The Negative Income Streams

The Negative Income Streams Yesterday I announced the 2019 theme to be income streams. Ive talked about your job being one income stream, and I encourage you to create other income streams. What we havent talked about is the important topic negative income streams. This feels harder for me than thinking about creating a new income stream! Im talking about what you are spending. Where does your money go. How much money goes to fast food. How much money goes to things that are frivolous. How much money goes to things you dont even know about, like subscriptions that you dont use. What can you do to decrease your negative streams? I want to plant this seed in your mind, as you think about income streams, because decreasing negative income streams decreases your need to add more income. I like Dave Ramsey. you might like someone else. Think about this topic, though, and plan for it. I want you to become financially independent, and decrease the power that someone who can terminate your job has over you. Understanding how and where you spend money, and taking charge of it, can help. The Negative Income Streams Yesterday I announced the 2019 theme to be income streams. Ive talked about your job being one income stream, and I encourage you to create other income streams. What we havent talked about is the important topic negative income streams. This feels harder for me than thinking about creating a new income stream! Im talking about what you are spending. Where does your money go. How much money goes to fast food. How much money goes to things that are frivolous. How much money goes to things you dont even know about, like subscriptions that you dont use. What can you do to decrease your negative streams? I want to plant this seed in your mind, as you think about income streams, because decreasing negative income streams decreases your need to add more income. I like Dave Ramsey. you might like someone else. Think about this topic, though, and plan for it. I want you to become financially independent, and decrease the power that someone who can terminate your job has over you. Understanding how and where you spend money, and taking charge of it, can help.

9 Tips for Being a Powerhouse GirlbossÂ

9 Tips for Being a Powerhouse Girlboss   Youve busted through the glass ceiling of this so-called mans world, and now you are the woman in charge.   A true girlboss!   So, how do you ensure that you are a fair and balanced leader, a well-respected force to be reckoned with and a rock star at your job? Being a great boss is really hard. No one gets it perfectly right. The best girlbosses are  both self aware and constant learners. They are curious and ask tough questions, as well as give clear direction.  They are powerhouse communicators. Over my corporate career, I developed a series of guiding principles by learning from some fantastic leaders at great companies to help me become a confident and successful woman leader. When it comes to bosses, Ive seen it allâ€"the good and the bad. Whether youre managing a small staff of sales people at your very own shop or you’re a newly appointed CEO in charge of a team that will look to you  for guidance each and every work day, you need a solid plan. If you are a  girlboss or want to be one,  consider  my nine tips for success: Learn from the good and the bad. All of us have seen great leaders in our careers and admired them.   We have also experienced terrible leaders.   What made the great leaders great and the terrible leaders so bad?   Emulate the best boss behaviors that encouraged or inspired you in your career; and use the worst boss behaviors, the ones that made you lose trust for your leaders or left you feeling frustrated in your work place, as examples of what not to do ever. Make it easy for your team to tell you bad news. It’s an age-old problemâ€"no one wants to be the bearer of bad news.   The sooner the news is revealed, the sooner you can mobilize the team on solutions.   Great bosses share troubling news up the chain of command as early as possibleâ€"they don’t leave it until the smoke develops into a fireball. In my new book, Love Reconsidered, the character Trish is a strong girl boss. She begins her new role as leader by creating a welcoming, trusting professional environment for her employees to communicate with her. They feel confident in being able to share difficult news with Trish. As the boss, you must invite conversation and not be afraid to ask probing questions to seek out issues before they develop into full fledged crises. Be fair, but decisive on personnel issues. Everybody makes mistakes and deserves a second chance, but when an employee continually struggles at routine tasks and assignments and has received counseling and additional training, you must act.   Those who work with a struggling team member most likely are picking up the slack and resent it. Sometimes you need to make the needs of the whole team a priority over a single employee, when faced with a staff member who cant perform. If you let personnel issues drag on, you aren’t leading. Work to resolve what you can, offer help, but if all efforts fail, its up to you to decide whats best for your team. Recognize how to bring the best out of your diverse team. Organizations are diverse, but often have distinct cultures.   Perhaps you have a “loud” culture, but you have a quiet team member who is brilliant and needs to be nudged to contribute. In many cases, leaders naturally gravitate to team members who are like them or have a similar work ethic.   Spend as much time with those who aren’t like you, and you might be surprised at what you can learn from them! You will set a positive example for the entire team. Seek to embrace all in your diverse team, demonstrating that all types of workers can succeed under your leadership. Personify the mission and values of your organization. Too often, the mission and values of an organization can get lost with negative behavior and crushing bureaucracy.   Paying lip service to values or faking it is apparent to all. Even when others don’t, stay true to the core mission and values to be a role model for your organization. Acknowledge mistakes and move forward. No leader is perfect.   Maybe you had a bad day, made a mistake or sent a damaging email when frustrated by the behavior of others. (Always remember the rule to move away from the keyboard when angry or upset). You are the boss, and your behavior is under a microscope, examined and dissected by everyone in your department and those outside.   Apologize if necessary, but put the episode in the rear view mirror. Know when you are wrong, admit it and move on. Do something to help your employees advance every day. Staff get behind a leader who helps her team get ahead.   In Love Reconsidered, Trish     recognizes her employees hard work and talents and encourages them to advance themselves and learn new skills, even if temporary staff issues were created for her department. Put time into picking the right people and then develop, recognize and reward them appropriately, so they feel valued. Take real, personal action to hire, promote, develop and reward your team. Be available. One-on-one meetings give you the opportunity to provide real-time feedback on individual performance and seek feedback on your performance as well. Your staff will appreciate that youre making time to talk about their projects with them individually. Just be sure to be punctual and to mute your phone so you can show your respect for your staffers time. If they feel respected, they will perform at their best. Create opportunities for your team members to have meaningful exchanges with you. Give credit. The less you use “I” the better!   Make sure that your team’s achievements are recognized up the chain. Always give credit to the key contributors, and never take credit for their work. Be sure to publicly celebrate key achievements. Enhance your own stature by giving credit and recognizing others. All of these things are easier said than done, but, remember, you broke through the glass ceiling to get where you are today, so anything is possible.   Trust your instincts, be an intentional communicator, and stay true to these guidelines, increasing your chances of being recognized as a strong and well-respected girl boss. This guest post was authored by Phyllis Piano. Phyllis Piano spent more than 30 years working in Fortune 500 companies, serving as an officer in several.   She is a member of the International Advisory Committee of APCO Worldwide. Her first novel, Hostile Takeover: A Love Story, was published in October, 2016.   Her second novel, Love Reconsidered, will be published in August, 2017.  

