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Answer Upon - Toss the Corporation Before It Tosses You
I once had a colleague that would roll his eyes at almost every idea that wasn’t his own. Additional facial expressions that complemented the eye-rolling were typically easy to spot as well: puffed cheeks then a release of air, sighs, furrowed brows, and other assorted expressions that gave everyone around the distinct impression that this individual thought he was way too smart to have to sit in meetings with the rest of us. One time someone called him out on it. The most interesting part of all of this was that he really didn’t have a clue that he was an eye-roller. He truly was not aware of the expressions he was making and even more importantly how they were negatively impacting the rest of the team.I’ve found two factors that can lead to problems with facial expressions. The first
You sit at your desk; check your email while you eat your breakfast (the muffin and latte); rush off to the meeting; then back to your desk to work on the five new assignments taken out of the meeting; quickly dart into the restroom and grab a candy bar and coffee from the vending machine (or a donut that Jane has sitting in the box on her
"I want my own business, but where do I begin?" You asked.The first requirement for any business is to have a product or service. How will, for example, your service or product be better or different from its current counter-part? Do you provide something others forgot? You pay more attention to detail?What makes my critiquing service more personalized?I address any, all issues. I tune into the small, not yet a problem situation. I rather handle it early, before a full blown crisis.It is less stressful plus customers prefer smooth running projects.A client sent me a certain type of bond paper to use for ghostwriting. Yes, it is one of my services. The end result would not look professional once it was typed and printed. So, I purchased wha
Corporate America is changing, and the savvy are getting ready now to find their own way, whether on the books with their own business, or with one of the more off-the-book individual entrepreneurial responses to an over-taxed, under-personalized culture.
The resume mindset always asks what you can do, how much, how many, how long, and what titles you had while you were doing these things. Corporations are seldom interested in the individual, giving only lip service in the tiny box provided at the end for “hobbies and interests.” Truthfully, you know that corporations are not looking for creative individuals, but only for those who can do more, faster to make the company money. It’s time to TOSS the Resume’.
Your first step in preparing for the corporate downsizing movement is to know who you are. Rewrite your resume’ as if it were a “curriculum vitae” (the course of one’s life). Write it for yourself.
What are you really “good” at? Do you like to talk with people for extended periods of time? Do you spend a lot of time rearranging the furniture in your house, painting the walls, or cleaning everything in spotless detail? Do you love to spend hours weeding your garden, going through gardening catalogues choosing ancient seeds from seed banks? Do you really secretly love taking your kids to Disney Land, and planning great kid vacations? Do you spend endless days at the mall just shopping or window shopping? Do you collect anything? What do friends and family members joke and criticize you about? This is what should go on your curriculum vitae. Who are you, really?
Rethinking the corporate day, consider your typical routine. You get up to an alarm, get your shower; choose the corporate outfit; get the kids up, dressed and fed; drop them at school or the sitters; stop at the drive-up Starbucks window for your morning latte and muffin; call on your cell phone to see if the dry cleaner is open yet; think over your day ahead; and you’re not even through the doors yet.
You sit at your desk; check your email while you eat your breakfast (the muffin and latte); rush off to the meeting; then back to your desk to work on the five new assignments taken out of the meeting; quickly dart into the restroom and grab a candy bar and coffee from the vending machine (or a donut that Jane has sitting in the box on her
How important are staff to your business? That’s sort of a basic question, because everyone knows that without staff you can’t do your own job. But really, how important do we consider our staff? After all, they haven’t been to school as long as we have, they don’t know as much, they don’t make the money we do. Shouldn’t it be easy to replace them when we need to?It’s easy to fall into the trap of under-rating the importance of staff to a business; but it’s at least as bad to have the wrong staff in your organization. Who are the ‘wrong’ staff? Most of us would say those who don’t work hard, or take too many breaks, or don’t know what they’re doing, or who don’t take initiative. Now, these are serious defects, but the problem goes deeper – are we seeking staff who really complement the
The resume mindset always asks what you can do, how much, how many, how long, and what titles you had while you were doing these things. Corporations are seldom interested in the individual, giving only lip service in the tiny box provided at the end for “hobbies and interests.” Truthfully, you know that corporations are not looking for creative individuals, but only for those who can do more, faster to make the company money. It’s time to TOSS the Resume’.
Your first step in preparing for the corporate downsizing movement is to know who you are. Rewrite your resume’ as if it were a “curriculum vitae” (the course of one’s life). Write it for yourself.
What are you really “good” at? Do you like to talk with people for extended periods of time? Do you spend a lot of time rearranging the furniture in your house, painting the walls, or cleaning everything in spotless detail? Do you love to spend hours weeding your garden, going through gardening catalogues choosing ancient seeds from seed banks? Do you really secretly love taking your kids to Disney Land, and planning great kid vacations? Do you spend endless days at the mall just shopping or window shopping? Do you collect anything? What do friends and family members joke and criticize you about? This is what should go on your curriculum vitae. Who are you, really?
Rethinking the corporate day, consider your typical routine. You get up to an alarm, get your shower; choose the corporate outfit; get the kids up, dressed and fed; drop them at school or the sitters; stop at the drive-up Starbucks window for your morning latte and muffin; call on your cell phone to see if the dry cleaner is open yet; think over your day ahead; and you’re not even through the doors yet.
