Knowing how to show why the company should hire you is simply to succeeding in an interview. Furthermore, preparing to answer this question creates a framework to help you prepare to interview for any job. This question challenges you to think about your qualifications as they offer value to the hiring company. The Competition You…… Continue reading Why Should We Hire You?
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Job Interview Agenda: A Powerful Tool for Job Seekers
Job interview agenda: a list of topics to be introduced during an interview. Bringing an agenda to an interview gives you several advantages. First, the agenda provides you with a reference sheet. With your resume and your agenda, you will have the facts in front of you. Furthermore, having an agenda will help you stand…… Continue reading Job Interview Agenda: A Powerful Tool for Job Seekers
How to Turn Job Interview Jitters into Poise and Confidence
Job Interview Jitters: At a time when you want to feel confident, you are tense and uncomfortable. Believe in yourself. Take these simple steps to create poise and confidence. Believing in Ourselves is the First Step to Poise and Confidence. ~ www.jaywren.com Job Interview Jitters and Stage Fright Stage fright comes from thinking about ourselves. However,…… Continue reading How to Turn Job Interview Jitters into Poise and Confidence
Interview Attire: Dressing to Get the Job
Interview Attire: Different companies have different dress codes. Nonetheless, each company has attire that is standard in their workplace. Moreover, making a point to understand the hiring company’s dress codes will help you feel more comfortable when you walk in the door for a successful interview. Dress at or Above the Company Dress Standards Sometimes,…… Continue reading Interview Attire: Dressing to Get the Job
Job Interview Preparation: The 3 Things You Need to Know
Job Interview Preparation: Are you frustrated with rejection when you have the qualifications for the job? Understanding these three elements will help you understand what happens in an interview. Moreover, these steps will help you prepare for a successful meeting with a future employer. There are three distinct elements in preparing for an interview. Everything…… Continue reading Job Interview Preparation: The 3 Things You Need to Know
Creating Leaders: 4 Elements of Leadership Development
Creating Leaders: How can companies hire and train people to become leaders? Here are four steps to effective leadership development. Companies that produce great leaders become greater companies. ~ www.jaywren.com Creating Leaders — Four Steps Creating future leaders is critical to the long-term growth of a company. An element in succession planning, creating leaders from…… Continue reading Creating Leaders: 4 Elements of Leadership Development
Interview Safety: 4 Steps to Avoiding Risks
Jay Wren The Moveable Career ~ Interview Safety: when you feel safe and comfortable, you will have a better interview. Avoid the risks. Plan for your safety. Here are 4 steps that many job seekers find effective. Location The safety of the interview location is important. Most interviewers will meet with applicants in public locations…… Continue reading Interview Safety: 4 Steps to Avoiding Risks
Elevator Pitch: Bad Presentations Don’t Solve Problems
Elevator Pitch: before you go to an interview, rehearse a short pitch to show how you can create success for the hiring company. Some people call this short pitch, “The Elevator Pitch.” The purpose of an elevator pitch is to persuade a person to accept your proposal in a brief presentation. The best elevator pitches…… Continue reading Elevator Pitch: Bad Presentations Don’t Solve Problems
Warning Signs: Are You Interviewing with the Wrong Company?
Warning signs: What should you look for when you are interviewing for a job? Should you be interviewing with a better company? As the owner of a recruiting firm, I worked with applicants who dealt with troubling issues during the interview process. Here are some of the things I learned from my experience in helping…… Continue reading Warning Signs: Are You Interviewing with the Wrong Company?
