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Leaders: An Idea to Kickstart the Week by Andy Robinson - Aug, 2011 I have a couple of executive coaching clients who share a great Monday morning habit -- one that really sets the tone for a positive week. It's a great way to kickstart the week and inspire your team members. It involves four simple steps: 1.Write down the names of all of your direct reports on a blank piece of paper -- no particular order, just a simple list with a few blank lines between each name. 2.For each person o... |
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Office Space by Valerie Sokolosky - Aug, 2011 When you think about personal branding, most of the time, you consider things like, what does my personal appearance say about my professionalism? Or what does my web site say about my innovation? Or what does my speech say about my work ethic? What gets forgotten, or really not even consider, is what does my office say about my company? And I mean physical office. Not your wonderful co-workers and superiors, but rather the... |
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Forgotten Forms of First Impressions by Valerie Sokolosky - Aug, 2011 A crucial component of your professional image is your first impression. Your word choice, your tone, your appearance and your body language communicate a particular message to the person that you are meeting. Your entire relationship is built on this first interaction. Even if we don’t do a good job of preparing for this first meeting, most of us know that first impressions matter. We remember the offhanded comment said by... |
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One Simple Tip to Immediately Improve Your Professional Communication by Lindsey Pollak - Jul, 2011 Be concise. Yep, that’s it. For many years I’ve taught professional writing seminars in addition to my career speeches and workshops. In these programs, “Be concise” is the advice I find myself dispensing more than any other. Even in our world of 140-charater tweets, 160-character texts and txt msg spk, most people make the mistake of talking and writing way more than is necessary. Here are some reasons why concise... |
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Executive Wisdom - The 8 Traps of High Achievers by Dr. Maynard Brusman - Jul, 2011 I was recently working with one of my San Francisco Bay Area executive coaching clients – the president of a professional services firm. We talked about how he was driven to achieve his goals and addicted to perfection. My executive coaching client and I discussed how it is more important to focus on success and fulfillment than perfection. I am coaching my client to overcome the eight traps of high achievers, and focus mor... |
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Top 10 Tweets... Untwisted by Kimberly Schneiderman - Jul, 2011 Twitter is a great tool for coaches like me. I can give off the cuff bits of advice and insight in just a few seconds to all my followers on Twitter, fans on Facebook, and contacts on LinkedIn. As a general rule, I tweet about 3 times per day Monday through Thursday. Sometimes you’ll even see a tweet on a Friday or a Saturday if I come across something really good. The only problem is, well, I’m limited in space and someti... |
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How are you asking for help? by Dawn Bugni - Jul, 2011 I received the following via email a few Fridays ago: “Good Afternoon, I am currently unemployed and for the past few months I have been trying to present better ways to get my resume points of view across to recruiters. I have been trying to co-mingle value based information and actual job duties that I have done. When I do that it seems to create sort of a “laundry list” of my duties and I am trying to stay away from t... |
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How are you asking for help? – Part 2 by Dawn Bugni - Jul, 2011 Yesterday, I shared an email from a job seeker and offered some suggestions how he (you) can improve on responses to requests for assistance. The job seeker’s questions and concerns are common, so I’m sharing what I told him with you. Here’s his original email: “I am currently unemployed and for the past few months I have been trying to present better ways to get my resume points of view across to recruiters. I have been... |
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Options for Pursuing Your Passions by Andy Robinson - Jul, 2011 The idea of "doing what you love" for a living or "pursuing your passions" eludes many and often has a ring of impracticality to it -- "HOW could I possibliy EARN A LIVING doing what I love?" There are, however, a number of ways to pursue your passions that many of us don't consider or overlook. Have you considered ALL of the following possibilities? WAYS to "Pursue Your Passions" •Doing what you love •Providing a s... |
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Remember Your Manners :) by Jan Melnik - Jul, 2011 Don’t forget to say “thank you.” It matters more than you may think - especially in job search. According to a brief in the June 2, 2011, issue of Human Resource Executive, “More than one in five (22%) of 2,878 hiring managers surveyed say they are less likely to hire a candidate if he or she fails to send a thank-you note after an interview.” (Data source: CareerBuilder.com, Chicago) Mom was right. Courtesy does make a ... |
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