How to Be the Manager Everyone (Including You) Wants to Work For
Over the course of a highly eclectic career, I’ve had the ah, opportunity, to observe the management skills (or lack thereof) of many bosses. Since almost no one is trained in how to manage people...
View ArticleThe Broaden-and-Build Career
While doing research for a client recently I came across the Broaden-and-Build theory of positive emotions – basically, you’re building on your existing positive emotions to broaden your positive...
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Modeling Your Message, or What to Do When You Keynote PPT Goes Nuts
Recently I had the amazing honor of giving the wrap-up keynote at the 2015 SLA conference. The conference itself was a pretty intense several days, as SLA is currently undergoing some very difficult...
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Forget Resolutions, Focus on Your Dreams
A new year. A blank slate to write on, experiment with, screw up, laugh about, and grow with. An open space within which to wander and dream. Why waste it on resolutions that don’t reflect those...
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Invest/Maintain/Kill: Awful Way to Treat Employees, But Smart Way to Manage...
I’ll admit I’m not a big fan of Yahoo CEO Melissa Mayer, and the spate of recent articles about her stealth layoff approach (here’s one) remind me of one of the things I like best about being an...
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Learning about Data Librarianship
One of the questions with emerging LIS career opportunities is how to retool your traditional library skills to bridge into these cool new career paths. If you’re interested in data librarianship, I’d...
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Conference Proposals 101: What, When, and How to Submit Yours
As you grow your LIS career, one of the most effective ways to build your professional reputation and visibility is to present at conferences. You’ll have a chance to share your expertise with...
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No Conference Budget? No Problem. Do This Instead (and Don’t Spend a Dime)
Professional conferences can be a great LIS career booster – in-person networking, learning from cutting-edge presentations, immersing yourself in the dynamic energy of the profession or a new-to-you...
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Becoming an Agile Learner – As Painlessly as Possible
Ever since Darwin nailed the whole ‘adaptability equals survivability’ thing, it’s been pretty clear that being able to navigate changing circumstances was going to be critical to… well, just about...
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Find Your Tribe
Recently I gave a talk to the Rocky Mountain SLA chapter on adaptive competence. It’s basically the ability to repurpose if not reinvent your LIS career (pretty much on demand) as market needs and...
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Reflections: what did you learn?
By now you’ve probably seen all sorts of “best-of” lists. Best books, best movies, best posts, and on a personal level, perhaps you’ve even created your own list of personal bests. A few years ago, I...
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Use Google for Scholarly Research? Yep, and Here’s How
In his excellent guide Harnessing the Power of Google: What Every Researcher Should Know (Libraries Unlimited, 2017), author Christopher C. Brown asserts that: Librarians often hear from students that...
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Making the most of your starter job
Or, why you should consider that job in Smalltown, USA Recently I had an opportunity to work with a young woman who had just graduated from an MLIS program. She was unsure of how to proceed with her...
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Losing steam already? 7 approaches to achieve your 2018 goals
So how’s the resolution stuff coming? According to the experts, something like 40%-45% of Americans make New Year’s resolutions, with generally less-than-stellar success rates. Been there, done that....
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Questions to Move You Forward in 2019
Ask the right questions if you’re going to find the right answers. – Vanessa Redgrave I love the end of the year. It’s an opportunity to celebrate the fact that I’ve weathered yet another 12 months of...
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Best LIS Career Books – 2019
Ah… yep, it’s gonna be one of those “better late than never” kind of years, at least getting started! But wanted to make sure you were aware of the really terrific LIS career books that landed this...
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