What makes a teacher great? Here are traits that you should consider if you want to become a great teacher. Communication A great teacher can communicate clearly and effectively with their students, colleagues, and parents. They can explain complex concepts in simple ways, listen actively to feedback and questions, and use various modes of communication…
Professional growth: things change so rapidly that you must develop the skills and learn the information that will continue to make you an asset to your customers or clients. Success Stories Learn from success stories. Learn about the changes people are making to become successful. Additionally, learn about the needs that people have for new…
Career Strategy: Where do you start in creating a strategic plan that is tailored for you? What do you need to know about adjusting your plan to an ever-changing job market? Check-off List A career plan creates a check-off list. Through this check-off list, you will create focus and direction. Your intuition can emerge to…
Thinking: Happiness is easy when everything is going our way. However, we can suffer, even when have everything we want. By managing our thinking, we can find joy from learning how to think about our world. Thinking: Learning how to Manage the Pain Between our Ears Being happy is a normal. Staying unhappy is not….
Resumes that get interviews: Working through stacks of resumes, hiring managers and recruiters spend just seconds on deciding whether to save you resume or delete it. Job seekers must know how to write resumes employers will want to read. I based the following information on feedback I have received from hiring managers, staffing managers, and other…
Getting Discovered: You have all the skills, the talent, intelligence, charisma, and emotional intelligence for success. But what does it matter if no one knows? Spread the Word Retailers, manufacturers, and service providers have resources for putting their name out there. They run ads in print, radio, television, social media, and billboards. Furthermore, they sponsor…
Habits: The things we don’t do are as important as the things we do to be a winner in the workplace. Here are eight things to avoid as you work to build a successful career and become a leader among your peers. Often, it’s the things that we don’t do that count the most. ~…
Network Event Anxiety: becoming effective at networking events may require that you step outside of your comfort zone. Meeting new people, especially for introverts is never easy. At times, extroverts feel awkward when networking. Feeling uncertain in new situations is common, perhaps even normal. Preparation for Overcoming Network Event Anxiety Talking with strangers is easy…
Career Change Commitment: Hunting for jobs take a lot of work. It is easy to let up and let opportunities slip away. Finding a job is a business. Even when business is slow, you can act to increase your success of finding the job you deserve. Here are some things you can do during a…
Finding New Industries: If you find that you have skills that are no longer needed in your current industry, it is natural for you to feel discouraged. Skills Requirements Continue to Change The ever-changing employment landscape often leaves people with industry-based skills and no employment market for those skills. If you are one of those…
Meeting Agendas can empower you to set and control the purpose of a meeting as well as the agreements reached during the meeting. Are you tired of meetings that accomplish nothing? These lessons from sales training might help. Case Study During lunch, a field sales manager of a major consumer goods company told me about…
Effective Communications are part of the job for professionals in all types of fields and responsibilities. Here are 7 ideas for communication success. Headlines Even when speaking, you will help people understanding you with a headline. The headline states the topic. “Bill, let’s talk about the plan for this weekend” is a simple sentence that…
Action: Just Being on Time is Not Enough. Successful people use their time effectively to accomplish more. ~ www.jaywren.com Big Projects and Time Management When going through lengthy periods with big projects, I sometimes push aside the big project to do the things that are easy and pressing. I let the most pressing tasks take…
Arriving early: How does this simple behavior make life easier for you and the people around you? What does this character trait have to do with success in your job and success in your personal life? Get there early. You might miss something. ~ www.jaywren.com The Freedom from Stress of Arriving Early When I know…
Communication: Effective speaking and writing are part of the job for professionals in all types of fields and responsibilities. Here are some ideas to make your business and personal communications more powerful. Headlines Even when speaking, you will help people understanding you with a headline. The headline states the topic. “Bill, let’s talk about the plan…
Listening: What is the role of asking questions and listening in creating cooperation? Here are examples of how great questions lead you to getting what you want when you understand what other people need. The most effective people know how to ask great questions and how to learn from listening. ~ www.jaywren.com In the Workplace,…
Emotional Intelligence: Learning how to manage emotions is part of growing up. However, becoming aware that our feelings are making us dumber is not always easy. How do successful people deal with emotions to make better decisions? Developing Emotional Intelligence Although it is normal to have emotional highs and lows, successful people separate their emotions…
