What Moving to a New City Means for Your Brand
Moving to a new city is a really big decision. You need to save up whatever you can, learn a new city, and meet new people. You essentially have to start over. One of the challenges you’ll face (that you may have not considered) is what moving will mean for your personal brand.
In a …
How to Deal with Office Politics
Like it or not, office politics is a fact of life in any work place. It is something that you need to understand and learn how to deal with in order to achieve success in your organization. If you learn how to master office politics, then you can be sure that you will climb the …
Creating a Social Media Plan of Action
Busy professionals who use social media for personal branding, networking, job search, etc. normally don’t have time to throw away. Yet, most use social media without having any real strategy. Sure, they may get a “hit” on occasion with a business referral or job opening information, but those happenings tend to be a happy surprise. …
Personal Branding Weekly – Build Your Relationships First
It’s not often, even though I’m from Texas, that I can say I spent a few days with some cowboys. But, this week I did. Actually, they were once known as the culinary cowboys (lucky for me – people who know and love their food!) Yet, they were cowboys in other ways. To me a …
Knowing When Your Career Tank is on Empty
Your career tank can be similar to your automobile gas tank in that you have to fill it up from time to time. You have to make sure you have enough motivation, energy and positive relations with your current employer that if you want to make a change, you can do so relatively painlessly. If …
There is No Such Thing as Luck
We’ve all said it and thought it. That person is SO LUCKY!
However, the reality is… There is no luck. Perhaps the author Robert Heinlein said it best in his book Time Enough for Love
There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.…
Your Own Personal Brand No Fly Zone
“There are times when the best appointment you keep is with yourself.” [tweet this]
There are many times, especially as we start the week, that we run around trying to take care of so many “conditions” that we ourselves have implemented. We might have the standard that all phone calls get answered in two hours …
Parents Beware: Branding Beyond Home Life
As a writer, I’ve built some of my own brand reputation on the fact that I am a “mommy blogger.” I love being part of this community – most of the time. When I’m bidding on a new writing project, however, I often don’t list the link to my parenting blog. Since I do not …
Who’s “Directing” Your Career?
Shakespeare is famous for penning “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts”. How can we relate this metaphor to your employment and future career? Let me give it a shot….
The traditional and …
Negotiate the Job Offer to Win
You wanted this job so bad, and finally the offer arrived. The adrenaline is flowing freely, and you feel like sharing the good news with the entire world—certainly with those who contributed to your win. But is this job a really good deal? Could you have gotten a better deal if you only knew how?…