Problem: You get the feeling that people don’t have a good opinion of you. Or, you don’t know what people think of you. Or, you don’t have really good relationships that you can count on. Or, you don’t feel that you’re a smooth, dynamic, charming speaker or conversationalist that people are attracted to. Solution: I [...]
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17 Apr
Be Patient
Problem: Things aren’t changing fast enough for you. Your efforts seem to go unnoticed or without any impact. The bureaucracy causes everything to take so much longer to get done or implemented. Solution: Be patient. Just because the change is not occuring according to your paradigm doesn’t mean it isn’t occuring. Have you ever watched [...]
16 Apr
Grow a Powerful Corporate Network (without leaving the office)
Guest post by Jodi Kaplan. Visit her blog at Fix Your Broken Marketing. When I was back in the corporate world, my job required me to work with people all across the company. I was in marketing, but had to rely on people from graphics, events, product development, membership (for a non-profit), and IT to [...]
15 Apr
Develop Meaningful Relationships (through bribes)
Guest post by Regine Albrecht. Visit her blog at: www.expatlinq.wordpress.com Problem: You frequently need help, assistance or just plain favors from people in other departments than yours. Solution: The way to a colleague’s heart is through their stomach. In one of his last blogs Rex talked about “Go on a Field Trip” as a nice way [...]
12 Apr
Share Tools
Problem: Everyone has their own way of doing things and usually has a simple little tool, checklist, program or method that they use that most people don’t know about. Solution: Share your tool with others. Maybe only engineers do this, but if I broaden the definition of a ‘tool’ to mean any tactic or method you [...]
9 Apr
Go Get Certified
Problem: Your company doesn’t support getting professional society certifications. Solution: So what? First, get a group together and start studying for one of those certification exams. For example, the Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification, or the Business Analyst (BA) Certification, or the TOCICO Certification (Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization), or the Six Sigma Black [...]
7 Apr
Go On a Field Trip
Problem: You don’t know everything… about every group in your whole company. (Hint: neither does anyone else.) Solution: Take a field trip to another part of the company that you don’t know much about. It could be a corner of the factory, or some group who works on a different product than you, or the [...]
6 Apr
Start a Training Class
Problem: Your skills and knowledge are under utilized. There are people who could use the skills or knowledge you have. Solution: Start a training class during lunch (your boss doesn’t care what you do for lunch, see this post.) Pick a subject you know something about (i.e. project management, Excel, blogging, leadership, twitter, social media, giving presentations, [...]
5 Apr
Email Your CEO
Problem: There are some good things happening in your corporation that need more visibility and recognition. or There are some things happening that are terribly wrong. or You have a good idea that needs support. or You feel disconnected with what’s happening at the top and in other parts of the company. or there could [...]
