Smart Lemming Rundown

Roadmap/Agenda for Episode 12 The Smart Lemming Rundown (Episode 12) continues on the series called "The Smart Lemming Guide to Career Development" in Phase 1 called “Assessing Your Career." Understanding that workers are protected by federal law, what do you do when you experience bias or prejudice from coworkers or your boss? As a worker, if you’re a person that belongs to “protected class,” you cannot be targeted for harassment or discrimination. A “protected class” is a term used in U.S. anti-discrimination law, describing ten federally protected classes which are the following: race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, disability, veteran, or genetic information. As an employer or manager, creating diversity in the workplace is not the same as avoiding discriminatory practices. How can managers prevent discrimination and promote diversity? How should employers manage diversity-related issues at work? This week's podcast provides an overview of protected classes

Roadmap/Agenda for Episode 11 The Smart Lemming Rundown (Episode 11) continues on the series called "The Smart Lemming Guide to Career Development" in Phase 1 called “Assessing Your Career." In this podcast, I discuss the ten core competencies or skill set areas for career success, which are the following: Business life Career & Self-Development Productivity and organization Management Marketing and Sales Management Leadership Strategy Small Business or Entrepreneurship Work Tools Mastery Tools and templates With the ten core competencies, I’m proposing that you think of career development like attending college and graduate school. These fields of study have their own "courses" that you should learn as part of your self-directed study at each of the seven career stages. Learn how you can create your own courses for your self-study to get ahead in your job and career. Also, learn the four action items you can take to start your Smart Lemming Curriculum today. In the Smart Lemming Guide to

Roadmap/Agenda for Episode 10 The Smart Lemming Rundown (Episode 10) continues on the series called "The Smart Lemming Guide to Career Development" in Phase 1, which is formerly known as “Planning Your Career, ” but now I’m officially calling it: “Assessing your Career.” The updated career development program can be seen in the image below. I elaborate on organizational roles and goals at each career stage: What organizational roles you will most likely encounter at every career stage in your life, from new worker to the executive level? and What career goals should you have at each stage as you move up the ladder? Discover the three key decision points that you'll encounter as you grow from new worker to senior worker. Learn which discipline will the be gift that keeps on giving throughout your work life. In the Smart Lemming Guide to Career Development series, I discuss each phase, so you can create a shortcut to your career success. I also provide a bonus tip for aspiring V

Roadmap/Agenda for Episode 9 The Smart Lemming Rundown (Episode 9) continues on the series called "The Smart Lemming Guide to Career Development" in Phase 1 called "Planning Your Career” at Step 2 called "Assessing your Career.” Lori elaborates on the sixten traits that workers should have each of the seven career stages, ranging from new worker to VP or entrepreneur. Learn why each attribute or traits are building blocks for subsequent career stages. Learn action items you can take today to find satisfaction in your job and career. In the Smart Lemming Guide to Career Development series, I discuss each phase, so you can create a shortcut to your career success.

Roadmap/Agenda for Episode 8 The Smart Lemming Rundown (Episode Eight) continues on the series called The Smart Lemming Guide to Career Development in Phase 1 called “Planning Your Career” at Step 2 called “Assessing your Career.” Lori elaborates on the fifteen areas of focus for each of the seven career stages. Learn why each area of focus are building blocks for subsequent career stages. Learn action items you can take today to find satisfaction in your job and career. In the Smart Lemming Guide to Career Development series, I discuss each phase, so you can create a shortcut to your career success.

Roadmap/Agenda for Episode 7 Today, I’m continuing my series on The Smart Lemming Guide to Career Development. I’m still in Phase 1 called Planning Your Career, at Step 2: Assessing your Career, by answering the following three questions: What’s involved in assessing one’s career? What are the seven career stages? And why is your career a lot like college and graduate school? How does it affect your career development and career management planning? In the Smart Lemming Guide to Career Development series, I discuss each phase, so you can create a shortcut to your career success.

