A critical part of leadership is providing feedback that helps the members of your team improve their performance, enthusiasm, and success. While there is much to say about this topic, the single most important thought is to keep your remarks as positive as you can make them.
Here are some specific ideas to help you lead better through more effective communications:
1. Increase Your Frequency Of Communicating
Many leaders “save up” information and then communicate many items to their team members all at once. This may save you time, but it’s two mistakes in one: First, these delays create too large a “communications gap” between you and your team members — a gap that’s nearly impossible to smooth over when you communication so infrequently. Second, it creates extra pressure for you to communicate — and for your team members to absorb — each item of information. When you have a long list of items to cover, you tend to be unwilling to take enough time with any of them. Read this »
Customizing your resume and cover letter for each job opportunity can be tedious, particularly if you are applying for dozens of positions a day. You can make things easier for yourself by creating templates.
Making a Resume Template:
1. Start out by getting all your experience down on paper. Don’t worry about page count or specialization, simply include everything you would ever want to list for a position.
2. The next step is to edit the resume, so it is easy to customize. If you are going with a functional resume, this is easy. To customize it for a specific position, you can simply remove the skills you don’t need to highlight until you get it down to one page.
For a chronological resume, you can’t simply delete irrelevant experience without creating gaps in your timeline. Instead, format your job descriptions into bullet points instead of paragraphs, and put those points in order of importance. Then if a job doesn’t fit your needs, you can de-emphasize it by trimming their descriptions to just one or two bullet points.
If you are listing your skills, group them. For example: Read this »
Forbes and Indeed have put together a list of midsize companies (between 150 and 2500 employees) that currently have the most job postings with earning more than $40,000 a year. The majority of the companies are in either Health Care or Information Technologies.
Here is a list of the companies:
1. Comdata - 120 open positions: accounting analyst (Brentwood, TN), director of permit operations (Brentwood, TN), etc.
2. Super Micro Computer - 103 listings: director of sales (San Jose, CA), hardware design engineer (San Jose, CA), etc.
3. MicroStrategy- 100 new jobs: sales engineer (Kansas City, MO), project manager (McLean, VA), etc.
We often hear employers use big words such as “detail oriented” or “problem solving-skills”. Everyone seems to be throwing them around without fully considering their true meaning. Here is the interpretation of common corporate terminology that will make you smile:
COMPETITIVE SALARY: We remain competitive by paying less than our competitors.
JOIN OUR FAST-PACED COMPANY: We have no time to train you.
CASUAL WORK ATMOSPHERE: We don’t pay you enough to expect that you’ll dress nicely.
MUST BE DEADLINE ORIENTED: You’ll be six months behind schedule on your first day. Read this »
A critical part of leadership is providing feedback that helps the members of your team improve their performance, enthusiasm, and success. While there is much to say about this topic, the single most important thought is to keep your remarks as positive as you can make them.
We often hear employers use big words such as “detail oriented” or “problem solving-skills”. Everyone seems to be throwing them around without fully considering their true meaning. Here is the interpretation of common corporate terminology that will make you smile:
