I honestly cannot remember the last time I heard someone say “think outside the box” in a professional setting. That tired old phrase long ago left the lexicon of most people in my orbit as a recruiter working with finance & accounting execs. Yet, Fast Company still includes “outside the box” in its swift takedown of business jargon, along with “disrupt,” “empower,” “circle [...]
Call it emotional intelligence, EQ, or soft skills, it’s important — and it’s vague. Ask many hiring managers, and they won’t be able to define what any of these things really mean, although they typically know it when they see it. And know they would like it. In general, soft skills are things like listening, empathy, communication and conflict resolution. No matter how [...]
In the wake of a Friday the 13th, there seems to be another number popping up - in business news. If you pay attention to HR news, you’ve probably seen a certain statistic many times recently: 13%. That’s the number of employees, more or less, laid off by Meta, Redfin, Stripe, Lyft, GoFundMe, Peloton, and more companies in late 2022. (Although the last [...]
Here’s a new buzzword for 2023: Sentinel Intelligence. Jessica Wildfire of substack Ok Doomer says people with sentinel intelligence “can aggregate and sift through extraordinary amounts of information in a very short period of time, especially when it comes to seeing latent or hidden dangers.” If you have sentinel intelligence, you’re highly intuitive and attuned to the unconscious mind. You might sometimes seem [...]
Ask a boss if they feel connected to their employees, and chances are, they’ll say, “Why, yes!” But ask the employee the same question, and the odds go down. Learning platform NovoEd recently polled 500 people and found that the majority of senior managers feel good about their relationships with those who report to them, but the employees themselves are not as confident. [...]
Are you happy with your current job? If your answer is “Tim, I really don’t have a straight answer to that,” January is a great time to get introspective. Here are some of the most obvious criteria to look at and think about: 🔹 Compensation, of course 🔹 The role you fill and where it could take you in your career 🔹 The impact you feel [...]
Zoom was a breakout star in 2020 when the whole world went remote. But now that a lot of people are back in the office, what’s the plan for Zoom and other remote-work tech tools? Not to rest on its laurels, Zoom, for one, is going full-tilt-metaverse. The goal? To create a virtual office where both onsite and remote workers can meet all [...]
Ah, the perils of blitzscaling. The pandemic was a time of intense upheaval for every company, but it looked different for different organizations. For some, the pandemic was an incredibly lean time. For others, it was a time of intense scaling up. Tech companies, in particular, reaped the benefits of a lot of people stuck at home for a long time — and that [...]
Leonardo da Vinci is thought to be the inventor of, among many things, the idea of a resume. The brilliant Italian 16th-century painter and polymath appealed to the Duke of Milan when hoping to land a commission. The subject? Instruments of war. Point #3 in his “resume”: “If, because of the height of the banks, or the strength of the place and its [...]
When you think of boomerang employees, you probably think about re-hiring previous employees back into their same jobs. But there’s another path boomerang employees often take: coming back to their old company in a new role. The ideal career arc, for a lot of people, might be to join a great company and climb the ladder from an entry-level position to a senior [...]