Dawn Lennon is strategist, mentor, advisor, and coach as each new situation arises. A career businesswoman, author, and founder/owner of Big Picture Consulting, she has been helping individuals, solo practitioners, and small business owners achieve business and career success for more than a decade. Before leaving to start her practice, Dawn spent over twenty years a...
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New Employees Can Mean Trouble | Managing Team Chemistry by Dawn Lennon - Apr, 2011 A filled vacancy starts with optimism. The boss is high on what the new employee can add to the team. Existing employees are relieved they didn’t have to absorb more work. Bosses usually start with an announcement before the person shows up. Employees hear about the new hire’s capabilities and experiences. They often hear high praise for how s/he will strengthen the team. Enough already! New employees mean change. ... |
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The 12 Ways of… Business Fitness! Checkin’ Your List? by Dawn Lennon - Dec, 2010 The things we want always come with a price, but not everything delivers results worth the cost. Accumulating stuff is easy. Creating the life we want isn’t. What’s on your list? It’s time to ask yourself if you’re where you want to be in your career. Are you: -Unemployed and looking for the right spot -Working at a job you hate -Yearning to be your own boss -Frustrated by slow growth in your business -U... |
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8 Ways to Make Your Age an Afterthought | Timeless Career Moves by Dawn Lennon - Nov, 2010 There are a million ways to be self-defeating. Fretting about the impact of our age on our career is a popular one. I hear it all the time: -“I’m right out of college and stuck in an entry level job because I’m the only one who can show my older coworkers how to do stuff on their computers.” - “Because I’ve worked here my whole career, everyone thinks my ideas aren’t cutting edge enough.” -“No one takes my ideas seriou... |
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Career Need a Boost? Give ‘Em Something to Talk About! by Dawn Lennon - Nov, 2010 It’s easy to feel lost in the crowd these days. We’re often smothered in a crush of candidates for jobs we want or sequestered among a sea of cubicles. The pace of the daily grind makes face-to-face contact with our bosses brief and infrequent. Feeling faceless is dispiriting. It’s important to be seen. Acting out, complaining, or decorating our cubicles like Mardi Gras take us down the wrong path. A better strategy is to... |
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Watch Out! Great Careers Can Creep Up on You by Dawn Lennon - Nov, 2010 Where we start isn’t always where we finish. At least that’s the case with many careers. It’s crazy to think that when we’re in high school we’d have a clear idea about what we want to do for a lifetime. Nevertheless, we go on to technical school or college choosing a trade or a major which declares, “This is my future.” The business world is a big place. There are tens of thousands of career paths in as many businesses.... |
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10 Reasons Saying “No” Can Help Your Career by Dawn Lennon - Nov, 2010 Sounds counter-intuitive, doesn’t it? After all, our careers will grow, we’re told, when we say “yes” to: -A new project or team leadership -A lateral move or promotion -Domestic or global relocation -Management’s requests When you’ve waited a long time for an opportunity, it would seem absurd not to snap it up. Right? Take stock. It’s flattering when management turns to us and says, “We think you’re the rig... |
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Failure Is Inevitable. Ready to Handle It? | Career Strife Repositioned by Dawn Lennon - Nov, 2010 “Be careful,” we’re told as kids. “You don’t want to make a mess.” “Double check your answers,” we’re told in school. “You don’t want a bad grade.” “Better achieve your performance goals,” we’re told at work. “You don’t want to get a poor rating or low raise, be demoted or lose your job.” Failure seems to come with negative consequences. Really? Always? The fallacy of playing it safe So much is written abou... |
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When Leadership Goes Bad, The Reasons Run Deep! by Dawn Lennon - Nov, 2010 It’s no picnic running things, especially when dysfunction runs rampant or performance is tanking. All too often, we get promoted to leadership positions when things are in disarray. The lure, of course, is our chance to be heroic, a miracle worker, a superstar! So we say, “Yes, I relish the challenge.” They say, “Great! Good luck,” something we’ll desperately need. Classic mistakes As soon as we get tapped as the ... |
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When Your Career’s Sagging, Get Yourself Business Fit. by Dawn Lennon - Oct, 2010 Ever had that old sagging feeling? It’s when: -Nothing at work excites you. -Your motivation has flat-lined. -The signs that “you’re going nowhere” loom. -Your energy is drained. -Even a Red Bull can’t jolt us out of that. Wake up! When our careers are sagging, it’s because we’ve allowed it. After all, we own them. They’re a function of our choices—the education we pursued and the work experiences we’v... |
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Use “Snapshots” Not Potshots to Wake Up “Problem Employees” by Dawn Lennon - Oct, 2010 It’s kind of an eerie label—“problem employee.” With supervisors it usually means, “I have someone working for me who isn’t with the program.” Then what they often fail to admit is: “I don’t know what to do to turn him/her around.” So, what’s the problem? In most cases, the problem is around employee behavior—their approach, conduct, interpersonal relationships, and way of communicating. It’s that dreaded “soft stu... |
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