Toxic Personalities: A Poison in the Workplace
Toxic personalities create stress that spreads throughout an organization. What are the skills that you can develop to survive and even change toxic people? Know What You Can Control If you have the authority to act on the people with toxic personalities, it is your responsibility to change the behavior of these people or remove…… Continue reading Toxic Personalities: A Poison in the Workplace
Getting Discovered: How Powerful People Find Great Jobs
Getting Discovered: You have all the skills, the talent, intelligence, charisma, and emotional intelligence for success. But what does it matter if no one knows? Spread the Word Retailers, manufacturers, and service providers have resources for putting their name out there. They run ads in print, radio, television, social media, and billboards. Furthermore, they sponsor…… Continue reading Getting Discovered: How Powerful People Find Great Jobs
Habits: Giving Up the Behavior that Weakens Our Careers
Habits: The things we don’t do are as important as the things we do to be a winner in the workplace. Here are eight things to avoid as you work to build a successful career and become a leader among your peers. Often, it’s the things that we don’t do that count the most. ~…… Continue reading Habits: Giving Up the Behavior that Weakens Our Careers
Fate and Luck: Playing Comes Before Winning
Fate and Luck: Luck comes to those who act. Fate decides who wins. But acting often and acting smarter increases our odds of turning fate in our favor. In life or in cards, we can’t win without playing. ~ www.jaywren.com Fate and Luck I have had good luck and bad luck. But without work, I…… Continue reading Fate and Luck: Playing Comes Before Winning
Network Event Anxiety: Tools and Skills for Success
Network Event Anxiety: becoming effective at networking events may require that you step outside of your comfort zone. Meeting new people, especially for introverts is never easy. At times, extroverts feel awkward when networking. Feeling uncertain in new situations is common, perhaps even normal. Preparation for Overcoming Network Event Anxiety Talking with strangers is easy…… Continue reading Network Event Anxiety: Tools and Skills for Success
Winning Performance: How to Build on Your Skills for Success
Winning Performance is not only about how hard you work or how many skills you have. It’s, also, about having the soft skills for working effectively. Day in, day out, equally talented people give different levels of winning performance. Likewise, equally talented people can have widely different career success. Here are seven steps that will…… Continue reading Winning Performance: How to Build on Your Skills for Success
Anger Prevention: How Small Steps Can Help You Decompress
Anger Prevention: Anger is a normal feeling when we have experiences that threaten our beliefs or possessions. We can learn skills that give us a choice in the way we respond to that feeling. Anger Prevention: Different Triggers for Different People We all have individual triggers. I say individual triggers, because different things create different…… Continue reading Anger Prevention: How Small Steps Can Help You Decompress
Stress Reduction for a Clear and Productive Mind
Stress reduction: Life’s challenges create pressure. I can’t always eliminate these challenges, but I can reduce the pressure by being smart about how I respond to them. Action I feel stress when I put things off. To overcome procrastination, I simply agree to do one small thing. A common example is to go for a…… Continue reading Stress Reduction for a Clear and Productive Mind
Leadership Skills: 7 Steps to Creating Powerful Teams
Leadership Skills: 7 Steps to Creating Powerful Teams. Ways to interact with teams to create engagement and understanding. Smart Leaders Share Their Ideas with Others It takes time and patience to share ideas and train team members. Leaders who invest this time to show team members shortcuts and special skills increase the success of the…… Continue reading Leadership Skills: 7 Steps to Creating Powerful Teams
Building Trust and the Role of this Trait in Leadership
Building Trust: What makes trust so valuable in leadership? What is the role of this trait in the relationship between leaders and their teams? Great leaders may have the authority to demand that their teams follow. But by building trust, great leaders instill in their teams the powerful instinct to follow. ~ www.jaywren.com Building…… Continue reading Building Trust and the Role of this Trait in Leadership
Poise: Steps to Confidence and Increasing Your Potential
Poise is not always automatic. Nearly everyone feels uncertain and lacks poise from time-to-time. How do successful people restore their confidence and maintain their poise in challenging situations? Poise starts between our ears and spreads through our heart and our gut and then outward through our face and our gestures. ~ www.jaywren.com Situations that Weaken…… Continue reading Poise: Steps to Confidence and Increasing Your Potential