Get what you want by capitulating to demands of others

Get what you want by capitulating to demands of others I get up at 5am to drive my son to his cello lessons in Chicago. On Saturday hes in lessons for four hours. I wake him and he says, No. Its too early. Its too hard to drive to Chicago all the time. I cant do it. I dont say anything. I sit on the side of the bed, in the dark, and I cant force a seven-year-old to drive sixteen hours a week for cello. This is crazy. I cant do it. My son glances over at me from his squishy warm pillow. I decide Ill let him sleep. Then he throws off the covers, bounds out of bed and says, Im just like the kids in the video! I have to work hard if I want to be great! All great artists suffer! I have to suffer on the drive! Lets go! In the car, my son watches the The Rachel Zoe Project. I have learned so much about the fashion industry from that show, like when youre picking a dress for the Oscars, you dont try the dresses on, a body double does. I can understand that. Getting dressed is hard work. Which is why Im in the car in my pajamas. I get dressed on the way to Chicago. At stop lights. Not that we have a stoplight for the first hour of the drive. We live an hour from a stoplight. So, you can imagine, when you live that far from civilization, its hard to get out of pajamas. In the car I am busy learning about fashion and getting dressed and then, when we hit Rockford my son puts on  Regular Show, which I like, but I cannot listen to each episode fifteen times. So I start falling asleep. I tell myself that we are going to die and I slap my cheeks and I get out of the car twice to freeze my brain into staying awake and I am still asleep. I decide Im going to stop at a gas station and buy junk food but we just passed the gas station and I was self-congratulatory about not stopping for junk food and now we have another hour before another gas station. I call Melissa. Are you awake? Its not an emergency, but can you get up? Yeah. Im up. Okay. Good. Happy birthday. And can I dictate a post to you? Im falling asleep. Okay. Hold on. Let me get my headset. Wait. No. You cant do a post now. You have a coaching call right now. Oh. Youre right. Okay. Bye. My coaching call is early Saturday morning because the guy is in a far away time zone working for a company that you have definitely heard of. He reports to the CEO at his company. From his email I found that hard to believe, but now that Im talking to him, I see its true, and I cant help thinking that he makes millions of dollars a year and its ridiculous that Im charging him only $250 for this call. He has an interesting job because the person he reports to is not an expert in their particular industry. So this guys job is to be the industry expert. Who knew there were jobs like this in the Fortune 1000? Okay. So we are talking and we get to the next gas station and I decide to leave my son in the car with the car on and run in and buy something sugary just in case I start falling asleep again. But in the candy aisle I lose the call. I decide Ill just pay fast and then call him back, but I get to the car and it turns out his callback went automatically to the car, and for the last few minutes my son has been talking to the guy on speaker. When I finish the call Im halfway to Chicago with nothing to do but eat my new emergency sugar supply. I tell myself this is not an emergency because I can dictate a post. I call Melissa. Me: Lets do a post. Melissa: Okay. Ill put on my headset. You should write a post where you use that photo of us sitting next to each other wearing the same boots. Me: Oh yeah. I love that photo. But Im not using it today. Melissa: You should. Me: Shut up. Melissa: Okay. Me: Get What You Want By Giving Other People What They Want Melissa: Thats the title? Me: Yeah  The last time I flew with my son and his cello, we did not book a seat for his cello. I had a plan to pretend that I am stupid and didnt know I needed to book a seat for the cello and then theyd give me a free seat. Melissa: Oh, I have a great link for you. Me: What? Shut up. Ive told you a hundred times not to interrupt me while Im dictating or I cant keep track of where I am. Melissa: Well, this will help you think. Me: No it wont. I already dont know what Im thinking. Okay. Fine. Tell me the link. Melissa: This guy accrued thousands of frequent flier miles for his cello but Delta cancelled them. Me: You cant accrue miles for the cello? Melissa: No. But hes fighting it. Me: I should have put both kids on the violin. You dont realize what an expensive decision the cello is when you have a four year old playing on a cello the size of a large frying pan. Melissa: Is that part of the post? Me: No. Ready? Okay.  