Enhance Your Brand with MOOCs
Have you ever wished you had gone to Harvard? Well now you can – by taking a MOOC! MOOC stands for “Massive Open Online Course” and Harvard has partnered with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create an online learning environment called edX. These two prestigious universities have joined forces to offer free non-credit courses …
Your Chance to Get On-Camera Training. Literally.
Interactive video is the new frontier for getting yourself, your expertise, and your personal brand out there. So I’d like to invite you to be an early adopter and get your on-camera skills sharpened by joining me online: I’m holding a limited number of free on-camera workshops on the live video platform Spreecast.
What will…Build Your Brand Through Developing Your Self-Awareness
A key component of developing your personal brand is to understand your strengths and weaknesses. It can be difficult to step outside of our self-perceptions and take a critical look at ourselves, but the process of doing so is imperative to increasing our self-awareness and focusing our brand towards areas where we are confident we …
The Parent Dilemma
Parents want what is safe and secure for their children. Growing up, my mom and dad told me to get good grades, go to a great university, and get a high-paying job after I graduate. They also encouraged me to get my MBA and work hard so that I can climb the corporate ladder.
But …
5 Overlooked Opportunities for The Savvy College Applicant
Many of my clients become frustrated and disconcerted when they realize that they are not candidates for “top tier” universities. I advise them that the best strategy is to put their ego aside and pick a University which is “the best fit” to achieve their professional goals. I suggest you don’t waste valuable time and …
You Should Learn to Code
Many readers of this blog are great businesspeople. Entrepreneurs who started from scratch and built something profitable, and successful professionals that are integral cogs in their company’s machine.
We’re masters of social media. Blogging. SEO (get me some links!), paid traffic, promoting ourselves online and off.
But I’m willing to wager big that few of …
How to Make Online Classes Work With Your Brand
I’ve talked about working for free and wondered about the benefits of investing your cold hard cash in your personal brand on this blog. But readers have reminded me not everyone is in position to do these things. A friend of mine recently finished his teaching degree – a degree he did entirely online, while …
Character Donations: The Anonymous Brand
A check was received anonymously for $300 by the American Red Cross. A $20 donation was made anonymously to help the suffering people in Japan. A $50,000 check was anonymously sent to the American Cancer Society to help find the cure.
We’ve all heard the expressions “what goes around comes around” and “givers gain.” If …
The Strangest Miracle
“I’m not on drugs,” Denise said; her green eyes piercing mine.
I uncomfortably nodded my agreement. I was Denise’s executive job coach. She was an IT professional, a single mother of two children, and highly intelligent and success-driven. Denise was always in control of her emotions, so I found her comment rather odd.
Denise called …
The Art of “Sententia”
“Jay, your problem is you have too much time to think,” I was told by someone earlier in the week. I have to admit, even in jest, his remark caught me by surprise. I replied to him, “Your comment doesn’t even make sense.”
The statement reminded me of a neighbor I had many years ago, …