Roadmap/Agenda for Episode 6 To help overcome these problems: Today, I’m continuing my series on The Smart Lemming Guide to Career DevelopmentPhase 1 called Planning Your Career, Step 1 by answering the following questions: What is career development and management? What’s the role of these two ideas? What does it take to be successful in your current job and career? In the Smart Lemming Guide to Career Development series, I discuss each phase, so you can create a shortcut to your career success.

The Three Phases of Career Development Over the course of my career, I've learned invaluable career lessons that helped me achieve my goals by following this approach to career development. After graduate school, I entered the job market as a product marketing manager, eventually becoming a vice president and entrepreneur. I attribute my career successes to proactively planning and managing my career in the following three phases: Phase 1: Planning your career. Phase 2: Applying your Smart Lemming curriculum approach to career development. Phase 3: Executing curriculum with a 90-day action plans. In the Smart Lemming Guide to Career Development series, I discuss each phase, so you can create a shortcut to your career success.

The Smart Lemming Rundownis a shortcut to career management success by recommending three business books that help you: How you can construct a realistic path to enduring success. How you can defend yourself in office politics or collect political power in a way that's not selfish. How to forge an effective relationship with those above you. Just Enough by Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson After reading Just Enough, you'll learn to how to prevent setting yourself up for failure by creating a sequential strategy, not a Big Goal approach. Just enough reflects a multidimensional understanding of yourself after you examine your values and belief system, your needs, and unique capabilities. Just Enough rates a 4 on a scale of 4, as a must-read for workers, managers, leaders, and entrepreneurs who want to a better approach to managing their career path that results in enduring success. The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene The 48 Laws of Power teaches the fundamentals of power that workers must understand enteri

The Smart Lemming Rundownis your shortcut to career management success. I explain how these three recommended business books help you: Learn the new science of rapid change by thinking a little while changing a lot. Overcome the conflict between your rational mind and your emotional mind to accomplish transformational change as a person, worker, manager, or leader. Change your old approach to innovation, becoming a disruptive innovator. 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a lot by Richard Wiseman Self-help books are failing us. You've tried visualizing yourself to success, only to remain in the same place that you started. Wiseman outlines research that supports the new science of "rapid change." He provides simple and elegant advice on how to make change in a small amount of time. 59 Seconds rates a 4 on a scale of 4. It's a must-read for everyone. Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath Change is hard. Change is exhausting. Psychologists have discovered that self-co

The Smart Lemming Rundownis a shortcut to career management success by recommending three business books that help you: Find your core purpose in life, one that adds meaning and fulfillment to your work life. Avoid making mistakes at work that make you look bad to your peers or manager. Learn the unwritten rules at work, giving you the upper hand with peers. Passion at Work by Lawler Kang and Mark Albion Kang and Albion five-step model is the perfect tool to discover and execute your career management plan. The Smart Lemming rated Passion at Worka 4 on a scale of 4, as a must-read book for workers and entrepreneurs who want to their passion in work. It rated 2 out of 4 as an optional read for managers and leaders, who are interested in this topic from a Business Life, Leadership, and Management perspective. Managers can use this book as a resource in helping direct reports discover passion in their jobs. Who should read this book? Workers at any stage in their career. The Rules of Work by Richard Templa

I decided to launch a podcast to share what I've learned, and how I've used this knowledge in managing my career. This week I discuss three must-read career management books and explain why you should be reading them. The First 90-Days by Michael Watkins The First 90 Days provides an approach to how to learn as much as possible about your new company, as fast as you can, during your first 90 days. It teaches you how to transition into a new leadership role by understanding the ten key challenges facing new hires. This book taught me how to conduct a Needs Assessment when taking on leadership roles. This book assists you in developing a 90-day plan to achieve results. Below is the Smart Lemming rating for The First 90-Days. SmartLemming.com rates The First 90 Days a 4 on a scale of 4, as a must-read book for workers, managers, leaders, and entrepreneurs, who want to learn how to transition into a new Leadership role part of their Career Management skills. This book also rates 4 out of 4 as must-read for worke