Creating Future Leaders: How can companies hire and train future leaders? Here are four steps companies can take to strengthen their leadership for the long term. The Four Steps to Creating Future Leaders Creating future leaders is critical to the long-term growth of a company. ~ www.jaywren.com Hire for leadership Establish Authority & Responsibility Teach for…
Open-Ended Questions: What are they? How do they create opportunities for greater understanding in solving problems and creating leadership? One of the most important skills in leadership is the ability to answer open-ended questions. ~ www.jaywren.com Examples of Open-Ended Questions Open-ended questions enable a person to give meaningful, well-developed answers. The person uses knowledge, feelings,…
Career Intelligence: Aligning your career with the way your brain works will increase your ability to excel in the workplace. How can you shape your career around the way that you are smart? What Kind of Solutions Come Easy for You? Creating a career that matches the way you think can empower you for success. To…
Business writing is a skill everyone can learn. ~ www.jaywren.com Writing is part of the job for most business professionals. Business writing includes emails, proposals, contracts, Internet posts, letters, business plans, memorandums, reports, job descriptions, and resumes. The measure of effective writing is how well the reader can understand the writer’s message. Therefore, the writer must…
Being busy means nothing. Success comes from getting things done. ~ www.jaywren.com Productivity: Some people have a successful career based on their ability to get things done. Other people accomplish less and their careers fail. Why? 1. Have a Simple Productivity Process Bricklayers start the day with the same tools and supplies. From there they…
Career Burnout: In a culture where people believe that working hard can overcome any obstacle, reality teaches us that we have limitations. We burnout. ~ www.jaywren.com I am a few days late writing this article on purpose. For the past two weeks I have had trouble writing. During that time, I sensed that I needed a…
Leadership soft skills: What are the leadership soft skills that create great employees and successful companies. How can you develop these skills? The most successful leaders not only develop technical skills; they also develop powerful leadership soft skills. ~ www.jaywren.com 15 Leadership Soft Skills that Create Greatness “That some achieve great success is proof to…
Confidence: From time to time, everyone feels insecure. Our feelings turn inward. Here are five tips for turning insecurity into poise and confidence. Confidence: Only You Can Deny Yourself Permission to Feel Comfortable in a Crowd. ~ www.jaywren.com Confidence: How to Feel Comfortable in a Crowd I have a fair amount of confidence in a crowd….
Interview Preparation: Are you frustrated with rejection when you have the qualifications for the job? These three steps will help. Fifty percent of the effort for the best interviews is in the preparation. ~ www.jaywren.com There are three distinct steps in preparing for an interview. #1 Interview Preparation: Everything About You In the first step,…
Get Things Done: How is it that some people are so productive when other people can’t get to the job? What can you do to become successfully productive? Inspiration is not an accomplishment. Passion is not an accomplishment. Getting things done is an accomplishment. ~ www.jaywren.com Get Things Done: How to Defeat Procrastination: Highly successful…
Cold calls: do you fear calling people you don’t know? How do successful people open doors to opportunity through a simple phone call? 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…
Business Meetings: job interviews, sales calls, client service meetings, meetings within your own company. What tools can add power to your presence? Business Meetings: Bringing the Right Tools What you bring to a business meeting is as important as the things you say or do in a business meeting. Getting to a business meeting to discover…
Mentors: What is a mentor? How can a mentor help you? What skills do you need to benefit from mentoring? What type of mentoring will work effectively for you? Mentors: A Source of Power or A Waste of Time? For many people, a mentor is a source of inspiration, wisdom, and solutions. Some people rely…
Wired For Success: Some people procrastinate, worry, and accomplish very little. However, other people get into action, have peace of mind, and achieve success. What do these people do differently? Wired For Success: Five Steps to Upping Your Mental Game Wired For Success: Some people accomplish very little. On the hand, other people get things…
Mental and Emotional Burnout: Do you look at your work and say, “I can no longer do this?” How do you recover the energy and excitement to do your job? Mental and Emotional Burnout: When Self-Sacrifice Becomes Destructive The term “burnout” in reference to job performance comes from an article “Staff Burn-Out” by Herbert J. Freudenberger,…
Business and Career Growth: Can a Business or Career Become Static and Survive? Building a business or a career is a continual process of expanding your goods, services, skills, and network. The first day that I sat down to start my career as a recruiter, I had no contacts. I had a telephone, an empty…
Branding: When the Lowest Price Is Not Enough I worked as a recruiter in the consumer-packaged goods industry. Every day I talked with job seekers and hiring managers who sold consumer products through retail stores. When I reviewed qualifications, I was assessing a job seeker’s ability to make brands successful. Themes recurred in the profiles…
