For advice on how to accelerate your career during tough times participate in Ramon Greenwood's widely read blog click Common Sense At Work Blog commonsenseatwork.com He coaches from a successful career as Senior VP at American Express, author of career-related books, successful entrepreneur, and a senior executive/consultant in Fortune 500 ...
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Career Advice: How To Succeed In The New World Of Work by Ramon Greenwood - Jan, 2011 You’ve got your head buried in the sand if you are not preparing now to survive and prosper in the new world of work that is evolving day to day. There are three main points: 1. The work environment will be different from anything we have known in the past. 2. As for the job market, there is a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel—conditions are improving marginally–but many experts think it will be at least 2015,... |
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Positive Resolutions Lead To Positive Changes by Ramon Greenwood - Dec, 2010 Have you made resolutions to accelerate your career in 2011? Experts say that making resolutions improve by a factor of 10 your odds of achieving positive changes. If you haven’t resolved to make specific changes in your life in the world of work and in your personal life during the new year you can expect to get the same results you experienced in 2010. Ask yourself: “Will that be good enough to get me where I want to g... |
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Avoid Overused Words In Resumes by Ramon Greenwood - Dec, 2010 Linkedin has just published a list of the ten most overused words in resumes with the advice to “scrap the words altogether from…resumes and profiles and instead focus on details of the job (being pursued), like how many people they supervised or how much they increased sales.” The words and phrases to avoid are: innovative, dynamic, motivated, extensive experience, results-oriented, proven track record, team player, fast p... |
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Let Steve Jobs Help You Prepare For 2011 by Ramon Greenwood - Nov, 2010 If you haven’t already read THE INNOVATION SECRETS OF STEVE JOBS–INSANELY DIFFERENT PRINCIPLES FOR BREAKTHROUGH SUCCESS I recommend that you get a copy today and commit to studying it as you begin preparing to make 2011 your best career year ever. Apple CEO Steve Jobs is the master of innovation. This book lays out a powerful, positive, game-changing approach to innovation based on his Seven Principles of Innovation that ... |
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Create a Promising Career from Personal Passion by Ramon Greenwood - Nov, 2010 "All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Most of us seek a sense of reward from our work, and get frustrated if we don’t get it. We’re driven by some form of need – whether it’s desperation to pay th... |
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Career Advice: How To Get Alerts To New Postings by Ramon Greenwood - Nov, 2010 You can receive an email alert every time I provide a new posting. It’s easy. When you are on our blog go to the Feedburner box on the right and enter your e-mail address. Going forward you will receive an email to let you know each time there’s a new posting. If you have a RSS reader, add our feed to your reader. Just click on “Subscribe to a feed in a reader” beside the orange icon in the right hand column and follow the ... |
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Career Advice: Nothing Happens Until You Sell Yourself! by Ramon Greenwood - Nov, 2010 How To Promote Your Career A well-known adage advises that you have only to invent a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door, bearing recognition and riches. Believe me, that’s poor career advice! If you are content to accept that bit of career counseling, you are likely to end up with a shelf full of unsold traps. Common sense says that inventing a better mousetrap is only the first step toward a... |
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Speak Out About The Dismal Job Market by Ramon Greenwood - Nov, 2010 These are troubling times in the job market. No doubt about that. Nearly 15 million Americans are looking for work. The unemployment rate is holding steady at 9.6%. No one has a firm idea as to when this situation will improve. The reasons cited for this horrendous condition include lack of consumer spending (i.e. confidence), plus uncertainty about what the government will do about taxes and regulation, as well as changes ... |
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Career Tips: Winners Keep On Keeping On by Ramon Greenwood - Oct, 2010 Winners in the career chase know persistence is a daily necessity if they are to achieve their goals. One of those big winners, Ted Turner, world-class sailor and founder of the CNN television network, explains his success by saying: “The secret of my success is that I never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. You might go bankrupt, you might lose everything, but as long as you’re out there still dukin’ b... |
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Is Multitasking Helping Or Hurting Your Performance? by Ramon Greenwood - Sep, 2010 With your workload piling up, multitasking may seem to be the only way to get the job done. But hold up. Research by the University of Michigan reveals that what we think of as multitasking may be nothing more than skipping about between multiple tasks, forcing our brains to refocus with every new subject. This reduces productivity by 20% to 40%. “Attempting to multitask is one of the single greatest ways to undermine pr... |
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