Words That Make us Stronger, Smarter, and Happier
Do you ever turn to famous quotes to inspire and motivate yourself. When we are dealing with stress, quotes can help us […]
Category: Quotes
The Quality of Your Thoughts
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” Marcus Aurelius. How do you direct your mind for better […]
Positive Coaching
“If you’re growing a garden, you need to pull out the weeds, but flowers will die if all you do is pick […]
What are the Dangers of Discussing Politics with Friends, Family, and Business Contacts?
One Simple Political Comment can Destroy Years of Trust. ~ Jay Wren There are a number of dangers to discussing politics with […]
Creating a Positive Workplace
Focusing on a negative can distract people from the positive side of doing their job. It’s Not about Fruitcake I love fruitcake. […]
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
Persistence and Resilience: Empowered for Success
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 […]
Fate and Luck: Playing Comes Before Winning
Fate and Luck: Luck comes to those who act. Fate decides who wins. But acting often and acting smarter increases our odds […]
Leadership Qualities that Create Great Teams
Leadership Qualities: Some teams have a manager but still suffer from a lack of leadership. What qualities help leaders raise the team […]
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 […]
Recruiters: What Job Seekers Need to Know
Recruiters: If you are in a job search, you may find it helpful to understand the relationships of recruiters, hiring companies, and […]
Winning Traits: Empower Yourself for Success
Winning Traits: What traits do successful people have that empower them for success? Are they traits that you can develop? Horrible things […]
Career Plan: Tailored and Flexible for Your Success
Picking A Career In picking a career, start with an understanding of what you want to do and what you need to do […]
Image Marketing: How to Leverage Social Media for Success
Image Marketing: High-powered social media and mass media create an image of how they want you to see them. They are consistent […]
Toxic Behavior in the Workplace: Your Options
Toxic Behavior: Sometimes companies develop a culture based on conflict and anger. The problem often starts at the top and works its way […]
Career Planning: Weighing the Decision to Change Jobs
Career Planning: Just because you are unhappy with your current job does not mean that you should get a new one. There […]
Job Search Tools that Can Land the Job You Deserve
Job Search Tools: Are stuck in your job search? Perhaps the list of tools in the article will help you land the […]
Resume Headlines: What Good are They If No One Reads Your Resume?
Resume Headlines: Do headlines help or hinder in compelling the recruiter to read your resume? What you say in the headline makes […]
Resume Headline: A Distraction or a Compelling Title
Resume Headline: Do headlines help or hinder in compelling the recruiter to read your resume? What you say in the headline makes […]
Powerful Resumes: The Critical Details for Getting Job Interviews
Powerful Resumes: Are you sending out dozens of resumes and not getting job interviews. Here are some resume basics that will increase […]
Attitude: You Own It. Make It Amazing.
Attitude: How is it that some people remain calm, positive, and objective, when life gives them challenges and hurdles? Is this powerful […]
Listening Failure: Reasons Great Ideas Are Never Heard
Listening Failure: What makes us ineffective listeners? What are solutions to overcoming listening failure? Here are steps for more effective communication. The […]
Interview Killers: 13 Things That Will Undermine Your Success
Interview killers: How well you interview will decide whether you get the job. Here are thirteen things that can undermine your interview. […]
Deep Breath: The Simple Step to Mental Clarity
A deep breath will never dissolve my problems, but it will give me a clear head to solve them. ~ www. jaywren.com […]
Unconscious Bias: How Our Feelings Hijack Our Judgement
Unconscious bias is part of being a human. We all have emotions and points of view tied to our core beliefs. These […]
Leadership Styles: Why They Matter in Creating Success
Leadership Styles: There are as many leadership styles as there are different personalities and different points of view. Why does this matter? […]
Giving Credit: Boosting Team Morale and Reducing Turnover
Giving credit to other people is a no cost way to boost morale and reduce turnover. Leaders who have the humility to […]
Workplace Winners: How to Gain Respect and Create Success
Workplace Winners: How do people set the tone and take the action to become a winner in the workplace? Here are four […]
Tyranny: How Bad Leadership Ultimately Destroys an Organization
Tyranny: Leaders can become cruel. They can use their power to oppress, abuse, and cheat workers. Ultimately, tyrannical leaders can destroy an […]
Self-Awareness: How Knowing Yourself Creates Success
Self-awareness: Some people become victims of their feelings and thoughts. How can developing self-awareness change victim thinking to action thinking? Self-awareness is […]
Ending Perfection Paralysis: How to Become More Productive
Ending Perfection Paralysis: How do successful people end the compulsion to rework projects and move on to create new ones? My Personal Struggles […]
Anger Management: When Your Emotions Damage Careers
Anger Management: People who cannot control their tempers can ruin their career and the career of others. How do some people manage […]
Business Meeting Tools: What Successful People Bring to Meetings
Business Meeting Tools: Meeting preparation is important. Equally important is having the right tools. What should you bring to a meeting? Cutting […]
Respect: Do You Want Respect? Do These 10 Things.
