Career Tools

This cast recommends keeping an ongoing Delta File of changes you will make in the future.

This cast recommends that Generation Y professionals keep their parents out of their careers.

This cast describes how to effectively answer the "What's your current situation?" question from a recruiter.

This cast describes how to effectively answer the "What's your current situation?" question from a recruiter.

Part 2 of our conversation on the basics of Airline Travel.

This cast makes some basic recommendations regarding airline travel for professionals.

This cast concludes our conversation on the Midyear Goals Review.

This cast recommends reviewing our annual performance goals at midyear.

This cast describes how to manage your seating on airlines, because it matters.

This cast describes how to be effective when you are one of several speakers to a larger audience.

This cast recommends changes to resumes based on the 2009 hiring market and beyond.

This cast explains a simple way to stay in touch with your professional network.

This cast explains a simple application of DiSC Behavior on greeting others.

This cast explains how to respond to the announcement of impending layoffs at your firm. This is a long overdue cast, based on comments we get by email and on the forums. Far too many of us respond POORLY to an announcement or rumor of impending layoffs where we work. In fact, it's worse than that . . . MOST of us respond TERRIBLY, and HURT OUR CAREERS in doing so. But there's a better way, and th...

This cast explains how to respond to requests for 360 degree input.

This cast explains how to respond to requests for 360 degree input.

This cast explains how to respond to requests for 360 degree input. 360 reviews are a powerful - and growing - part of the Human Resources toolbox. They help leadership teams find out what managers and other professionals "really" are like based on input from the people most likely to "know" them: their boss, their peers, and their directs (if they have any), and in some cases other related person...

This cast concludes our conversation on Press Relations.

The Internet and the explosion of communication media and media forms and software have changed the way most of us in our careers will interact with the press. All of us need some simple guidelines for our relationships with the press, if for no other reason than risk mitigation. We have a lot of straightforward ideas to share, some of which will surprise many of our listeners. Think about that: s...

The conclusion of our conversation on Audio Visual Equipment Use.

In this cast, we're going to describe how to use the two most common audio-visual tools: slides and flip charts.

This cast explains how to handle exit interviews.

Part 3, and the conclusion, of our series on Attention Management - Distractions.

Part 2 of our series on Attention Management - Distractions.

Most of us do a poor job of managing our time - whoops, that's managing our priorities. None of us actually manage time, right? Time can't be managed. But what we DO with our time we CAN manage. One way we manage our priorities is we choose to schedule those things that we believe are in line with our priorities. An example of that is putting meetings on our calendars that help us accomplish our p...