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Gen Y Redefines Career Success (and They're Not Sorry) « The Savvy Intern by ... - 0 views

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  • Gary Patton on 04 Mar 13
     
    "Whether or not you are Gen Y, don't be an actor(ess) in someone else's play or believe that a job-job will provide you any measure of security ...any more!" ~ gfp '42™
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Gary Patton's Profile - People Development Specialist - 0 views

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career resuume profile business

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  • Gary Patton on 27 Dec 11
     
    DoYouBuzz is offering a FREE Online Resume that must take second place to a VisualCV one in your quiver of career tools but you can one together VERY quickly. Mine took about fifteen minutes. Have fun building yours to supplement the paper one you're working on. Please let me know how I can help?
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Generation Y: The New Kind of Workforce - 0 views

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shared by Gary Patton on 28 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Fifty percent of world population is under 30 years old.
  • They are digital natives
  • It seems that money isn’t one of the primary motivators for this generation.
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 28 Jan 12
       
      Given the context of immutable human nature, I'm NOT buying this one. But, I'll stand to be corrected as more Gen Ys grow to maturity and more responsibilities in our cruel, hard world of student loans in the context of family commitments.
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  • Generation Y: The New Kind of Workforce
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      Gary Patton on 28 Jan 12
       
      If you're just entering the work force or applying for a new job, don't make the terrible mistake of 64% of college students who ask about their prospective empoyer's social media usage policies in the middle of their job interviews. Approximately 24% also foolishly say it would be a key factor in accepting the offer. If you want to use social media when you're supposed to be working, unless you're being hired to make business posts for you're empoyer, set up your own company because the business world is NOT going to accomodate your preferences on their dime!
  • Cisco recently published its Connected World Report, the results of which are quite shocking.
  • Out of 2,800 college students and young professionals under the age of 30 and hailing from 14 countries, approximately one in three said he/she would prioritize social media freedom, device flexibility and work mobility over salary in accepting a job offer.
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 28 Jan 12
       
      Please note, I'm using red to highligt these statements because of the total lack of wisdom in these behaviours, in my opinion! And I'm the first to admit that I'm an ole guy! But, 45 years of business and industry experince as a consultant has got to warn you ...a little, at least, that I may be correct. gfp
  • 64% of college students asks about social media usage policies during job interviews
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 28 Jan 12
       
      If you want to use social media when you're supposed to be working, unless you're being hired to make business posts for you're empoyer, set up your own company because the business world is NOT going to accomodate your preferences on their dime!
  • approximately 24% says it would be a key factor in accepting the offer.
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      Gary Patton on 28 Jan 12
       
      This is an incredible comment on the lack of wisdom and the sense of entitlement that too many parents of GenY's have inculcated in them, in my opinion. In 2012's and future difficult job markets where few will have the kinds of fulltime jobs prior generations had, this is unbelievably unwise.
  • A Generation Y and Facebook study done by Millennial Branding and Identified shows that Gen-Yers are using their personal networks and profiles as an extension of their professional personality. Even though they are using Facebook to mostly socialize with family and friends, they are inadvertently blending the two.
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      Gary Patton on 28 Jan 12
       
      And when you're asked to prove the value-added you are bringing to your organization by this currently ozymoronic blend, you'll be OK ONLY have you have solid, verifiable proof that you're adding value. Otherwise, you'll probably be fired! The market's full of others who will do it the way most CEOs still want it done ...without attitude or compalining. You can change your organization's culture when you are rewarded, for your value-adding in the way your boss wants it done, by being promoted to senior management. In the meantime: "Do it their way!" ...not Frank Sinatra's recommended "my way"!
  • They are job hopping multiple times in their careers.
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 28 Jan 12
       
      What's the big deal here! It's only members of GenAncient and too many empoyeees in bureaucracies and unions who stayed with one or two organizations thoughout their working life. I started work after University in 1966 and have changed career directions about 10 times even after setting up my own company in 1984 ...when many GenY's weren't even born!
  • If large corporations want to remain competitive, they need to aggressively recruit Gen-Y workers
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 28 Jan 12
       
      And if GenYs are S-M-A-R-T, they'll resist any allures to get into big business. Set up your own company and retain a measure of freedom. "Rich Dad" in Robert Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad; Poor Dad" wass right on with his advice to students now and in the forseeable future. And if you don't know what that advice was, your in trouble in the 21st Century economy that I foresee.
  • These studies show that if companies want to retain young talent, they need to display trust in their young workforce and allow Gen-Yers to operate entrepreneurially within the corporation by giving them control over their time and activities.
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      Gary Patton on 28 Jan 12
       
