Who Is Your Professional Catalyst?
Each of us have a few people in our lives who got us started down the paths we’ve followed. It could have been an English teacher who encouraged you to write that started you down the path to being a writer, or a supervisor at work who put you on a project that led to …
Dealing with Presentation Nerves On Stage and On Camera
With the popularity of TedTalks and Slideshare, GoogleHangouts and Skype, presentations are everywhere. If you haven’t been doing them already, sooner or later you’ll be asked to show off what you know either onstage or on camera.
This is a debilitating prospect for many of us. I know so many people who are great 1-on-1 …
The Future of ‘Engagement’ in the Social Media
As we discussed in last week’s post (and indeed thank you all for your comments and ‘engaging with me’ here and on Twitter and elsewhere), the hype and excessive emphasis on engagement for social media strategies – to the exclusion of other necessary elements for brands both commercial and personal that need to focus on …
Do CEOs Scavenge Social Media Accounts of Job Candidates?
The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only nonprofit organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. The YEC recently published …
Use Your Personal Brand to Overcome Horrible Bosses
I recently watched the movie “Horrible Bosses,” a comedy about three friends that inadvertently stumble upon the idea to…well, kill their bosses. While the premise hopefully isn’t realistic for you, I was intrigued by one scene that I believe shows how important personal branding is.
In the beginning of the movie, Jason Bateman’s character Nick …
‘Barbara Walters’ Job Interview Questions – They’re Back!
In her heyday on TV, Barbara Walters nearly always ended an interview with some famous (or infamous!) personality by asking them some inane question like this: “If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?” If the person being interviewed was prepared for the question, then his or her answer wouldn’t be …
Branding & Career Tips from The Apple Experience
Subtitled, Secrets to Building Insanely Great Customer Loyalty, Carmine Gallo’s The Apple Experience is an engaging, anecdote-filled analysis of The Apple Stores, and how the customer loyalty they create builds-upon–and …
Rules for Assuming the Sale
You may have previously been advised to “Assume the sale”. The implied characteristics of doing so are to speak with confidence and assume you will get the sale as you begin to meet with your clientele until otherwise notified.
However, along with the advice come inherent problems. The #1 error made by most businesspeople is …
Why Being A Good Sport Enhances Your Brand
In some areas in your life, you may convince yourself to disregard what others think about you. But, when it comes to your personal brand, the impression you leave on others is one of the most significant decision-makers between success and failure.
There are plenty of ways to ignite positive vibes from your audience. Alternatively, …
Career Advice from HBR: Zig, Zag, Zoom!
In this month’s Harvard Business Review, global search executive Claudio Fernandez Araoz listed nine winning qualities when it comes to evaluating a candidate’s leadership potential.
– Flexibility
– Empathy
– Organizational awareness
– Relationship management
– Curiosity
– Insight
– Inspiration
– Determination
– Motivation
What’s even more interesting is that top-level recruiters are also …