Career Change Commitment: Steps to Stay Engaged
Career Change Commitment: Hunting for jobs take a lot of work. It is easy to let up and let opportunities slip away. Finding a job is a business. Even when business is slow, you can act to increase your success of finding the job you deserve. Here are some things you can do during a…… Continue reading Career Change Commitment: Steps to Stay Engaged
Job Search Websites: Finding the Job You Deserve
Job Search Websites: Job Search Engines, Job Boards, Social Media Sites that List Jobs, and company owned job boards. How they work and where to find them. Even on the Internet, everything is easier to find when you know where to look. ~ www.jaywren.com The Types of Job Search Websites There are four types of…… Continue reading Job Search Websites: Finding the Job You Deserve
Finding New Industries for Your Job Skills
Finding New Industries: If you find that you have skills that are no longer needed in your current industry, it is natural for you to feel discouraged. Skills Requirements Continue to Change The ever-changing employment landscape often leaves people with industry-based skills and no employment market for those skills. If you are one of those…… Continue reading Finding New Industries for Your Job Skills
Bias Dictates the Thoughts that Govern Us
Bias dictates to our reason and wisdom, but is it always bad? What role does it play in decision-making and in governing our actions? Knowing that we have bias and learning how to manage our bias empowers us to act intelligently to the world in which we live. The biggest challenge is managing our bias…… Continue reading Bias Dictates the Thoughts that Govern Us
Rebel: The Power of Being Different
Rebel: The world is full of successful people who conform to the norm. However, a rebel can blow past the norm and change the world. I have never known a rebel who was boring. ~ www.jaywren.com Companies have guidelines and rules. But what do you do when the guidelines block you from achieving your goals?…… Continue reading Rebel: The Power of Being Different
Bad Bosses: How to Excel In Spite of Them
Bad bosses can destroy your career as they make your life miserable before you get away from them. Here are ways you can protect yourself and your career. If you are working for a bad boss, you have my understanding and empathy. I have had a couple of bad bosses. One had no interest in…… Continue reading Bad Bosses: How to Excel In Spite of Them
Leadership Qualities that Create Great Teams
Leadership Qualities: Some teams have a manager but still suffer from a lack of leadership. What qualities help leaders raise the team standards and increase team success? Four Leadership Qualities that Create Great Teams Leaders have many qualities that make them more effective. For example, a leader with charisma easily draws people to them and…… Continue reading Leadership Qualities that Create Great Teams
Wise Choices: Little Adjustments Can Change the Day
Wise choices: Success comes from making wise choices about how to feel and respond to the things that happen to us. When I am having a bad day, I can strain to push myself through the day. Ruminating, sulking, and whining are great ways to stay stuck in a bad day. On the other hand, I…… Continue reading Wise Choices: Little Adjustments Can Change the Day
Leadership Types: Success and Failure
Leadership Types: Leadership is a trait that can start from any place in an organization, but usually starts at the top, and runs throughout the entire organization. Great leaders create great organizations through picking and developing winning teams. Bad leaders can create failure in any organization. Leadership Study from Literature “The Caine Mutiny” is a…… Continue reading Leadership Types: Success and Failure
Confidence Development: Clearing the Mental Clutter of Job Stress
Confidence Development: Stress loves mental clutter. As the pile of clutter grows in a person’s mind, stress becomes more powerful. The clutter creates confusion and undermines our ability for confidence development. Instead of planning for upcoming events, we worry about upcoming events. The growing stress robs our energy. Lower energy leads to inaction, procrastination. Inaction…… Continue reading Confidence Development: Clearing the Mental Clutter of Job Stress
Meeting Agendas: Gaining Control Through Preparation
Meeting Agendas can empower you to set and control the purpose of a meeting as well as the agreements reached during the meeting. Are you tired of meetings that accomplish nothing? These lessons from sales training might help. Case Study During lunch, a field sales manager of a major consumer goods company told me about…… Continue reading Meeting Agendas: Gaining Control Through Preparation
Recruiters: What Job Seekers Need to Know