      While I agree this is accurate for many young people who control their attitude and sense of entitlement, most senior managements don't buy this and they currently run the business world. So get over it for now if you want a job-job! Your best route however is: "Set up your own shop ASAP ..or get with the program!!" ~ gfp '42™
  • social network usage is more of a lifestyle to young employees than a distraction.
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      Gary Patton on 28 Jan 12
       
      And every boss that reads this line is saying: "So what?"
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Dealing with a stress-inducing co-worker - Stress Management - Article - More Than Medi... - 0 views

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  • Gary Patton on 29 Jan 13
     
    Helpful bulleted article.
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The Green Superstate - what the left-leaning, progressive, global warming activists rea... - 0 views

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climate green-washing green green-energy Precuationary Principle Scientific-Administrative Complex

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  • In other words, are the Greens looking after the dolphins, or are the dolphins looking after the Greens?
  • Green is the natural world view of what sociologists call the ‘New Class’.
  • it is a disproportionately powerful class; it is also an ambitious class and frustrated class.’
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  • ‘The growth of [public] research and development funds, particularly after 1956 has multiplied the claimants of funds for science.  Universities have become active political entities in the search for money. Scientists and engineers have started hundreds of profit and non-profit companies to do research and evaluation.
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      Gary Patton on 30 Nov 11
       
      And the biggest disgrace in this "big grab" by the "Scientific-Administrative Complex" is the so-called "War on Cancer" which has bilked billions from a public terrified by the "C Word". All the so-called "experts" knew the natural cure for cancer over 40 years ago when the Scientific-Administartive Complex launched, with the help of bumbling government bureaucrats, "The War on Cancer". Billions of raised, charity dollars later, we have a bigger problem with cancer and more people dying horrible deaths than ever. Meanwhile "researchers", "all wellness societies' management", and three different "physician specialities" are making huge salaries . The Scientific-Administrative Complex will NEVER find a pill or a treatment cure for cancer ...never mind the fact that only God "cures"... because you can't cure a lifestyle or genetic problem with a pill or a treatment. And we all know that the majority of cancers result from lifestyle issues. gfp
  • the influence of the military-industrial complex has been exaggerated, compared to the scientific-administrative complex, which represents ‘an intermingling of government, science and the university, unprecedented in American history.’
  • Oliver (being left wing) decided to edit President Eisenhower’s original sentence, to remove an equally dire warning about the growing influence of the ‘scientific-administrative complex’.
  • Galbraith says, ‘the educational and scientific estate is becoming a decisive instrument of political power.’   And he reminds us that this New Class, ‘owes its modern expansion and eminence to the requirements of the planning system.’
  • a bureaucracy inevitably tends to develop and articulate its own vested interests. 
  • And if no problem can be found, then there must be the threat of a problem – they call it the precautionary principle. 
  • Just as nature abhors a vacuum, every unregulated activity taunts them. 
  • ‘Modern, liberal secular society is based on the revolutionary premise that there is no superior, authoritative information available about the good life or the true nature of human happiness, that this information is implicit only in individual preferences, and that therefore the individual has to be free to develop and express these preferences.
  • “new class” is not easily defined but may be vaguely described.  It consists of a goodly proportion of those college-educated people whose skills and vocations proliferate in a “post-industrial” societ
  • scientists, teachers and educational administrators, journalists and others in the communication industries, psychologists, social workers, those lawyers and doctors who make their career in the expanding public sector, city planners, the staffs of larger foundations, the upper levels of government bureaucracy and so on
  • Gary Patton on 30 Nov 11
     
    The so called "Climate Crisis" is a green-washing application of "The Precautionary Principle" by the new "Scientific-Administrative Complex" in this author's opinion. And they're one scary group with more clout even than the Military-Industrial Complex". It matters not one jot if it's getting cooler or warmer. There must be a problem, the problem must be industrial capitalism (ie, freedom), and the solution must be more State control ...of course. gfp (2011-11-30)
  • Gary Patton on 30 Nov 11
     
    The so called "Climate Crisis" is a green-washing application of "The Precautionary Principle" by the new "Scientific-Administrative Complex" in this author's opinion. And they're one scary group with more clout even than the Military-Industrial Complex". gfp
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The Art of Asking Questions - Ron Ashkenas - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

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business questions coaching tips life-skills

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  • But asking questions effectively is a major underlying part of a manager's job
    • Gary Patton
      Gary Patton on 28 Nov 11
       
