Career Tools

The conclusion of our conversation on Audio Visual Equipment Use.

In this cast, we're going to describe how to use the two most common audio-visual tools: slides and flip charts.

This cast explains how to handle exit interviews.

Part 3, and the conclusion, of our series on Attention Management - Distractions.

Part 2 of our series on Attention Management - Distractions.

Most of us do a poor job of managing our time - whoops, that's managing our priorities. None of us actually manage time, right? Time can't be managed. But what we DO with our time we CAN manage.

One way we manage our priorities is we choose to schedule those things that we believe are in line with our priorities. An example of that is putting meetings on our calendars that help us accomplish our projects and responsibilities. Makes sense. When we schedule a meeting, we're saying, this is worthy of my attention. We're managing what we attend to, we're managing our attention.

But unfortunately many of us, no matter how good we are at scheduling those things to which we wish to attend, also are terrible at managing those things that distract us from our priorities. But if we're going to have plenty of time for what we want to accomplish, we better not only schedule things well, but we ought to avoid distractions. And most of us are terrible at that. This cast recommends specific actions to take to reduce the pain of distractions on our effectiveness.

It seems that a lot of people still don't realize that we're all managing our own careers now. Yes, your organization has some say and power in the equation. But that ability to influence our choices is often misunderstood as managing what job we're in, why we're in it, and what other jobs we can have.

And one of the situations that confuses us is when our organization asks us to interview for a job without us applying for it. Maybe we really want the job, maybe we would have never considered it. But when they ask US - when the COMPANY seems to know more than we do, and we don't know what the invite MEANS ... it's confusing. And that's why Career Tools is here: to explain what to do and why.

In this cast, we finish our conversation on how to work with an angry and demeaning boss.

In this cast, we continue with part 4 of our conversation on how to work with an angry and demeaning boss.

In this cast, we continue with part 3 of our conversation on how to work with an angry and demeaning boss.