Career

How to Own Your One-on-Ones and Boost Your Career

https://prioleauadv.com/archives/607 Your one-on-one meetings with your manager aren’t just another meeting. They’re one of the most powerful tools you have for advancing your career. And here’s the thing that might surprise you: you own those meetings, not your manager. I know there are a lot of guides out there telling managers how to run better one-on-ones […]

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7 tips: how to introduce yourself

https://advychemical.com/community/tpl-2019/ I hate introducing myself. It’s very hard to introduce someone but especially yourself. So here’s what I’ve learned about giving awesome intros: Talk other people up. This may seem counter intuitive, but if you are doing a round robin set of intros, be sure to help others talk themselves up. For example, in a recent

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How to have hallway conversations when you can’t see the hallway

http://penielenv.com/water-damage-restoration-repair-services-vt/ I recently listened to a talk by Michael Lopp about how to be a great manager. During his talk, he stressed the importance of hallway conversations. Hallway conversations are informal conversations about projects, goals and status. As Shez says, they are great for bouncing ideas off people you might not normally interact with and just

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The secret to my success in a field of men? All my friends. My guy friends.

https://radioencuentro.org/transmedia/jayawarmis/ I’ve spent a lot of time over the past few weeks talking about why we have so few women in open source and web development and how to encourage more women to join. (I even got to spend an awesome afternoon with a bunch of girls. I was supposed to be mentoring them but they

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How do I raise enough money to work on my project full time?

https://globalcaredevelopment.com/announcement/ “How do I raise enough money to be able to spend all my time working on my favorite free software project?” is a question I hear often. I have a few ideas and I’m very interested in hearing others as I think the world would be a better place if we all could afford to

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10 skills to master to get things done online

I’ve recently watched a few people struggle to get things done in online projects. I’ve written and spoken on 12 tips for getting things done in the open source community but now I see that people also need to learn how to work with mailing lists and virtual teams. Skills you should master if you

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Why you should only pick one New Year’s Resolution

Tramadol 50 Mg Price  I “multitask” all the time. But every time I’m on a conference call and I have to say “I’m sorry, I didn’t hear that,” I know I can’t really multitask. Nobody can really multitask. When you try to do more than one thing at once, you are actually switching between the tasks continuously. You lose

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