5 Factors That Make a Great Boss
The best bosses are the ones who can turn a good organization into a great company. They are the individuals who consistently push their employees to become better, more engaged and enable them to adapt to oncoming changes in the corporate landscape.
Instead of suppressing employees, top-tier bosses encourage smart ideas, open conversation and creativity. …
Could Understanding Homer Simpson and Spock Improve Your Business?
Companies are constantly struggling to find ways to motivate and engage their employees; behavioral economics may be able to help. This field of study examines the psychological factors that effect the economic decisions we make. People tend to make decisions based on intuition rather than on logic. The problem with this is that many times …
Is Your Resume Being Ignored?
Although many jobs lost during the economic downturn have been replaced, that doesn’t mean getting a job has gotten quicker or easier. Many people are still looking for work or hoping to move into higher paying jobs and not getting results from their efforts. There are many factors that determine whether or not you get …
5 Ways Networking can Help your Personal Brand
When building a personal brand we often miss the golden opportunity of networking – both online and offline. This strategy not only opens the door to new jobs and opportunities, but it also creates lasting relationships to build on. Even though it is not a new concept, the power of making meaningful connections has become …
Self-Communication Is The Foundation of Success
There is only one person with whom we communicate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, every year of our life. Ourselves.
Mastering communication with ourselves determines our quality of life as it determines our ability to experience life as we would like.
Few people truly understand that how we …
The ONE Interview Question You Must Consider
Everyone interviews. Even the boss had to go through an interview process.
There is ONE Interview Question that you should be ready to address.
Some interviewers are very good at what they do. Some are not quite so good. The good interviewers will let you do the majority of the talking. They should already know …
How a Twitter Chat Can Help Your Personal Brand
Twitter chats are a great way to engage with your audience and customers and help you create brand awareness. Based on particular topics, Twitter chats enable you to reach a wider audience and discuss particular issues that are of relevance to the audience.
As a creator and moderator of a popular Twitter chat, I have …
Selling in the Summer
“Business is always slower in the summer,” is the common phrase among sales professionals and business owners from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Unless you are in the tourism business, chances are your summer months are a little slower in the way of sales. This can also be a drastic rationalization technique by professionals when …
Does College Make Financial Sense?
The first edition of my career book, Fast Track Your Job Search (and Career!) , contained a chapter that offered ideas for evaluating the advisability of getting an M.B.A.. (I deleted it in later editions because I wanted to reduce my hate mail.) Within the chapter I provided estimated financial paybacks of the top rated …
11 Ways to Overcome Service-Based Branding Challenges
I have a service-based business. What is one branding challenge I will face that is unique to service businesses? How do I overcome it?
The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a …