FIFA, Your Reputation, and Employer Brand
The 2014 FIFA World Cup starts this week in Brazil. It is the world’s most watched event. 32 teams will face off initially in Groups. The best 2 in…
FIFA, Your Reputation, and Employer Brand
5 Coaching Tips to Help the Newly Redundant Relaunch Their Careers
When I am engaged by companies or individuals for outplacement or career coaching, I have a checklist of issues I like to handle in my first one to two sessions.…
Why Will They Care?
The legendary guru Peter Drucker said: “Culture eats strategy for lunch.” Drucker pointedly identified and articulated the keys to success in business. Culture is the embodied values, principles and…
What they hear is …
Noise. A Facilities Manager was told that due to business restructure, she was no longer employed. The news came as a complete surprise to her. HR had all the…
‘Shoulding’ All Over Yourself
Nigel Marsh author of Fat Forty and Fired said: Often people work long hard hours at jobs they hate to earn money to buy things they don’t need, to impress…
Another Reason to Be Vigilant with Your Employer Brand
The latest entrant into social media is State. With a seemingly well-resourced PR engine behind it, its entry has potentially serious implications for companies’ employer brand and reputation. According to their…
What Sales and the Deaf Can Teach Us About Listening
How many times do we hear, but do not really listen? Recently, I practiced Perceptive Listening with a person going through outplacement/career transitioning. The results were rewarding on both sides.…
Three Things We Learn from the SAO Biscuit and the Humble Chair
Many of the more experienced Hiring Managers or Recruiters use competency based interviewing or behavioural interviewing to determine if the job seeker is right for the job. So it pays…
The Why, the Heart, and the Brain
I’ve spent a fair bit of time coaching people about their reason, their intention, their ‘Why’. For those of you familiar with my ‘rant’ on Why, it comes about because…
Redundancies, Layoffs, Shock and the Brain
When people are made redundant or let go without any prior warning, there is an understandable shock. Along with shock comes a barrage of other emotions, fears, uncertainty and…