Setting Priorities: How to Make Room on Your Plate

What are your priorities? Now that we’re on picnic and party season, setting priorities and work-life balance become more important than ever. At picnics, the top priority is to have room on your paper plate for “the good stuff.” This might be the BBQ ribs, or grandma’s potato salad, or homemade peach cobbler. Here, the…

Effective Leadership – Boost Your Career

The Impact of Leadership   Effective leadership skills can spell the difference between a skyrocketing career and professional implosion. As a subordinate, it’s easy to tell a great leader from a dud. The great leader inspires and encourages growth. Even though every organization hits bumps in the road, under a good leader, goals are met…

Coachable Success

If you’re not coachable, you are expendable. So how can you tap into coachable success? What is coachable success? Success can be maddeningly elusive. You can work hard and seek the latest advice, but feel like you’re trapped in a tar pit. Progress is at a snail’s pace, while competitors and opportunities seem to be…

Market Yourself to Win!

Market Yourself, Starting Now! Have you ever considered how you market yourself? In business, you are your own product. You have capabilities and benefits to offer clients and employers, just as your organization has products and services for external customers. Market yourself for the win, and create a career path for success. Does the thought…

Aiming for Success: Know Yourself!

Are you aiming for success, or is your future riding on the kindness of strangers? Where do you intend to be in five, ten, or fifteen years, and what are you doing to get there? Time is not your friend. Take charge of your career. There are no guarantees regarding the future, but your odds…

Accelerate Your Career – SWOT Yourself!

Accelerate your career by taking a fresh look at SWOT. SWOT is a simple format to assess your competitive position. Corporations and organizations use SWOT to identify areas opportunities and set strategies for innovation and growth. While SWOT is common in corporate strategic planning, it can be even more powerful when applied to your career development.…