Why You Should Start Your Personal Brand in College
As a college student, you have a lot of things to worry about. You’ve got classes, clubs, a job, and a social life to take care of. Planning ahead for your career is one of the last things you’re thinking about as an underclassman.
Though your career might seem far away, it actually starts right …
How Dramatic and Defensive is Your Personal Brand?
As you may know, I have the great honor of teaching for a major university in a special program to re-launch young managers who have not been successful in their careers. Either their jobs have simply gone away, they’ve been eclipsed by someone better prepared or somehow just not made the inroads they needed to …
Personal Branding Weekly – More Big Bang for Your Buck
It’s true – deep down I’m a geek. I learned how to program in COBOL and FORTRAN. I even received my first prom invite on a punch-card. So, I immediately fell in love with the geeky, quirky team on the television show The Big Bang Theory. I don’t think you have to be geeky to …
Is It Time For A Personal Rebrand?
In many people’s careers, mine included, you sometimes get to the point where you’ve run out of room in your personal brand. For me, I had a stellar career in finance but got to the point where I no longer enjoyed the work or the brand that I’d built up for myself as the “young …
Your Brand Story – Who Should Write It?
In developing you personal brand, have you tried to write your brand story? Your brand story should express who you are and not what you have done. It should convey what you stand for, your morals and values.
Wow that is hard!
I have taken several of online programs to learn about the process of …
Five Blogging Lessons Learned From Newspaper Columnists
If you want to be a thought leader in your field, to be seen as one of its leading authorities, you need to pay special attention to how you blog.
You can’t just splut out a blog post here and there, and expect people to take you seriously. You also can’t have an overly formal …
Get Your Teens To Succeed: Encourage Them To Volunteer!
“It’s Cool To Be Kind” –Beth Kuhel
Best Buddies International and Friendship Circle International (FC) are not your typical volunteer organizations: Teen volunteers provide life altering friendship, companionship and mentoring for special needs children. The scope of activities is customized to the needs of the families and to the skill level of the teen volunteers. …
What is In Your Way?
“Not enough time”, “Not enough support from others”, “Lack of ideas”, topped the list for my survey question: “What is in your way of having more satisfaction from your career”. All these seem correct and expected. It would be wonderful if these external factors of time and support were resolved so you and I could …
Don’t Paint Yourself in a Corner
There comes a time in every career that we need to take a look around and make sure we are not limiting ourselves. Making sure we are making the most of our careers. And making the most of our lives too. For one cannot exist without the other. This post has a few tips & …
Quarterly Reports
Four times a year, publicly traded companies are required to submit quarterly earning reports to the Security Exchange Commission. The information disclosed in these reports provide a snapshot of the financial health of the company. Earning reports are part of a stewardship process – investors have entrusted firms with money to run the company and …