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Archive for year: 2012
Valuing Diversity to Improve Team Performance
Karen Colligan, Diversity, Leadership, Performance, Professional and team leadership, Teams, diversity, leadership, personality types, professional and team leadership, team, team diversity, 0Someone once said, “If both of us think exactly alike, one of us is unnecessary.” We all know that...
Your Job Search Elevator Pitch
Karen Colligan, Career, Career planning, Job search, Career, Get Real Guide to Your Career, job opportunity, job search, strategy, 0Picture this. You’re at a networking event (as part of your job search strategy) and someone says to you,...
Get Real About Your Career – Start by Taking Inventory
Karen Colligan, Career, Career planning, The Get Real Guide to Your Career, Career, Get Real Guide to Your Career, job, job opportunity, job search, planning, skill set, values, 0The start of the New Year is typically when we “resolve” to make changes: eat less, exercise more, learn...
Dollars on My Mind
Karen Colligan, Bruce springsteen, Career, Jersey shore, New jersey, Performance Reviews with The Get Real Guide to your Career, Professional and team leadership, Career, employed, human resources, interview, jobs, leadership, life, planning, strategy, unemployed, 0Let’s continue our walk through The Get Real Guide to Your Career. We’ve been very busy in the last...
Triumphs
Karen Colligan, Career, Performance Reviews with The Get Real Guide to your Career, Professional and team leadership, Career, employed, human resources, interviews, job, leadership, life, planning, resume, strategy, unemployed, 0It’s time to brag a little bit. What are the chances you can do that? Of course, we all...
Show Stoppers
Karen Colligan, Career, Performance Reviews with The Get Real Guide to your Career, Professional and team leadership, Career, fear, interview, jobs, negative thinking, positive thinking, 0As I sit here trying to write my blog about Show Stoppers – those things that stop us in...
The Good The Bad and the Ugly
Karen Colligan, Career, Performance Reviews with The Get Real Guide to your Career, Professional and team leadership, 0Where have we all heard this term before? Hmmm…is it a movie… …is it a book title…oh no…is it...
I’ve Got a New Aptitude
Karen Colligan, Uncategorized, bruce springsteen, career coach, cover letter, Get Real Guide to Your Career, job opportunity, job search, music, project management, skill set, skillset, working on a dream, 0As long as I keep referencing Bruce Springsteen, let me continue with this theme. Bruce and the E Street...
I Am What I Am – NO shoulda-woulda-coulda!
Karen Colligan, Career, Performance Reviews with The Get Real Guide to your Career, Professional and team leadership, 0I Am What I Am As long as you are hangin’ with me during our walk through The Get...
Your Journey Begins
Karen Colligan, Uncategorized, bruce springsteen, Career, interview, job, opportunity, professional and team leadership, resume, values, 0Say it isn’t so! I actually am going to ask you, the reader, to begin doing some self-reflection. Don’t...
The Get Real Guide to Your Career and PeopleThink – It all started with Bruce Springsteen
Karen Colligan, Uncategorized, 0How it All Began: The first time I saw Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band play (in 1975) I...