Recruiters: If you are in a job search, you may find it helpful to understand the relationships of recruiters, hiring companies, and job seekers. As a recruiter, I contracted with over a hundred companies to fill their vacancies. I have friends who are recruiters. My broader understanding of the types of firms started when I…… Continue reading Recruiters: What Job Seekers Need to Know
Success Story: Resumes that Land Job Interviews
Is your resume a success story? Have you included job information in a way that makes your job history stand out against the competition? Even employers who do not know what they are looking for are going to get more excited when they read a resume that reads like a success story than a mere…… Continue reading Success Story: Resumes that Land Job Interviews
Winning Traits: Empower Yourself for Success
Winning Traits: What traits do successful people have that empower them for success? Are they traits that you can develop? Horrible things happen to all of us. Things beyond our control. But developing winning traits can change the questions we ask when we meet challenges. We stop asking, “Why me?” Instead, we ask, “What steps…… Continue reading Winning Traits: Empower Yourself for Success
Accomplishments: Knowing the Purpose of Your Goals
Accomplishments: Why is it that some companies and some people fail to achieve their goals? How can they define their goals better with stating what they hope to accomplish? The Benefits of Knowing What You Want to Accomplish Goals are the things we hope to do. Before we set goals, we should ask ourselves what…… Continue reading Accomplishments: Knowing the Purpose of Your Goals
Choosing Better Friends: Powerful Steps to a Happier, More Successful You
Choosing better friends is more than picking friends you like. And it does not mean breaking ties with friends you cherish. The Experience of Choosing Better Friends As you make better friends, you will drift away from the friends who bring little value or even diminish your life. Rather, choosing better friends is a means…… Continue reading Choosing Better Friends: Powerful Steps to a Happier, More Successful You
Winning Interviews: 5 Steps to Success
Winning Interviews: What can you do to prepare and practice for your job interview? Here are some ideas that will help you. Give yourself an edge over the competition with interview preparation. ~ www.jaywren.com What You Can Anticipate in an Interview No one can know with any certainty what questions to expect in an interview.…… Continue reading Winning Interviews: 5 Steps to Success
Effective Communications: 7 Steps to Being Understood
Effective Communications are part of the job for professionals in all types of fields and responsibilities. Here are 7 ideas for communication success. Headlines Even when speaking, you will help people understanding you with a headline. The headline states the topic. “Bill, let’s talk about the plan for this weekend” is a simple sentence that…… Continue reading Effective Communications: 7 Steps to Being Understood
Winning: 4 Conditions that Empower and Motivate Successful Teams
Winning: The best conditions empower, motivate, and engage teams. Additionally, these conditions create bonds and ownership among the team members. Four Conditions for Winning Teams. Inclusiveness Ownership Recognition Honesty Inclusiveness The words “we,” “our,” and “together” create feelings of membership in a group. Additionally, calling people by their name increases bonds. For example, picture this…… Continue reading Winning: 4 Conditions that Empower and Motivate Successful Teams
Negotiation: Communications with the Intention of Reaching an Agreement
Negotiation begins with the ability to see solutions for the people across the table. Whether you are offering a service or a product, your success will depend on solving problems. The purpose of a negotiation is to reach an agreement that benefits both sides. How do successful companies see, create, present, and deliver solutions? ~ www.jaywren.com…… Continue reading Negotiation: Communications with the Intention of Reaching an Agreement
Mental Flow: Present Moment Awareness Continues Through Time
Mental Flow: Living in the present moment is like riding a canoe. You have control with your paddle, but you ride effortlessly in the river’s current. ~ www.jaywren.com In a previous article, Becoming Aware: The Power of Living in the Present Moment, I wrote, “Doing one thing at a time and clearing my mind of…… Continue reading Mental Flow: Present Moment Awareness Continues Through Time
Becoming Aware: The Power of Living in the Present Moment.
Becoming Aware: Doing one thing at a time and clearing my mind of everything else, these steps empower my mind to a higher level of thinking. Becoming Aware: My Promise to Myself Today I am going to do one thing at a time. I will start the day by going over my plan for the…… Continue reading Becoming Aware: The Power of Living in the Present Moment.
