Blog entries tagged 'professional development'

What is Personal Branding?

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Personal Branding is YOU!

What do people think about, when they think about YOU? Your qualities and charactoristics are what people have in mind when they think about you. These could be good OR bad qualities.

You need to develop your brand as positive, giving, and professional before others brand you. You can imagine the branding of a steer and what that must feel like.

I organized developing your personal brand into a 5 step system of recognizing and developing your Beli [...]

Busyness Does Not Equal Productivity

vallove

gain, delivering missed papers. That night, the cycle started all over again. Add to that a husband and two small kids and you begin to get a fuller picture of what my life was like.

Seven days per week, 365 days per year, we kept up that schedule.

What about vacations you ask. Ha! What vacations?

After total burnout and a bout with depression, I asked a few serious and personally important questions: is there a better way? Is there a way to do what needs to be done with [...]

Do You Really Need More Accountability?

anniebarron

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In the lists below, mark the statements that describe your current workplace.

When I'm focused on Accountability:
I blame others for my unhappinessI take credit for what worksI blame others for what doesn't work
Rather than ask for help when I need it, I complain that other people aren’t doing what they should and that’s why I can’t do my jobI assume that people are motivated by potential rewards or punishmentsI experience some prid [...]

Communicating with Ease

DrErica

bsp; have a knee-jerk defensiveness, either automatically assuming the other person is out to get them or they are personally defective? Do they usually smile and appear to cooperate but secretly gossip, complain or sabotoge? Are they genuinely able to hear what you have to say and able to interpret the meaning pretty much the way you meant it? Are they thick skinned, so that you can freely say what you think without worrying about offending them or are they super-sensitive, re [...]

Creating a Team

DrErica

y types and styles. Some are outgoing, friendly and express their desires openly. Others are shy, quiet, indirect, unassertive, and maybe even unaware of what they really want. Then there are those who manipulate others, create dissention, crave attention, divert others from the task at hand, or attempt to sabatoge the work of certain individuals or the entire group.

How does a group become a team, given that people join a group for different reasons, with different perso [...]

Generation Text

drsdisheroon

orary communication. 18.5 billion text messages are sent each month, and the number of text messages sent annually has exploded, growing by 250% in each of the past two years1. Experts expect the number of texts sent each month to reach 80 billion in 2008. With text messaging growing at this exponential rate, it cannot help but exert an influence on our communication strategies in the corporate and educational sectors. Generation Text is alive, well, and communicating constantl [...]

The Secret to PM Success

lrlpmp

Project Management is a process. Project Management Professionals know how to use the process to have a positive impact on project outcomes and organizational profitability. The utilization of the tools and techinques must be thoroghly understood and implemented if the benefits and return on investment are to be realized. The secret to success is sound, pragmatic education and dedicated attention the people in the process. A growing PM professional never stops learning. H [...]

TOP TEN WAYS TO CREATE CHARISMA

inspire

they do. But let’s talk about what we can do to create it in our lives. To me charisma is a matter of creating more presence. So how do you do that?

1.Increase your energy by exercising and breathing fully.
2.Have a discipline like meditation, yoga or Tai Chi that creates prana or chi.
3.Be aware of the phrasing and cadence of your words.
4.Eat lots of fruits and vegetables in that they contain a lot of water which is what our body needs.
5.Be aware of your enviro [...]

THE AMC MADMEN PROGRAM: corporate suite fragging

ac111999

known to have been fragged (killed) by their men. Another 1400 incidents were strongly believed to have been caused by fragging. That doesn't include incidents of troops killing one another.

I wonder what the popularity of the movie Mad Men says about life in 2007 corporations; 2007 America.

"Excuse Me, I'm Confused"

synergy123

This blog is to help share the latest tools in improving communication skills, eliminating confusion in business and personal relationships and empowering people to live their dream with passion

Take Back Your Life #3

SpeakerAB

rn recommends that you, "Ask yourself, if tomorrow flies out of control, what one task would I be thrilled to get done - what can I do to earn my salary by 10 a.m.?" Your answer is your most important task to complete for the day.

Sometimes the challenge of your most important task is the size or time required to complete it. You may be tempted to knock off a few quick, easy tasks. Beware the "quick" vs. "important" trap - although you [...]

Managing the Email Avalanche

SpeakerAB

risk losing sight of what is important and create a cycle of unending urgency that can never be resolved.

And that's just email -- add IM, iPhone and Blackberry capabilities and you have an entire office reacting instead of planning purposefully for the future. What type of impact does that have on your office? Is your frustration increasing while less and less work gets done? Worse yet, are your team members burning out because they feel compelled to respond to [...]

I Know Better Than That!

Tom

rain never entered his head until the forklift steering wheel was in his gut.

Statement in conclution, I Know Better Than That!

Take Back Your Life #1 -- Creating the Time to be Effective

SpeakerAB

nce of a project in order to determine our focus.

Morgenstern offers an innovative solution: create a time map for your day. This is simply a personal productivity chart to "schedule" choices with your time and energy. If you have a daily or weekly routine task, choose a block of time to complete that task within. Also, schedule your most critical task in the morning - this is when your mind is freshest and can accelerate your performance. Making pro [...]

Effective Management: Keys to Being a Successful Leader

nfulbright

The ability to bring people together to accomplish a task is a difficult talent to master. It takes a combination of acquired skills and experience to guarantee the success of anyone in a leadership role. An incompetent manager can have a devastating impact on an organization. A leader with the knowledge, experience and insight necessary to ensure a high performing and profitable organization is hard to come by. In a recent Gallup survey, it was found that 25% of U.S. [...]