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Marcia Zidle

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Make the Right Career Move: Part 1

Imagine that you’ve been offered two different positions and you have to decide which one…

Improving Yourself

Motivate Your People With Your Drawerful of $100 Bills

The office holiday party was a huge success. Was it just a way to thank…

Leadership Skills

Tips For Starting a New Job

Starting a new role can be both exciting and stressful. It’s moving from the familiar…

Improving Yourself

Career Transition: From Technical Expert to Effective People Manager

Recently I spoke to a talented young software engineer who had been fast tracked into…

Improving Yourself

Employee Coaching: Get the Results You Want

“Managers who coach their people become known as good managers to work for, developers of…

Leadership Skills

Career Change Without Leaving Your Organization

You love the company, the culture and the people. The problem is that you’re bored…

Improving Yourself

Career Advancement: Strengthen Your Company Network

”I’m known as a steady worker but don’t get the choice projects. I know I…

Improving Yourself

How Not to Motivate Your Best And Brightest

Are you seeing a decrease of employee motivation and morale, especially with your top performers?…

Leadership Skills

Effective Management: Should You Break the Rules?

Stop at the red and go on the green. Wait your turn. Treat others the…

Leadership Skills

Advance Your Career: Get Out of the Shadows and Get Noticed

Get Noticed and Out of the Shadows to Advance Your Career Do you sometimes feel…

Improving Yourself

Career Resilience: How to Overcome and Grow From Challenges Part 2

Do you let your failures or missteps derail your dreams or do you bounce back…

Improving Yourself

Change Management: How to Avoid Resistance Part 1

How do you start out on the right foot so that everyone will get on…

Leadership Skills

Career Resilience: How to Bounce Back From Challenges – 1

Career Resilience: How to Overcome Obstacles – Part 1 “I have not failed. I’ve just…

Improving Yourself

Performance Management: How To Do It Right

As a manager, it is your job to ensure that the work gets done right,…

Leadership Skills

10 Job Stress Tips

Life’s little hassles mount up until you say to yourself, “If one more thing goes…

Improving Yourself

Are You Ambitious? How to Grow Your Career

If you’re feeling unchallenged in your present position or an urge to try something new,…

Improving Yourself