Home Bound Workers Caught in a Sinkhole?
How dare Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, a new mother for goodness sake, force employees to come to work! How dare she want employees to see each other! What could be good about people who work in the same company making eye contact? Shaking hands? Exchanging a fist bump?
Why that would mean getting dressed! Improving …
Visualize Your Success and It Will Come!
“Fortune favors the prepared mind.” – Louis Pasteur
On a recent business flight, I struck up a conversation with a career coach who is the wife of one of the world’s leading musicians and the mother of a rising star in the world of classical percussion. Her son had recently won first place in a …
Should Working from Home Be Banned?
In the past 20 years a lot of companies have adopted a more open model about where employees can do their work. Some allow employees to work from home. Some allow employees to selectively work from home or otherwise remotely. Some actively encourage employees to work from home … or at least somewhere other than …
Personal Brands: What Does Complaining Cost You?
Jack is a contract worker in one of my companies. Not a day has gone by in the last three months where I haven’t heard him complain.
Jack is tall, muscular with a deep voice and almost shocking good looks a la George Clooney. Jack’s a personal trainer. We’re out in sunny Southern California, in …
5 Ways To Eliminate Interruptions At Work
If you want to be successful, you need to eliminate interruptions at work as much as possible.
When I worked as an NBA executive, my colleagues and clients loved to talk sports. Clients would call all the time to discuss the latest trade rumor or injury, and colleagues would drop by each other’s workspaces to …
The Fastest Way to Get Promoted
Before you can get promoted you will need to do a few things. First and foremost … you need a plan. Part of that plan should include defining, describing and delineating what you do. This post is focused on one of the most important things you will need to get promoted. Specifically … your transition …
Kayla Johnson: The Price of Choosing Generosity
Editor’s Note: I’m excited to share a guest post today from Kayla Johnson!Kayla Johnson is a marketing lead at brightpeak financial, a new organization dedicated to helping young Christian adults and families start taking action on their finances now, and for the future.
“Kayla, here’s what I think you need to start thinking about…” is …
5 Things The Super Bowl Can Teach Us Preparation
The recent Super Bowl provided some insight into the thinking that goes into a successful effort to put on an event that will be watched by an estimated 108 million people. These same tips can be applied to things we do in our every days lives too.
You might be wondering … Why did I …
How to Take Credit for Your Work
“Yeah. In a couple days we are presenting to our executive team and I wanted to see if you had that one report we went over at our last team meeting. I wanted to include it,” explained one of the other managers in my office.
“What is the topic?” I inquired.
“The presentation is about …
7 Best Personal Branding Tips for Entrepreneurs
As an entrepreneur, your personal brand is just as important–if not more important–as your company’s brand.
When beginning a new business venture, it may be easy to focus on your company’s brand and completely forget your own. But the days of an invisible founder are long gone. We’ve now entered a time where a highly …