Respect: What do people do to gain respect from others? Here are 10 things that will help you build relationships and increase […]
Peak Performance: 8 Steps for Achieving Excellence
Peak performance is not only about how effective you are today, but how effective you are throughout your career. ~ www.jaywren.com Here […]
4 Practices of The Most Successful People
The most successful people do many things to live successful lives. Here are four practices that enable them to keep a clear […]
Mindful Moments: A More Powerful Way to Think for Success
Mindful Moments: How do great minds gain focus to make great decisions? In the existence of humans, infinity is a series of […]
Purpose: The Overlapping Principle of Business and Career
Purpose: Why is it to some companies and people fail to achieve their goals. How can they define their goals better with […]
Job-Listing Websites: How They Can Help You
Job-Listing Websites: Everything is easier to find when you know where to look. ~ www.jaywren.com. Job Boards and Job Search Engines, how […]
Interview Practice: How to Prepare for Success
Interview Practice: What can you do to prepare and practice for your job interview? Here are some ideas that will help you. […]
Resigning Gracefully: A former employer is a future reference.
Resigning Gracefully: When Leaving a Company, knowing how to say goodbye gracefully is important. What are the do’s and don’ts of an […]
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
hen communication fails, relationships fail and businesses fail. ~ www.jaywren.com Communication: Effective speaking and writing are part of the job for professionals […]
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 […]
Collaboration: Increasing Your Success with Synergy
Collaboration where the goal is to create results where, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” ~ Aristotle How […]
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 […]
4 Essential Steps to a Highly Successful Career Change
Career Change: Below are powerful tools and suggestions others have found helpful in making an effective career move. 4 Essential Steps to […]
Quit Struggling to Get Jobs Below Your Qualifications
Qualifications: Quit Struggling to Get Jobs Below Your Qualifications. Are you frustrated, because hiring companies will not see you for jobs you […]
Impact Writing: 4 Ways to Engage Your Reader
Impact writing: In a digital world, everyone is a writer. However, not everyone entered the digital world with the same writing skills. […]
Words that Empower and Motivate Successful Teams
Successful Teams: Words that empower and motivate teams create bonds among the team members. These words acknowledge ownership of responsibility. Furthermore, they show […]
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 […]
Time Management: Building the Skills for Staying on Task
Time Management: Success comes from getting things done. Successful people use their time effectively to accomplish more. ~ www.jaywren.com Big Projects and […]
Character: Four Leadership Traits for Long-Term Success
Character traits for leadership are more than a leader’s personality. These traits are a leaders’ moral, emotional, and mental makeup. What character […]
New Year Success: Personal Steps to Powering Up 2018
New Year Success: The new year is a great time to reset routines. Here are things that I am doing to make this […]
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 […]
Triggers: When Emotions Control Our Thinking
Triggers are anything that cause negative emotoinal response. Everyone feels stress. However, the degree that people experience stress, the things that create […]
Toxic People: How to Deal with Destructive Personalities
Toxic people create stress that spreads throughout an organization. What are the skills that you can develop not only to survive but […]
Job Search Timing: The Things You Must Know
ob search timing. Is this the right time in your career to make a job change? What are the things you must […]
Become Discovered: How Powerful People Find Great Jobs
Become discovered: You have all the skills, the talent, intelligence, charisma, and emotional intelligence for success. But what does it matter if […]
Job Change: 4 Powerful Steps Executive Officers Use
ob Change: What are the things you must know to conduct a successful job search? These four tips might help you launch […]
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 […]
Internet Profile: Creating Your Internet Brand
Internet Profile: your internet profile is more than your identity on the Internet. This profile becomes your personal and professional brand. ~ […]
Top 10 Cities for Job Growth
Job Growth: Map of 10 leading cities to plan a career. Other maps: largest retail companies, largest consumer products companies, 75 of […]
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 […]
Simplicity: The Essential Leadership Skill for Success
Simplicity: As situations become more complex, simplicity is a powerful tool. How do leaders eliminate the clutter to create success? Simplicity creates […]
Happiness: Making Better Choices About How We Feel
Happiness is easy when everything is going our way. Some people seem happy all the time. How can we be happy even […]
People: 18 Point Check-Off List for Making Great Hires
People: What are the steps for building teams? How do you know which person is best for the work you need done? […]
Winning Behavior: 8 Bad Habits to Break
inning Behavior: The things we don’t do are as important as the things we do to be a winner in the workplace. […]
Luck Needs Action. We Have to Play to Win.