Job Change Success: The Elements and Actions of Making a Job Change
Job Change Success: In this article you will find powerful tools that others have found helpful in making an effective career move. Career Change Success: 5 Essential Elements Resume Resume Cover Letter Interview and Interview Preparation Thank You Letter Extra Tools and Tips You don’t have to do everything for success. But you do have…… Continue reading Job Change Success: The Elements and Actions of Making a Job Change
Career Change Success: The Elements and Actions of Making a Job Change
Career Change Success: In this article you will find powerful tools that others have found helpful in making an effective career move. Career Change Success: 5 Essential Elements Resume Resume Cover Letter Interview and Interview Preparation Thank You Letter Extra Tools and Tips You don’t have to do everything for success. But you do have…… Continue reading Career Change Success: The Elements and Actions of Making a Job Change
Overqualified: How to Get Interviews that Match Your Skills
Overqualified: Are you frustrated, because hiring companies will not see you for jobs you can do easily? You are not alone. Here are the reasons why you are not getting interviews and what you can do about it. The Risks to Employers of Hiring Overqualified People Speaking as a recruiter, I can tell you that…… Continue reading Overqualified: How to Get Interviews that Match Your Skills
Respect: How to Get It and How to Give It
Respect: How do people gain respect and set the tone to create a winning workplace? Here are four steps I have seen that separate workplace winners from the crowd. Showing respect is more than doing unto others as you would have them do unto you. It about laying the groundwork for a winning workplace. ~ www.jaywren.com…… Continue reading Respect: How to Get It and How to Give It
Skills Development: Hard Skills and Soft Skills
Skills development: Skills come in two categories: hard skills and soft skills. In writing you resume and interviewing, you will be more effective when you understand the different types of skills you are listing. Hard Skills You can learn hard skills, and you can learn soft skills. Hard skills are your ability to perform tasks. These…… Continue reading Skills Development: Hard Skills and Soft Skills
Passionate Choices: Making Success a Natural Lifestyle
Passionate Choices: Common sense tells us to sleep, exercise, and eat correctly. How do we find the passion for making healthy choices? Are You Struggling? If you are struggling, you are not alone. Tens of millions of Americans do not get enough sleep, do not exercise regularly, and eat processed food that makes them overweight.…… Continue reading Passionate Choices: Making Success a Natural Lifestyle
Team Success: 5 Traits that Engage and Build Loyalty
Team Success: What traits engage and build loyalty among team members? This article covers five of the traits I have found among successful organizations. Traits of Successful Teams Inclusiveness Ownership Recognition Honesty Communication Inclusiveness The words “we,” “our,” and “together” create feelings of membership in a group. Additionally, calling people by their name increases bonds.…… Continue reading Team Success: 5 Traits that Engage and Build Loyalty
Letting Go: Steps to a More Peaceful Yet More Powerful Mind
Letting Go: When I get caught up in trying to control everything in my life, I am setting myself up to suffer anxiety and anger. Becoming aware that I am holding onto painful thoughts and feelings is the first step to a higher level of thought. Learning to let go of things I can’t control…… Continue reading Letting Go: Steps to a More Peaceful Yet More Powerful Mind
Leadership Development: 4 Steps to Creating Future Leaders
Leadership Development: How can companies hire and train future leaders? Here are steps companies can take to strengthen company leadership for the long term. The Four Steps to Creating Future Leaders Creating future leaders is critical to the long-term growth of a company. ~ www.jaywren.com Hire for leadership Establish Authority & Responsibility Teach for leadership Increase…… Continue reading Leadership Development: 4 Steps to Creating Future Leaders
U.S. Small Business Administration: Government Support for Entrepreneurs
USA Small Business Administration helps entrepreneurs plan, launch, manage, and grow their business. Two government web pages that will help you find support for your business are “U.S. Small Business Administration: Start and Grow Your Business” and “USA.gov: Small Business” “Small businesses make up: 99.7 percent of U.S. employer firms.” SBA.gov U.S. Small Business Administration…… Continue reading U.S. Small Business Administration: Government Support for Entrepreneurs
Sharing Economy: Finding Gigs for Your Assets and Skills
The Sharing Economy: The purpose of this article is to help job seekers find income quickly and help employed people quickly find supplemental income. With the Internet expansion and coincidental high unemployment from the 2008 recession, companies began to spring up to connect personal asset sharing with consumers. The development of phone applications has increased…… Continue reading Sharing Economy: Finding Gigs for Your Assets and Skills
Entrepreneurs: Is It Time to Start Your Own Business?
