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Comment on What Are You Best At? by Susan Wright-Boucher

Susan Wright-Boucher — Wed, 22 May 2013 14:27:51 +0000

Hello Bob,
Some candidates are unable to answer this question. That turns out to be useful as it reveals where they are in their development of self awareness or their ability to be completely candid. Those who do answer, reveal very valuable information about what will make them happy in their next role. For instance, if I’m interviewing someone for an account management role and they say they prefer not to work at an extreme detail level, that will help me assess their candidature against the portfolio that’s currently open. Another thing I’ve heard is a desire to never work alone in an office again. After having tried it, some people use that as an example of something they don’t want to repeat.

How would you answer that question, Bob?

Comment on What Are You Best At? by bob

bob — Wed, 22 May 2013 06:37:12 +0000

What are you not good at or not interested in doing professionally?

Can you please tell me what were the responces for the proposed question. I think it’s a great question that requires some thought.

Comment on The Least You Need to Know About Bedbugs by Merle

Merle — Mon, 06 May 2013 09:08:25 +0000

Wow, this article is fastidious, my younger sister is analyzing
these kinds of things, so I am going to inform her.

Comment on The One Skill That Beats All Other Skills In The Workplace by Susan Wright-Boucher

Susan Wright-Boucher — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 12:21:16 +0000

Hi Ed,

Good quotes.Thanks for introducing me to Jim Rohn’s work and for taking the time to share.

Susan

Comment on The One Skill That Beats All Other Skills In The Workplace by Susan Wright-Boucher

Susan Wright-Boucher — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 12:05:47 +0000

Hi Isabella,

That’s a really good point – especially for professions with an annual educational requirement that only recognizes certain types of learning. Many of us lead hurried lives and have to make decisions based on what we can afford – time wise.

Thank you for sharing your comment. I appreciate it.
Susan

Comment on The One Skill That Beats All Other Skills In The Workplace by Ed Brophy (@IncomeTrue)

Ed Brophy (@IncomeTrue) — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:11:31 +0000

“Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.” ~Jim Rohn

“Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills.
Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.” ~Jim Rohn

Comment on Body Language: The Inside Story by Susan Wright-Boucher

Susan Wright-Boucher — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:16:32 +0000

Hi Matt — Funny! I actually identified a few of my own unhelpful poses, as well. Glad you got value from it.

Susan

Comment on Body Language: The Inside Story by Matt Maresca

Matt Maresca — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 08:21:44 +0000

This was great, I was actually looking for something just like this so I’m glad you shared it Susan. It’s funny, I was actually sitting and holding my neck at the exact moment when she said that touching your neck is an example of an extremely low power pose. Talk about something I’ll never forget!

Comment on The One Skill That Beats All Other Skills In The Workplace by isabellasanctuary

isabellasanctuary — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:10:37 +0000

they used to call this “autodidact” anyways, as a self-directed learner, the one (small/medium sized) problem is that it doesn’t give you a piece of paper that proves you’ve done it. that CAN be a bit of a hindrance. the irony is that there are many things you can learn much faster, much better than in a course. i’ve been thinking to propose to my professional organization to start thinking about giving credits to people who can, one way or another, demonstrate that they’ve learned something in self directed learning. your article gives me a bit of a push to actually do it.

Comment on The One Skill That Beats All Other Skills In The Workplace by Susan Wright-Boucher

Susan Wright-Boucher — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 15:44:27 +0000

Hi Kimba,

So right! Learning is not just for business. Thanks for the tip on Pinterest — I’ll take a trip over there today to see what’s new (and I’ll look you up). And thanks for taking the time to comment today.

Susan

Comment on The One Skill That Beats All Other Skills In The Workplace by Kimba

Kimba — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 14:45:38 +0000

You are spot-on and here’s why I think so: take a look at Pinterest (currently the fastest growing social media site, I think….) – it is chock full of people who are sharing their self-directed learning! Cooking, baking, decorating, writing, its all in there. People may not be in Pinterest for business related self directed learning, but they are learning!

Comment on The One Skill That Beats All Other Skills In The Workplace by Susan Wright-Boucher

Susan Wright-Boucher — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:32:10 +0000

What a great way to look at it, Jean! Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment.
Susan

Comment on The One Skill That Beats All Other Skills In The Workplace by JeanBentley (@SenderOfCards)

JeanBentley (@SenderOfCards) — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:09:34 +0000

Self-Directed learning is very important and usually overlooked. For me its a great way to break up the day.

Comment on The One Skill That Beats All Other Skills In The Workplace by Susan Wright-Boucher

Susan Wright-Boucher — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:37:36 +0000

Hi Dayna — I’m glad you enjoyed the post. Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment!

Comment on The One Skill That Beats All Other Skills In The Workplace by Dayna

Dayna — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:34:04 +0000

Self directed learning is so important in business and life! And it’s up to us to find training and teaching and depend on others to hold our hand. thank you for the post!

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Comment on Sense of Entitlement: The Younger Generations Are Getting a Bad Rap by Susan Wright-Boucher

Susan Wright-Boucher — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 03:42:10 +0000

Stephen, I feel your pain.

When plans are so rudely derailed, the dissonance lingers. Manager Tools is my favourite resource for making sense of today’s management challenges. I hope you enjoy this podcast.
http://www.manager-tools.com/forums-7570

Susan.

Comment on Sense of Entitlement: The Younger Generations Are Getting a Bad Rap by Stephen Shrader

Stephen Shrader — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:50:19 +0000

In spite of our best efforts to screen intern applicants for our learning-in-action opportunities, we continue to be caught off guard to the point of feeling blind-sided by the needs and expectations of these children inside adult-sized bodies. I used to be biased toward applicants over age 28 (theoretically the brain is fully-formed); now I’ll only follow up with applicants who claim to have conceived, tested and implemented an ongoing collaborative effort over a year or more. We’re offering to mentor potential, but having seven adult children between the two of us (four still trying to figure something out for themselves) we don’t find a natural compassion arising in response to the recurring incompetencies and incapacties that come with entitlement-expectation patterns.

Last month I dismissed two interns during their two-week trials, which triggered an ‘exodus’ by a remaining intern and two newly-arrived year-long stipend-supported volunteers. Their departure was without warning, and one of them literally spit and spewed her recriminations, blaming us for her failures and unconfirmed assumptions. That was two weeks ago and I still feel sad and angry, but hopeful to learn what’s here for me. Where is an on-line learning-community we can turn to for tools and skills to develop our discernment and collective wisdom with respect to this?

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Comment on Shortcut to Prosperity by Susan Wright-Boucher

Susan Wright-Boucher — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 04:03:48 +0000

I’m so glad you found it useful, 16maurice! We can all use a little push now and then. Let me know how you like working with the 10 tips once the book arrives.

Susan