You Can Change Your Reputation at Work. Here’s How.
Whether you went off the deep end one day after a little too much liquid at lunch, lost your temper and kicked the trash can across the office, never meet a deadline, are late to work every single day, or you are known for starting rumors faster than the laser printer kicks out pages, you …
How You Can Profit From Being Kind
The single most important aspect of business is the finesse you exhibit when you are with your “audience.” In coaching and teaching communication leadership, I often remind learners to “be kind to your audience.” And I constantly remind them to, “Take responsibility for your audience’s experience of you.”
Who is your audience? Everyone around you.…
Choose Carefully as Your Words Brand You
I’m really sorry to have to write this caution but be very, very careful what you say. Any one can be offended by absolutely any thing today.
You can present a six-hour workshop and say one word (and not even a bad word) and lose a portion of your audience because they disapprove of the …
4 Key Principles to Hiring The Right Candidate
Hiring the wrong candidate gets costly. From costs incurred by drops in productivity, to reputation costs, hiring the wrong candidates can set your business back in deep and lasting ways.
Being in the staffing industry for 13 years now in the high volume clerical and light industrial sectors, I’ve seen my fair share of right …
Wisdom to Increase Happiness, Productivity, and a Meaningful Life
Autumn is a great time for reflection, introspection and change. The fall reminds us that just as the leaves change back to their true colors through photosynthesis, we too can return to our true colors, the ones we really could be most proud of. If we choose to have a more meaningful and fulfilling life, …
Build Authority for Your Personal Brand with Book Publishing
Establishing credibility for your personal brand begins with great content. The next natural step to showcase your expertise is a published book. Writing and marketing are just the first steps, and you want to ensure that all of your time and effort gets the most visibility.
A personal brand’s reputation online is build through a …
Just Five Minutes … Twice a Day
Take 5 minutes — twice a day … to clear your mind.
Write down everything that crossed your brain.
Get it out. Dump it. Then decide if you should own it.
What’s the Point?
Everyone is inundated with stuff. Every day more and more stuff is crossing our streams. From what we see on TV, …
Are You Looking for a Job?
At times, I am amazed at people in transition who approach the job search the way we used to in the past. Looking for a job nowadays puts job seekers into extremely tough competitions unlike those of the past, and job seekers who do not both understand and apply the rules of the game will …
Turn Grief into Community Service
On occasion life hands us circumstances that we would not wish on others. But when we are dealt a blow it needs to be dealt with careful thought and proactively. Two such situations arose just this week. Personal insights based upon an experience of over a decade ago provided insight for the two people facing …
5 Reasons You Definitely Need to Take That Lunch Break
Staying productive can be a huge part of developing your personal brand, especially if you work in a competitive industry. Because of that, you may feel tempted to go without your lunch breaks in the interest of getting more done. Here, we’ll look at why that’s usually not such a good idea. More importantly, we’ll …