Entries by First Sun Team

Your #Career : 7 Reasons Why Recruiters Aren’t Calling You…Even If you Don’t Want another Job, #Recruiter Relationships are Helpful. You get Market News, #Compensation Guidelines, & the Flattery that Comes with Being Pursued.

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Recruiter Calls are a Sign That you are Marketable & Visible. You Want to Get Recruiter Calls. If you Aren’t, Which of the 7 Mistakes are you Guilty Of? You have probably heard this lucky scenario: a gainfully employed professional is busily doing his/her job when he/she is contacted by a recruiter hiring for a […]

Your #Career : This #Networking Secret Is So Crazy Obvious That Most People Look Right Past It…There’s Always a Focus on Looking Upward in our Careers, The #Promotion, the #Raise, the Bigger Desk. That’s Why we #Network with People Who are Higher Up On the Ladder Than we Are.

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The Idea of Networking with your Peers—a.k.a., “Horizontal Networking”—isn’t a New One, but When I Started Discussing it with Friends, I was Surprised by How Few of them Actually Did It. Thus, I decided to do an experiment: I’d spend one week only networking with peers, who I defined as people who were within one […]

#Leadership : How To Make Your Company’s Culture of Innovation More Than Just A Nice Idea…In the #Workplace, Encouraging Creative Problem-solving is far easier in theory. By Taking the Needed Steps to Alleviate any Overpowering Fear of Failure, You can Steer your Team Onto the Right Path.

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Here’s what I Did to Turn our Office Culture Around & Encourage Employees to Share their Ideas Without Worrying about Rejection. – Manpreet Singh, Founder and President of TalkLocal As a startup founder & investor, it’s not enough for me to merely value innovation and creativity: I must also manage the hazards associated with new ideas. […]

#Leadership : How to “Ripple” Your Leadership…As a #Leader Tasked with Seizing New Ground & Improving an Organization’s #Performance, Do you Start with the Systems, the People, or Yourself? Get Out the Mirror!

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Leaders Cannot be Effective If they Don’t Begin by Understanding their Own Values, Visioning their Personal Futures, & Recognizing their Unique Strengths & Weaknesses. As a leader tasked with seizing new ground and improving an organization’s performance, do you start with the systems, the people, or yourself?  Get out the mirror! According to leadership expert, […]

#Leadership : You Have 15 Minutes To Respond To A Crisis: A Checklist of Do’s & Don’ts…When a Crisis Hits, How you Respond in the First 15 Minutes can Make or Break your Organization – & your Reputation.

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If you Can Do the First 15 Minutes of a Crisis Right, you Are on Your Way to Finding Solutions, Fixing the Problems, & Repairing & Recovering From the Damage. Do them Wrong, & you will be Dealing with Damage Control not Only for the Crisis, but for Your Early Mistakes, for a Long, Long […]

#Leadership : People Leave Managers, Not Companies…People say Many Things about #Managers. But There’s One Thing I’m Willing to Bet you Never Hear. You Never Hear People say #Management is an Easy Job.

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“Here’s Something they’ll probably Never Teach you in Business School,”  “The Single Biggest Decision you Make in your Job—  bigger than all the  rest—  is Who you Name Manager. When you name the Wrong Person Manager, Nothing Fixes that Bad Decision. Not Compensation, not Benefits—  Nothing.”   – Gallup CEO Jim Clifton in the summary accompanying […]

#Leadership : 5 Leadership Fallacies To Dispel… Fallacy #3: “My #Leadership Style Worked Here, So it’ll Probably Work There.”

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It Never Ceases to Amaze Me the Many Different Definitions of Leadership. Working in executive coaching and leadership development affords me invaluable opportunities to meet with leaders and teams to learn about their challenges, their perspectives, their rationale for decision-making. There are as many interpretations for what constitutes an a “good leader” as there are ice-cream flavors […]

#Leadership: 17 #Podcasts that Will Make you Smarter…Here’s some Prime Listening Material for your Next Commute

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We’ve Collected some of our Favorites that are Perfect for Those of Us Always Eager to Learn Something New, whether it’s about the Economy, History, or Even the Workings of Hollywood. “This American Life” host Ira Glass, comedian and “WTF” host Marc Maron, and comedian and “This American Life” contributor Mike Birbiglia. The massive success […]

#Leadership : Please Stop Saying These 25 Ridiculous Phrases At Work…These Phrases are Spicy & they Make you Feel Clever (Low Hanging Fruit is a crutch of mine), but They also Annoy the Hell Out of People.

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Stop It!  Listen Ray, I don’t have the bandwidth for it with everything that’s on my plate, but ping me anyway because at the end of the day it’s on my radar and I don’t want to be thrown under the bus because I didn’t circle back around on this no-brainer. At first, euphemisms surfaced […]

#Strategy : 7 Creative Strategies for Waking u Earlier Every Day…There are Plenty of Reasons to Get up Early. You can Work with Fewer Distractions from Family & CoWorkers.

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You have Time to Exercise, Meditate, or Simple Downtime Before Appointments Get in the Way. And successful people, from Xerox CEO Ursula Burns to Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, wake up with (or before) the sun. Make time for yourself by waking up earlier. Unfortunately, it’s not always so easy, especially if you’ve spent a […]