It is your responsibility to stop thinking negative thoughts about yourself before they become fixed in your mind as beliefs. Smile. Say something nice about yourself. Make a list of your blessings. Social Anxiety: Is It Killing Your Career? “Don’t let the world change your smile. Let your smile change the world.” A Work in…
When I worked at Procter & Gamble, I took a sales training course that included a presentation model that works for any situation. Procter & Gamble titled the model the 5-Steps to persuasive selling. Xerox had actually developed the original course as the 7-steps to professional selling (PSS). Let us say that tomorrow you have…
8 Winning Tips for Telephone Meetings: Telephone meetings have increased in popularity. More people work from home. Face-to-face communication over the Internet is easier. Before the telephone meeting, prepare as though someone is coming to meet you in your office. Have these things on your desk: A statement of the purpose of the meeting Any…
How important is your college major? Graduating from college did two things for my career. I got a key to let me in the door that said, “Degree required” on the job description. I gained acceptance into business circles and social circles where having a college degree meant credibility. With a liberal arts degree, I…
Soft skills help workers become more successful and enable them to help other workers become more successful. The Top 6 Soft Skills Soft skills help workers become more successful and enable them to help other workers become more successful. According to the United States Department of Labor, these are the most important soft skills: 1. Communication…
Hard skills get you the interview. Soft skills get you the job. When interviewers read your resume, they are looking for hard skills. Your experience shows your hard skills. Here are some examples. Accounting Analysis Brand Development Computer Programming Data Management Education Financial Management Internet Programming People Management Planning Mathematics Research and Development Software…
When you are not going forward, you are going backward. If you make stagecoaches and your competition makes buses, your competition has moved forward. You have moved backward. Some people, teams, and companies continue to become more skilled and successful. Other people, teams, and companies become less competitive through a failure to keep up…
If you find that you have skills that are no longer needed in your current industry, you feel discouraged. The ever-changing employment landscape often leaves people with industry-based skills and no employment market for those skills. You are not alone, and you do have options. The first week I worked as a recruiter I received…
3 Short, Powerful Meeting Practices There are some simple business practices that will make your business meetings more comfortable and more productive. Think of your surroundings. Save your elevator pitch for nearly any place but the elevator. People are confined and often feel awkward in elevators. Also, there is a risk that someone could walk in…
Skills Talent Experience Personality Knowledge Personal Goals Potential for Long-Term Success The purpose of this series of articles is to enable employers to make better hiring decisions by understanding exactly what decisions are involved in making a great hire. Coming to the right decision in making a great hire is making the correct decisions on…
In the article I posted on September 27, 2012, I discussed talent as a quality in making a hiring decision. In talent assessment, the hiring manager is attempting to know a person’s natural abilities or aptitude and, separately, a person’s intelligence. A highly skilled house painter is the only person I would recommend to paint someone’s…
Different companies emphasize different qualities when making a hire. Many companies have job descriptions to serve as a template for the experiences, skills, and education. There are seven decisions that go into the best hires. Does the applicant have the talent, skills, knowledge, personality, experience, potential for long-term success, and the personal goals to fit…
The Seven Decisions in Making a Great Hire: Personality Because of the importance of relationships within a company as well as the relationships companies have with their suppliers and their customers, personality is important in making a hiring decision. Any interviewing training program instructs applicants to stand tall, show enthusiasm and interest, and give a pleasant…
Knowledgeable retail buyers are gauging how much to buy based on the quantity that will sell through to the consumer and still keep the pipeline flowing with more products as well as enable the retailer to pay for the shipment with the money collected from retail sales on each order before the payment comes due to the supplier. Knowledgeable…
The Seven Decisions in Making a Great Hire: Personal Goals Once a hiring manager extends an offer, an applicant may know on the spot whether to accept. On the other hand, if during the recruiting process, neither the hiring manager nor the applicant has considered the personal goals of the applicant, matters can get sticky….
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 factors are all very important in how well a person will do long-term. Equally important to long-term success are punctuality, attendance, conduct, trustworthiness, self-confidence, demeanor, personal appearance, loyalty, determination and flexibility, independence and…
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