Workplace Wisdom...
Discover Fulfillment in Life and Work
with Michelle Y. Drake

The stress of writing a killer resume and cover letter, of the grueling interview process and of the nail-biting waiting period until you hear from a prospective employer is over.

Congratulations, you got the job!

You breathe a sigh of relief and maybe even break open a bottle of champagne to celebrate. In mid-gulp of the bubbly it hits you: you didn't just get the job, you got a whole new set of issues to stress about, too.

Often we focus so hard on getting the job that we never think about the next step: actually walking into that organization and starting over with a new team, a new boss, a new set of rules, a new EVERYTHING. It's enough to make your head spin!

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Labels: career-advancement

"Help! My boss is a glory hog who keeps stealing all my ideas and taking all of the credit!!!!!"

This was the frantic e-mail I received last week from a listener of my radio show - "Take a Break with Your Career Coach Michelle Yozzo Drake" - on WLIU 88.3 FM Long Island's NPR station. For the sake of her job, let's call her "Becky."

Poor Becky.

Having a boss who steals ideas and credit has got to be one of the worst situations an employee can be in. Why should someone else get the recognition and the rewards when it's YOUR idea in the first place, right? It should be YOU up there getting patted on the back, not your boss, right? After all, he or she has NOTHING to do with the success of your idea, right?

Right? Or is there a little more to the story?...

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Labels: workplace-survival

Who doesn't love a good fantasy now and then...especially when you're in the middle of the World's Most Boring Meeting.

What do YOU dream about? Winning the lottery? Taking a loooong vacation to some tropical locale? Becoming famous? George Clooney?

For many of us, our daydreams are often work-related - it makes sense since most of our day is consumed by work, and unfortunately, not everyone is lucky enough to be working at their dream job.

So we imagine how fantastic it would be to tell our current boss to...ahem...find someone new to fill our position so we can go out into the world and create a business of our own. We dream of taking our passion and turning it into a profitable venture - that's the best of both worlds after all: getting to do what we love every day and GETTING PAID TO DO IT!

But when that boring meeting finally ends, for many people, that's when the daydream ends, too. They tell themselves that it's nothing but a silly dream and they should just keep plugging away at their current job. And then at the next boring meeting or sitting stuck in traffic or before they fall asleep at night, their daydream of starting their own business keeps floating back into their mind.

How do you know if you should quit your job and pursue that dream career or if you should just stay put?

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Labels: career-advancement

Is it just me, or does that pile of work on the desk never seem to get any smaller? It's like an office-based horror flick: files and reports replicating and swarming all over your desk in an uncontrollable blob!

Sometimes no matter how hard you work or how long you sit hunched over your desk until you get a crick in your neck, your in box never seems to get any smaller. While it would be great to solve this problem by simply cutting back on your workload, most of us don't have that luxury - so we have to do the next best thing: be more productive and learn to work smarter, not harder.
The first thing you can do to be more productive is to...

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Labels: organizational-effectiveness