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Articles by Dorothy Tannahill Moran

• Bad Boss Series: You Hired Who To Be My Boss? And Other Mysteries
  If you've ever wondered how some managers got their job, look no further. There are reasons why they are in charge - perhaps not good ones but at least you'll know how these things happen.
  Published 28Mar2012, viewed 37 times

• Bad Boss Series: What To Do When The Boss - Can't Communicate?
  There are many reason why a boss can be bad. Communication style can be one of those reasons. Learn some tactics to help you work more effectively if your boss can't communicate well.
  Published 24Mar2012, viewed 32 times

• Bad Boss Series: What To Do When The Boss - Hovers Over You?
  We've all had them - the boss that spends more time involved in your work than their own job. It's not annoying but it can negatively impact your ability to do the job. What do you do if you have a boss that hovers over you to much?
  Published 31Dec2011, viewed 42 times

• Bad Boss Series: What To Do When The Boss - Takes Credit For Your Work?
  It's tough to work for a bad boss but it's worse when they take credit for your hard work. Why does that happen? What should you do to manage it and reduce the effects?
  Published 03Dec2011, viewed 35 times

• Bad Boss Series: What To Do When The Boss - Is Really Difficult?
  What can you do when your boss is difficult to work with? There are things you can do that will improve your situation.
  Published 26Oct2011, viewed 55 times

• Getting Fired: Avoiding It and Protecting Yourself when You are Faced with It
  There are things that you can do to avoid being fired but if you can't avoid it, there are things that will make your next step better.
  Published 20Oct2011, viewed 56 times

• Career Management: Tips For Making A Temp Agency Your Best Job Search Method
  Getting a temp assignment can be an excellent way of getting a great position. Learn how to work with temp agencies.
  Published 13Aug2011, viewed 115 times

• Career Management: 8 Tips for Disagreeing with the Boss
  It's ok to disagree with the boss, if you handle it well. Learn tips and perspectives that will not only help you with the boss but will be career enhancing.
  Published 07Aug2011, viewed 61 times

• Job Search: We're NOT Just Looking For a Job
  We don't just want a job but are we looking for?
  Published 17Aug2011, viewed 100 times

• Career Management: Are YOU Career Lazy?
  When you're lazy, it shows. Often times, people rationalize their lack of ambition and people read that as being too lazy to put in effort on the job.
  Published 14Jul2011, viewed 81 times

• Other Uses for Your Elevator Speech
  Elevator speeches are important ways of introducing yourself to the world. You don't have to limit the use of them to just a new face to face encounter. Learn some other things you can do with your elevator speech.
  Published 18Jun2011, viewed 121 times

• 10 Tips for a Powerful Elevator Speech
  You know Elevator speeches are important but here are some tips to make people remember you.
  Published 14Jun2011, viewed 115 times

• Career Management: 6 Things To Do To Stay Engaged When You're Leaving
  Once you've made the decision to leave your job, it's sometime had to keep your head in the job. Yet, it's important to leave your job as well as you performed it. Learn how.
  Published 12May2011, viewed 92 times

• Career Development: 7 Steps to Power Your Way to a Promotion This Year
  There are things you can do to make yourself more promotable, learn what they are and start doing them now.
  Published 05May2011, viewed 84 times

• Career Management: Top 10 Career Limiting Moves
  There is poor performance and there are things that will simply derail your career - know what the limiters might be and how to avoid them.
  Published 21Apr2011, viewed 142 times

• Career Management: What To Do When The Boss …
  What to do when the boss doesn't like your performance. This article discloses what you can do to prevent this from happening and also what to do when you haven't avoided the tough message.
  Published 16Apr2011, viewed 103 times

• Career Management: Top 10 Networking Conversation Starters For Introverts
  For those of us that are stumped at how to get conversations started when networking, here are some tried and true conversation starters.
  Published 17Mar2011, viewed 141 times

• Career Management: What We Can Learn From Oprah's Next Chapter?
  We can learn quite a few things by observing what Oprah has and is doing with her career this year. Learn what those lessons are so you can apply them to your career.
  Published 13Mar2011, viewed 128 times

