What Keeps Your Good People
Companies have long recognized the importance of smart employee recruiting. Now they are discovering that it’s just as important to spend their time on retention. This may involve financial factors, of course. AON Consulting studied 1,140 high-tech workers and found that 56 percent would stay at their current job longer if offered a similar job …
How to Develop Your Personal Brand Through Logistics
You’re going to need perspective to be successful in business. Not just your own perspective on how business operates, but for others to have a dialed in view of your capacity within that industry.
Whether you’re developing a shipping company, construction firm, or other type of blue-collar establishment, you’ll need to learn the numbers — …
Tips for Working Comfortably at Your Desk
It is important to feel comfortable at your office in order to increase your efficiency and protect your health. There are many small steps you can take to create a better work environment for yourself. You can start by implementing the below office ergonomics tips to improve your work day, care for yourself and decrease …
Job Termination Turnaround Success
Whether it’s “your fault” or not, being let go is a traumatic experience. It invariably produces emotions ranging from disbelief and rage to guilt, shame, and depression. It generally creates financial stress, which can lead to serious anxiety and conflicts within families. And the sense of uncertainty and loss of control that goes with being …
Avoid Overwhelm and Get Focus For Your Brand Marketing
Running a business is not an overnight success story, and many brands may struggle with not enough time or have themselves spread too thin. As marketing becomes more complex it’s important to change your perspective and build better habits. This is just a matter of focusing on what really matters for better productivity.
Does your …
Using LWL to Get Ahead
How often do you Listen?
Really Listen?
Before taking action?
It Can Be Hard
I know from personal experience that it can be hard not to jump to conclusions, not to leap forward with assumptions, and to not try and prescribe before diagnosing.
Stop. At least for one conversation today … stop.
Then … Listen. …
Personal Brands: The Art of the Snap
Adorned with a cute ghost as a logo, Snapchat is the latest social media platform to become a viable marketing tool for solopreneurs and freelancers. However, for those that know anything about the app, this seems counterintuitive. After all, the pictures or videos that are shared last only a few brief moments before they disappear …
Teamwork vs. Individual Work
By now, we all know that some people prefer to work individually and others in teams. Both teamwork and solo efforts have advantages and disadvantages. The key is finding the rights tasks for each one.
Let’s take a quick look below for the pros and cons of these different personality types and work styles.
Advantages…
Job Security or Job Insecurity?
Unfortunately, as much as we’d like to think that our careers are entirely in our hands, there are many factors over which we have no control. Keeping your current job may be one of them.
Of course, there are things you can do to increase your job security. Working hard, continually learning, and taking responsibility …
Mastering Your LinkedIn Profile
How often do you look at other people’s LinkedIn profiles?
How often do you look at your own LinkedIn profile?
If the answer to the second question is never … it’s time to bite the bullet.
Take 5 minutes and read this post, then go to your LinkedIn profile and do a quick sanity check …