Personal and Business Branding Through Community Service
Building a brand is one of the hardest things a company can do. You know what “I’m lovin’ it” means. You know what a bright red cross means — but how those companies are able to go about creating their brands takes some ingenuity. It doesn’t need to be all flashy slogans and Super Bowl …
Managing a Multi-Generational Workplace
Millennials keep joining to the workforce and their numbers grow each day in the companies. Meanwhile, due to harsh economic conditions, Baby Boomers and Gen X postpone retirement and actively keep working. This leaves managers with a challenge of managing teams which consist of three generations. Each generation has their strengths and weaknesses. The importance …
How to Handle When Headhunters Call
First, you want to check if they are retainer or contingency. You want to work with retainer only.
Next, tell them you will call them back.
Do call them back when you are at a comfortable place to talk to them. Let them tell you enough about the job so you can be sure it’s …
Stop Following Your Passion: Try These Three Ideas Instead
How many times were you asked as a child, what do you want to be when you grow up? Did you actually end up pursuing this path? What about when you started college, did you ever get anxious when people asked you what you’re major was and felt inadequate, confused or embarrassed because you were …
Creating News and Share-worthy Press Releases for Your Brand
When it comes to promoting a personal brand it can be a challenge to reach the level of viral attention of a public figure or celebrity. But there are strategies you can use that will actually attract a large audience. With good research in your target market and a well crafted press release your brand …
Why You Were Not Called Back After the Interview
I am a career coach specializing in the interview process. Recently, I was approached by a company for help in improving its interviewing practices. Toward that end, I prepared the necessary instructional material. But because it’s a first for me, I thought that—before I go live with it, and to see how it would go—it …
3 Steps to Build Your Personal Brand With Online Job Boards
What do people see when they type your name into Google?
We are living in times where countless people have lost their jobs over some careless comment they made on the internet. Now more than ever, success in the job market is determined not only by your specific skill set but also how you present …
How to Improve the Sales Experience
Entrepreneurship and sales have one common element and that is uncertainty. When the uncertainty hits, so do self-doubt and anxiety. The downward spiral is very tough to deal with unless it is understood and dealt with properly.
When anxiety or fear hit, recognize the cause to take swift action and move past.
Sales Mindset
Courage …
Approaching Greatness and Your Personal Brand
The higher up the ladder you are in a business, the busier and more frequent the responsibilities become. All too often this will transform a once approachable individual into a terrifying force easier to ignore than to face. Employees stop calling, problems are covered up and the office culture takes a steep nose dive toward …
5 Tips to Make Employee Scheduling Easy
Everyone has 24 hours in a day, but sometimes as a manager or business owner, you feel like your time is like putting socks in washing machine. You know you started with 24, but somehow, two or three disappeared right before your eyes.
Scheduling your employees, even if you only have a couple, can be …