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Too Much on Your Plate…

Too Much on Your Plate should never be an excuse that prevents you from ongoing personal and professional development.  Continuing your personal development despite time and energy challenges will help give you a competitive edge in the market while helping you remain confident and more highly employable. So, despite the challenges, here are a few [...]

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5 Tips For Building a Better Career or Business Using a Mission Statement

If you want to stand-out as the best-of-the-best, you need to have laser-sharp focus. This will allow you to make purposeful and significant contributions and build higher potential for success. Many business owners and managers have taken the time to create organizational mission statements.  However, few have gone through this process on a more individual [...]

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Doubt Can Advance a Career

Though it may seem contradictory, a sense of doubt can actually advance a career. I’m not advocating self-worry or timid executions when it comes to working with others, but instead a curious demeanor in the workplace. People grow in business by asking questions, by assessing the situation and questioning the ways in which to go [...]

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Clarity in Conversations

Clarity is so important in a work environment. Being specific and clear in conversations saves more time than anything else. When you are precise in your conversations, there is no need for multiple fact-checking, wasted time finding answers to a poorly-worded questions, and it eliminates most mistakes for the future. Make sure that as you start [...]

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Taking Notes Can Help!

If you want to be the best at your job and impress your boss more than anyone else, take notes! Here are a few points as to how taking notes can advance your career. Impress your coworkers: In an office setting, it will be helpful to take notes in an electronic format so you can [...]

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Interrupting Others

Interrupting a coworker, or worse yet, a boss, is one of the fastest ways to losing your good reputation at work. Interrupting says you are impatient, don’t listen well, think your time is more valuable than the person talking and you can only think about yourself. While you may not intend to communicate these things, [...]

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Are You Rambling?

A common misconception is that you can talk your way out of a problem. More often than not, that makes it worse, as does any sort of rambling in a conversation. Every conversation has a rhythm to it, a balancing of back and forth between the people talking. When that rhythm is disrupted with an [...]

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How BIG is Your EGO?

An ego is never appropriate in the workplace. Truly, you probably won’t even get into a work place if you have one, but if you somehow manage to do so, you won’t last long. Bosses are constantly on the lookout for employees with an ego, making sure to avoid them all together. Tell me, if your [...]

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When The Headhunter Calls

There you are, at home or the office. You pick up the phone and the voice at the other end says: “Hello. My name is ______ and I am an executive recruiter. I am looking for _____________. I would like to talk to you about this opportunity.” When this happens, I recommend the following: 1. [...]

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