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Looking for a new job or want to move up in your company? Lesa teaches you the tools and strategies you need to land your dream job, increase your promotability, and successfully navigate your career.

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216: Your Emotional Intelligence Profile

Emotional Intelligence has been a hot topic for some time now. To my mind, this focus on emotional intelligence is recognition that it isn’t just what you can do for your employer that is valuable, but rather how you do it. How you show up for your coworkers, your boss, your direct reports, your customers, your vendors. Today we’ll talk about the competencies and how they connect to your work environment with IQ, EI, and technical expertise.

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Work Issues Lesa Edwards Work Issues Lesa Edwards

215: How to Work Around a Debilitating Boss

Today’s topic is How to Work Around a Debilitating Boss. Notice that I didn’t call it a Toxic Boss. There’s a fair amount of overlap between what we might call toxic and debilitating. Rather than focus on whether your boss’s behavior is toxic or debilitating, let’s instead focus on bad boss behavior and what to do about it.

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Resume Lesa Edwards Resume Lesa Edwards

214: What Should I Include - and Leave Off - My Resume?

I get a lot of questions about what should, and shouldn’t, be included in a resume. I also see a lot of resumes that include information that shouldn’t be there. Keep in mind that your resume should be a marketing document. You are selling a product, and that product is YOU. Today, we will cover what should ALWAYS be on your resume, NEVER should be on your resume, and what MIGHT be on your resume.

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Job Search Lesa Edwards Job Search Lesa Edwards

212: The +1 Approach to Job Boards

Today, I want to zero in on something I have mentioned in other podcasts. I call this my +1 approach to job boards. In my work with clients, I differentiate between active job search strategies and passive job search strategies. Of course I want my clients to focus on active job search strategies but there is a way to make your passive job search a bit more active, using my +1 approach. This is what we’ll be talking about today.

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112: My Journey, and What it Teaches You

I’ve been thinking a lot about my journey lately. Also, with the new year and new decade, it seems like a good time to reflect. I’ve shared bits and pieces of my life with you over the previous 111 episodes, but I decided to dedicate an entire episode to my story — what I’ve learned and how I’ve grown,–in the hopes that it will inspire you. I’m hoping to pull back the curtain in this episode.

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114: Effective Communication at Work

Last week’s episode was on Active Listening, so today I’ll cover Effective Communication. There are four steps to the communication process; at any point in that process something can go wrong: the words you speak, what you meant by those words, the words the listener heard, and what the listener makes those words mean.

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