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- Newhouse
News Service: Subtle Self-Promotion Is Key to Job Advancement
Katherine Reynolds Lewis
As the market for jobs grows ever tighter, career coaches are
advising employees to highlight their accomplishments and kiss
up to the boss
to get ahead. It's not enough to just perform well and expect
to be rewarded with a promotion -- you have to make your superiors
aware
of your achievements. "If you can learn to brag about yourself,
in an interesting and entertaining way, you will be a dynamic communicator
in every situation," promised Klaus.
- The
Wall Street Journal: How to Make the Most of a Revolving Door
at Supervisor's Seat
Joann S. Lublin
As businesses shrink, restructure or merge, workers often find
themselves with a new boss within the same workplace. Such
turbulence threatens
to stall career advancement, yet few can afford to walk away.
- Investor's Business Daily: Performance
Review Prep
Amy Alexander
Performance reviews are rarely fun to give, and can be downright
miserable to receive. Solid preparation and the right mindset
can turn the next
review into a chance to turn up the volume on one's career.
- The Los Angeles Times: Rethinking
Employee Evaluations
Susan Vaughn
Performance reviews can be agony for managers and subordinates
alike. Managers dread them, fearing challenges, damaged work
relationships, and lost hours filling out forms. Subordinates
worry that less-than-stellar
ratings will mean a puny raise or placement on an upcoming
layoff list.
- The New York Times: Escape Route
from Sexist Attitudes on Wall Street
Melinda Ligos
Since 1999, Anne Tatlock has been chairman and chief executive
of Fiduciary Trust International, a 700-employee global asset-management
firm with
more than $50 billion in assets. It is unusual enough for
a woman to run a large corporation, much less a Wall Street
firm.
- Business
Week, Industry Insider: What Companies Can Do in Traumatic
Times
In advising blue chips on everything from presentation skills
to crisis management, Klaus emphasizes that the best leaders
tap into
their own
emotions to connect with their staff. She spoke
with Industries Editor Adam Aston about what managers can
expect
in the wake of
the September attack.
- Training: Hard Training for Soft
Skills
Rebecca Ganzel
Trainers who regularly confront employees wanting 'just the
facts' have developed effective ways of hammering soft
skills into hard
heads.
- The New York Times: Getting Over
the Fear-of-Speaking Hump
Melinda Ligos
Workplace specialists say the fear of public speaking is
one of the most common career-stoppers in America.
Forty percent
of Americans
are terrified at the thought of talking to an audience,
according to a recent survey by the Gallup Organization.
- Sales
and Management: Presentation Panic
Although most salespeople are generally high-performing
by nature, in front of an audience of executives
they suddenly can't remember
the product's name.
- Hartford Courant: Face Annual
Reviews? Make them Less Painful
Mildred Culp
If your company knew any better, it would stop giving
performance appraisals. Because it doesn't, employees
need to learn
how to endure them.
- Dallas Morning News: Smart Business
- Planning Effective Meetings
J.C. Conklin
In an era of pushing through paperwork, employees are
often stuck in redundant gatherings that drag
on past the point
of usefulness
due
to bad facilitation. Some innovative firms, however,
are renovating their meeting structures to make
them more productive
and useful.
- California CEO: The Post 9/11 CEO
John Hindman and Alastair Goldman
As dust from the World Trade Center and Pentagon settles,
California companies are not only coping but
forging ahead.
- Fresno Bee: Tips For Managing and
Leading in Difficult Times
How do you manage and hold your team together when
you yourself may feel overwhelmed with grief,
fear, and uncertainty
following
the
national tragedy that continues to unfold?
- Fresno
Bee: Career Change Takes Corporate Coach from Hollywood to
Wall Street
Bonnie Hill Hearn
It took the death of a friend to make Peggy Klaus
realize the skills that served her well in
Hollywood could
have a significant
impact
in the corporate sector.
- Enlightened Power
Jossey-Bass
How are women transforming the practice of leadership in the 21st century? Enlightened Power is a first-of-a-kind book that answers this question and forever changes the traditional notions on the topic. Featuring the accumulated wisdom of 40 influential contributors from a variety of disciplines, the book provides a unique perspective on how women are transforming leadership in business, the media, education, politics, and culture—across the nation and around the world. Peggy Klaus authored a chapter entitled Good Girls Don’t Brag, Do They?
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