Entrepreneurs accept greater risks to operate their own business. In return, successful entrepreneurs can enjoy greater independence over their activities, greatly increase their income, and gain greater control over how and where they do business. Entrepreneurs: Is it Time for You to Start Your Own Business? Prior to entering recruiting, I worked for two terrific…… Continue reading Entrepreneurs: Is It Time to Start Your Own Business?
Career Inside Track: Testing Driving a Job while Gaining Experience
Career Inside Track: As a job seeker, you will face a number of challenges. Here are three of them. First, knowing whether they are looking at the right job. Second, gaining the experience employers are seeking. Third, getting to know people who can help them on the inside of a company. Here five ways you…… Continue reading Career Inside Track: Testing Driving a Job while Gaining Experience
Stay Flexible: Career Assessment is an Ongoing Process
Stay Flexible: Becoming established in your career gives you success and security. But the world changes. Industries change. Career opportunities change. What should you be doing in a world of career uncertainty? Stay Curious and Aware Remain curious. Accept the realities of an ever-changing world of business. You might need to return to college or obtain…… Continue reading Stay Flexible: Career Assessment is an Ongoing Process
Personal Chemistry: Creating Bonds in Job Interviews
Personal Chemistry: Are you finding that your interviews are not landing you jobs where you have solid qualifications? Could it be that you are not developing personal chemistry with the hiring managers? Chemistry over Qualifications For some hiring managers, the chemistry they feel with the applicant influences their hiring decisions as much the applicant’s skills,…… Continue reading Personal Chemistry: Creating Bonds in Job Interviews
Hardest Interview Question: “Why Were You Fired?”
Hardest Interview Question: “Why were you fired?” How do you handle the most difficult question in interviewing? How do you prepare your answer? How do you deliver it? There are several difficult Interview questions. Explaining why you lost your job is the hardest. However, preparation can help. Write down and rehearse your answer. Do not…… Continue reading Hardest Interview Question: “Why Were You Fired?”
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Loving the present moment. Working on turning It every day into Friday.
Career Plan: Tailored and Flexible for Your Success
Picking A Career In picking a career, start with an understanding of what you want to do and what you need to do to have that type of career. First, answer these questions. What Do You Want to Do? How Important is Income? How Well Do You Tolerate Risk? Where Do You Want to Live? What…… Continue reading Career Plan: Tailored and Flexible for Your Success
Image Marketing: How to Leverage Social Media for Success
Image Marketing: High-powered social media and mass media create an image of how they want you to see them. They are consistent with their message and their image creates loyalty among their followers. Align Your Image with a Cause More than establishing a theme for your social media, create a cause: political, charitable, social, career,…… Continue reading Image Marketing: How to Leverage Social Media for Success
Toxic Behavior in the Workplace: Your Options
Toxic Behavior: Sometimes companies develop a culture based on conflict and anger. The problem often starts at the top and works its way down and throughout an organization. In other cases, companies hire individuals with a toxic personality. These people survive based on their performance and, at times, manage well up within the organization. They know…… Continue reading Toxic Behavior in the Workplace: Your Options
Career Planning: Weighing the Decision to Change Jobs
Career Planning: Just because you are unhappy with your current job does not mean that you should get a new one. There are reasons to stay where you are even though you believe you might be happier somewhere else. Are You in the Wrong Job? If you feel unappreciated, are you in the wrong job? …… Continue reading Career Planning: Weighing the Decision to Change Jobs
Job Search Tools that Can Land the Job You Deserve
Job Search Tools: Are stuck in your job search? Perhaps the list of tools in the article will help you land the job you deserve. Powerful Resume Powerful Resumes: Are you sending out dozens of resumes and not getting job interviews. You might find the suggestions in my article “Powerful Resumes: The Critical Details for…… Continue reading Job Search Tools that Can Land the Job You Deserve
Attitude: You Own It. Make It Amazing.
