It finally happened. Your carefully crafted elevator pitch, career documents, and interviewing techniques paid off and you’ve accepted a leadership position at a new company. Don’t drop your guard just yet. You may be ready for the next stage in your career, but when you’re an integral part of the executive team, all eyes will …
Departing with Grace: How Executives Should Manage Their Exit Strategies Read More »
Career transitions present their own challenges, whether you’re leaving because of another job, dissatisfaction at work, or performance issues. The mark of a great leader isn’t finding 100% success, but in knowing how to behave when closing a chapter in your career. If you’re leaving your current career, build your personal brand by making a …
In our achievement-driven career culture, the concept of “failure” is viewed negatively, the ultimate obscenity in the business world. While executives who take risks are commonly hailed as innovators and forward-thinkers, when these endeavors fail grandly, these same risk-takers may find themselves without a job. Sometimes companies who purport to learn from their mistakes instead …
Being fired can come as a jolting shock, and nobody ever expects that it will happen to them. Unfortunately sometimes circumstances align that create wholly unexpected situations and results that have nothing to do with performance. Such scenarios that we’ve seen include an executive who was fired by his employer of 10+ years after a …
As a result of the economic downturn that began in full swing in 2007-2008, many previously secure executives unexpectedly found themselves caught in wide-scale reductions-in-force, plunged without warning into a fiercely competitive job market. While the economy has righted itself to some degree since then, many companies continue to operate in “lean” mode, and so …
Is Your Resume (and Job Search Strategy) Obsolete? Read More »
