Workplace culture has been described as the personality of your workplace. It's the feeling you get when you're working there: the attitudes, the accepted behaviors and norms, the values. Workplace cultures can be vastly different. One might support brainstorming, asking questions, and innovation, while another might bring shame upon the person who doesn't know an answer. But culture, maybe more than any other factor, can be the make or break of whether you like your job. I've heard of … [Read more...]

Do you try to do some career decision making, and find you'd rather be plucking your eyelashes out one by one? It's excruciatingly painful. But career decision making doesn't have to be so hard. The problem is that when we sit down to make career decisions, especially the decision about what to do next in our career when we don't like what we're doing right now, we over complicate things. I'll show you what I mean.   The Way Most People Do Career Decision Making The way … [Read more...]

You're pretty sure it's time for a career move. The signs are all there. You're bored. You're frustrated. You're not being used to your potential. You dread every day before going to work, and it's starting to impact your health. You're pretty sure it's not just your job. It's your entire career. You want to do something different. Maybe in a small way, maybe in a big way. Something where you can get the creative juices flowing again, make a difference, do something in the world, and see … [Read more...]

Want to know how to make your business network work like magic? Well, you've heard that the key to finding a great job is to "work your network," right? But what does that really mean? Does that mean you go to 18 thousand networking events so you can kiss just as many frogs in the hope of finding Prince or Princess charming? Or does it mean you ask your great uncle about his tennis partner's golf buddy, and what he does for work? It all feels very overwhelming and confusing, but … [Read more...]