• Are Voicemails And Emails Limiting Your Career Success?
  You might not think something like email or voicemail matter to your career. Think again. How you manage your email and voicemail create a lasting impression on people you work with.
  Published 02Mar2011, viewed 159 times

• Career Development: Is The Boss Really Being Difficult Or Is It You?
  Sometimes we think the boss is picking on us because they just don't like us. Wrong! You might not be doing very good on your job and you just don't realize it. Take another look at what's going on.
  Published 26Feb2011, viewed 141 times

• I Got the Job - Now What? 7 Things To Do When You Start Your New Job
  When you start a new job you can feel at once excited and filled with anxiety. Learn things you can do to reduce those concerns and get yourself started off in the new job with a bang.
  Published 19Feb2011, viewed 99 times

• Career Management: When You Can Do the Job, BUT You Aren't a Cultural Fit
  Company and group culture is a subtle thing to identify and even trickier to navigate if you aren't a fit. What should you do if you don't fit?
  Published 20Jan2011, viewed 208 times

• Job Search: How Your Unemployment Can Cause Long Term Issues For You And How to Avoid Them
  We all know that getting back to work is important but did you know there are permanent changes that can happen to you if you unemployed too long? Changes you might not want to make.
  Published 16Jan2011, viewed 153 times

• Job Search: Plastic Surgery To Get A Job?
  Is plastic surgery the answer to a job search gone stale?
  Published 23Dec2010, viewed 446 times

• Career Management: What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?
  What is the number 1 reason fail to change careers?
  Published 17Dec2010, viewed 154 times

• Career Advice - Dissecting Work-Life Balance
  Work life balance means alot of different things to different people. Learn some various ways to look at it and acheive it.
  Published 08Dec2010, viewed 315 times

• Career Development: Creating a Two Part Exit Strategy
  If you're changing jobs or careers you want to think through a great exit.
  Published 07Dec2010, viewed 191 times

• 6 Strategies to Turn that Holiday Job into a Permanent Position
  6 Strategies to help you turn a temp job into a permanent position
  Published 25Nov2010, viewed 154 times

• Career Change: You won't Change for Love or Money?
  You don't have to fear changing careers because you will be financially impacted or risk other things in your life.
  Published 18Nov2010, viewed 221 times

• Job Search: What Job Seekers Need to Know about Job Search during the Holidays
  What every job seeker should know about looking for a job in November and December.
  Published 12Nov2010, viewed 172 times

• Career Growth: 5 Key Points to Make Office Politics Work for You
  Every group of people have politics of some sort. What do you need to know to enhance your career?
  Published 16Oct2010, viewed 372 times

• Mistakes Job Seekers Make Series: Resumes
  This is the last of four in a series on mistakes job seekers make.
  Published 01Sep2010, viewed 125 times

• Mistakes Job Seekers Make Series: Job Search Methods
  This is the third in a series of four on mistakes job seekers make.
  Published 28Aug2010, viewed 112 times

• Mistakes Job Seekers Make Series: Clarification & Job Focus
  This is the second of four in a series on mistakes job seekers make.
  Published 26Aug2010, viewed 181 times

• Mistakes Job Seekers Make Series: Failure to Plan
  This is the first of four in a series on mistakes job seekers make.
  Published 14Aug2010, viewed 107 times

• The Top 5 Problems with Resumes and How to Make Them Shine
  The most common mistakes on resumes have nothing to do with format. Avoiding or correcting these mistakes is easy to do if you know what they are.
  Published 31Jul2010, viewed 155 times

• Careers: Did You Wind up in a Default Career? Prevention and Remedy
  Did you end up in your career by choice or by chance?
  Published 08Jul2010, viewed 113 times

• Career Development: Are You as Good as Your Word?
  Career growth and integrity are linked but some people are clueless about what it is. This article talks about career growth and the role integrity plays.
  Published 15Jun2010, viewed 177 times

