Horrible Bosses: How to Turn Things Around With a Bad Manager

Horrible Bosses: How to Turn Things Around With a Bad Manager

We spend far too much time at work to hate what we do and who we do it with.  Your manager can be a big part of your overall work experience.  Great managers help you grow, make you look forward to coming to work and can be lifelong mentors and champions.  Bad managers do none of that and can suck the very life out of you.  

Struggling with a bad manager?  Follow these simple steps to learn how to turn your relationship around and get back on solid footing. 

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Three Ways to Grow Your Career with LinkedIn

Three Ways to Grow Your Career with LinkedIn

With the recent buyout, LinkedIn is on everyone's lips.  We all know that LinkedIn is a great tool for networking and meeting new professional contacts.  You are probably using it to find and apply for new jobs already.  Quietly, word on the street is that LinkedIn has even become a dating tool to identify eligible professional singles (but I'm not one to gossip so you ain't heard that from me).

Even if you're happy in your current job and company, LinkedIn can still be a powerful tool to guide and inform your career growth.

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The Two Most Important Questions to Ask in ANY JOB

The Two Most Important Questions to Ask in ANY JOB

A good friend of mine was recently preparing for a big time speech in front of a big time audience.  To prep, she asked a group of us for our best career advice.  Since I've been in CH-mode, jotting down all the nuggets that I've learned along the way and wished someone had just told me when I started working, I had a bunch of things swirling in my mind.  After a little thought, I narrowed it down to the two most important questions anyone can ask in any job, no matter what their role, industry, or organization.

(No they are not how much do I get paid? and when will the direct deposit hit my account?)

Wanna hear em, here they go.

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