Trust Yourself; You’re Not Just Lucky
Yes, timing and luck contribute to your success. But you also contributed to your success.
One of my early mentors, a long time member of Young Presidents Organization told me that he and his fellow YPOers had to learn to trust their competence — just like everyone else does.
He taught me that the first …
Big Revenue for Small Businesses
In case you missed it, I just completed a series of posts that addressed Big Challenges for Small Business Owners. The three challenge discussed were people, finances and time. Assuming you have these three big challenges under control, what’s next?
Let me suggest one obvious topic: Sales.
Many successful entrepreneurs and small business owners have …
Timely ‘Thank You’ Note/Email Often Job Tie-Breaker
LOOKING FOR AN EASY, YET VERY EFFECTIVE WAY TO DIFFERENTIATE YOURSELF IN A VERY POSITIVE WAY FROM THE “COMPETITION,” i.e., others seeking the same position(s) as you, during a new job search? Simply send a timely, well-written, short “Thank You” note or email following each and every face-to-face interview with a hiring manager.
Oh, you …
Protecting Your Business and Personal Brand During a Fire
Small or large, as soon as you hire on employees, you increase your chances of having to fire someone by 100%. Inevitably, the time will come when a worker is not performing to your standards or has done something against company policy. While many firings aren’t hostile, it nevertheless is an important step to take …
How to Easily Increase Sales
The seller’s demeanor is what will either negatively or positively begin the sale cycle that either leads to an answer of “no” or “Yes!”
In order to attract a positive flow of sales, the following adjectives come to mind: Be respectful, kind, thoughtful, inquisitive, an advisor and a benefactor. The last descriptor, “benefactor” refers to …
How to Ace These Six Types of Interviews
Locking in an interview can come with a whole host of emotions. There’s the exhilaration for getting to the next step. And there’s the equally as strong anxiety over getting past this step and onto the next. An interview, after all, is somewhat like a large test. If you ace it, you reap the benefits …
Can I Borrow a Cup of … Internet?
This is the season of excuses.
Actually, the season of excuses occurs more frequently than the ones that come to mind more readily: winter, spring, summer or fall. The season of excuses is familiar to every student and every teacher. It would shock and appall those who are funding education, loaning money for it or …
What Do Best Places to Work Have in Common?
Everyone knows the Best Places to Work list which is released every year. If you look at that list, we mainly see tech companies like Google or Microsoft and then we see the big consulting firms like Accenture or PWC. However, sometimes we can also come across with companies we have never even heard of. …
Caution: Car Wrecks and Human Wrecks
When you drive you may be the one who stays at the speed limit at all times, stops at stop signs and red lights, remains in your lane, and signals well before changing lanes. Even though you are doing everything right, someone in another vehicle rams through the stop light at break neck speed, blind …
Winning in Leadership
Few are born a leader, many shy away from the job, only a few embrace the change, dedication and passion it takes to mold, upgrade and mentor a team of subordinates. There are several reasons why individuals avoid management positions or why management and leadership positions seem to avoid them.
Our recruiters have seen that …