Career Tips To Go
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Career Tips To Go is an online magazine providing practical career advice you can use. It is designed to help people work effectively to achieve the results they deserve and the rewards they desire. The ability to develop and manage a career puts you in control and provides the opportunity to make choices.
Career Tips To Go
3y ago
by Karen Adamedes
I don’t know about you but I am all zoomed out. Teams-ed out and completely over any kind of video conferencing.
What a year it has been!
Don’t get me wrong, I am incredibly grateful to have been able to work through the year. And to have the technology that works (most of the time) to enable me to do so.
But now is the time to take a break. For many of us the festive season is a great opportunity to take some time off and not spend your days viewing the world through a screen.
My tip is if you can, take a break.
And to help you disconnect:
Delegate to someone you trust – a ..read more
Career Tips To Go
3y ago
There are all sorts of background noises to contend with when you work at home
Whether you are on a video call, a teleconference, or just a plain old telephone call you want to minimize background noise. If you’ve got something to say you want to be heard, and you don’t want to have to ask people to repeat themselves. Likewise, you don’t want any unexpected or irritating distractions interfering with your call.
You may not be able to plan for every contingency, such as the neighbor starting up their lawn mower or leaf blower when you are in the middle of an earnest discussion, but you can d ..read more
Career Tips To Go
3y ago
by Karen Adamedes
It’s not always easy to avoid distractions when you are trying to work. There are plenty of them about. Regardless of where you are working.
They eat into your productivity and often result in needing to work longer hours. Ever get to the end of the day and wonder where the hours have gone?
The phone, whether it rings or not, can be a major distraction. A 2018 Deloitte survey found that Americans check their phone on average 52 times a day. A study in Britain showed that they check their phones every 12 minutes, every day. So you don’t even need the phone to ring to lose you ..read more
Career Tips To Go
3y ago
by Karen Adamedes
There may be no one at the next desk to be envious of (or complain) about the aroma of your lunch, or any health risks associated with the germs that might be on a shared keyboard… but that doesn’t mean you should eat lunch at your desk when you work from home. (This also applies to breakfast and dinner as well!).
Avoid the crumbs
I’m the first to admit that I have eaten lunch at my desk more times than I should have. The reasons are always the same: no break between meetings; a never-ending inbox of emails; a constantly ringing phone; and, probably the worst reason of all ..read more
Career Tips To Go
3y ago
by Karen Adamedes
We’ve previously talked about the importance of mentors and that they can be a valuable career asset. Mentors can provide knowledge, guidance on your career, access to networks, and honest, valuable feedback. Or they might simply be a sounding board – to discuss how you handled a situation or how you should tackle something in the future.
The question is who could be a mentor for you? And how on earth do you ask them to help you?
Here’s 3 potential people who could be suitable mentor targets for you. And suggested approaches you could make to them:
Mentor Target 1: Someone y ..read more
Career Tips To Go
3y ago
by Karen Adamedes
You probably want your career to keep developing even though you are working from home? There is no reason why it should stagnate and that you can’t be working towards your goals, just because you are not working out of someone else’s office. And certainly no reason why you can’t be working with a mentor.
Ongoing career development is important so that you have choices for your future. Choices about where you work, who you work for, and the kind of work you do. There are a number of things you can do to be working on your career – even if you are in lockdown. Working with a ..read more
Career Tips To Go
4y ago
You can spend more time with your furry friend
by Karen Adamedes
Some days it can be difficult to remember the things to love about working from home. It can be challenging when you are in the same four walls, day in day out. Without the option to go to the office for a change of scene or a bit of a chat.
Even before the pandemic, research suggested that the happiest workers were those that worked from home 3 – 4 days a week. You can be productive most of the week and then some social interaction thrown in on the other days. Now that working from home is a full-time gig for many of us, it c ..read more
Career Tips To Go
4y ago
by Karen Adamedes
The ability to share your screen is one of the greatest uses of technology when you are working from home. You can use this feature to make presentations, conduct training, work on a document with other people, or simply share a document or website that you are referring to. If you can see it on your screen, you can share it if you are using a collaboration tool.
Over the years I have had a number of calls from staff members confessing that they were online chatting during a video conference and their ‘private’ discussion (usually about someone else on the call) had been see ..read more
Career Tips To Go
4y ago
by Karen Adamedes
Keeping in touch ensures that you stay ‘top of mind’ when you work from home. This is particularly important with time-poor managers and clients who must make decisions in a hurry or when they are under pressure. You want them to think about you! For your career to develop or your client list to grow it’s essential that you are visible.
It’s important to be ‘top of mind’
Being top of mind, or at least remembered, when there are opportunities can be important to being successful in your work. Office-based associates, who may have greater access to people and information, or t ..read more
Career Tips To Go
4y ago
by Karen Adamedes
Unless you live alone, your home is not just your home. You might share it with family, friends or housemates. They might not be there all the time while you are working. But chances are they’ll be in the house at some stage when you are trying to work. And if you are living under stay-at-home orders they might be there ALL the time.
When you work from home, you know what you need from the people you live with. They need to be quiet, not interrupt you (particularly while you are on the phone), not play the TV too loud, and if they bring you the occasional cup of coffee, tea ..read more