Luck comes to those who act. Fate decides who wins. But acting often and acting smarter increases our odds of turning fate […]
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 […]
Job Counter Offers: The Stress of Leaving a Company
Job counter offers are ways companies avoid the annoyances of losing employees at the wrong time. ~ www.jaywren.com Should you stay or […]
Passionate Living: Turning Resolutions into a Lifestyle
Passionate Living: Common sense tells us to sleep, exercise, and eat correctly. How do we find the passion for a healthy life? […]
Attitudes: How to Choose the Way We See the World
Attitudes: How is it that some people seem to have a natural, positive attitude? Even when life gives them challenges, these people […]
Self-Empowerment: 5 Traits of Highly Productive People
Self-Empowerment: What are the things that successful people do for themselves to create power other people never have? Are they things that […]
Breaking Habits: How to Quit by Doing Something Else
Breaking Habits: Why is quitting unhealthy or counterproductive habits so difficult? What are the tools that everyone can use to end these […]
Complaints: How Top Managers Manage Feedback
Complaints are a grievance issue, not a management feedback issue. Knowing the difference is important to becoming a strong manager. www.jaywren.com Why […]
Worrying: The Pointless and Painful Abuse of Fear
Worrying: Fear is a healthy emotion. However, when we turn our fears over and over in our mind, we experience pain with […]
Solutions: How Successful People See the World
Solutions: Viewing the world as a series of problems is discouraging, even scary. How can we change our outlook for greater success? […]
Stress: 7 Steps to a Smarter Way of Living
Stress Dealing with stress is simple, but it is not always easy. ~ www.jaywren.com Life’s challenges create pressure. I can’t always control […]
Anger: Managing Your Emotions for a More Powerful Mind
Anger gives us the energy to avoid or overcome danger. However, managed incorrectly, anger can destroy relationships, ruin careers, and linger forever. […]
Persuasive Presentations: 10 Powerful Steps to Success
Giving successful persuasive presentations takes more than showing up. ~ www.jaywren.com Persuasive Presentations What are the things that make persuasive presentations successful? […]
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? […]
Internet Trolls: How to Steal Their Power
Internet Trolls: A personal story about killing the power of an Internet troll by not responding to them. This method might work […]
Trust: The Most Important Trait of Leadership
Trust: What makes this trait so valuable to leaders? What is the role of this trait in the relationship between leaders and […]
Composure: How to Overcome Meeting Anxiety
Composure: Whether they make mistakes or simply must deal with intimidating people, everyone has stressful moments in meetings. How can you stay […]
Great Leaders: 7 Steps to Creating Greatness in Others
Great Leaders: Some leaders are not only great themselves, but also inspire others to become great. What do they do differently? Great […]
No Job Plan: Why Long-Term Career Plans Fail
No Job Plan: To increase your income, do you plan to change jobs every three years? On the other hand, do you […]
Winning Teams: 5 Traits that Lead to Team Success
Winning Teams: How is it that some teams continue to win while other teams continue to lose? What are the things that […]
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 […]
Perspective: How to Refocus, Realign, and Create Happiness
Perspective: How is it that some people live balanced lives while other people damage themselves and their relationship through a loss of […]
Authenticity: The First Step to Greatness
Authenticity: Why are rebels so appealing? Why are they so successful? Authenticity – The First Step to Greatness If you copy other […]
Wisdom: How to Choose Intelligence over Bias
Wisdom: Is this a hollow word? A meaningless concept? Or is wisdom a powerful force that is available to everyone who seeks […]
Bias: How We Interpret the World with Our Feelings
ias is the noise above reason and wisdom, but is it always bad? What role does it play in decision making and […]
How to Use Your Emotions to Make Better Decisions
Emotions: How do some people keep a clear mind to make intelligent decisions? Is managing emotions a skill anyone can learn? There […]
4 Traits that Form the Foundation of Great Teams
Great Teams: Why is it that some organizations always create great teams? Additionally, why is it that other organizations never create great […]
Reduce Turnover with These Powerful Steps
The most valuable assets of any company walk out the door at the end of the day. Ensuring that those assets return […]