It’s subtle and sneaky. It creeps up on you slowly so that you don’t even notice it’s happening. Somehow over the years, you’ve gone from having a plan for your career, to just turning up to work and ticking the boxes.
It’s undeniable there can be seasons in life where other things need to take priority, and career goals need to tread water for a bit. However when there’s choice, why not make one?
By Dr Alicia Karwat, KeySteps Pty. Ltd.
Workplace psychopaths, some estimate that there are about 3% of them in the workplace, and some say that their number is on a raise, but if it is the first time you are working with one and if you are a target of their attention you may start to feel like a paranoid freak. On the other hand workplace psychopaths with milder forms of psychopathic behaviours could be useful if managed properly by organisations. [Read more →]
By Jane Lowder, Max Coaching
So goes a quote by Diane Ackerman, prize winning author and poet. A lot of people tell me they feel that they are passengers in their own career.
are comments I frequently hear.
Intelligent Career Management, the theme of this blog, is about being the pilot of your career rather than a passenger. In this Part II of the “This is not my Beautiful Job” post we explore the core and crucial step of making the shift from passenger to pilot. [Read more →]
By Alicia Karwat, KeySteps Pty. Ltd.
Workplaces are loaded with emotions. Therefore employers are looking for workers who are skillful in recognising what is happening emotionally to them and others, and are able to manage these emotions appropriately to the situation. [Read more →]
Part I, by Jane Lowder, Max Coaching
The band Talking Heads wrote a song about that Alice-in-Wonderland-like feeling of waking up in a reality and wondering “How did I get here?” How many of us have had that very same thought in relation to our career?
“I’m 36 and I’m still doing [insert job].”
“I’ve been in [insert industry] for 10 years, and I don’t even enjoy it.”
“I’ve just done whatever came along without thinking about what I really want.”
Does this sound familiar? [Read more →]
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