So the flight attendant was onto me right away. I told her we already bought three first-class seats so could we just have another for the cello? She said that there were not extra seats she could sell me. I began feeling really sorry that I tried this scheme. I told myself I was never going to push the limits of seat selection again. And she could tell I was dejected and sorry I ever had this dumb idea. I said I was sorry. Because I was. Then she came up with an extra seat. Melissa: If youre going to write about you making a scene at the airport, you should write about how much your kids hate it when you make a scene. And then you can use that link I sent to you about how Disney should have an introverted princess. Your posts where you talk about how great introverts are always do well. Me: What? Shut up. I cant think. Its not your post. We will do a separate post that is yours. Melissa: Okay. When? Me: I dont know. Later. Melissa: How about for my birthday? Me: No. You said you dont even care about birthdays. Silence. Me: Youre sad. Okay. Im sorry Hey! Wait! Didnt you get flowers? I sent you flowers for your birthday and they were supposed to come yesterday so you could wake up happy on your birthday. Where are they? Melissa: You sent flowers? Me: Yeah. And I got a delivery confirmation. Melissa: Oh. Maybe they are on the porch. Let me check no. They are not there. Me: Blah. Okay. Ill call and find them Wait. No. Can you call and find them? Its part of your job. Melissa: You are going to pay me to find my flowers? Me: Its the thought that counts. So Melissa calls to find her flowers. And I search for her links while she finds her flowers. Because I can see that if I am going to get a post written, its going to have to be the post she wants. Here is the link about the injustice of frequent flier miles for inanimate objects. Here is the link about the need for introverted princesses from Disney. And here is the photo of the flowers that finally arrived this morning. Do you know what I love about this photo? Melissas artwork in the background. She buys art at thrift stores and somehow manages to buy stuff that is good. And then she had the brilliant idea of hiring a gallery owner to figure out how to hang the art in her apartment. Melissa wanted to hang the art in an orderly way. She is an orderly person. But the gallery person wanted the art to be her own vision. Which is why, of course, you hire a gallery person to hang your art. So Melissa let the person hang it how they want, and it turned out great. And I tried to write a post about my topic and Melissa had her own idea about how we are writing the post. But look, I got a post. Which goes to show that you can get what you want by giving other people what they want, if you hire amazing people to work with you.

Systems Engineer Job Description Sample - Algrim.co

Systems Engineer Job Description Sample - Algrim.co Systems Engineer Job Description Template Download our job description template in Word or PDF format. Instant download. No email required. Download Template Using Your Template Follow these instructions to use your new job description template Step one: Fill out all details in your job description template using the provided sample on this page. Step two: Customize your requirements or duties to anything special to your workplace. Be sure to speak with team members and managers to gauge what's required of the position. Step three: When the census of the team has agreed on the description of the work, add in a Equal Employment Opportunity statement to the bottom of your job description. Step four: Check with your legal department, management team, and other team members to ensure the job description looks correct before creating a job advertisement. Choose a job board that's specific to your needs.

What Is A Good Administrative Assistant Resume Example?

