Career Advice Blog
Time Management Self-Assessment: Rate Your Skills!
I am passionate about all things related to time management. Recently, I wanted to assess my own skills in this area, so I did a personal inventory. I thought I’d recreate that for you as a self-assessment tool, so you can take stock of your skills in this area as well.
Overcoming an Overwhelming Workload
Everyone gets overwhelmed with work from time to time, but it shouldn’t be a chronic condition. The key is to quickly recognize what’s happening and implement strategies to take control. This webinar will show you how!
Understanding Resilience: The Rubber Band Analogy
I like the rubber band analogy, because it really makes a lot of sense, and it’s a great visual when we’re talking about something like resilience, which is actually a pretty abstract topic on the surface. This video explains more!
3 Steps to Improve Accuracy and Attention to Detail in Your Work
This video is an excerpt from a live Q&A session where we address the question of how to improve accuracy and attention to detail in three simple steps.
Building Career Resilience: How to Bounce Back After the Unexpected
Career resilience is the skill of dealing with unforeseen, unpleasant situations and quickly rebounding. In today’s unpredictable working world, it is an essential factor in creating long-term career success.
The Ownership Mindset: An Essential Ingredient for Career Success
Your career is yours, no matter what, regardless of what your boss does or doesn’t do. You are the one in control. For better or worse, your career goes with you everywhere. Of course, as any superhero fan knows, with great power comes great responsibility. To truly leverage the benefits of such a concept, you must first embrace an ownership mindset.
The Do’s and Don’ts of Managing Up
Though the term “managing up” is often thrown around in the workplace, few people really know what it means or how to do it effectively. This session will help you master the delicate art of managing up and avoid the potential pitfalls in the process.
ELEVATE Admins is a Best Seller (Thanks to YOU!)
My newest book was released earlier this month and I’m thrilled to report that it quickly hit the #1 spot for its category on Amazon! This is all because of YOU, the amazing Eat Your Career community. I can’t thank you enough for the support you have shown me, not only with this new book but throughout the past decade. I appreciate you more than you know.
The Next Admin Evolution Is Here
To stay relevant in this field, administrative professionals will need to embrace an entirely new attitude and an advanced set of skills. This webinar explores the emerging elevated standard for the admin field, and offers strategies to help you thrive in this exciting new frontier.
Why Planning is Beneficial (Even in Unpredictable Times)
I love planning. When I have a plan in front of me, I feel more in control of my destiny. I’m less stressed, more empowered.
Here’s the most interesting part: A plan helps me feel these positive things, even when I can’t follow the plan perfectly.
Over the past year, I’ve really had to come to terms with this. After all, the pandemic has made life unpredictable for most of us. But I haven’t stopped planning. In fact, I’ve become even more diligent about it!
Get More From Your Learning! Strategies to Make Professional Development More Effective
As a career-minded professional, you probably participate in a lot of development activities. Perhaps you attend training webinars and online classes; maybe you read books and listen to podcasts. Learning opportunities are prevalent, and you want to take advantage of them all! But how...
The 3 Essential Functions of Time Management
Whether you think “time management” is the appropriate terminology or not, it’s the best way we (as humans) can articulate our goal of using this precious limited resource wisely. But, if we want to get technical, we could go a little deeper and say that time management has 3 essential functions, and each plays a critical role in helping us achieve our goal.