How to Avoid the “Back-to-Work” Holiday Hangover
For most of a month, many of you have been more interested in travel plans, party plans, and gift ideas than the drudgery of career obligations and bottom lines.
The time has come to wake up. The party is definitely over!
While this may be easier said than done, it must be done, nonetheless.
It …
Personal Branding Weekly and Networking Word of Mouth
Editor’s Note: Relationships are vital to any of your personal and professional success. Good communication, relationship building skills and basic networking are often lacking. When you can possess those three skill sets, your brand stands out from everyone else and is memorable. How well do you engage your brand?
This past week we covered:
5…A Secret For Dressing Like A C.E.O.
Dressing for success is not just about your attire.
Walk into the office of any CEO and look at his/her desk. You will almost always find a space that is neat and free of clutter. There are a lot of factors that go into being successful. Among them are being well-organized and highly productive.
Unfortunately, …
The Right Question to Ask
The right question is: What value do you / your brand / your company offer the world?
If you are not clear on the value that your brand offers the world, you significantly limit your brand and never fulfill your career’s potential.
But what does it look like to be clear on the value you …
Choose Your Own Path! Take Charge of Your Career!
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. – Mae West
No two people are exactly alike, not even identical twins. Everyone is unique and has something they are meant to contribute to the world. Don’t try to follow someone else’s course or you’ll end up living a second-rate version …
Personal Brands are Like a Sweet ‘Onion’
Have you ever heard the expression “Culture is like an onion”?
Geert Hofstede, a social psychologist created this explanation of culture. In his view culture is a system that can be peeled, layer by layer, in order to reveal the inner, true content. Imagine the whole onion as ‘culture’ and as you peel on, you …
Let Your Brand Tell a Story
We often think of branding as a one-time thing. Set up your visual aspects, refine your messaging, portray the brand, and engage customers and watch it catch on.
But branding is an ongoing initiative, and one aspect of it that really ties in the idea of “personal branding” is to make it uber-personal. And you …
Working Your Way To Invaluable Employee Status
Invaluable. Meaning something is indispensable, vital, and necessary to daily operations. This is what you want to be to your employer. But getting to that point does take a lot of work and loads of dedication on your part. So if you’re looking to not only safeguard the job that you love, but also be …
How to Build and Inspire A Team
In my 6 years of entrepreneurship, I’ve learned that the team is the most important part of the equation. Therefore, a single founder shouldn’t spend the majority of his time looking for funding, or building a product; instead, the single founder should spend the majority of his time building the perfect team.
The anatomy of…5 Ways To Anticipate and Benefit From Change
“Haw now realized that the change probably would have not taken him by surprise, if he had been watching what was happening all along, and if he had anticipated change”.
I just finished my annual visit with Spencer Johnson’s Who Moved My Cheese. I find this simple allegory and story so timeless, relevant and helpful …