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 […]
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 […]
Positive Coaching
“If you’re growing a garden, you need to pull out the weeds, but flowers will die if all you do […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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? […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. ~ […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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? […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. ~ […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Communication
hen communication fails, relationships fail and businesses fail. ~ www.jaywren.com Communication: Effective speaking and writing are part of the job […]
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 […]
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.” ~ […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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? […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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? […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]