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 …
Books to Read to Achieve Success
You don’t need an MBA from an ivy-league school to learn about business and achieve success. By reading books from successful businessmen or thought leaders, you can get hints and advise about being successful and use these in your career. There are many motivational business books out there that must be read but below are …
How Brands Can Have a Successful Marketing Plan for Book Publishing
Publishing a book is a great way to build your personal brand, and can used for building a loyal following online. It takes time to develop the marketing process for this, but with the right strategy you can have both time for writing and strategy.
Are you looking for more time for your book marketing? …
Solve for Why … The Business Secret
How often do you ask why?
Is there a maximum number of times to ask why?
Why … do you say that or think that?
The 5 Why’s
Asking why five times is a commonly used tool (and expression) to get to the root of an issue. In the system developed in Japan by Sakichi …
So, How Did Your Interview Go?
In several of my previous blogs, I alluded to the known fact of the huge disconnect between a candidate and an interviewer(s). The candidate has been preparing for this major event for a while—and with fervor—and anticipates that the event will result in a job offer. This is the interview that could change the candidate’s …
Opposites Attract and Provide Valuable Insight for New Ideas
A very good business practice is to ask opinions of those who tend to think quite differently. This is particularly so for when a new idea comes to life but you want to make sure there aren’t any gaps in the plan.
Opposing Opinions
For example, those who are creative versus those more technical in …
4 Ways to Improve Your Company’s Diversity and Inclusion
It’s the year 2016, and diversity has finally emerged as a near-universal value in the business world. Company leaders from Alaska to Florida have discovered that to ignore diversity is to ignore untapped pools of talent and potential — and doing so leaves our workplaces woefully incomplete in the process.
But understanding why inclusion and …