Attitude: How is it that some people remain calm, positive, and objective, when life gives them challenges and hurdles? Is this powerful trait of attitude management is a teachable skill. Understanding Moods and Attitudes When I am in hungry, tired, or rushed, things can seem more personal. I may feel more anxious or impatient.…… Continue reading Attitude: You Own It. Make It Amazing.
Listening Failure: Reasons Great Ideas Are Never Heard
Listening Failure: What makes us ineffective listeners? What are solutions to overcoming listening failure? Here are steps for more effective communication. The Value of Overcoming Listening Failure Effective listening is important in all parts of our lives. In our personal relations, effective communications can help us build strong, long-term bonds. In networking, effective communications can…… Continue reading Listening Failure: Reasons Great Ideas Are Never Heard
Interview Killers: 13 Things That Will Undermine Your Success
Interview killers: How well you interview will decide whether you get the job. Here are thirteen things that can undermine your interview. Avoiding Interview Killers An interview is a critical step to getting a job. Preparing for your interview and making good choices in handling your interview can turn your interview into a job offer.…… Continue reading Interview Killers: 13 Things That Will Undermine Your Success
Measured Steps: Overcoming Procrastination and Achieving Success
The simple way to overcome procrastination and complete large tasks is to complete a set of measured steps every day. Jay Wren Measured Steps: Some projects require months, even years to complete. How do successful people set deadlines and achieve success throughout the year? Project Management Large organizations have people who specialize in project management. Many…… Continue reading Measured Steps: Overcoming Procrastination and Achieving Success
Deep Breath: The Simple Step to Mental Clarity
A deep breath will never dissolve my problems, but it will give me a clear head to solve them. ~ www. jaywren.com Deep breath: How does this simple action lead to greater success? What are the many rewards of focusing on our breathing? Health Worrying about our problems steals our energy. Our muscles tighten. Our…… Continue reading Deep Breath: The Simple Step to Mental Clarity
Unconscious Bias: How Our Feelings Hijack Our Judgement
Unconscious bias is part of being a human. We all have emotions and points of view tied to our core beliefs. These core beliefs affect how we think and feel about everything in our life. How can we make our bias an asset? Our biases lead us to seek out or even create an environment that…… Continue reading Unconscious Bias: How Our Feelings Hijack Our Judgement
Leadership Styles: Why They Matter in Creating Success
Leadership Styles: There are as many leadership styles as there are different personalities and different points of view. Why does this matter? These traits create bias that colors a leader’s judgement. The Effect of Leadership Styles The leadership style that you use will affect the morale, productivity, engagement, and, ultimately, the success of your organization. Here…… Continue reading Leadership Styles: Why They Matter in Creating Success
Giving Credit: Boosting Team Morale and Reducing Turnover
Giving credit to other people is a no cost way to boost morale and reduce turnover. Leaders who have the humility to give credit inspire others to become future leaders. ~ www.jaywren.com A Memorable Experience Saying, “Thank you” is easy to do. People appreciate it when I say, “You did a good job.” Furthermore, people…… Continue reading Giving Credit: Boosting Team Morale and Reducing Turnover
Workplace Winners: How to Gain Respect and Create Success
Workplace Winners: How do people set the tone and take the action to become a winner in the workplace? Here are four steps I have seen that separate workplace winners from the crowd. Workplace winners show respect for the people who respect them. ~ www.jaywren.com Respond Intelligently to Criticism When someone criticizes me, I can easily…… Continue reading Workplace Winners: How to Gain Respect and Create Success
Tyranny: How Bad Leadership Ultimately Destroys an Organization
