After last year’s salmonella outbreak, in which thousands became ill after eating contaminated eggs, a billion of them were pulled from stores. Much of the blame was attributed to poor federal oversight and lack of coordination across federal agencies.
Career Management
Successful career development is more than doing a good job. Dressing for success, business writing skills, career networking – all are vitally important.
Business Management Daily’s succinct, workplace-tested career advice is designed to help you position yourself to succeed in your chosen field.
A while back, Google set out to improve the skills of its managers. A bunch of statisticians compared correlations in the words and phrases that came up again and again in performance reviews, feedback surveys and recognition nominations. The end result: a simple yet elegant list of eight things the best Google managers do:
It doesn’t hurt that accounting firm Grant Thornton offers flexible work schedules, commuter spending accounts, dependent care and an employee assistance program. But execs there attribute the organization’s culture of long-term retention to what they consider a family-like environment at their branch offices.
Which are you more likely to write: “Do not waste energy” or “Conserve energy”? Using positive, self-assured, optimistic language is a better way to promote your ideas. In the above example, “Conserve energy” is more persuasive because it makes readers feel good rather than admonished. Here are 5 examples of negative sentences turned positive:
The slash or “/” is usually deployed when you need a quick and dirty way of saying “and” or “or.” Examples: “writer/director” and “and/or.” But, one reader asks, how do you make such phrases possessive?
Women turn to blogs nearly twice as often as social networking sites to find information and share opinions, according to PINK magazine. Here’s PINK’s list of the top business blogs for women, based on site traffic and know-how:
As the economy strengthens, many productive employees who feel overworked and undercompensated will seek jobs elsewhere. Don’t give your stars an excuse to jump ship. Keep them satisfied by implementing new benefits and reinstating those that you cut during the recession.
Network by sharing online content, using the appropriate “share” buttons ... Try this radical solution to unproductive meetings ... Unhappy with what shows up when you google your name? Build your profile on business social-networking sites ... Be explicit when asking for a favor ...
Don’t read too much into the NLRB's recent "Facebook rant" ruling. Despite much employer hand-wringing, the decision didn't give employees a free pass on social media posts. They still don’t have license to defame, disparage or otherwise trash their company, management, product or co-workers. Here's why.
Well, after many years
in the job, Michael Scott has left the office at Dunder Mifflin to
pursue other dreams. It remains to be seen how things are going to go
for the team with the new boss.
You may or may
not be surprised how often I hear in my coaching work about senior level
bosses who are basically clueless. The cluelessness can show up in
different ways – time sucking, pointless requests that come out of left
field; no clear direction; much more emphasis on bluster and style than
on the substance of getting things done. The list could go on and on.
(Feel free to add your own observations on what makes for a clueless
boss in the comments.)
As I wrote hear a few
months ago, leaders can change the weather. If you’ve
got a boss who is foggy and cloudy in their approach, it’s pretty easy
for everyone on their team to show up foggy and cloudy. Obviously,
that’s a pretty dangerous career situation for everyone in that boss’s
organization. How do you help yourself and your team survive when you
find yourself in a clueless boss induced fog bank?
Here are five things some of my savvy leadership coaching clients
have done to survive a clueless boss:
