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May

Eight Lessons to Master Before Becoming a First-Time Manager Part 1

Congratulations! You’ve just been promoted to lead a department in which just yesterday you were a contributing member of the… Continue Reading

Posted in Assessments & Evaluations, Dynamic Training News, Latest Leadership Posts, Leadership Development & Training, Performance Management, Talent Development & Training, Team Building & Alignment

Tagged: ask, assessment, career, clarity, DiSC, diversity, expectation, hiring, humor, idea, leader; trust, listen, manager, MBTI, outcome, performance, promotion, question, skill, standard, stress, success, supervisor, talent, team, transition

Dec

What’s Negotiable in Your Raise, Job Offer or Promotion?

With the war for talent raging in the global marketplace, there has never been a better time to negotiate… Continue Reading

Posted in Career Search Tools & Education, Dynamic Training News, Latest Leadership Posts, Leadership Development & Training, Talent Development & Training, Team Building & Alignment

Tagged: allowance, benefits, compensation, deductions, flexible work, gross pay, insurance, job offer, negotiate, negotiation, net pay, non-payroll compensation, paid time off, payroll, promotion, raise, relocation, salary, severance, stipend, taxes, tuition assistance

May

Accepting or Declining an Offer Letter of Employment

Congratulations on receiving a job offer. Here’s how to handle your offer acceptance or decline it professionally. You got the… Continue Reading

Posted in Career Search Tools & Education, Dynamic Training News, Latest Leadership Posts, Talent Development & Training

Tagged: accept offer, background check, benefits, best practice, bonus, candidate, compensation, decline offer, employment terms, interviewing, job offer, job search, offer letter, promotion, start date, withdraw offer

Nov

How Compensation Decisions Are Made

Understanding how employers make compensation decisions is critical if you want to be effective in negotiating your own compensation package.… Continue Reading

Posted in Career Search Tools & Education, Dynamic Training News, Latest Leadership Posts, Leadership Development & Training, Talent Development & Training

Tagged: benefits, benefits costs, candidate, compensation, cost-of-living, job, labor expense, market-pricing, negotiation, new hire, promotion, raise, salary, salary increase, salary range, salary research, supply versus demand, value of work

Sep

How Volunteering Helped Karen in Her Job Search and Her Career

Karen Guiterrez’s career really took off after she applied what she learned during her time as a weekend volunteer at… Continue Reading

Posted in Career Search Tools & Education, Dynamic Training News, Latest Leadership Posts, Talent Development & Training, Team Building & Alignment

Tagged: career advancement, career development, certification, community engagement, competence, credentials;, education, employment, experience, give back, network, promotion, technical skills, volunteering, work ethic

Mar

Seven Lessons for the New Manager or Supervisor

Congratulations! You’ve just been promoted to lead a department in which just yesterday you were a contributing member of the… Continue Reading

Tagged: ask, assessment, career, clarity, DiSC, diversity, expectation, hiring, humor, idea, leader, listen, manager, MBTI, outcome, performance, promotion, question, skill, standard, stress, success, supervisor, talent, team, transition, trust

Jan

Commonly Confused Words That Carry a High Career Cost – Part 2

This is the second of a two-part series. View Part One here. Most of us recognize the lovable misspoken mailman… Continue Reading

Posted in Assessments & Evaluations, Career Search Tools & Education, Dynamic Training News, Talent Development & Training, Team Building & Alignment

Tagged: assignment, candidates, career, communications, competence, confused words, credibility, employers, first impressions, grammar, hire, homonym, impressions, intelligence, job search, language, negative, positive, promotion, resume, similar words, spelling, spoken, written

Apr

Advancing Your Career With Your Current Employer

A career search best practice is to position yourself for the promotions your employer will make at some time in… Continue Reading

Posted in Career Search Tools & Education, Leadership Development & Training, Performance Management, Talent Development & Training, Team Building & Alignment

Tagged: assignment, career, customer, doer, employee, employer, GEPA, giver, integrity, leader, motive, patient, promotable, promotion, respect, selfless, solution, solver, taker, task, teammate, trust

Mar

What You Don’t Know About Conducting an Effective Job Search Will Hurt You

You may be forfeiting tens of thousands of dollars in future earnings by remaining ignorant of conducting a best-practices job… Continue Reading

Posted in Assessments & Evaluations, Career Search Tools & Education, Dynamic Training News, Leadership Development & Training, Talent Development & Training

Tagged: assessment, best practices, career, career services, compensation, earnings, employment, experience, higher salary, income, Infographic, job, job change, job search, job seeker, merit increase, promotion, salary

Oct

How to Turn an Internship Into Employment

A career search best practice is to gain real-world experience through serving in a paid or unpaid internship related to… Continue Reading

Posted in Career Search Tools & Education, Latest Leadership Posts, Talent Development & Training

Tagged: best practice, candidate, customers, education, employee, experience, expert, feedback, GEPA, hire, improve, internship, interview, interview job, jobs, knowledge, leadership, mentor, performance, promotion, skills, value