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How To Appear More Authoritative On The Job

BY Cy WakemanTue Jun 21, 2011

When it comes to being more authoritative in your job, the work comes in long before you "act" a certain way. While acting with authority is crucial, eliminating your own limiting beliefs that will show up in your actions is really the key. READ»

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Spare Your Future Employers. Ditch The Digital Drama!

BY Cy WakemanMon May 9, 2011

Now that your digital dirt is cleaned up, an important but often ignored next step involves ditching your digital drama! Before you begin your job search, make sure you examine your online presence and clean up your act by following these simple tips.READ»

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Revitalize Your Job Search: Dust For Digital Dirt

BY Cy WakemanWed Apr 27, 2011

Many career coaches are encouraging job candidates to clean up their digital dirt. As the number of job seekers grows, so does the competition for each job. A minimal standard of simply removing your party pictures from Facebook or fixing a misrepresentation on your background check is no longer enough.READ»

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Charlie Sheening It! How to Avoid "Warlock" Tendencies and Recover From Being Fired

BY Cy WakemanFri Mar 25, 2011

Do you find yourself competing in a saturated market of job seekers, at a time when employers are taking longer than ever to fill positions AND you were fired from your last position for cause? While this may feel like the ultimate challenge, it is also a fabulous opportunity to ditch the drama, stop whining, and set yourself apart as the candidate who has grown the most!READ»

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Want to Be a Success? Burn Your "Party of No" Membership Card

BY Cy WakemanMon Jan 17, 2011

In today's workforce, people are increasingly becoming members of the "Party of No," choosing to be resistant to change all the while offering few, if any, options for how to move forward and progress as an organization.READ»

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Please Kill the Open Door Policy, the Drama Is Killing Us

BY Cy WakemanWed Nov 17, 2010

As I work with leaders to ditch the drama and turn excuses into results, I am shocked to see the number of leaders who still tout an open door policy! I feel the urge to apologize on behalf of all of us who have ever suggested that an open door policy would lead to results--we lied.READ»

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Would You Rather Be Right or Happy at Work?

BY Cy WakemanTue Sep 21, 2010

There are two distinct camps in the business world today--leaders whose teams have failed to measure up and instead do nothing more than deliver excuses, and leaders whose teams have delivered results in spite of the same difficult circumstances. The difference between the two? The path that the leaders chose to take.READ»

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Want to Attract the Best Employees? Make Work Addictive Like a Game

BY Cy WakemanTue Jul 27, 2010

With the some signs of the recession coming to an end, many CEOs may be beginning to worry about how to retain the top talent they have attracted. What if we stop trying to change the obvious motivators of the next generation and begin instead to create a workplace that replicates the most attractive qualities of gaming?READ»

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Game On My Little Friends, Game On! Don’t let your parents ruin the future of business…

BY Cy WakemanMon Apr 12, 2010

As I continue on my trek to challenge conventional wisdom and current thinking – mostly because it obviously isn’t leading to success in most businesses – I am going to focus this blog on parenting … or, as I believe, leading ...READ»

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Job descriptions: ammunition for resistant employees

BY Cy WakemanMon Feb 15, 2010

I have become convinced that it’s high time to rid the world of job descriptions. Job descriptions are impossible to keep current, have outgrown their usefulness, are no longer relevant and are being used for evil – not good in ...READ»

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Termination notice: You’ve been replaced By Google!

BY Cy WakemanFri Jan 15, 2010

Human Resources gospel has always been to make employees feel as if their opinions counted. After all, this is America, and democracy is a good thing, right? Not always.Your workplace is not a democracy. We know the value of ...READ»

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Attention all leaders: New criteria for raising issues in the workplace, no solution necessary!

BY Cy WakemanTue Dec 8, 2009

Each and every day I work with leaders to try to help them understand that much of what they have come to accept as “best practices” or “solid beliefs” in leadership philosophy are not only untrue, but keeping them from ...READ»

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Leaders, There Really Are Some Stupid Questions!

BY Cy WakemanMon Oct 26, 2009

Over this past year of presenting the concepts of Reality Based Leadership at conferences nationwide, I have often heard leaders unconsciously, routinely spouting off cliches that not only remain untested but that are absolutely ...READ»

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Leadership Cliché Challenged and Busted – There is no “I” in TEAM replaced with There is definitely an “I” in WIN.

BY Cy WakemanWed Oct 7, 2009

Have you ever noticed that many of the leadership clichés we live by are not living up to their reputation? Leaders flippantly throw around sound bites of so-called “wisdom,” picked up at conferences or from leadership books and ...READ»

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Leaders, beware: the hottest new excuse for lack of results – “trust issues”

BY Cy WakemanTue Aug 25, 2009

Recent research has cited that employees who trust their senior management bring back 108% value to their shareholders. On the other hand, employees who do not trust their senior executives only bring 66% back to their shareholders. ...READ»

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My advice to leaders: Play favorites and get results!

BY Cy WakemanFri Aug 14, 2009

In our quest as leaders to be respectful of legitimate differences our employees have, it appears that we have become a very careful, hesitant, and nearly comatose group. A great number of “leaders” have begun to pretend that all ...READ»

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Does taking a sabbatical equal job sabotage?

BY Cy WakemanFri Jul 31, 2009

You probably heard of them in college – many of your favorite professors took a semester off to travel the world, do research or write a book. Now that you're in the real world, you could use a sabbatical, too – but is taking one ...READ»

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How Does GPA Stack Up in the Real World?

BY Cy WakemanMon Jun 29, 2009

You might ask yourself, how important is my grade point average when searching for a job? In some aspects – it is not to be overlooked. If the applicant has recently graduated, is seeking entrance into a top corporation, is ...READ»

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Fighting Back Against the Office Bully

BY Cy WakemanThu Jun 18, 2009

You remember in grade school when the bully left you in the dust on the playground without a lunch? You’d like to think that now that you’re an adult, all of that drama was left on the playground. Unfortunately, that’s not ...READ»

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A guide to dealing with resistant employees

BY Cy WakemanWed Jun 10, 2009

Where, oh where has my willing employee gone? And where did all of these irrelevant and resistant employees come from? The No. 1 question I hear from managers and leaders is, “How do I deal with resistant ...READ»