What Connections Help Build Community Around Your Brand
It’s no secret that in the workplace, communication plays a major role in the productivity of the workforce. Where people are able to communicate and share thoughts and ideas freely, the quality of results increases significantly. You need to foster that sort of communication with people outside the workplace. The magic lies in diversifying the …
What Would You Attempt to Do?
I have several quotations on the wall in my office. In my last post I discussed the first one, which is:
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. (George Bernard Shaw)
The gist of that post was that people tend to search for pay and sustenance in the earlier part of their …
Vitality Drives Healthy Business
A common topic among experienced entrepreneurs is that of “burnout”. The question becomes, have you truly burned out or do you simply need to rest and regroup?
Frequently, when big projects are completed and the frenzy dies down, this is when the idea of burnout hits. It’s the roller coaster ride of entrepreneurship hitting the …
How Social Media Has Transformed Talent Acquisition
A SHRM Discussion With Will Staney
Recruiting has evolved.
What used to be a world consumed by job boards, applications, automation and job hunters is now a place of social recruiting – one where referrals, analytics and integrated recruiting rule. Candidate expectations have shifted drastically, too. Today, 47% of workers were born after 1980. And …
3 Things You Should Consider When Evaluating a Job Offer
You passed all of the steps for this news. You have put together a great resume and a cover letter, got noticed among other candidates and answered all of the interview questions. Finally the phone rang and the recruiter said ‘Congratulations! We decided to extend you an offer.’ Now, you cannot wait to sign the …
What Secret Weapon is Hanging in the Air?
Scientific American cites some shocking news about time. The more quickly you have to respond to a question or report results, the more likely you are to lie. Or, consider the reverse. The more time you take, the less likely you are to lie.
Lying is in the air. Literally, the fewer breaths you take, …
Personal Branding Weekly – Stop Guarding Your Resources
I recently wrote about the five things you need to stop doing now to create great connections in 2015.
Stop guarding your resources is one of them.
In a minute, you can Google almost anything that you want to know more about so the days of keeping resources or a piece of information “top secret” …
Seven Social Media Tips You Cannot Afford To Ignore
If you have been using social media for more than a couple months, you’ve seen professionals who could use an etiquette refresher course. Interestingly enough, many of the offenders you have observed are extremely professional and kind in the “real world.” What accounts for the discrepancy between their in-person and online personas? They don’t understand …
Clothes and Your Personal Branding
As they say, clothes don’t make the man but they do make a difference. Of course, there is the argument that clothes do make the man because naked people have little influence in our society.
Quite frankly, clothes are the least important part of your physical presence, but they are part of it. Fortunately, they …
Workplace Communications – Generational Differences
Workplace communications has changed dramatically in my lifetime.
When I started working as a programmer in Chicago in the mid 1970s, I had a phone on my desk. If I wanted to talk to my boss, I would call him and his secretary would often answer his phone. If he was not there, she would …