WHERE IS YOUR CAR AND YOUR NURSERY? Is your leadership philosophy one of servant leadership? Wonderful! I would challenge you this week to consider if you are behaving in ways that demonstrate servant leadership. Here are some simple questions to ask yourself: Where is your car parked at the office? Do you have an assigned spot with your name or title on it right up front, or do people simply just know the front row is your parking spot whether a sign is there or not? Or do you discretely park in the back row of the parking lot even
Identifying your Holland Code is a good starting place to consider your passions, but it isn’t the only way to discover what truly cranks your tractor. You can use the Find Your Point Worksheet to identify passions through the categories of people, things and ideas to determine career areas (the passion section starts on page 11). Each item underlined in the worksheet is a link to jobs connected to that dimension. Cool tools for finding your passion Stanford Resources Bureau of Labor Tool Who Do you Want 2 B? Questions to ask yourself What do you spend your free time doing? What do
I’ve been vetting different off-the-shelf employment selection instruments for a client. Here is my advice through questions you should ask yourself in the vetting process as well as some good sources I’ve found for off-the-shelf instruments. Questions to ask yourself if you are considering adding a selection assessment: 1. Have I done a job analysis? If not, you need to do one to know which dimensions your assessment needs to help you select for. 2. After a job analysis, are my main issues in selection skill or will issues? Do I need an aptitude or skills based test
You’ve analyzed your talents and realize you, lets say, have knowledge and skills in the field of biology coupled with the ability to solve complex problems which may lead you to believe a career in medicine is appropriate for you. But you don’t particularly enjoy any of these things and the thought of working with sick people isn’t appealing. Just because you are good at something, doesn’t necessarily mean you enjoy doing it, but oftentimes it does. We typically enjoy what we can do well quite simply because we are good at it. This is where it is important to consider
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