[caption id="attachment_879" align="alignleft" width="196" caption="Dana E. Jarvis, MPA, MSW"][/caption]   Dana E. Jarvis is an Instructor of Leadership and Business at Duquesne University.  For close to 7 years, Professor Jarvis has developed and taught courses for the Donahue Palumbo School of Business.  His courses include Public Affairs Management, Strategic Formulation and Implem... more.

[caption id="attachment_846" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="A MEANINGFUL CAREER for today's Veterans can produce amazing results!"][/caption]   The ability of Veterans to have a MEANINGFUL CAREER is essential. A MEANINGFUL CAREER may mean different things to different people. But, if a Veteran is able to critically define the true nature of MEANINGFUL CAREER, then a pa... more.

  What are your Innovative Strategies to Drive your Meaningful Career? All of us have Innovative Strategies to Drive our Meaningful Career. This is our platform to share these strategies. In doing so, we continue to advance our mission for the Virtual Veterans Career Network. This evolving mission has become, "100% of Veterans gaining a Meaningful Career by 2017." Yes, it is aspirational ... more.

    VIRTUAL VETERANS CAREER NETWORK ON LINKEDIN - JOIN TODAY! Mission: Revolutionizing the way that Veterans achieve a MEANINGFUL CAREER. Big Goal: To ensure 100% of Veterans have a MEANINGFUL CAREER by 2017. Veteran Action: Join the revolution TODAY!  The Virtual Veterans Career Network is a "Group" on www.linkedin.com (membership is free, rewards last a lifetime). -... more.

Recently, Dana Jarvis was invited to develop and teach a course on Managing Virtual Teams for Stephens College MBA students.   This exciting opportunity and honor has allowed Mr. Jarvis to engage business students in the knowledge, skills and tools necessary for today's complex virtual teams. Excerpt from Course Description: During this course, students will gain an inside perspective on m... more.

Let's Rock 2011 with the Top 10 Best Practices in Learning and Development: Be Bold - No training program in the world will ever be the best without being bold and taking risks.  If we stay in the "Status Quo Zone", we are assured of one one thing; incremental failure. Challenge Everything - Yes, Everything!  We must totally re-evaluate our training programs from A to Z on at least an... more.

In teaching Leading Change in Organizations, I recently used SAS as an example of a company that is consistently a change leader.  SAS is the industry leader in providing business intelligence analytics for most F500s and diverse industries.  Since 1976, the company has had consistent growth to $2.31B in 2009.  Did I mention the curve from 1976-2009 is upward with no major dips? Thi... more.

Agree or disagree.  More of our projects fail than succeed.  On either side, what does this mean and how can it be improved.  Truth be told, most organizations suffer a high percentage of failures.  Why else would we have so many "continuous improvement initiatives?"  If your goals are suffering and performance feels like it's in the dumpster, then read on. The following are simple steps t... more.