Why Don’t People Follow Good Advice?
Do you ever feel like your good advice is wasted on the people you give it to?
In a recent research project, visitors to McDonalds and Subway restaurants were given slips of paper letting them know their recommended daily calorie total. Actually, the way the research project was run: some were handed a paper with …
Trusted Personal Brand: One Conversation at a Time
The final level of communication for those willing to build a strong personal brand must master is Level 3 Communication, or private, 1:1 communication.
This level is what separates the poor or mediocre leaders from the truly outstanding leaders. To master Level 3 Communication strong Level 1 Communication skills are a pre-requisite, as they will …
Personal Branding Weekly – 22 July 2013
Welcome to a new week with the Personal Branding Blog!
Enjoy and learn from last week’s round-up of great posts and insights:
What Are You Saying to Yourself About Yourself? by Skip Weisman Three Tools to Leverage Your Client’s Brand by Crystal Washington Personal Brands: Are You An “Is, And, Also?” Ok! by Nance Rosen…Build Your Tribe for Career Success
It is great to say you have 500+ LinkedIn connections or thousands of Twitter followers, but are they in your tribe?
In my book, Repurpose Your Career – A Practical Guide for Baby Boomers, which I co-authored with Susan Lahey, your tribe is described as follows:
Your tribe is the group of people who will …
Workplace Etiquette Rules You Should Have Learned in Kindergarten
Workplace etiquette is about more than just being nice to people, or remembering special events, or greeting people with a kind word. Sometimes, it’s something as basic as “don’t be an a-hole,” and yet we still have to remind people of that.
Bonnie Low-Kramen’s post last week on workplace etiquette and the idea of sometimes …
What is your LOT in Life?
Last week I attended the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Houston. One point was brought home during one of our evening events by a friend I had only known in Social Media circles. We had never met in person. Yet we run in the same circles. We work with a lot of the same …
Importance of Keywords on LinkedIn and on Your Resume
If you want recruiters to find you and email you directly even before you apply to any job postings, you should definitely use keywords on your LinkedIn profile and on your resume.
Recruiters do not always look for candidates for a single position. They generally try to hire for several positions at the same. Therefore, …
“What do I Want” is a Hard Question
Few weeks back I was giving a talk at a big tech company about focusing on the vision. As usual someone asked this basic question- “I don’t know what my vision is”! I am not surprised. This was my question only a few years ago. Over the years, by resolving my own dilemma and by …
Seven Tips for Acing Your Interviews
In today’s competitive job market, face-to-face job interviews are like gold. Once you get one, you need to do everything you can to perform your best and come out on top. And job interview skills have become even more important when you consider that you will probably need to change jobs more often in the …
Discover 5 Steps to Build Your Brand Out of Nothing
In general, we say your personal brand always exists, whether you know about it or not. That said, when you’re new to the professional world, you get to start out with a relatively clean slate. This gives you the opportunity to build your brand from scratch.
In the beginning, it is essential to shape your …