Career

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How To Become Unfireable – Part Four: Use Your Peripherals Pal!

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Start standing out from the crowd. Have your work seen by the right people at the right time. Use your PERIPHERALS and start seeing the hidden opportunities out there.

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5 Mistakes You Make With Business Cards.

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They bring me business and success everyday. That's why they are ALWAYS in my left pocket. But most people either don't have them (shame on you) or if they do — have terrible ones. Here are some mistakes people make with business cards:

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How To Always Make A Great First Impression.

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Whenever you are on an interview or meeting a client for the first time or entering a conference room with another department — first impressions COUNT.

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Why Aren't You Working On The Big Stuff?

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Your life is filled with small stuff. And sometimes, as Richard Carlson said, "Don't sweat the small stuff". Unfortunately, we get caught up handling the small stuff almost all the time.

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Are You Frustrated? Good!

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Work breeds frustration. It's a fact. You get frustrated when people or things knock you off balance, where you're out of control. It could be a late project, or a recalcitrant associate, or a vendor who never gets back to you.

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Why You Hate Making Decisions.

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Finding it harder and harder to make decisions lately? Decisions or the lack of them are responsible for the breaking or making of many a career. With the craziness of the economy mixed with the bi-polar swings of board decisions, one finds it harder and harder to make a 'comfortable' decision.

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Why Leaders Can't Coach.

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"All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself." - Bill McCartney When executives coach, they commonly make the mistake of downplaying their role as the boss. Confusion occurs with the associate and coaching fails.

To be clear, a boss is the one who holds people accountable for results. A coach helps people increase their skills to achieve the results.

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Why Your Meetings Suck.

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Let's face it — many of the meetings we attend — well — suck. Why does this happen? We have an agenda. Everyone is present. No one is distracted. Why is it when we're surveyed, meetings rank at the bottom of any business experience? Because most people don't know how to run them. So here are 5 simple tips to make your meetings run efficiently:

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Control Your Time By Designing Your Schedule.

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I thought my schedule was packed when I worked in corporate. Filling in my days with status meetings, presentations, sales calls, and updates all mixed together to produce a week chock full of weaving, diving, and running.Now that I've been running my company for the past ten years, I've found it even harder to keep my schedule clear and organized to ensure I get everything done AND allow myself the time to work on my business.

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Who Moved Your Acorn?

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When we got out of school, we all had a dream. A dream of being someone important, making great strides, doing great things. Making a difference.Unfortunately, life intervened. Work snuck it's ugly head in. Then family. Friends. Hobbies. Activities. TV. You get my drift. Today, I have one question to ask you: What's your dream?