Adjusting to Working From Home
Whether you’re telecommuting, starting a home business or freelancing, working at home comes with big changes, some of which can be surprisingly difficult. You can make the adjustment easier by anticipating challenges and planning your routine. Here are tips to help you succeed working from home:
1. Designate a work area. An office with a …
3 Easy Branding Tips for a Stronger Community
Marketing is a must for brands and businesses who want to be noticed in the online world and generate more sales and leads. But equally important is building relationships, otherwise known as ‘community.’
There are key differences between each, but both marketing and community come together to serve a greater purpose that is about building …
One Simple Tip to Make it Easier to Engage
I don’t know about you, but there are times when I just want to pick up the phone and call someone. Just today I wanted to call a colleague to do a quick check-in on something. But, I was stopped dead in my tracks.
What Stopped Me?It was something simple. Something so easy to …
The Problem with Gifts of Appreciation
Sometimes they miss the mark.
Giving that Starbucks card to the person who doesn’t like coffee. The gift card to a steakhouse to someone who’s a vegetarian. Or, the plaque to that person who doesn’t have a wall to put it on.
And often gifts of recognition are confused with a gift of appreciation. They’re …
How to Upgrade Your Resume, Part 4
Would you like a resume that helps you advance your career by appealing to hiring managers and recruiters who review your resume? As an executive career coach who sees hundreds and writes many resumes each month, I can tell you that less than 10% of the resumes out there are effective. I want you to …
Adam Corolla’s Method to Build a Powerful Personal Brand
Adam Corolla is a radio personality, comedian, actor and television host recognized as Hollywood’s most successful soloprenuer masquerading as a comedian. Adam is best known for hosting the “Adam Corolla Show,” which is his own personal show that began as a radio program but is now a hugely successful talk show that is distributed via …
10 Words to Never Use for Your Personal Brand
Everyone has a unique personal brand.
When it comes to defining your personal brand, it’s important to be very careful in what you say when describing yourself. Words are incredibly powerful and can be interpreted in a number of different ways when misused.
To protect your reputation and your brand, it’s absolutely necessary you avoid …
How To Value Yourself So Others Will, Too
Twice each year, I give a personal branding boot camp on campus at UCLA. The single hardest part of camp will be helping each participant appreciate themselves. Appreciating yourself is a weird concept for most people. We are used to talking about our strengths and weaknesses. We are comfortable talking about our hard and soft …
Personal Branding Weekly – It’s No Picnic
For our readers in the U.S. and Canada, Happy Labor/Labour Day!
For many small business owners, it’s time to get back to business.
The summertime can be overwhelming. Juggling kid’s, activities and family reunions/vacations and still be accessible to clients, can take its toll on even the most driven entrepreneurs.
Let’s get back to business!…
Learning from Successes Trumps Learning from Failure Every Time
Long-term success is contingent on continual improvement.
There are manifold continuous improvement strategies from the Japanese Kaizen to Six Sigma to personal self-reflection and meditation.
Most improvement strategies rely on identifying mistakes and taking action to ensure those mistakes are corrected and not repeated.
Some of the most successful people espouse the “fail fast, fail …