How To Get Promoted

How To Get Promoted – are you doing well in your present role but feel ready for the next step up? Even in this tough economic climate some people are still managing to get promotion. But how do you make yourself part of that élite group?  Today over on our sister site we have a two post series on how to get that precious promtion.  Here is a link to Part 1 – link

Wendy Smith is a career consultant, life coach and business coach with depth of experience in organisational development, management, coaching and personal development. That experience means she is equally at home helping clients find a new career direction, starting-up new businesses or dealing with life’s more challenging personal issues. You can contact her at wendy@wisewolfcoaching.com Wendy has written a little eBook on how to get on with your boss and a book on job search - you can find all her books on Amazon at this link          

What Is Leadership?

What Is Leadership?

This is an extract from a good piece from Kevin Kruse on the Forbes website

"Such a simple question, and yet it continues to vex popular consultants and lay people alike. I’ve now written several books on leadership for employee engagement, and yet it occurred to me that I never actually paused to define leadership. Let’s start with what leadership is not…"

You can read the rest at this link http://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinkruse/2013/04/09/what-is-leadership/
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Leadership Quotes for Tuesday

Leadership Quotes for Tuesday

• I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. —Ralph Nader
• Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. —Peter Drucker
• Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. —Publilius Syrus
• A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. —Theodore Roosevelt
• Leadership is influence. —John C. Maxwell
• You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case. —Ken Kesey
• When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out. —Napoleon Bonaparte
• Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. —Harry S. Truman
• People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. —John Maxwell
• So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. —Peter Drucker
• The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. —Tony Blair
• The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet. —Reverend Theodore Hesburgh

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The Leadership Cartoon - Something To Think About

The Leadership Cartoon - Something To Think About

Wendy Mason  is a Career Coach and Life Coach helping you to solve difficult problems at work and at home
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When you are “over-qualified” for the job

I have a new post over on WiseWolf Talking with advice for those who are making a decision to apply for work at a different level. This can be a career choice or simply a response to a long term job search. Whatever the reason there is a right way to do it. Find advice at the link below.
If you are thinking about coaching, and we coaches really can add value to your job search, I would love to talk to you.

Warm regards

Wendy
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When you are "over-qualified" for the job http://wisewolftalking.com/2014/05/19/when-you-are-over-qualified-for-the-job/

Motivational Leadership by Example | Switch and Shift

Motivational Leadership by Example | Switch and Shift

A useful post from the Switch and Shift website

"Would you consider yourself a leader, manager, or both?  In most cases, managers consider themselves leaders, but do you think your team members would agree with you?  Pat Owings, the Co-Founder of Inbound Marketing Agents, advises managers to challenge their current perspective on leadership skills by asking themselves, “If you asked your team to take the hill, would they because it is the right thing to do or because you are the boss and they want to keep their job?” The key to being a successful leader is leading by example and motivating your employees at the same time, inspiring them to follow.... 

You can read the rest of the post at this link Motivational Leadership by Example | Switch and Shift

Job Search:Time To Be Passionate

On WiseWolf Talking, the WiseWolf Coaching blog, today; a post about the importance of passion in job search.

"Having and showing passion and the energy associated with it is attractive. It makes you more interesting to employers and to the world at large."

You can read more at this link http://wisewolftalking.com/2014/05/09/job-searchtime-to-be-passionate/

Wendy Mason  is a Career Coach and Life Coach helping you to solve difficult problems at work and at home
wendymason@wisewolfcoaching.com 
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