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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...
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...
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." - Charles Darwin
These words spoken by Charles Darwin are especially applicable in the work world today. Change is happening more rapidly than ever. Job that have...
Without giving this much thought and refraining from censoring yourself, answer this question:
When someone thinks of you, what is the first thing that you would like to come to their mind?
Regardless of whether this answer was about your personality, character, work, etc....
Your career success will increasingly depend on your social media presence. Employers will find you by searching social media sites, like LinkedIn and Facebook. I search LinkedIn frequently to find people qualified to work in my consulting group. Too many times I find profiles that have almost no...
All of us hold ourselves back, often unknowingly, by what we believe to be true but is not necessarily so. Limiting beliefs are "truths" we accept about life, ourself, others or the world around us that hold us back, or limit us, in some way.
Examples of limiting beliefs for some people...
Why should I bother with personal branding? For decades people have gotten along just fine with going to college, writing resumes, and going to interviews just fine without personal branding? Or have they?
The question you need to ask yourself is: Do I want an exceptional career or one that is...
Today's article is a suggestion from one of our readers:
How do you foster creativity in a team environment?
There are two critical parts to answering this question:
- Removing Blocks to Creativity
- Bring Creativity to the Forefront
Before expecting you're team to be flowing with creative...
Making a list of all of the factors that influence your career direction and status can be very liberating and a great first step toward getting the career and success that you want for yourself. Be honest with yourself and refrain from holding back. The hardest ones to list are often times the...
Newton’s Second Law of Motion states that the acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force acting on it and inversely proportional to its mass.
The net force, the sum of all of the forces from all directions acting on the object, determines the speed and...
Last week in Friday's Career Rocket Fuel: Career Friction I introduced the concept of career friction. In short, career friction is all of the factors that are preventing you from having the career you want as quickly as you can. What are these factors that are holding you back?
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Newton's First Law of Motion applies to career development as well the physics of an object in motion.
Newton's First Law
An object in motion stays in motion and an object at rest stays at rest unless an outside force acts on it.
How does this law of physics apply to your career? ...
