Professional Development in a Tough Market
Deborah Grayson Riegel, aka MyJewishCoach, has partnered with JewishJobs.com to provide high quality learning for Jewish professionals and volunteers who want to hone their skills and integrate change into personal and professional aspects of their lives. Deborah is smart, engaging, and thoughtful; truly a professional’s professional. Full disclosure: Deb is a friend and colleague. Who presented to standing room only crowds at CAJE 33. The series of telecourses will be held over the phone and will run November 18, 2008 – January 13, 2009. They include:
- How to Get the Most Out of Your Current Job in a Tough Economy
- Move Up by Managing Up
- Brick Walls and Glass Ceilings: Overcoming Roadblocks in Work and Life
- Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better: Mastering Delegation
- Don’t Put Off this Teleclass! Procrastination Bootcamp
- Net Gains: Networking Skills for Active Job Seekers and Current Job Lovers
Take one, take a few, take them all - it’s $35.00 per course, $99.00 for the entire series. Consider signing up as a work team or leadership group. Participants will be provided with workbooks and resource guides; sessions will be recorded and made available online. Check out JTeleclasses for details!
30 Ways to Be a Class Act at Work
The economy is down – and anxieties are running high in the workplace. Every day, I speak with coaching clients from Jewish nonprofit organizations who range from uneasy to panic about the security of their jobs. Will my funding get renewed? What if I get laid off? What can I do to safeguard my position in my organization? My clients are looking for answers – answers that nobody has. Not their boss, not their board, and not their coach. What I can remind my clients is that, in the face of uncertainty, they can commit to providing even more value in a currency that we all have control over, even in troubled times: the currency of respect — for our workplace, our colleagues and ourselves.
It’s too easy to let private concerns become public fodder, to let professionalism slide, and to give up when the going gets tough. It’s worth the extra effort to rise above the anxiety, raise the bar, and be a class act. Here’s 30 ways to do it: Read more
Reflect and Question
During the high holidays, we are asked to reflect on our relationships with family, with friends, with colleagues, and others. We take stock of how our relationships are, what we’ve done well, where we need to improve, and we commit to doing a better job next year.
Once a year is nice – but paying attention to how our relationships are working all year round is what most of us need to be doing. Whether you work with a challenging manager, a lay leader who frustrates you, a family member you feel that you can never please (or, God help you, all of the above), here are 25 Questions that Can Dramatically Improve Your Relationships. Highlight the questions that: 1) you are going to ask someone; 2) you wish you could ask, but feel that you can’t; and 3) the ones that you hope someone will ask you!
25 Questions that Can Dramatically Improve Your Relationships
- What do I say or have said in the past that you have appreciated the most?
- What do I say or have said in the past that makes you uncomfortable? Read more
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Should You Staycate… or Vacate?
This summer, most news outlets had stories about the high cost of leaving home due to gas prices. They reported that many of us opted for a “staycation” — where we stay home and breathe some new life into our current environment. It’s not as dramatic a change as a vacation, but it provides us with some of the freshness we crave. In today’s unstable economic climate, the cost of leaving our jobs is too high — emotionally, financially, practically – for many of us. So what can we do to breathe new life into an old job? We may need to consider taking a “staycation” at work. Read more
15 Tips for Keeping Staff, Volunteers and Yourself Happy
eJewish Philanthropy is happy to welcome Deborah Riegel who will be contributing to our eJP community on a regular basis, sharing her thoughts on professional development.
15 Tips for Keeping Staff, Volunteers and Yourself Happy
- Choose the right people in the first place through behavioral interviewing, competency assessments, and matching interests
- Communicate and get agreement on expectations – making sure those expectations are appropriate to the job and to the mission of the organization
- Reinforce goals and expectations with written job or volunteer role descriptions Read more
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