The Focused Manager: Feedback to Give Back
Employees who receive regular, meaningful feedback are more engaged, so managers should become comfortable providing clear, actionable, and timely updates on individual performance.
Tag: Professional Development
Mentorship: The Shoulders of Giants
Guest author Lincoln Garrick shares insights on mentorship in Alaska: how-to, best practices, what to avoid, and resources.
Three Steps for a Better Business
Individual resilience opens the door for team resilience, which opens the door for organizational resilience. Workplace coach Woodrie Burich explains how to improve each type.
The Focused Manager: Elevate Your Impact
Systems thinking makes managers more effective. Level up by considering the connections among personal, technical, operational, and complex systems.
RMG Real Estate Emphasizes Professionalism as Independent Brokerage
RMG Real Estate Network founder Reed Moore is shifting his team of almost forty agents away from the Keller Williams brand and starting his own brokerage.
Get What You Want: A Guide to Self-directed Career Development
Guest Author Brian Walch shares his expertise on how every professional can guide their career to find professional satisfaction.
Leadership Coaching: Unlock Your Potential & Maximize Success
Effective leadership is paramount to the success of every business, and an increasing number of executives and managers in Alaska are capitalizing on leadership coaching to enhance their expertise and create positive outcomes for their organization.
Google Brings Economic Opportunity Initiative to Alaska
Google announced that it is coming to Anchorage as part of the tech company’s “Grow with Google” initiative, which aims to help create economic opportunity in communities across the United States by providing free training, tools, and expertise for people to grow their skills, careers, and businesses.
Op-Ed: UAA’s CTC, Industry Partners Build Alaska’s Workforce
In order to help meet the challenge of educating and training Alaska’s workforce, the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) works closely with local industries to constantly align its programs. UAA’s Community & Technical College, for instance, offers one, two, and four-year degrees in high-demand areas such as aviation, hospitality, construction, safety, computer technology, automotive, diesel, and welding. Each program has its own volunteer industry advisory board.
Those Who Can Do Teach
Considering that many of the state’s students will stay in Alaska and work for local companies after graduation, it makes good business sense for these organizations to take part in the learning process.