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The Fisherman's Tale is one of my favorite stories about career development and the need to have a strategic plan for your career. Whether you are familiar with the tale or not, take a couple of minutes to watch this adaptation of the tale developed by Dr. Mark Albion (Read...
When was the last time you updated your resume? Are you working on it now? Have you thought of hiring a resume writer or resume coach to help you? Do you question the value of hiring someone to help you with your resume? Do you think resume writers offer no value or that it's impossible to...
I was struck today by an article I read about the resignation of Emily Johnson, Miss Maine USA and the response by Mackenzie Davis, executive director of the Miss Maine USA pageant (you can read the article here). There are several lessons in this story, one of the personal values of Ms....
Today I'd like to as you to spend 3 1/3 minutes and watch this clip of Rocky talking with his son from the last Rocky movie, Rocky Balboa. This short clip has embedded in it material to talk about a wide variety of topics in personal development. I will just briefly some...
It's spring time and for many people that includes an annual house cleaning ritual. While you're in to mood to clean, how about looking over your personal brand and the way you communicate it?
Start by asking yourself what your brand is. What is the message you want others to think of when they...
A natural flowing, context-specific elevator speech is an important part of your professional portfolio. Unfortunately many elevator speeches sound the same and, let's face it, are quite boring. In order to grow professionally it is best if you have several different elevator speeches you and...
When looking to advance your career and improve the impact of your personal brand look to successful companies and see what you can learn from them. Study successful brands to learn what you can extract and apply to you or your business.
When you look at the most successful corporate...
Do you have a Facebook page yet? Not your personal profile, a page.
Use a Facebook page to manage your professional life and personal brand on Facebook. On your page you can post items of interest to the people you do business with whether they are customers or staff. And...
"We can afford to lose money -- even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation -- even a shred of reputation."
~Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, as quoted by The New York Times' DealBook blog
Wow! What an incredibly compelling statement about...
Are you looking to be at the cutting edge of leadership development? Do you want to start developing now the skills that will get you noticed in the coming years?
The business world is in the midst of a transformation that will favor leaders who are experts at networking and building coalitions...
How close to your definition of career success are you? Do you know what's holding you back? One of the biggest barriers to career success is that there is such a big difference in who we are today and who we want to be that we end up not taking action. The good news is that over time you can...
LinkedIn is a powerful networking, job search, business enhancing and career development tool. Having an effective LinkedIn profile is the first and most critical step in taking advantage of this resource. One of the most power aspects of LinkedIn is that it allows you to be found by people who...
