It’s Your Career—Strengthening Your Perceptual Acuity

From Art Petty, writing at the Management Excellence blog: The ability to see around corners or, see over the horizon, are two phrases that relate directly to the idea of perceptual acuity. While we’re barred by physical faculties from literally achieving those feats of optical gymnastics, as professionals, we are accountable for attempting to translate the external noise from our customers, our competitors, the new developments in technology and the many other forces propelling our world and our industries and then making decisions to either exploit opportunities or mitigate risks. Those who do this successfully…great strategists, product managers, management teams, entrepreneurs and innovators of all kinds, strive to see patterns and opportunities where the rest of us might see randomness. Here are 5 ideas to help you strengthen your professional acuity:

By |2016-10-22T17:11:10-05:00April 1st, 2015|Career, Product Management|0 Comments

Eliminate “I never heard that before” from Your Workplace Conversations

I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve heard the phrase, “I never heard that before,” or, its slightly more grammar challenged equivalent, “No one ever told me that before,” in response to performance feedback. It’s sad and annoying all at the same time to hear those words.

Just One Thing: Learn to Fight Your Negativity Bias

We all know people who seem to thrive on the negatives in life. They can look at what is perceived by others as a beautiful picture and spot the flaws, almost taking pride in their role as watchdogs against perfection. Here are 4 ideas and several resources to help reduce your negative self-talk and improve your effectiveness and happiness as a leader and person:

By |2016-10-22T17:11:27-05:00August 1st, 2012|Career, Just One Thing, Leadership|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™: Assessing the View on You

Understanding how big your “perception gap” is and working to close this gap is an important part of your professional development program, regardless of your role. And like everything else in life worth pursuing, measuring and managing your “perception gap” takes time, effort and the willingness to do something about the problem-areas. Here are 11 Actions that will help you measure and manage your perception gap.

By |2016-10-22T17:11:37-05:00July 18th, 2011|Leadership, Leadership Caffeine|2 Comments

The Millennial View: Fixing Our Shortcomings

Eric Rodriguez is the voice of The Millennial View here at Management Excellence. His periodic posts offer insights from early career professionals seeking to navigate their way through this challenging world. Today's post encourages all of us, regardless of generation, to renew our commitment to overcoming the weaknesses that keep us from reaching our personal and professional goals.

By |2016-10-22T17:11:39-05:00May 13th, 2011|Career, Project Management|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™: Prepare Your Attitude Daily to Lead Effectively

If as Woody Allen indicated, “80-percent of success is just showing up,” the gross majority of the rest of success must be attributable to adopting the right attitude. I’ll leave a little wiggle room in there for the propensity to act and our good friend, luck. Here are six ideas to help you prepare your positive attitude daily.

By |2016-10-22T17:11:43-05:00January 10th, 2011|Leadership, Leadership Caffeine|9 Comments
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