Eliminating “It’s Not My Job Attitudes” at Your Workplace
The more client work I do the more creative I have to get.
I find my clients’ continue to offer me unique opportunities to stretch my comfort zone as I try to stretch theirs’. It’s become a wonderful symbiotic relationship.
Last week I was confronted with a situation where a client was challenged with a …
The Healthier Side of Modeling: An Interview with Victor Surma
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Traditionally, model and trainer Victor Surma has known the modelling industry as a cut-throat, unhealthy atmosphere where young women are forced to maintain a skeletal figure , and children are conditioned to believe that what they see in the magazines is what they should …
Personal Branding Weekly – Guilty of Bad Brand Impressions?
Comment below – have you ever seen that post in a LinkedIn group asking if you would share their resume with your contacts (and then, yes, they do attach their resume)? My first question is “why should I? What have you done to compel me to speak positively on your behalf?” Just asking me to …
Should Baby Boomers Care About Their Personal Brand?
Baby Boomers, should you care about your Personal Brand?
I have written a couple of posts on this topic in the last few months:
Personal Brand and the Baby Boom Generation Baby Boomer Personal Branding using Social MediaEach time I have posted links to these posts on a variety of LinkedIn groups.
I have …
Focus on Benefits and Buyer Motivation to Make Sales
One mistake made by many new business owners is focusing on the features of their products or services when advertising. Having great features is important to building a successful business, but advertising features is not the most effective way to market your product or service. Consumers don’t care much about your great features. What they …
Knocked Down 7 Times? Stand Up 8
A pep talk.
My favorite moment in the entire Rocky Balboa pantheon is not when he beats the hell out of Clubber Lang or Ivan Drago. It’s near the end of the first movie, Rocky, at the end of the 14th round when he’s been beaten so badly, he can barely stand.
He’s so tired …
How to Become an Ideal Workplace?
In order to become an ideal workplace, one where employees feel they’re valued and have opportunities for growth, business owners need to create a community and a culture that empowers employees and rewards contributors. Since employees spend most of their time in the workplace, it makes sense that the environment should be one that nurtures …
Recognize Greatness
Has anyone ever taken the time to recognize something you have done? What did that feel like? Would you want that feeling to happen again and again? Even if you are shy I think the answer is yes.
The same is also true for others.
Recognition mattersHave you noticed someone doing something that should …
Optimize Yourself With a Mind-Body Connection
On the first day of my coach training class the instructor gave us a meditation exercise. The purpose was to be ready and present for the session. As someone coming from the high paced, left brained, hardcore technology field I was not able to appreciate it much. Noticing my breathing and the body parts seemed …
You Manage Your Online Reputation
With current technology, information can be accessed by a majority of online world in split seconds. The internet spreads information faster than word of mouth. You never know who gets to read about you. For entrepreneurs, how you are perceived by your connections can have tremendous effect on your business. As one who posts (sometimes …