Job Success: Is Your Boss Creating Barriers to Your Progress?

Posted on January 7, 2019

Job success can sometimes be elusive and uncertain. Ideally, smart bosses should want their employees to succeed–it can make them look like good leaders. However, not all bosses are smart in that regard! Is your boss putting up barriers that impede your career growth and on-the-job success? On the other hand, does it sometimes just […]

Career Growth: Does Your Boss Value & Support You?

Posted on September 12, 2018

Are you considering a job search? If so, a boss who dismisses your contributions or takes credit for your work might have prompted your decision. Career growth under those conditions challenges many people and turns them into job seekers. “Me-First” Boss Can Block Your Career Growth Insecure bosses often suspect good employees will try to […]

How Conferences Can Increase Your Value

Posted on September 25, 2017

As I’m preparing to attend the annual conference of one of my professional associations (October 3-6), I’ve been thinking about how a well-planned and well-presented conference can increase one’s value to employers. If you haven’t considered that aspect of your career management recently, I encourage you to give it some thought now. Why Attend Professional […]

Is Your Career Progress Stalled or in a Downward Spiral?

Posted on August 2, 2017

Realistically, you can’t expect career growth on a daily basis. That’s not a real-world scenario. On the other hand, if your career progress has stalled for an extended period or, worse, entered a downward spiral, you do have cause for concern. A key question is: What can and should you do about the situation? What […]

A Rewarding Career – Can It Be Yours?

Posted on June 11, 2016

Rewards are what make you feel that a major effort was worthwhile. A rewarding career happens when you make a determined effort to achieve the result you want and see it come to pass, in spite of whatever challenges you might have encountered along the way. The question is, Can you have what you would […]

Career Satisfaction & Lateral Moves

Posted on May 14, 2016

Many people change jobs to gain career advancement because they feel stuck where they are and see no likelihood of change in their current organization. Conventional wisdom suggests that moving “up the ladder” is the way to advance professionally, which might mean finding a new job in another company. However, a relatively new trend in […]

Love It or Leave It–Your Job (Dis)Satisfaction Level

Posted on April 12, 2016

You might be one of those fortunate individuals who loves the job he/she is in or is at least pretty well satisfied with it. On the other hand, you could be one of the many who’d love to get a new job somewhere else if you could figure out a way to achieve that. This […]

What Makes You a Satisfied Employee?

Posted on September 17, 2013

Job satisfaction can be hard to measure, and it can fluctuate depending on what’s going on in your work and/or personal life at the time. However, if you’re feeling unsatisfied at work over an extended period, that’s not a good sign! Companies theoretically worry about this kind of thing. Unsatisfied employees tend to be less […]