3 Tips for Staying on Top of Your Side Projects
A blog, a small business, a hobby, a service organization; all of these things result in side projects. We all have them, the projects the we undertake outside of our regular business tasks. They can be fulfilling or they can just drag you down if you don’t manage them correctly. Here are three [...]
5 Ways to Speed Through Bureaucracy at Work - US News
Newly Corporate was recently invited to join the US News and World Report Career Blog Network “Outside Voices“. This article is the first post written for the network blog. Each of the authors here at Newly Corporate will post on the blog in a rotating schedule, one post total each week.
We all [...]
5 Ways to Kickoff Your Week Right
The power lunch is a good daily routine but, the key to a really great week is how you kick it off. Here are the 5 steps I use to start my week off right:
1. Start with a Clean Slate. My routine really starts Sunday night when I login via VPN and [...]
6 Secrets to Successful Transitions
Transitions are a crucial time in any career and, if Generation Y continues it’s frequent job changes, it will be more important to our generation than any other. The process of ending one job and moving to the next determines how the people in your old role will view you after you have left, [...]
Words to Know: Scope
Here’s a good word to know: scope. This word is used to determine what you are responsible for delivering with your project. If you are expected to deliver it, then it is “in scope”. If you are not responsible to deliver it, then it is “out of scope”. This seems simple, but it can [...]
Daily Business Zen:Billy Martin’s Technique for Managing
Some of you may have read this before, some of you may not have, but I find it an interesting parable. There are shorter versions out there but I feel this one by Reginald Braithwaite is more interesting and true to life, his summation of the lesson is great:
A software manager is brought into [...]
Why blog as a Generation Y Young Professional?
This is the second question I get after people discover Newly Corporate (right after they ask “Why didn’t I have this before my first day of work?”). I usually give a range of answers that center around that fact that I am a serial referrer. When I find a product, idea or [...]
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