Donna Fenn, Author of UpSTARTS! How GenY Entrepreneurs are Rocking the World of Business and 8 Ways You Can Profit from Their Success

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Donna_Fenn_HiDonna Fenn is a contributing editor to Inc. Magazine and an expert on the entrepreneurial habits of Gen Y. Learn how eight key factors contribute to Gen Y business success:

  • Building collaborative tribes
  • Deploying technology for competitive advantage
  • Disrupting the status quo
  • Deconstructing the Gen Y market
  • Generating branding buzz
  • Leveraging social mission
  • Creating dynamic workplaces
  • Morphing and growing strategically.

Whether you’re studying Gen Y’s approach to business to beef up your bottom line or aiming to be tomorrow’s great under-30 entrepreneur story, these concepts and steps will help get your business out in front of the pack.

For more from Donna Fenn, listen to the entire show below or visit www.donnafenn.com.

Tamara Erickson, Organizational Consultant, on Plugged In: The Generation Y Guide to Thriving at Work

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TErickson_picOrganizational consultant Tamara Erickson provides a valuable guidebook for the newcomers to the workforce -Generation Y, the 15 – 31 age cohort — who are entering in large numbers. Tammy gives Gen Y’s the information they crave to connect at work and to craft the lives they want. Sher reveals a framework Y’s can use to develop their own criteria for making career choices, how X’ers and Boomers view Generation Y, and the top 10 rules that can help Gen Y’s succeed in the corporate world. Tammy shares how Gen Y’s can use their unique strengths to understand and influence their professional relationships and to find their way in the changing workplace.

For more from Tamara Erickson, listen to the entire show below, or visit sternstrategy.com.

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Tamara Erickson, Organizational Consultant and Author of What’s Next Gen X?

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TErickson_picTamara Erickson, organizational consultant and author of What’s Next, Gen X?: Keeping Up, Moving Ahead, and Getting the Career You Want, says members of Generation X—the 30-to-44 age cohort—have drawn the short stick at work. The economy has been stacked against them from the beginning. She lays out a powerful framework for shaping a satisfying, meaningful career, revealing how GenXers can:

  • Use their unique capabilities to become effective leaders
  • Identify work that matches their passion
  • Succeed in a corporate career or independently
  • Spot and seize newly emerging professional opportunities.

Tammy helps you decide what you want and shows how to get it.

For more from Tamara Erickson, listen to the entire show below or visit sternstrategy.com.

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Tammy Erickson: How to Retire Retirement

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Tamara Erickson, a consultant in workforce trends and talent management solutions, and author of Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation joined “Total Career Success” on the radio to share career advancement tips for baby boomers. According to Tammy, current employers have a problem: there aren’t enough young people to take the place of retiring baby boomers. The recession is masking the problem for the short term, but employers are braced for the talent gap. For boomers, this is good. The power is shifting in their favor because they will have the power to renegotiate their relationship with their work, jobs and careers. There are three important strategies and tips that baby boomers who want and need to work can implement:

  1. Challenge assumptions
  2. Renegotiate your deal and get what you want
  3. Reinvent your career and your life

For more from Tamara Erickson, listen to the entire show below or visit www.sternstrategy.com.

To jumpstart your job search and career advancement today, visit www.betterjobbetterlife.org.