Five Reasons Your Attitude Is Hurting Your Career
This post is about trying to help you, not about criticizing you. Please consider it in that light.
Your attitude is one of the most important factors in creating your long-term career happiness. As noted in the first chapter of my career book, “Attitude is important in landing a job, keeping a job, and being …
Are There Generational Differences in Expressing Appreciation?
Just as the 5 Love Languages have helped millions of couples improve their communication with each other, the 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace is now drastically enhancing supervisors’ and colleagues’ ability to communicate authentic appreciation in the workplace.
We know that traditional employee recognition programs aren’t effective in helping employees truly feel valued …
Hard Close Loses to Selling Ethically
Negotiating the fine line of exuberance for the service you are selling, versus becoming too aggressive in the sales process, is critical for establishing a sound sales foundation and future business. Knowing your boundaries and communicating them well is essential before getting started in all transactions.
For example, an executive was recently heard advising his …
3 Ways to Use LinkedIn to Build Your Career
In a world where social media allows us to connect with almost everyone in the free world instantaneously, one platform dominates the professional networking space. Its name? LinkedIn.
By now, most people in the professional world have heard of LinkedIn. Job seekers know it can help them find a career, but many don’t know how …
5 Tips for Negotiating a Pay Raise
Negotiating a pay raise with your employer has never been an easy task. However, if you feel you are doing great at work and deserve to get a pay raise, you should definitely ask for it. Below you can find tips on how to do it right.
1) Make Some Research: Before asking your boss …
The Least Known Secret of Success
Daydreaming is the least understood brain activity and yet it’s the most powerful source of success, according to research psychologists in the US, Europe, China and Japan. This cross-cultural finding that creativity and productivity blossom from daydreaming is especially interesting, because it is almost universally discouraged.
For most of us, the priority at school and …
Personal Branding Weekly – Protect Yourself from Bad Company
We often write about how to keep our reputation clean to get the best opportunities or to be seen in the most positive and professional light.
What happens if the company you work for has a bad reputation? What if they’re known for their poor customer service, poor human resource practices or bad business? How …
5 Ways to Get More Respect at Work
“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.” Clint Eastwood. Seemingly this formula worked well for Clint Eastwood in his career and if you want to be better respected at your job, it can work for you too.
Take a moment to conjure …
Personal Brands : 3 Ways to Avoid the Drama
Popular expressions, proverbs or sayings said in Spanish are known as dichos. A popular dicho is “guardar el drama para su mama”. Translated that means “save the drama for your mama.” For personal brands, that drama can be a reputation breaker – so save it for something or somewhere you’re not involved with coworkers, employers …
Offer Your New Hires Some PDA
Graduation season is upon us. As the interviewing season is in full swing, small business employers are looking to attract some bright future stars while they compete with larger companies. A good way to see if the young talent is a good fit is to offer them some PDA, and see what they do. Nope, …