Entries by First Sun Team

#Leadership : 7 Ways To Re-Think Performance Management…The Following 7 Topics are Fundamental when Re-Thinking any Performance Management Process & Culture.

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The concept of Performance Management sounds simple, but of course it isn’t. Humans have a lust for control and have developed quite a few mental concepts to ‘control’ performance management; processes, ratings, manuals, competency frameworks, forms, collective labor agreements, etc. While all these things once had a purpose, the sum of it is not fit for duty 16 […]

#Strategy : How To Cut Your Email Time In Half…Would you Like a Simple Way to Dramatically Cut the Time you Spend on Emails?

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According to a survey conducted by the McKinsey Global Institute, office workers spend 2.6 hours per day reading and answering emails. This equates to 33% of a 40-hour workweek. What’s worse is that smartphones, laptops, and other mobile devices have many checking their email constantly: while commuting (yes, I see you checking your phone while […]

#Leadership : This is How you make Better Decisions, According to Science…Yeah, it Can Really be that Simple: Thinking about How you Would Help Others is Often the Best Way to Help Yourself.

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Life would be a lot easier if we just knew how to make good decisions. Research shows we all make a lot of bad ones, according to Chip Heath’s “Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work.” With careers: “More than half of teachers quit their jobs within four years. In fact, one […]

Your #Career : Networking- This Is What You Do When You Want to Own The Room Within 5 Minutes…When Applying these Steps, it Can be Hard to Know How Well you Did. Don’t Succumb to Doubt. Believe in Yourself & What you Have put Forward

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Owning a room is a quintessential skill when navigating both the professional and social worlds. It’s more than looking someone in the eye, having a firm handshake and bringing enough business cards. These are the cornerstones of creating a rapport with others, but there’s so much more to presenting the best version of yourself. When […]

Your #Career : 10 Middle Class Jobs That Will Be Gone Soon…Unemployment May have Returned to Pre-Recession Levels, But the Middle Class Jobs Americans Used to Rely On to Get by are Nowhere to Be Found.

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A significant number of new jobs added since the 2008 economic meltdown are in low-paying industries like food service and home health care, a recent Wall Street Journal analysis found. At the same time, many traditional middle-class jobs, like those in construction and manufacturing, have vanished The news isn’t all bad. The U.S. economy has […]

#Leadership : LinkedIn’s HR Chief says the Best Managers Exhibit these 7 Behaviors… The Best Managers Exhibit All of the Behaviors they Demand of their Employees.

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Microsoft may have recently announced that it is acquiring the professional social network LinkedIn for $26.2 billion, but LinkedIn will continue operating independently. Its management culture has been shaped by its founder and chairman Reid Hoffman, its CEO Jeff Weiner, and its head of HR, SVP of Global Talent Organization Pat Wadors. Wadors spoke with […]

#Leadership : 5 Signs You’re Much Smarter Than Average…If a Lot of These Items Do Apply to You, you Just Might be Smarter Than the Average Bear.

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Intelligence, or IQ, isn’t what you know, but rather the pace at which you acquire new information. Longitudinal studies have shown that IQ is fixed at an early age, so you’re stuck with what you’ve got. While IQ is far from being the only thing that determines success in life — research shows that it isn’t […]

Your #Career : How to Answer ‘Why Should I Hire You?’…This is Where you Stand Out from the Crowd. Once you’ve Established your Ability to Deliver on Core Competencies of the Job you can Consider yourself at Least as Impressive as the Best Qualified Candidate.

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It’s one of the most popular questions in interviews, and also one of the most understandable. Why not hear why your future employee is right for the role straight from the horse’s mouth? Why then, does it fill us with so much trepidation? Partly because there’s no way of tricking this question, you’ve just got […]

#Leadership : How Leaders Can Engage & Retain Top Sales Talent…Turnover: Minimum 20%. Fact: 71% of Companies take 6 Months or Longer to Onboard New Sales Reps; & at a Third of All Companies it Take 9 Months or More.

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According to Glassdoor, professionals working in sales can make well into the six figures and are one of the most popular positions companies seek to fill. But retention tends to be low with the pressure to meet numbers, lack of adequate training and inevitable rejection. 71% of companies take 6 months or longer to onboard […]

#Leadership : Are You Hurting Your Career With Corporate Jargon?…When we have to Dedicate Time & Energy towards Figuring out What someone is actually Talking About, we(your Team) is Inherently taking Away Time & Energy we Could be Putting Towards our Work.

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Mindshare? Sticky wicket? Straw man? Power alley? Can you improve your credibility and achieve better results simply by eliminating corporate jargon from your vocabulary? James Sudakow had declared war on the use of stupid corporate lingo. In his new book, Picking the Low Hanging Fruit…and Other Stupid Stuff We Say in the Corporate World, Sudakow […]