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Prototyping and experiments have become increasingly common the past decade in business ventures and decision-making. Canadian-born entrepreneur Jennifer Turliuk feels those same techniques can help you find the perfect career. It worked for her.
Unhappy with her career path after Queen’s University, she realized that like most people she had put more effort into getting a job than figuring out whether it was something she actually wanted and would enjoy. “There’s plenty of research and advice out there on how to write the perfect resume and ace the interview. But when it comes to figuring out what you want to do with your life, the strategies aren’t so clear,” she notes in her book
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The Globe and Mail Published January 7, 2021 Bookmark
It’s 1:59 p.m. The meeting starts in a minute. And as is common before any meeting starts, participants are divided in two types: Those who are punctual and those who are perpetually late. Grace Pacie is part of that second group, a “timebender” as she calls them, and while she recognizes the problems they create for colleagues who are punctual “timekeepers” she notes that they are making use of every minute available to them unlike those who just sit and wait.
“The problem is timebenders can’t bear to be early. Being late is exciting – being early is boring,” she writes in her book
The Globe and Mail Published January 2, 2021
What if you were to make being a better leader your New Year’s resolution?
Even if your performance evaluations are stellar, you can always improve in the important but highly complicated art of managing, with benefits for yourself and subordinates. As with anything, it requires deliberate practice, although that is difficult to weave into the roller coaster of the day and not easy to do alone.
To be effective, you need to give some thought to triggers. First, what precipitates your worst managerial moments? Is it, for example, tiredness, arrogant comments by others, or certain colleagues you have lost patience with? Now you can be on guard. A second aspect of triggers to consider are reminders you might give yourself to be your best throughout the day – to keep practising the new skills you want to adopt. Wearing an elastic around your hand might be a helpful nudge. If you want to listen better in meetings, would a computer prom
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