What Makes a Teacher Great?
What makes a teacher great? Here are traits that you should consider if you want to become a great teacher. Communication A […]
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Professional Growth
Professional growth: things change so rapidly that you must develop the skills and learn the information that will continue to make you […]
Career Strategy: Creating a Powerful Plan for Your Success
Career Strategy: Where do you start in creating a strategic plan that is tailored for you? What do you need to know […]
Thinking: Learning how to Manage the Pain Between our Ears
Thinking: Happiness is easy when everything is going our way. However, we can suffer, even when have everything we want. By managing […]
Resumes that Get Interviews
Resumes that get interviews: Working through stacks of resumes, hiring managers and recruiters spend just seconds on deciding whether to save you […]
Getting Discovered: How Powerful People Find Great Jobs
Getting Discovered: You have all the skills, the talent, intelligence, charisma, and emotional intelligence for success. But what does it matter if […]
Habits: Giving Up the Behavior that Weakens Our Careers
Habits: The things we don’t do are as important as the things we do to be a winner in the workplace. Here […]
Network Event Anxiety: Tools and Skills for Success
Network Event Anxiety: becoming effective at networking events may require that you step outside of your comfort zone. Meeting new people, especially […]
Career Change Commitment: Steps to Stay Engaged
Career Change Commitment: Hunting for jobs take a lot of work. It is easy to let up and let opportunities slip away. […]
Finding New Industries for Your Job Skills
Finding New Industries: If you find that you have skills that are no longer needed in your current industry, it is natural […]
Meeting Agendas: Gaining Control Through Preparation
Meeting Agendas can empower you to set and control the purpose of a meeting as well as the agreements reached during the […]
Effective Communications: 7 Steps to Being Understood
Effective Communications are part of the job for professionals in all types of fields and responsibilities. Here are 7 ideas for communication […]
Action: Just Being On Time is Not Enough
Action: Just Being on Time is Not Enough. Successful people use their time effectively to accomplish more. ~ www.jaywren.com Big Projects and […]
Arriving Early: How a Simple Behavior Makes Life Easy
Arriving early: How does this simple behavior make life easier for you and the people around you? What does this character trait […]
Communication: How Effective People Speak and Write
Communication: Effective speaking and writing are part of the job for professionals in all types of fields and responsibilities. Here are some ideas […]
Listening and the Persuasive Power of Asking Questions
Listening: What is the role of asking questions and listening in creating cooperation? Here are examples of how great questions lead you […]
Emotional Intelligence: 12 Steps to Empowering Your Mind
Emotional Intelligence: Learning how to manage emotions is part of growing up. However, becoming aware that our feelings are making us dumber […]
Creating Future Leaders: 4 Steps to Leadership Development
Creating Future Leaders: How can companies hire and train future leaders? Here are four steps companies can take to strengthen their leadership […]
Open-Ended Questions: Solving Problems and Creating Leadership
Open-Ended Questions: What are they? How do they create opportunities for greater understanding in solving problems and creating leadership? One of […]
Career Intelligence: Aligning Your Career with Your Brain
Career Intelligence: Aligning your career with the way your brain works will increase your ability to excel in the workplace. How can […]
Business Writing: A Skill that Successful People Master
Business writing is a skill everyone can learn. ~ www.jaywren.com Writing is part of the job for most business professionals. Business writing includes […]
Productivity: 5 Things Highly Successful People Do Differently
Being busy means nothing. Success comes from getting things done. ~ www.jaywren.com Productivity: Some people have a successful career based on their […]
Career Burnout: When Working Less Becomes a Priority
Career Burnout: In a culture where people believe that working hard can overcome any obstacle, reality teaches us that we have limitations. We […]
15 Leadership Soft Skills that Create Greatness
Leadership soft skills: What are the leadership soft skills that create great employees and successful companies. How can you develop these skills? […]
Confidence: How to Feel Comfortable in a Crowd
Confidence: From time to time, everyone feels insecure. Our feelings turn inward. Here are five tips for turning insecurity into poise and […]
Interview Preparation: Three Steps That Will Land You the Job
Interview Preparation: Are you frustrated with rejection when you have the qualifications for the job? These three steps will help. Fifty percent […]
Get Things Done: How to Defeat Procrastination
Get Things Done: How is it that some people are so productive when other people can’t get to the job? What can […]
Cold Calls: How Do You Take the Chill Out of Cold Calls?