• Careers: Finding Passion - 5 Easy Steps to Finding Passion in Your Life and Career
  We all seem to want to feel passionate in the work we do but somehow knowing how to find it can be difficult. This article outlines the simple truth and steps to finding passion.
  Published 15Jun2010, viewed 167 times

• Career Development: Networking for the Socially Inept, Introverted and Reluctant
  Networking can seem horrifying if you aren't a social butterfly. This article will quickly make sense out of networking and help even the most reluctant to network like a pro.
  Published 22Apr2010, viewed 218 times

• Midlife Crisis - Is it Real? Am I Having One?
  Your midlife doesn't have to be a crisis but you will face changes. Learn what to expect and how to turn this time into an adventure instead of a crisis.
  Published 11Apr2010, viewed 223 times

• Career Change: 2 Strategies for Getting Off Your "Buts"
  Stop making excuses for not changing careers. It's not as hard as you are making it out to be. Here are a couple of easy to follow strategies to move forward.
  Published 07Apr2010, viewed 274 times

• Personal Change: 4 Conditions that Transform Us
  This article outlines 4 conditions for when and how change and transition happen in our life and how we are likely to react.
  Published 11Mar2010, viewed 404 times

• CAREERS: Four reasons you might be bummed if you aren't working and what to do about it.
  If you are out of work and feeling down, there may be real reasons. Once you know what those reasons are, there are easy ways to fix them.
  Published 04Feb2010, viewed 268 times

• Career Change: Feeling queasy about changing? 5 ways to confirm you've made the right decision
  Career change can often make us feel uneasy. It's a big decision but there are things you can do to ensure the decision is right for you.
  Published 04Feb2010, viewed 178 times

• Career Change - Step 1 isn't updating your resume'
  This article will help people know the basic steps to get started looking for a new career. Figuring out what to do next is hard, but this article clearly lays out the steps to get started.
  Published 19Oct2009, viewed 386 times

• Career Change - Are you afraid to move in this economy?
  Don't let the economy stop you from planning your next career move. This article helps you understand the terrain of the job hunt and how to set your expectations accordingly.
  Published 10Aug2009, viewed 499 times

• Olympic Personal Change - The New Extreme Sport
  This article talks about the change process and uses the metaphor of sports to help illustrate what to do. Mastering personal change is possible, if you know what to expect and use your experience.
  Published 11Jul2009, viewed 342 times

• 8 Critical Skills for the 2ND Half of Life
  How do you keep your life from becoming ho-hum? Is it already? These are 8 skills we all need to develop to ensure a great life.
  Published 21May2009, viewed 203 times

• Death - A Life Lesson in Personal Change
  This article is about the lessons I have learned from those I know who knew they were going to die.
  Published 28Apr2009, viewed 333 times

• The State of the Economy and Your Retirement
  The state of our economy and portfolios do not signal an end to retirement. The old definition of retirement was on its way out anyway, so use this situation as a way to redefine what it means to you.
  Published 22Feb2009, viewed 229 times

• Why is it so hard to make personal change?
  This article outlines the issues that make changing yourself difficult and challenging. The reader is also given suggestions for addressing those issues in order to help themselves.
  Published 16Jan2009, viewed 301 times

• Can a person make real change?
  Change is hard but possible with a process and a plan. In this article, I detail out the critical steps to making any personal change and making the change long lasting.
  Published 24Dec2008, viewed 325 times

• Job Success - it's easier than you think
  Being successful on the job is easier than most people realize. In this article I outline the two straightforward practices that all people can use to ensure success at any job.
  Published 25Nov2008, viewed 244 times

• How to discover your NEW LIFE
  This article describes the process for mid life change and what causes it to occur. It steers the reader how to detect when it starts, what to do about it and how to avoid making it into a mid-life crisis.
  Published 01Nov2008, viewed 308 times

• Forced Job Loss - The Early Warning Signs
  This article discusses the possible warning signs that a person should pay attention to. These warning signs can serve as advanced warning to people, to get them prepared if the worse should happen. Additionally, it provides advise on what action to take prior to job loss that will provide an advantage in these tough times.
  Published 21Oct2008, viewed 463 times

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