Entries by First Sun Team

Leadership: 6 Ways Vision Will Inspire Your Employees & Culture…Today, Vision’s has Become a ‘Buzzword’, to the Point Where a Leader with a Real vision can Simply mean Nice Marketing Strategy

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Even as kids, we developed radar on leadership. Consider the classic schoolyard game, Follow the Leader. Everyone has to do exactly what the leader does, or they’re out. Growing up, I remember watching that game dissolve time after time. The leader would start doing scary climbs or huge leaps, and the followers felt put at […]

Leadership: How To Deliver Persuasive Presentations…At least 75% of Your Presentation Should be Dedicated to Developing Your 3 Main Points

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When it comes to persuasive communication, if you wander, you are lost. Too often, presentations fail to deliver results because they don’t follow a clear path to a concrete call to action. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” […]

Your Career: How To Use LinkedIn To Advance Your Career…Out of the Dozens of Valuable Career Management Features in LinkedIn, Here are the Ones I Think are the Best

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As you know if you have been reading my posts, LinkedIn has been adding features that make it even more valuable for personal branding. These features make LinkedIn uniquely powerful because the site can now be your exclusive career manager – helping you with virtually all aspects of your career if you use the features […]

Your Career: The Top 10 Jobs That Attract Psychopaths…Everyone I Have Ever Worked with has, at Some Point, Called Another Colleague or Coworker “Crazy”

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Everyone I have ever worked with has, at some point, called another colleague or coworker “crazy.” But does your job actually attract true psychopaths? In the book “The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success,” Kevin Dutton explains that there are jobs that can attract literal psychopaths – […]

Leadership: The No. 1 Thing Holding You Back As A Leader…Servant Leaders are Among the Most Effective & Passionate Leaders Walking the Planet

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Leadership isn’t nearly as complex as people make it out to be, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t hard. The big difference between highly effective leaders and those just playing at leadership is often found in their willingness to do what Doesn’t come Naturally or Instinctively. Real leadership begins in the moment you realize leadership […]

Your Career: 13 Things Successful People do Between Jobs…Suppose You were Just Offered a New Job & the Company is Fairly Flexible with Your Start Date

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Suppose you were just offered a new job and the company is fairly flexible with your start date. How much time should you take, if any, between gigs? And what should you do with that time?   Career and workplace experts suggest taking at least one week off to allow yourself to mentally prepare for this next […]

Leadership: You Got Promoted To Manager & A Coworker Is Mad: Here’s What To Say…The Good Mews is that You can Move Them Past Their Hurt Feelings & Repair the Relationship

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Congratulations on getting that big promotion to manager!  But, what happens if you had to compete against one or more of your colleagues to win the job? And now they’re mad because you won and they lost? Well, I’ve got bad news and good news. The bad news is that you can’t really control whether […]

How To Change-How You Change: 5 Mental Techniques To Help You Move From ‘Here’ To ‘There’…Quitters Were in a State of Temporary Discomfort & Ceded their Purpose for the Quick Fix of the Moment. They Forgot Their Why for Being at BUD/S in the First Place

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Inherent in any personal or organizational change is the mental and emotional faculties to do so. Specifically, the skill and will to look uncertainty in the eye, slap it across the face, and say, “Get outta my way! I got this.” Where does such mental preparation come from? In my coaching experience, I’ve seen clients […]

Leadership: 30 Simple Habits To Help You Work Well With Others…Developing the Right Habits when it Comes to Working with Others will Result in Leadership Opportunities, Higher Pay, & More Rewarding Work

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The phrase “Must work well with others” is so commonly found on job descriptions for open positions that it gets ignored almost completely. And yet it’s not simply text placed there to fill space, nor is it an empty request–it’s a threat. If you don’t work well with others, you’re going to get fired. And […]