Cold calls: do you fear calling people you don’t know? How do successful people open doors to opportunity through a simple phone […]
Business Meetings: Bringing the Right Tools
Business Meetings: job interviews, sales calls, client service meetings, meetings within your own company. What tools can add power to your presence? […]
Mentors: A Source Of Power Or A Waste of Time?
Mentors: What is a mentor? How can a mentor help you? What skills do you need to benefit from mentoring? What type […]
Wired For Success: Five Steps to Upping Your Mental Game
Wired For Success: Some people procrastinate, worry, and accomplish very little. However, other people get into action, have peace of mind, and […]
Mental and Emotional Burnout: When Self-Sacrifice Becomes Destructive
Mental and Emotional Burnout: Do you look at your work and say, “I can no longer do this?” How do you recover […]
Business and Career Growth: Can a Business or Career Become Static and Survive?
Business and Career Growth: Can a Business or Career Become Static and Survive? Building a business or a career is a continual […]
Branding: When the Lowest Price Is Not Enough
Branding: When the Lowest Price Is Not Enough I worked as a recruiter in the consumer-packaged goods industry. Every day I talked […]
Social Anxiety: Is It Killing Your Career?
It is your responsibility to stop thinking negative thoughts about yourself before they become fixed in your mind as beliefs. Smile. Say […]
The Seven Steps of a Persuasive Presentation
When I worked at Procter & Gamble, I took a sales training course that included a presentation model that works for any […]
8 Winning Tips for Telephone Meetings
8 Winning Tips for Telephone Meetings: Telephone meetings have increased in popularity. More people work from home. Face-to-face communication over the Internet […]
How Important is Your College Major?
How important is your college major? Graduating from college did two things for my career. I got a key to let me […]
The Top 6 Soft Skills
Soft skills help workers become more successful and enable them to help other workers become more successful. The Top 6 Soft Skills […]
Job Searching: Hard Skills and Soft Skills
Hard skills get you the interview. Soft skills get you the job. When interviewers read your resume, they are looking for […]
Getting a Job and Getting Promoted through Skills Development
When you are not going forward, you are going backward. If you make stagecoaches and your competition makes buses, your competition […]
Finding New Industries for Your Job Skills
If you find that you have skills that are no longer needed in your current industry, you feel discouraged. The ever-changing employment […]
3 Short, Powerful Meeting Practices
3 Short, Powerful Meeting Practices There are some simple business practices that will make your business meetings more comfortable and more productive. […]
The Seven Decisions in Making a Great Hire: Skills
Skills Talent Experience Personality Knowledge Personal Goals Potential for Long-Term Success The purpose of this series of articles is to enable employers […]
The Seven Decisions in Making a Great Hire: Talent Assessment
In the article I posted on September 27, 2012, I discussed talent as a quality in making a hiring decision. In talent assessment, […]
The Seven Decisions in Making a Great Hire: Talent
Different companies emphasize different qualities when making a hire. Many companies have job descriptions to serve as a template for the experiences, […]
The Seven Decisions in Making a Great Hire: Personality
The Seven Decisions in Making a Great Hire: Personality Because of the importance of relationships within a company as well as the […]
The Seven Decisions in Making a Great Hire: Knowledge
Knowledgeable retail buyers are gauging how much to buy based on the quantity that will sell through to the consumer and still keep the […]
The Seven Decisions in Making a Great Hire: Personal Goals
The Seven Decisions in Making a Great Hire: Personal Goals Once a hiring manager extends an offer, an applicant may know on […]
The Seven Decisions in Making a Great Hire: Potential for Long-Term Success
On the surface, it would appear that a person who has tremendous talent, skills, knowledge, and personality, and has everything to ensure long-term success. These […]