By Donald Barnett
Quality Assurance Specialist for the Department of Veterans Affairs

After countless applications and hours of interviews, you finally land a middle-management job which requires you to interact with front line employees while implementing the corporate strategy dictated by upper-management. Where do you begin? How do you build the foundations of successful leadership? How do you avoid being just another manager who fails to inspire their charges?

Interview with Dr. Nancy Heath and Dr. Cassandra Shaw
Dr. Heath is the Director for the Human Development and Family Studies Program at APU
Dr. Shaw is the Director of Entrepreneurship Programs at APU

Running a successful daycare takes a lot of the same business principles that an entrepreneurial venture would. Beyond looking at nearby comps and testing the available market you’ll need to identify quality resources, and a niche offering. In this podcast Dr. Heath and Dr. Shaw blend together their knowledge of business start-up costs, what accounts for a quality childcare staff, and considerations for state licensure.

By Lindsay Scott
Business2Community.com – Special to Online Career Tips

Some of us naturally fall into the ‘risk averse’ category when we are weighing up the choices we have or the decisions to be made. Like every good risk management technique, we have to think about what could go wrong with a decision made.

Lisa Quast, Forbes
Special to Online Career Tips

While many people scoff at the annual performance process, it can actually be a great opportunity to increase communication between you and your boss and improve your career development. Just like with most things in life, the more effort you put into your self-evaluation, the more you’ll get out of the entire performance appraisal process.

By Nancy Collamer, Forbes
Special to Online Career Tips

2014 could be an especially good year to make a job change, if you’re so inclined or you must. Economists in a recent Wall Street Journal said they expect the U.S. to add nearly 198,000 jobs a month this year — that’s the highest estimate since 2005.

By Dan Schawbel, Forbes
Special to Online Career Tips

I’ve had numerous speaking engagements since 2006 where I’ve touched on how job seekers, employees, entrepreneurs and students can leverage LinkedIn for career and business success.

By Michelle Maldonado
Associate Vice President of Corporate and Strategic Relationships, American Public University System

In the summer of 2012, my ever-growing urge to be a part of something new, impactful and transformative was at an all-time high.als-december2013 As I continued evolving what that would be and what it would look like, I had a light-bulb moment when I discovered what would be my first step. By November, the first issue of The Authentic Leadership Series was born.

In part three of our three-part discussion on mindfulness in the workplace, I speak with Janice Marturano, former Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at General Mills and Founder and Executive Director of The Institute for Mindful Leadership. As the first person ever to be invited to speak on mindful leadership training at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this year, Janice is a visionary trailblazer paving the way for employees at Fortune 500 and other organizations including Target, Medtronic, Intel, the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force and the American Red Cross by teaching them how to discipline their minds and find the space to collaborate, innovate and lead with excellence.

Today is National Boss’s Day; a secular holiday celebrated around the world on Oct. 16 each year. It reportedly…