You sit at your desk; check your email while you eat your breakfast (the muffin and latte); rush off to the meeting; then back to your desk to work on the five new assignments taken out of the meeting; quickly dart into the restroom and grab a candy bar and coffee from the vending machine (or a donut that Jane has sitting in the box on her
Phrases like “walk the talk” and “lead by example” are commonplace management and leadership language. These phrases provide frameworks for discussion on effective leadership. I’ve even used them in past articles. That said, I want to make the case today that it is not enough in today’s marketplace to simply “walk the talk” or “lead by example”. Both of these phrases lack the intent to change and improve. Change is always happening and continuous improvement is vital to our businesses today. Consider this alternative phrase instead: “Improve to Lead.”When have you ever heard the phrase, “improve to lead”? I can’t imagine you, or too many others, are nodding your heads right now and thinking, “sure, I hear it all the time.” A short analysis of the business books lining the shelves of
Your first step in preparing for the corporate downsizing movement is to know who you are. Rewrite your resume’ as if it were a “curriculum vitae” (the course of one’s life). Write it for yourself.
What are you really “good” at? Do you like to talk with people for extended periods of time? Do you spend a lot of time rearranging the furniture in your house, painting the walls, or cleaning everything in spotless detail? Do you love to spend hours weeding your garden, going through gardening catalogues choosing ancient seeds from seed banks? Do you really secretly love taking your kids to Disney Land, and planning great kid vacations? Do you spend endless days at the mall just shopping or window shopping? Do you collect anything? What do friends and family members joke and criticize you about? This is what should go on your curriculum vitae. Who are you, really?
Rethinking the corporate day, consider your typical routine. You get up to an alarm, get your shower; choose the corporate outfit; get the kids up, dressed and fed; drop them at school or the sitters; stop at the drive-up Starbucks window for your morning latte and muffin; call on your cell phone to see if the dry cleaner is open yet; think over your day ahead; and you’re not even through the doors yet.
You sit at your desk; check your email while you eat your breakfast (the muffin and latte); rush off to the meeting; then back to your desk to work on the five new assignments taken out of the meeting; quickly dart into the restroom and grab a candy bar and coffee from the vending machine (or a donut that Jane has sitting in the box on her
Is a state-wide Mobile Oil Change Business viable for the West Virginia Market? Recently we were asked to consult an upstart entrepreneur interested in the mobile oil changing industry sub-sector and looking to target his state of West Virginia. Are there any such businesses now like this in the Great State of West Virginia?There are folks engaged in the mobile oil change business doing this now in West Virginia and yet there are only a few decent markets there worthy of a large enough population to make it viable. That is to say make the economies of scale work for the business. One concept would be to concentrate on a different area or city each day and schedule accounts to fit that.Of course consider too that most real West Virginians are quite capable of changing their own oil or
Rethinking the corporate day, consider your typical routine. You get up to an alarm, get your shower; choose the corporate outfit; get the kids up, dressed and fed; drop them at school or the sitters; stop at the drive-up Starbucks window for your morning latte and muffin; call on your cell phone to see if the dry cleaner is open yet; think over your day ahead; and you’re not even through the doors yet.
You sit at your desk; check your email while you eat your breakfast (the muffin and latte); rush off to the meeting; then back to your desk to work on the five new assignments taken out of the meeting; quickly dart into the restroom and grab a candy bar and coffee from the vending machine (or a donut that Jane has sitting in the box on her
Estimating a residential construction job is very different from a commercial job. Often the contractor is frustrated with collecting data to create an estimate that is low enough for them to win the bid and high enough for them to make a profit.before a contractor even begins the project it is a good idea for him or her to look at the area that will be built upon to make sure that there are no environmental hazards, or that there are no structures that may have to be taken down. These factors not only cause delays, they can cost additional money.when a contractor is creating an estimate he or she must take into consideration create a quote for all aspects for the estimate.A residential estimate is comprised of many more factors than a commercial estimate. A contractor must cre
You sit at your desk; check your email while you eat your breakfast (the muffin and latte); rush off to the meeting; then back to your desk to work on the five new assignments taken out of the meeting; quickly dart into the restroom and grab a candy bar and coffee from the vending machine (or a donut that Jane has sitting in the box on her desk) on the way back; work through most of lunch except for 15 minutes to rush out to the dry cleaners which is now open; return to your desk where you realize you’ve been here half the day and have only done 45 minutes of real productive work, and that was during the lunch hour; and you get the picture here.
Then comes Friday afternoon, and the boss wants to see you in the office. “I hate to be the one to have to tell you this, but the company has decided to downsize, and….”
Unlikely? Hardly! It happens every Friday in every city and town in America. The truest truism I’ve ever read says that your biggest risk is to stay in your safe, dependable corporate job. Yet, most of your friends and family are going to counsel you to do just that if you begin talking about leaving or going into business for yourself.
These play-it-safe voices are raised for your own good, or so they’ll tell you and so you’ll believe. But the risk in at least not having a plan is great in this day and age. The shakiest ground is at the level of the corporate environment. The scariest but least risky ground is going it on your own or with a partner or two.
The scariest thing here is the thought that you have to do it on your own… alone. Nope! You do have to do it on your own, but never, never, ever alone. There may be people who will give or lend you money; offer certain abilities you don’t have; introduce you to mentors or experts; teach you certain skills or information; allow you to use their space for free; lend you equipment; etc. But if you’re not clear who you are (step one, prepare your curriculum vitae), and if you’re not clear where you want to go, then it will be difficult to assess who and what you need.
The second step in preparing for corporate downsizing is to prepare a plan. Your plan should be beyond checking the classifieds for a similar situation to that which you’ve just left. This might work as a temporary transition to moving into your own life to your own music. You could include it as one element to your plan, but only as a temporary measure. It can buy you time; help you develop some savings or pay off current debts; or help you learn som
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