5 Damaging Career Moves to Avoid
Careers aren’t made overnight, but a few mistakes can easily derail your career pretty quickly. Whether you’re complacent in your current position, or you’re swept up in office politics, there are many snafus seasoned professionals can run into.
“People make a lot of mistakes in their careers, some are small and can be recovered from …
Reliability Trumps Skill and Talent for Workplace Success
It doesn’t matter how smart you are or how much skill and talent you have if co-workers and business leaders cannot count on you to follow through.
Reliability trumps skill and talent every time (this is contingent on the individual having the appropriate skills and talent necessary to fulfill the job requirements).
A lack of …
The Secrets to Becoming a Respected and Sustained Influencer
It’s widely believed that those who are in sales and marketing need to know how to be persuasive, but what about the rest of us? Does the general public benefit from knowing more about the dynamics of influence and what it takes to be good at being persuasive and to be weary of those influencers …
10 Reasons Why Women Should Help Other Women
“There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” – Madeleine Albright, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations
This famed 2006 quote from Madeleine Albright to the WNBA expresses what so many women feel, and eight years later it still hits a nerve.
Our modern workplace is complex …
Take Ten Minutes a Day to do NOTHING
Most people start the day running in high gear and they never let up until the end of the day. Sometimes not even then. Their brains are still going 100 miles an hour as they try and get some sleep just so they can do it all over again the next day.
That’s not a …
Complementing Core Competency Strengthens Growth
Getting started in business is overwhelming to say the least. There are so many “have to” learn components. It’s not just about your core service, but also about business development and communication to attract interest in your services. For most people, they are horrified to learn they need to become a salesperson too. And for …
The Difference Between Work Friends and Real Friends
Many of you work at least eight hours a day and see the same people week after week. Therefore, it often makes sense to become work friends with fellow employees.
However, have you ever considered whether your work friends are your real friends?
There is a difference between your real friends, who will be there …
You’re Losing Money by not Using These Prospecting Tips
How to leverage Google and LinkedIn for high-level prospecting.
One of the things that surfaces when I’m training sales professionals is how much time many of them waste on social media by not being strategic. Instead, they find themselves watching cat videos, playing Candy Crush, or reading endless tweets. I won’t even get started on …
Slow Down to Enhance Your Personal Brand
I was in a meeting with two executives discussing group training for some of their managers and department heads. In bursts a woman to inform one of the executives about a change in appointments. With rapid-fire words she explained the schedule change. Then as quickly as she had come in, she was gone. I asked, …
10 Branding Tips for a Great AngelList Profile
What’s one tip for making the most of a profile on AngelList?
The following answers are provided by members of Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs start and …