What Is A Good Administrative Assistant Resume Example?When you need to recruit the most appropriate applicant for an administrative assistant position, an administrative assistant resume example can be of great help. This is a resume that describes an individual's experience and skills required for this particular job.However, before you give this resume example a try, it is essential that you know that there are a lot of choices when it comes to how you would want your application to look like. One of these choices would be the use of graphics on the resume example. This can enhance your chances of getting noticed, especially if you use the right graphics on your own personal application.As an administrative assistant, you have to deal with a lot of different files and documents. You will have to make sure that the one you are using for your application will be enough to show you your achievements. Most importantly, you need to make sure that your resume example is well presented, and thus you can make a good impression of yourself.The use of graphics can really make a big difference in how your application will make a good impression. You may want to write a general description of what you are capable of doing, and you can do so by using different color tones to highlight your achievements and abilities. Using this, you will be able to convey the message to your employer that you are a valuable person.In this way, your application will come across as something fresh and different, and you will certainly catch the attention of your potential employer. This is a technique that is commonly used in creating applications for an office or other type of administrative department.If you plan to create your own administrative assistant resume example, then you should keep the use of graphic to a minimum. Because this is not the best option for highlighting your achievements, as the use of a resume example usually does. Instead, you can simply include your name, your job title, your contact details, and what types of jobs you have been able to do.It would be best if you also include some testimonials from previous employers that would highlight your technical qualifications. Most of all, you need to highlight your work experience, educational achievements, skills, hobbies, professional relationships, and work experiences in your administrative assistant resume example. Some companies do not care about the technological knowledge you have, so it would be best to list all of your personal technical expertise.Before you leave it to chance, you should carefully make a decision of how you want your administrative assistant resume example to look like. Make sure that the color scheme you chose is reflective of your qualifications. Also, ensure that you don't go overboard on the quality of the graphics.

Have the Rules of Job Search Changed

Have the Rules of Job Search Changed If you havent been job hunting within the last year, I think youll find things are a bit different. In fact, the rules of job search have changed. These are 5 ways the rules of job search have changed and what you need to do to improve how you search for a new job. Competition is Fierce In many industries and pockets of the country, hiring is on the upswing. Thats good news. As a matter of fact, there has probably not been a better time to look for work in the last three years! But, and this is a huge BUT! Competition is fierce. There are tons of qualified (even over-qualified) candidates applying for every job. Why does this matter to you? Here are just three things you can do to better compete. You will want to: Stand out! Do more than just sit back and expect a call! Be well connected! STAND OUT The resume you submit has to be specifically crafted to match the job and company you are applying for You should have a strong personal brand and online presence You will need to understand keywords and search engine optimization BE ASSERTIVE Find inside connections  who can give you the low-down on what is going on in the hiring process Follow up after you apply for every job and dont give up when you dont hear back Be hungry and sure about what you are looking for and the value you add HAVE A STRONG SPHERE OF INFLUENCE Know key people inside and outside of your industry Build strong relationships with friends, family and past colleagues Give as much as you get and always be paying it forward (help other people) Timing is everything While your sense of urgency is quite real, the companies doing the hiring operate under a clock that moves and a much slower pace. Hiring takes longer. There are fires that need to be put out which take precedence over filling an opening. Be patient. Switch your approach by doing more of these things! The bottom line here is that people hire people! Period!

Career Inspiration from Steve Jobs

Career Inspiration from Steve Jobs When re-reading Steve Jobs commencement address at Stanford University in 2005 I was struck by two specific passages: “And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” “Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Dont lose faith. Im convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. Youve got to find what you love.” I have met with countless clients who are taking the first steps in following their hearts to find a career they love. These individuals know that something is missing in their current job or career. Their heart is telling them that their current career is not the right fit for them. In fact, I was one of those individuals several years ago before I went through my career transition. Some individuals come into my office knowing what it is that they want to do, but they are scared to take the next step. For most people, a career transition is not an easy process to go through. There are many factors involved from the tactical (concerns about money, additional educational requirements) to the emotional (fear of failure, mistrust in ourselves). A Career transition  is a journey, from identifying what your path is, to creating a plan to get there, to taking the active steps necessary to execute that plan. A career coach or counselor can help you through each of these steps. They can help you fully explore the ideas your heart and intuition are telling you about the next step in your career. Or if you don’t have any ideas on the next career move, they can help you find a career that fits your personality, values, skills, interests. They can help you create a plan to get to that next career which will include identifying ways you can gain the necessary skills for the career you want. Career coaches and counselors can partner with you as you begin to execute your plan to move to the next career, and help you when you get stuck or come to a crossroads. Finally, a coach will be there to provide you with support as you go through the transition. Steve Jobs loved his career for a variety of reasons. Ask yourself today, do you love yours? Are there steps you can take to love your career more? Whether it is your current career or the one you were meant to do, remember, follow your heart and intuition.