : Ramon Greenwood Failures or shortfalls in careers do not usually result from the lack of education and training. The number one reason for such disappointments is most often not knowing "how to work". Career Advice: Turf Hogs Are Dangerous Beast By : Ramon Greenwood Career Advice: Turf Hogs are dangerous beasts with voracious appetites for power. These marauders are easy to identify, but difficult to deal with. Left to their own devices, they will run amok. They can disrupt your career path. Career Advice: Career Success Is Not For The Faint Of Heart By : Ramon Greenwood The path to career success is not an easy road to travel. The way is littered with doubts and fears and hard knocks. It is often lonely; it demands courage and true grit day in and day out. A wiseman has said: " It is a hard rule of life... Career Advice: How to Get and Accept a Raise By : Ramon Greenwood Career Advice: No one likes to ask for a pay raise. It can be a traumatic experience It is much better for rewards to come unsolicited from someone else. Top Ten Resume Tips By : Deborah A. Bailey Depending on how your resume looks, hiring managers will either be turned off or want to meet you. A resume is usually their first contact with you. Make sure that your resume is a strong first impression.

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