Is Fear a Part of Your Professional Life?
During my work with job seekers or those contemplating a job/career change, I evaluate the amount of fear that drives—or paralyzes—my clients. To some extent, all of them exhibit fear originated by some threat—or so they perceive. For a person out of a job, that feeling is not only a perception but also, unfortunately, a …
Trial and Error Leads to Improved Path
We are now closing in on year-end and fast approaching the New Year. Take time to seriously ponder and discover the best lessons learned over the past year.
Questions for consideration:
Which lessons have you learned this year that have made a significant change in your business?
Which strategies proved most successful that you might …
Why You Must Act Like A Jerk
You know all those people you think are jerks for being louder and pushier than you? Here’s a shocker. They get what they want, way more often than you do.
Compared to those who are less straightforward: people, who emphatically say what they want, get what they want more often. Not because other people are …
Personal Branding Weekly: You’re Great at Remembering Names, Right?
There is so much that is normally going on during the course of introductions to others. Sometimes we’re at a “grip, grin and graze” and we don’t even have a free hand to shake with. Sometimes we’re trying so hard to formulate our “elevator pitch” that we never hear what the other person even said. …
Three Tips for Crafting Your 2015 Professional Vision Board
Are you refreshing your personal brand in 2015 or looking to reinvent yourself and go into a new profession? A vision board may help you crystallize your 2015 goals.
Vision boards are simply visual representations of your goals. They can be digital or physical collages of images representing your targets. Some create vision boards using …
Are You Seeking Respect and Failing in Interviews
Seeking Respect in Interviews
Are you seeking respect and backing off your usual style when you first meet someone?
I have several new clients whose natural style is to be direct in their communication. In contrast, they have a high need for respect in their dealings with other people, as defined by their Birkman Assessment.…
Learning from Leaders of the Past
In order to get a true feel of what comprises a leader, it’s crucial to analyze those who came before us. Both their cultivated and natural leadership qualities led them to success in various situations. The concrete examples by proven leaders below act as guideposts for our ambitions toward becoming great leaders that attract remarkable …
3 Tips For Building a Free Website
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In the digital age, websites are more important now than ever before. These days, employers want to see your website before they interview you and companies want to see it before …
Make Your Personal Brand Shine With Strong Communication Skills
Having strong communication skills is crucial. One needs to know when it’s important to listen and when its necessary to respond. There are many subtleties in communication that can influence others; the best communicators strengthen their personal brand using speech and silence to influence others’ opinion of them. They intuitively know “when silence is golden” …
Holiday Social Media Marketing Tips
There is no doubt that more and more consumers are turning to media devices to help them make buying decisions. According to a survey by Accenture, 13 percent of consumers surveyed indicated they plan to use social networking sites to help them with holiday shopping in 2014. More than 63 percent plan to use a …