What’s Wrong With Your Image?
You may not realize you have an image. And the image that exists for you may not be ideal. The goal of reputation management and personal branding is to intentionally and authentically put together an image that is coherent, consistent and compelling.
What distinguishes your image from your personal brand or reputation? Your image is …
Handshake to Set Yourself Apart
When Richard Maracinko, author of several books on the NAVY SEALs, shakes hands, he uses two. The left is to check your pulse to see if you’re nervous meeting him and then he acts accordingly.
A famous restaurant owner in New York lets people know what their status is with her based on her choice …
What Connections Help Build Community Around Your Brand
It’s no secret that in the workplace, communication plays a major role in the productivity of the workforce. Where people are able to communicate and share thoughts and ideas freely, the quality of results increases significantly. You need to foster that sort of communication with people outside the workplace. The magic lies in diversifying the …
Seven Social Media Tips You Cannot Afford To Ignore
If you have been using social media for more than a couple months, you’ve seen professionals who could use an etiquette refresher course. Interestingly enough, many of the offenders you have observed are extremely professional and kind in the “real world.” What accounts for the discrepancy between their in-person and online personas? They don’t understand …
How These LinkedIn Strategies Can Help Your Personal Brand
One of the best ways to build a personal brand is through increased visibility online. The most effective method to achieve this is to create compelling content that is shared on social media. LinkedIn is a prominent place to be for professionals, and allows for your articles to get more exposure.
With consistent quality and …
The Quality of List Determines the Quality of Career
You’ve heard the statement, it’s not who you know or even what you know, it’s not even who knows you – it’s who knows you best.
The connections and the relationships we have with people determine the quality of success in our endeavors. Even with our reach online and across the world, people still do …
Do You Deserve a Better Job?
You will not always do what you are doing now. You will go on to as many as seven distinct careers, ten to fifteen different jobs, perhaps a dip or dive into your own entrepreneurial venture and hopefully, some significant philanthropy.
That’s why the thing that you do, what you actually accomplish at work, may …
How to Answer Questions Better Than Others
Be as willing to respond to questions as you are willing to ask them. If you hesitate to answer, people think you aren’t cooperative, don’t know the answer, don’t know what you’re doing, or that you lack confidence. You might even be viewed as acting arrogant and superior in your nonresponse.
Choose your words and …
Developing Worthiness of Equality
Entrepreneurs, in their first ten years of business, usually feel some type of inadequacy. From a sales perspective, meetings or partnering are not about being equally matched in experience. Instead, the matter is about what we each bring to the table that your prospective client needs, wants and deeply desires.
Sometimes all that is required …
How to Turn Networking into Interviews
People in transition know that 60 to 80 percent of job seekers get their next positions through networking. Consequently and whenever possible, they focus their daily activities on such networking. But despite their—sometimes admittedly awkward—efforts, nothing comes of it. The reason is that they don’t have an understanding of the actual purpose of networking and …