5 Tasks Every Successful Employee Masters
No matter what you do, you are going to be paid better if you take on these five additional tasks in your company. In addition, performing these tasks is akin to getting a work insurance policy, that is: play these five roles and guarantee your status as the most valuable member of your team.
1.…How Facebook’s IPO Helps YOUR Career
On May 18, 2012, many of us expected Facebook stock to hit the public market with an explosion. There was a revival of hope reticent the first dot-com boom. Facebook’s valuation went up over the road show week and excitement was high as Mark Zuckerberg rang the NASDAQ opening bell.
I, like many other retail …
Personal Brands – Less Is More
From employment to solopreneurship to launching your own small business, personal branding is important. Competition is fierce at all levels and it’s important to be able to communicate what makes you different and unique.
This is why you can’t be just a “face in the crowd”. You need to be able to connect the dots …
How Outrageous Is Your Personal Brand?
If you haven’t caused some kind of outrage, you haven’t got a really big BANG kind of brand. That might work for you. Maybe you’re not in the really-need-to-be memorable kind of place in your career.
Maybe Twitter has so few of whatever you are or do that just by being …. you, you stand …
Sometimes A Great Brand Is Not Enough
As many of my fellow contributors have written, the personal brand you create is one of the most important determinants of your success both inside and outside of the workplace.
We have talked about how it takes time and many steps to build up a strong reputation (let alone the work that goes into maintaining …
Visualize Your Personal Brand
In a world with too many choices, being the obvious one in your category really isn’t that hard. You just have to stand out from the pack. In a good way.
There are lots of people with your skill set, no doubt. But, there’s no one who has your combination of personality, abilities, qualities and …
To Give And Receive – My Personal Advice Experiment
This week, I chose a day where I was going to listen and be influenced by others. As one who has given a lot of advice over the years, I thought my “day of advice and recommendations” would be a great gauge to see if I was as open receiving it as I thought I …
The 5 Languages of Nice
As my creative partner @FamousAlice says, s“competent and nice beats genius and difficult” when it comes to hiring, promoting and collaborating with team members – or selecting and working with vendors and consultants.
Competence is broadly understood as being good at what you do; but do not dismiss what it takes to be good – …
Get Noticed…..Literally
What makes you stand out? Do you have something defining or memorable that makes someone take a second look?
Appearance makes a difference. Period.
55% of a person’s first opinion of you is based on your physical appearance and your body language. As an athlete, you wear a team uniform most often in front of …
How to Destroy Your Career
Feelings, sometimes nothing more than feelings, define a brand, including a personal brand. What about yours?
The seven deadly sins of career building:
Laziness
Carelessness
Lying
Stealing
Arrogance
Cynicism
Self-pity
There’s more of course, but that list is a really good start.
Here’s the thing. You never intended for those sins to show up in …