Your Career: 7 Ways To Get Noticed At Work…“It’s about Results… And Likeability,”
Over the course of my work as a career coach, I’ve had some exceptional clients. While I typically help eager job hunters get more clarity and job offers, I felt inspired to work with a young woman named Amy, who didn’t fit my usual profile. Amy wasn’t concerned about landing a job, she was becoming […]
Your Career: Here’s How Much Money Millennials are Earning in each State…Millennials Aren’t Earning as Much Money as their Parents Did When They were Young
They came of age during tough economic times — student debt has reached an all-time high and the job market is more competitive than ever. Millennial men make more than millennial women in all but one state — New York. While this is bad news for the millennial generation as a whole, it is especially […]
Leadership: 7 Daily Rituals Of Highly Effective Leaders…It is not What you are Going to do but What you are Doing Today that Counts- Napoleon Hill
You can learn everything you need to learn in order to achieve anything, but you can never change your leadership until you change your rituals. Rituals can strengthen and spotlight the values, intentions, and experiences you have chosen to live by; they and can be useful when we are trying to figure out what is […]
Strategy:Former FBI hostage Negotiation Trainer Explains How to Get People to Do What you Want…The More they Open Up to you, the More Invested they’ll be in Hearing What you Have to Say
Mark Goulston spent two years role-playing for a living. He’d pretend to be a suicidal policeman, holding a gun to his neck, threatening to take his own life. Mark Goulston, a former FBI hostage negotiation trainer, role playing. His job was to challenge his audience — a room full of FBI agents and police officers — to talk […]
Strategy:5 Ways To Make Failure Your Best Competitive Advantage…It’s Important for Employees to Know that Failure is OK. How is your Organization Turning Failure into something Positive?
A few weeks ago I wrote about Why Failure Is The Best Competitive Advantage. We have long been taught to avoid and run from failure but a big part of the future of work is embracing failure because ultimately this is what leads to innovation. The benefits of doing so: increases innovation, improves engagement, removes inefficiencies, […]
Leadership:12 Things Truly Confident People Do Differently…Whether you Think you Can, or you Think you Can’t—you’re Right. Henry Ford
Confidence takes many forms, from the arrogance of Floyd Mayweather to the quiet self-assurance of Jane Goodall. True confidence—as opposed to the false confidence people project to mask their insecurities—has a look all its own. When it comes to confidence, one thing is certain: truly confident people always have the upper hand over the doubtful […]
Your Career: Here’s What the Modern Résumé Should Look Like…How Can you Get Yourself Noticed? Beyond the Content, Presentation is also Critical
Along with glowing references, a solid resumé is a must-have for any job applicant. But even those with great credentials need to package those achievements the right way to catch a hiring manager’s eyes. How can you get yourself noticed? Having the right keywords on the page — words like “problem solving,” “leadership” and “team […]
Your Career: Digital Branding for the Job Seeker. 5 Reasons Why Resumes & Cover Letters No Longer Do the Trick
For Many Careers, Resumes are Becoming Less of a Job Search Focal Point. It’s a fact that the majority of intelligent, thorough recruiters as well as hiring managers Google GOOGL -1.51% the names of job seekers they interview. Not only are they searching, but they are giving heightened hiring priority to those who have a […]
Strategy: How to Work 80 Hours a Week & Still Have a Life…Logging 80 Hours a Week is Not Uncommon, & that Number can Hit the Triple Digits During Especially Busy Weeks
Wall Street executives, entrepreneurs, and consultants are known for working crazy long hours. Logging 80 hours a week is not uncommon for them, and that number can hit the triple digits during especially busy weeks. Turns out you CAN work crazy hours and still have a life. But some have figured out how to have […]
Strategy:How To Stop Counter-Productive Habits In 4 Seconds…We can Learn to Use the Space Between What we Feel & Do to Make Smarter Decisions
Can you improve your relationships, increase your ability to focus and shut down counter-productive habits in just four seconds? In his new book, Four Seconds: All the Time You Need to Stop Counter-Productive Habits and Get the Results You Want, Peter Bregman argues that the key to success in our fast-moving world is to pause […]