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Proactively Managing Your Career Newsletter #7

Brought to you by Iris Wood from Pro-Active Human Resource

Management  http://www.proactivehrm.com

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“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone may be

 H.L. Mencken

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Welcome back to my newsletter "Proactively Managing Your Career"

I was cleaning out my resources when I came across an electronic

book I recommended when I had another section called “Make Money

Save Money And Have Fun.”

It occurred to me that you may be interested in generating a bit of

extra cash.

You will find many different ways people are using to generate cash

quickly In Emergency Cash Generators.  Some people use these little

earners" as a way to fill the gaps in their income. Others only apply

these methods when they need to. They keep them locked away like

precious jewels until they need to generate some extra cash. Still

others use these techniques to be able to afford the finer things in life.

You will find these techniques to be a breath of fresh air! I thought

I would pass it on to you.

I gave a couple of ideas from this book to one of my clients a couple

of years ago and person made quite a bit of cash.  This book provides

you with ways to earn extra cash that doesn’t tie you down at all. Some

are only a once off. Check it out HERE and you will be very surprised.

In fact, anyone who wants to increase their income and prepared to do

some extra work will probably find that this is just the ticket. I notice a

new edition has been released..

Oh!  by the way, these ‘extra cash” ideas don’t involve the computer

although there are still some there. There are a lot of manual jobs in

there as well and some that can be done by a couple.

Have you visited our full range of job search material at

http://www.proactivehrm.com/careersupport/index.html

Stacks of valuable job search information and it is all FREE

In this Issue

*How to Lead: Discover the Leader Within You

*Manage your time and your life

*Picture your posture

*Trivia: The Fax Machine

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Career Advancement

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In one of the last newsletters I mentioned an excellent book

to hone up you leadership style.  This is a must read for people in

leadership positions.  In an interview you will be asked about your

leadership style. I have raised this question with my clients and they

really cannot answer it in professional or theoretical terms. In fact

it is not unusual for clients to describe their leadership style which

comes over as being extremely autocratic.  Big mistake.

So it is extremely important to work on your leadership style and to

be able to put it into a theoretical framework so that the “what is your

leadership style” question won’t cost you the job.

The "How to Lead: Discover the Leader Within You" This

leadership system teaches the 48 essential skills needed to be an

effective, respected leader.

This book starts by helping readers to evaluate their own leadership style,

and learn to use their strengths and manage weaknesses. It then

teaches the key skill-sets needed to lead effectively: Creation of a

robust vision of the future; Motivation; Execution and Team member

development.

"How to Lead" is an incredibly high quality programme, developed by

true world experts. More than this, it's a very popular subject,

teaching skills that most business people are eager to learn.

Find out more

In fact the MIND TOOLS PROGRAM has lots of resources to assist

you in your professional Development and advancing your career.

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Professional Development

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Ask yourself why it's important to manage time more efficiently and you'll

probably give one of two answers:

*We never have enough time to do what needs to be done, or

*We want to be more productive.

But according to author Hyram W. Smith, a lifestyle consultant, most

people are looking for control of their lives and ultimately to be more

productive. Smith suggests that people must determine their governing

values and then set intermediate and long-range goals on those values.

Smith recommends that you strive to achieve consistency between your

values and your daily activities. To help you get in touch with your

governing values, ask yourself the following questions:

What do I really want?

Smith says that as you review your life and your work, you'll have to

accept some discomfort as you sift through the "should-haves" and the

"ought-tos".

What has worked for me in the past?

Look for - and repeat - those patterns in your life that resulted in

successful outcomes. When you're given a new project, Smith advises

taking a few moments to do some planning - something most people

don't do. Then ask yourself the following questions:

What is the long-range priority of this project?

Is this project more important than another?

What can I delegate and to whom?

Finally, when your daily activities reflect your governing values

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Resources to assist you to free up your time to become focused

and successful

Mind Tools' "Make Time for Success!" Program:

Make Time for Success! is Mind Tools market-leading

downloadable time management and personal effectiveness

system.

It teaches powerful, industrial-strength techniques that help

readers identify what they want out of life, organise and achieve

their goals, and make the most of the opportunities open to them.

In doing this, it transforms the life outcomes of the people who

take the course, helping them to become focused and highly

successful.

Instant download HERE to get started on your path to success

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Surviving in The Workplace

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Picture your posture

We know what we should do under occupational health.  I was an

occupational health trainer at one time, and yet I rarely practice good

posture and as a consequence I now cope with a lot of pain..  So we all

need constant reminding about how bad posture cause back and neck

 problems

Surprising, it's not so important to sit up straight when working, but rather,

to stay in neutral postures that keep the ear, shoulder and hip in relative

alignment. We often change our postures from efficient, neutral positions,

to less desirable ones, because we are attempting to adjust our bodies

to fit the layout of the work furniture and equipment we use each day.

Ask a co-worker to review your working posture picture. From the side, do they see an erect neck posture with the chin in and they are

in line with the centre of the shoulder joint? Or, is the chin slightly forward or the head bent up or dropped forward? If forward, attempt to eliminate

bent-forward neck posture. Avoid reading or transcribing from materials,

for long periods, that are placed flat on the desk.

From the back, is the neck centred, with the head erect, or is the

neck twisted?

Look at the placement of your computer monitor. Is it directly

in front of you, or placed to one side causing the neck to twist input data?

Do you use a headset, or do you cock your head to one side? Headsets not only save the neck, they also reduce gripping stresses in the hands.

From the side, is the back erect or rounded forward? Shorter people often

perch on the edge of their chairs, bending forward to use the computer.

Lower the work surface if possible, or select a footrest to support the feet.

Taller people often bend forward to perform deskwork. Elevate the work

surface, if possible. If not, elevate reading materials and equipment to

maintain neutral postures. Use the recline feature of your chair to allow

your back muscles to rest and recover occasionally from upright

postures.

We all use the excuse.   "I am just going to be here for a few minutes"!!

Well that few minutes tallies up over a lifetime.

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Little Bit Of Trivia

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The Fax Machine

The basic principle behind the facsimile transmission was developed in

Scotland over 150 years ago by a clockmaker named Andrew Bain. Using

a pendulum device that swept a metal point over a set of raised letters,

Bain transmitted an image via an electrical charge that travelled down a t

telegraph wire to reproduce on paper at a remote location.

In 1907, Dr. Arthur Korn developed the first commercial fax system to

transmit pictures between Paris, London and Berlin. Subsequently, in 1922, Korn created the first “wirophoto” by transmitting a picture of Pope Pius XI from Rome to America by radio. The picture appeared in the same day issue of the New York World - a major feat in an era when news pictures crossed the ocean by ship.

Fax machines as we now know them started to appear in experimental

format during the 1960’s, following a US court decision to allow phone

lines to be used for something other than speech. Early fax machines

were inefficient and expensive - in 1976, a state-of-the-art piece of

equipment sold for £10,000 and a single page took around 6 minutes

to send.

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This is all for this month. I hope you found this issue of

Proactively Managing Your Career Newsletter  informative.

Your feedback will be appreciated. 

 E-mail me at proactivehrm@tpg.com.au

 As always, to your success - cheers

 Iris Wood

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