Careers by Jenn Podcast: Get the Job, Love Your Work, Advance Your Career

Have you felt appreciated lately?

In this episode, I take a look at all the amazing benefits both employees and employers receive when there is a culture of appreciation in the workplace.

There is actually a biological reason that appreciation and gratitude are good for you too!

I share the benefits and how to increase the culture of appreciation both as an employee and an employer. I hope you tune in.

The dictionary says this: a team player is a person who plays or works well as a member of a team or group.

Sounds straightforward…but no one is going to ace all of the traits and qualities that make up the perfect team player. We ALL have areas we can improve upon.

Every one of us could do some work if we wanted to.

If you are needing to answer the questions: "What are your weaknesses?" or "What would you like to improve upon?", then I would guess there would be an area or two in what I am about to share with you in this episode that you could use about how to be a GREAT team player.

Almost every job interview includes the question: What are your strengths and weaknesses?" In this episode of the NEWLY re-branded podcast (formerly the Communication Diva podcast) Careers by Jenn, I take a look first at how you can do a self-assessment of your strengths, in order to generate a list to work with. I also invite you to invite others into your research, and offer ways you can do that that are both free and paid. With good questions and with fresh perspectives, you should be able to create a fairly good-sized list by the time you get through all the questions, and from that list, generate your SIGNATURE strengths, to help you stand out above the crowd.

Guest expert Mac Prichard gives solid advice on where to find "hidden" jobs and how best to maximize job-search energy and time efforts. With his 3 main strategies for success, Mac shares how to find that best job and then how to go about getting it.

In this episode of the podcast, I interview this inspiring author who tells her story of struggle and perseverance...and how to seek the treasure of your own true self. Join us as we talk about some of the following:

• bottom of the class
• failure, and failing "out of everything!"
• learning disabilities
• low self-esteem
• getting fired
• getting jobs "I had no business applying for"
• how one single person can make a difference in your whole life trajectory
• how you never know the impact you are making
• Dianne's tendency to "throw her hat in the ring" and just DO stuff
• finding God
• how she came to writing
• getting out of your own way
• learning about how to write
• resourcefulness
• her mother and jail
• having personal power and be able to recognize that you do
• don't be the one to put the brakes on your own life
• finding your true self

Sometimes you are stuck in a job you hate, or a work situation you hate, and the first tendency is to want to run screaming off in another direction and figure stuff out after you make your very dramatic exit.

My advice is to WAIT!

There are 7 things you can do that might make a huge difference, whether you decide to stay in the end or not.

Take a listen.

If you want to advance your career, you need a plan and to develop some daily habits to help you execute your plan. Join this episode as Jenn first pays tribute to the late great Canadian Gord Downie, and then shares 9 things you can do to advance your career....all during a wind storm!

There are lots of really good reasons why resigning from a job in a professional and graceful way is a good idea. You maintain your reputation, your dignity and your relationship. Find out what to do before, during and after resigning in this podcast episode...and find out also who Garth Vader is and why he's SO darned cute!

You might say, it depends on your career-choice, and what choices you make in your life. Join Jenn and guest Jurgen Schmechel, a relationship coach with loads of corporate experience, as we talk about how to do both well.

Goal-setting is something I think everyone should do, and surprisingly, lots of people actually don't. (I'm not talking about New Year's resolution-style either...I mean goals of every kind for all sorts of areas of your life.) When you do get around to actually setting a goal..what happens next? Often, the goals are "derailed" by our own mistakes.

In this episode, I walk you through 7 mistakes that commonly appear when you decide to do something…when you set a goal, whether it's a career goal, a personal goal, a dietary or financial goal…a relationship goal…whatever it is…these are some of the mistakes that get made that end up derailing the goal so it doesn't happen…which is sad!

Join me to go through them and then see how you can avoid or counteract making them in the first place.

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