      I'd argue effective questioning is everyone's job and a major life ...not just business... skill! It "blows my mind" that theis powerful relationship communication skill is not taught at school. But then, some argue, that John Dewey, one of the Founders of the Humanist Society and principal author of the "Humanist Manifesto"
  • three areas where improved "questioning" can strengthen managerial effectiveness
  • Good managers therefore are always asking themselves and others about what they could do better or differently.
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      Gary Patton on 28 Nov 11
       
      Both getting and giving good feedback is another major life-skill challenge for many of us. Ask me for my S-M-A-R-TBriefing™ on each of these life-skills because ... "All feedback you get or, better, can encourage, is helpful and able to assist you irrespective of it being complimentary, contrarian or contentious!"~ gfp '42™
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  • Many managers don't know how to probe the thought process of their subordinates, colleagues, and bosses — and instead make assumptions about the basis of their actions. And when those assumptions are wrong, all sorts of dysfunctional patterns can be created.
  • probing needs to be in the spirit of accelerating progress, illuminating unconscious assumptions and solving problems
  • many of the best managers I've seen have an uncanny ability to engage in Socratic dialogue that helps people reach their own conclusions about what can be done to improve a plan or project, which of course leads to much more ownership and learning.
  • Asking these questions in a way that does not trigger defensiveness and that is seen as constructive is an important skill for managers.
  • Gary Patton on 28 Nov 11
     
    Few of us are effective questioners. And being good at the skill of asking questions effectively is not just a major underlying part of a manager's job as is the focus in this excellent article. I'd argue effective questioning is everyone's job and a major life ...not just business... skill! A major life challenge of many of us is that we don't know how to probe the thought process of our bosses, colleagues, friends, neighbours ...and especially our partners and other relatives. Instead we make ill-informed and unwise assumptions about the basis of their actions and behaviours. And when those assumptions are wrong ...as they usually are..., all sorts of dysfunctional patterns can result. gfp (2011-11-23)
  • Gary Patton on 28 Nov 11
     
    Discover in this article why what you weren't taught in school can be a major draw-back in your career and life!
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Google+ Pages Now Open For Businesses, Brands, Places & More - 0 views

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google+ social media NBD marketing

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  • Gary Patton on 28 Nov 11
     
    This article was recommended by Mari Smith, a Relationship Media guru via her Tweet today. gfp (2011-11-16)
  • Gary Patton on 28 Nov 11
     
    Discover how best to employ the hottest new social media tool Google+ Pages to build your business and career. Get the inside scoop! GaryFPatton
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How to Get a Raise When Budgets Are Tight - Peter Bregman - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

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  • The formula is based on one simple premise: We can get more money when we demonstrate that we've added more value. And we can add more value when we spend the majority of our time focusing on the work that the most senior leaders in the organization consider valuable. That is almost always work that increases revenue or profits, either short-term or long-term.
  • Make sure that the majority of your effort moves the organization further in those areas.
  • stay on the same page about what's important and how it's impacting the organization.
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  • quantify the impact you're making
  • f your manager starts asking you to do things outside the top two or three things, push back and have a conversation about it
  • After about six months of this laser focus, you're ready to have another conversation with your manager to identify the impact you've had and prove that you've added tremendous value on the things that matter most.
  • That's good timing since most organizations are beginning to think through their departmental budgets and promotions around the six-month mark.
  • It's not a trick. It's in everyone's best interests.
  • even if it requires that you push back
  • ultimately you'll be more productive, your manager will be more productive, and the organization will be more productive.
  • That's money in the bank. It will make your job more secure and you more promotable.
  • During this year's compensation conversation, take whatever is given to you without negotiation.
  • There are always some things that are more important to do than other things. The problem is that most of us aren't clear about what those are,
  • Minimizing that noise is our opportunity
  • There's no question that we're all busier than ever before, but we often are not getting the most important things done.
  • The idea of immediate results is alluring.
  • It's the temptation of the lottery.
  • instant results are almost always unattainable.
  • It's not that I think people can't get raises right now. It's that if you haven't spent the last year laying the groundwork, it's highly unlikely that you'll be successful.
  • How to Get a Raise When Budgets Are Tight
  • Gary Patton on 14 Dec 11
     
    Peter's article contains a key phrase I have highlighted. I've added how it applies to work experience statements.
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Why You Really Shouldn't Curse - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

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  • Gary Patton on 28 Dec 11
     
    Anne Kreamer shares some helpful and interesting links in her article.
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