What Will People Say About You When You Leave The Room?

Today’s blog is by our guest contributor, Mona Reiser.  She shares her perspective on the importance of managing your personal brand at all times! Do you have a personal brand?  Amazon’s Jeff Bezos’ definition of personal brand:  “It is what people say about you when you leave a room.” There are many examples where this occurs.  How often have you been in the room after someone has just left and you have been part of the commentary that swirled around…
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Monday Morning Leadership Q&A – 10/16/17

Client Question: “I don’t have a lot of opportunities to move to the next level.  I want to learn new things, but I really don’t want to leave my current company.  What else can I do?” As organizations become flatter, this is an issue that many people face. Part of this is due to the way things used to be.  Organizations used to have lots of levels.  This meant that you moved up to learn more and have more responsibility. …
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 10/13/17

Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary!   This week’s summary includes: Changing yourself, managing a remote workforce, overcoming challenges, simplifying to get more done, best practices for one on ones, retaining your people, making tough decisions, are you really happy?   Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes: Becoming Whole at work: Personal Development to Change the Organization by Marcella Bremer Change yourself to change the organization “Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action” – Simon Sinek Managing a remote workforce: difficult, but…
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Have You Given Your Team C.R.A.P. Today?

I loved this article called Give Your People C.R.A.P. if You Want Great Employee Retention by Jeff Korles. The acronym C.R.A.P. stands for Caring, Respect, Appreciation and Praise. He took one word that would normally by seen as negative or derogatory and turned it into a great acronym that you will always remember. I love the simplicity of it. It is easy to remember and now you just need to be intentional about doing it consistently. Focusing on these things is important,…
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How Do You Decide When There Are So Many Choices?

I am on a trip to visit colleges with my daughter who is a senior in high school. I was telling my sister that we were going to visit schools near her house so we could come see her and her family. She asked me “why does everyone visit so many colleges now? When you and I went to college, we just picked one and went to school.” It was a good question. Part of the difference is because we…
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It is Time to Find Out if You Are Really Happy

Do you feel that things are moving to fast in your life? It seems like the days run together and I am trying to remember what day it is half the time. It made me think of the quote from the movie, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.” You may not be able to call in sick from work or school like Ferris did, but…
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Monday Morning Leadership Q&A – 10/9/17

  ​Client Question:  “My previous manager used our one on one meetings to discuss projects.  I would like to do something different with my own team.  What are the best practices to have a good one on one with a direct report?” This is a great question.  There is very little time to catch up anymore, so when you get some dedicated time to discuss things, the default seems to be to focus on the work.  This is okay as…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 10/6/17

Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary!   This week’s summary includes: TED Talks to inspire you, how to identify high potential employees, focus on employee engagement, preparing for the next career step, building connections with people, how to focus more effectively and top career tips to fast track your career.   Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes: 7 Great Ted Talks That Will Inspire You to Succeed @LollyDaskalhttp://on.inc.com/2kNnJpK Success come to those who look for it, not to those who wait for it What Science…
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Can a Shift in Focus Really Make a Difference?

​Everyone is always looking for tips and tricks to move ahead in their career.  Why struggle to learn all these lessons on your own?  How can you leverage what someone else has learned and adapt it for yourself?  This article called the Top 10 Tips to Fast Track Your Career  by Talane Miedane offers some suggestions to leverage in your own career. I will highlight a few of them here: Strengthen Your Strengths – We used to focus so much on developing…
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Are You Ready to Stop Being Distracted?

​Are you feeling like there is so much going on each and every day that you can’t focus on anything very well?   The list of things on your to do list grows even when you are crossing some of them off.  I wasn’t even sure where to start sometimes when I was feeling very overwhelmed.  To me, it was like a merry-go-round that I didn’t know how to stop. Technology in some ways has helped us a lot, but we…
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