Are You an Accidental Bully?
Okay, now that I’ve got your attention, I want you to think about if is possible that at some point in your life you have bullied another at work without setting out to be destructive.
If we hold any sort of power at work including being a person of influence within a team even when …
What is your LOT in Life?
Last week I attended the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Houston. One point was brought home during one of our evening events by a friend I had only known in Social Media circles. We had never met in person. Yet we run in the same circles. We work with a lot of the same …
Importance of Keywords on LinkedIn and on Your Resume
If you want recruiters to find you and email you directly even before you apply to any job postings, you should definitely use keywords on your LinkedIn profile and on your resume.
Recruiters do not always look for candidates for a single position. They generally try to hire for several positions at the same. Therefore, …
“What do I Want” is a Hard Question
Few weeks back I was giving a talk at a big tech company about focusing on the vision. As usual someone asked this basic question- “I don’t know what my vision is”! I am not surprised. This was my question only a few years ago. Over the years, by resolving my own dilemma and by …
Seven Tips for Acing Your Interviews
In today’s competitive job market, face-to-face job interviews are like gold. Once you get one, you need to do everything you can to perform your best and come out on top. And job interview skills have become even more important when you consider that you will probably need to change jobs more often in the …
Business Fundamentals for Personal Branding Success
Personal brand building and career success require more than charisma, confidence and passion; you need to know the fundamentals of business and financial management.
Regardless whether you’re planning to continue working for others until you have saved enough to start your own business, or you want to start your own business as soon as possible, …
Discover 5 Steps to Build Your Brand Out of Nothing
In general, we say your personal brand always exists, whether you know about it or not. That said, when you’re new to the professional world, you get to start out with a relatively clean slate. This gives you the opportunity to build your brand from scratch.
In the beginning, it is essential to shape your …
Three Tools to Leverage Your Client’s Brand
Competition is steep in today’s business world. People are constantly bombarded with advertisements, solicitations, and other marketing messages. It pays (literally) to know how to cut through the clutter to make an impact. One of the best ways to outshine the competition and differentiate your personal and/or professional brand is through directly leveraging your clients’ …
What Are You Saying to Yourself About Yourself?
To build a powerful personal brand we must consider three different levels of communication and ensure we are communicating consistently across all three.
The three include:
Self-communication Public communication Private, 1:1 communicationThis week I’m going to focus on self-communication because it is the foundation of everything else.
Self-CommunicationThe most important of all levels …
Personal Branding Weekly – 15 July 2013
Aloha! That’s all I can say when enjoying a week with my husband celebrating our wedding anniversary!
Enjoy!
Imposter Syndrome by Kevin Monahan Differentiation is Easy, Once You Set Your Own Standard by Skip Weisman Three Tips for Handling a Social Media Brand Crisis by Crystal Washington Eliminate the Negative in Your Personal Brand by…