High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: How to Use Criticism to Your Advantage

This is our weekly roundup of some of the best career-related articles, interviews, blogs, etc., we've read during the week. We share them so you have some great resources to prepare you for the coming week. Enjoy!

• How to Use Criticism to Your Advantage: "In order to keep a relationship or work team performing well, five or six positive interactions were needed for every one criticism or negative interaction."

• 7 Ways to Stay Connected, Relevant, and Powerful When Working From Home: "What doesn’t get on your calendar doesn’t happen. Many business owners I spoke with were surprised by how much more intentional they had to be about scheduling in connections, breaks, and routines into their workday."

• How to Train Your Team to Have an Entrepreneurial Mindset: "If they don't make their own mistakes, and suffer the pain and embarrassment and anxiety that comes with them, they will never grow like you did. That's why you need to give them room to fail."

• Break Bad Habits With a Simple Checklist: "You can set goals to achieve your dreams or improve your behavior, but without actionable ways to move forward and a way to measure progress, you’ll fall back into your old bad habits once again."
• This 5-Minute Routine Will Save You Hours of Wasted Work: "Stand-ups are a great alternative to email because they're not just quick, they increase engagement between workers."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: What You Need to Succeed

This is our weekly roundup of some of the best career-related articles, interviews, blogs, etc., we've read during the week. We share them so you have some great resources to prepare you for the coming week. Enjoy!

• 8 Tips to Resign from Your Job Gracefully: "If your manager has a track record of taking feedback gracefully and generally makes it safe to be honest, you might consider sharing the factors that led you to look for another job."
• Why You Don't Need to Be Smart or Talented to Succeed: "You don't need to focus on padding your resume or hiking your GPA, you need to focus on understanding and improving yourself."
• Two Things You Should Do After Getting Fired: "Use the experience to learn how to change some workplace behaviors, whether [they're] personality-driven or communication-driven or something else."
• 7 Secrets to Entrepreneurial Success: "Jump past barriers and countless years of indecision by hiring a business partner that gives you the kick you need to stay motivated or a sales representative to get your product out in stores."
• Be Your Own Best Advocate: "So we all need a strategy for everyday negotiations that will allow us to come away not only successful but also still held in high regard by bosses and colleagues."

5 Great Resources for an Entrepreneur

Last week we wrote about some initial steps to entrepreneurship. Today we'll share some great resources to assist you in starting your own business.

5 great resources for an entrepreneur:

1. U.S. Small Business Administration: Offers loans, contracts, counseling sessions and other forms of assistance to small businesses.

2. Entrepreneur magazine: Articles and videos for starting and running your own business.

3. The Entrepreneurs: A podcast produced by Monocle bringing a "weekly tour of the most inspiring people, companies and ideas in global business, whether they are starting from scratch, reinvigorating the family firm or developing new technology."

4. The $100 MBA: A free online business course to "show you how to create something YOU KNOW your customers REALLY want."

4. Fast Company: The magazine and web site seeks to "inspire readers and users to think beyond traditional boundaries, lead conversations, and create the future of business."

And as a bonus, Evan Carmichael shares 5 resources to be a great entrepreneur in this video.

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Value of Workplace Laughter

This is our weekly roundup of some of the best career-related articles, interviews, blogs, etc., we've read during the week. We share them so you have some great resources to prepare you for the coming week. Enjoy!

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• What You Should Be Doing Way More of at Work: "Laughter is one of productivity’s greatest allies and individuals and companies need to foster it."


• Lessons Learned from Launching My First Product: "In celebration of a successful product launch, entrepreneur Amanda Abella's offers lessons learned with those growing businesses."


• 10-Minute LinkedIn Makeover: "Here are 10 quick LinkedIn profile improvements that will require about a minute each to implement."


• Climb Out of the Resume Black Hole in 3 Steps: "This is the major complaint of job seekers today. They submit their resume and it seems to drop down a black hole. Avoid the black hole by following these three steps."


• 4 Words You’ll Want to Use More Often in Your Career: Blogger Karl Staib shares an admired co-tenant's success secrets in order to achieve success in your own career and life.