How Clearly Defined are Your Vision and Purpose? To kick off the New Year, I wrote about leaders approaching the year through the lens of “Success Factors” instead of New Year’s Resolutions. Now, I would like to break out the elements I outlined as a sort of road map to accelerate your accomplishments and help…
What to Do Instead of New Year’s Resolutions Find Your Success Factors for a Brilliant 2018 By now, the newness of 2018 is starting to wear off. Did you make any New Year’s Resolutions? Actually, I hope you didn’t. Here is what I hope you will do instead: Determine your professional and career success factors for 2018 and…
A Practice to Take Into the New Year A Resource to Wrap Up the Year In the past few weeks, I have written about obstacles to success and ways to overcome them. What stops you from achieving your goals? What helps you accomplish a breakthrough? Thanks to all of you who brainstormed on these…
What Gets in the Way of Achieving Your Goals? How to Navigate Obstacles and Break Through What do you struggle with most when you set a vital business or career goal? As we near the close of 2017, you may be looking back on the year and evaluating your progress on many career or…
Strategies for Overcoming Long-Term Unemployment Unfair Break for the Long-Term Unemployed A common message I hear from job seekers is that the long-term unemployed now face another layer of challenge and frustration. If you have been unemployed for six months or longer, your chances of even being considered for traditional employment have plummeted. For those…
Mastering the Self-Marketing Mindset Skills of the Savvy Self-Marketer Over the past month, we covered concepts related to the self-marketing mindset, including practical definitions of self-marketing (the “what”) and the importance of self-marketing (the “why.”) To wrap up on the topic, let’s address the skills required for the savvy self-marketer (the “how.”) In order to…
Lessons Learned on the Self-Marketing Journey Successful Job Seeker Shares Insights on Getting the Job Offer Last week at the 8 O’clock Job Club we enjoyed hearing from a past member as he returned to speak about the lessons learned on his self-marketing journey. I thought the message he shared fit perfectly in the theme…