Our guidance what you need to know about your colleagues’ families.

We frequently tell you that your family comes first, to leave work on time, and to take time for important family events. Your family are the most important people in the world to you. Who are the most important people to your colleagues? THEIR families.

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Our guidance on how to help someone you know who has or is being laid off.

What do you do to help someone who is about to be or who has already been laid off? What things do you need to do in order to help them get a new role? In this cast, we’ll give you actions to take.

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The conclusion of our guidance on how to attend happy hour.

Your boss and your co-workers are going to happy hour. Should you go? Should you drink? Should you just go home and read a story to your kids/go to the gym/do what you want to do? Do you really have to hang out with the people you work with all day? In this guidance we give you all the answers.

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Our guidance on how to attend happy hour.

Your boss and your co-workers are going to happy hour. Should you go? Should you drink? Should you just go home and read a story to your kids/go to the gym/do what you want to do? Do you really have to hang out with the people you work with all day? In this guidance we give you all the answers.

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This guidance tells you how to prepare for meetings where politics are going to play a role (which is to say, ALL of them). ;-)

Most folks don’t do any preparation for the meetings they go to, unless they’re presenting something. This is a mistake, particularly when we’re meeting with folks who are more senior, or who are outside of our team. In either case, you’ll be far more effective if you know who wants what and who likes whom.

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Our guidance on the information you need to gather on your bosses.

Some time ago we released our 90 day new job plan. In it we promised to give more detail about the tasks that you need to do in order to be effective in your first 3 months. In this podcast we going to cover the information you need to gather in order to begin working well with your new boss.

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Our guidance on the information you need to develop relationships.

Some time ago we released our 90 day new job plan. In it we promised to give more detail about the tasks that you need to do in order to be effective in your first 3 months. In this podcast we going to cover the information you need to gather in order to make sure that you have a basis for a relationship with the people you meet.

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How to give a status update when you know it’s bad news.

Things go wrong. It’s a fact of business life that sometimes actions get dropped, deadlines get missed, people lose their temper and projects just don’t work out.

Someone has to tell the boss. If that’s you, how do you do it, without breaking the Career Tools cardinal rule of not tearing down the team?

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How to make find new relationships to help in your job search, using Google.

This cast came together as a result of two conversations. First, a forum post in which a member had taken a role below his skill level. The result was in 18 months of job searching and 50+ applications, nothing but rejection. When they read that, Wendii and Mark banged their heads on the desk and said: stop making applications and start talking to people.

That’s easier said than done, however, judging by an email we were sent. This person asked: I am embarrassed to admit I am blind to what good companies are in my area. I didn't realize it until you answered the first question about how to
identify a good employer. That is all the more reason to get started and
engage my network! Do you have any recommendations or contacts in this area
that may be able to help?

The answer was no, we didn’t. But we could google some good opportunities to meet people. How? In this cast we’re going to give you the first step. There’ll be more to follow.

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Our guidance how ensure your relationships work for you; keeping them warm.

The Career Tools measure of how well you’re keeping up with your relationships is simple. If you were to move, and your contact were to move, would you still be able to reach them?

If the answer is no – you don’t have a frequent enough interaction to get warning that they’d be moving, or you don’t have the kind of contact information which would follow their move, or the kind of network that would find them after they’ve moved, your relationships are not working for you.

What to do?

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