The American economy shed 467,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate rose to 9.5 percent from 9.4 percent, its highest level in 26 years, the Labor Department reported on Thursday. Job losses were widespread among the construction, manufacturing and business and professional services sectors.

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In being affected by this, the common worker must make a decision in what will be their next steps to ensure that they have a steady income. Some of the things that they can decided to do are:

• Search for another Corporate America job while they are receiving unemployment in hopes that a job is found before unemployment runs out.
• Try to start their own business and work from home by using the skills that were used on a daily basis in their Corporate America job.
• Or they could also become a sub-contractor for someone else who has already started their own work at home business

Regardless of what decision is made, it is always helpful to know and understand the facts about what it will take to make either of the decisions above successful. Personally, I made the decision many years ago to start my own business after having my consulting project canceled without prior notice. It’s can be hard bouncing back from a layoff/downsize life event but it is possible.

To help you understand how others are dealing with this crisis, I thought the video below from MSNBC.com would be helpful. It’s one way that an unemployed man has decided to create a steady income using eBay. This is an option along with starting your own business. For instance, if you were an Administrative person in Corporate America, you might want to think about starting your own Virtual Assistant (VA) business.

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Corporate Job to Working at Home

Teamwork is defined by Webster online dictionary as…

So the old adage that “one for all and all for one” is something to keep in when working as a team member on a project team. It’s not about one person shining above the rest but it’s about each team member working as a whole to accomplish the same project goals.

I believe that sharing from ones experience is always helpful to others so I thought I would share a few things that should be kept in mind when developing a project team:

• Teach each other something new
• Enjoy and celebrate the special moments of success
• Alternative planning should be kept in mind if a roadblock occurs
• Me is not the center to a successful team but We is
• Working as one helps to keep the team focused
• Original thinking should be encouraged and applauded
• Remember that the team is only as strong as it’s weakest link, so build up everyone
• Keep focused, keep strong and keep your goals in mind

I would love to hear some of the creative things that you have done to foster teamwork on your projects. Please feel free to leave a comment or question on this post.

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Project Management and Teamwork, perfect partners