Tyranny: Leaders can become cruel. They can use their power to oppress, abuse, and cheat workers. Ultimately, tyrannical leaders can destroy an organization. On the other hand, great leaders lift their workers to create great organizations with people who enjoy professional success. What elements create great leaders who instill confidence and workplace engagement? Tyranny in…… Continue reading Tyranny: How Bad Leadership Ultimately Destroys an Organization
Self-Awareness: How Knowing Yourself Creates Success
Self-awareness: Some people become victims of their feelings and thoughts. How can developing self-awareness change victim thinking to action thinking? Self-awareness is knowing and understanding how our feelings and thoughts occur inside our own mind and body. Furthermore, this knowledge and understanding can show us effective ways to act on the things that trigger the…… Continue reading Self-Awareness: How Knowing Yourself Creates Success
Ending Perfection Paralysis: How to Become More Productive
Ending Perfection Paralysis: How do successful people end the compulsion to rework projects and move on to create new ones? My Personal Struggles with Ending Perfection Paralysis I have worked on drafts of articles so many times that I have lost track of what I had in mind when I started writing the article. Additionally, in…… Continue reading Ending Perfection Paralysis: How to Become More Productive
Anger Management: When Emotions Damage Careers
Anger Management: People who cannot control their tempers can ruin their career and the career of others. How do some people manage anger to create success for themselves and their organization? Anger protects us against danger. However, acting out of anger clutters our thinking and undermines our success. ~ www.jaywren.com Four Steps to Anger Management…… Continue reading Anger Management: When Emotions Damage Careers
Business Meeting Tools: What Successful People Bring to Meetings
Business Meeting Tools: Meeting preparation is important. Equally important is having the right tools. What should you bring to a meeting? Cutting a diamond starts with having the right skills and the right tools. Likewise, for business meeting success we need the right tools to support our skills. ~ www.jaywren.com Business Meeting Tools What you bring…… Continue reading Business Meeting Tools: What Successful People Bring to Meetings
Respect: Do You Want Respect? Do These 10 Things.
Respect: What do people do to gain respect from others? Here are 10 things that will help you build relationships and increase the respect that others have for you. Life is much easier when people respect us to the point that they want to give us their support. ~ www.jaywren.com Relationships and Respect The quality of…… Continue reading Respect: Do You Want Respect? Do These 10 Things.
Peak Performance: 8 Steps for Achieving Excellence
Peak performance is not only about how effective you are today, but how effective you are throughout your career. ~ www.jaywren.com Here are 8 steps that will help you manage and build your skills to accomplish more. Peak Performance Seek Advice Gain the Extra Yard Do One More Task Read Focus on Solutions not Problems…… Continue reading Peak Performance: 8 Steps for Achieving Excellence
4 Practices of The Most Successful People
The most successful people do many things to live successful lives. Here are four practices that enable them to keep a clear head, make better decisions, accomplish more, and have a well-balanced life. The most successful people focus on solutions. These people don’t obsess about things that worry them. Worry is a normal emotion and…… Continue reading 4 Practices of The Most Successful People
Mindful Moments: A More Powerful Way to Think for Success
Mindful Moments: How do great minds gain focus to make great decisions? In the existence of humans, infinity is a series of moments. Mindful moments empower us to be alert, aware, and engaged. ~ www.jaywren.com When I focus on my thoughts, I give them power. Productive, healthy thinking leads to success. Distracted, painful thinking leads to…… Continue reading Mindful Moments: A More Powerful Way to Think for Success
Purpose: The Overlapping Principle of Business and Career
Purpose: Why is it to some companies and people fail to achieve their goals. How can they define their goals better with an understanding of why they want to achieve those goals? The benefits of knowing the purpose of a business or a career include increased understanding and greater engagement. Goals and Purpose Goals are…… Continue reading Purpose: The Overlapping Principle of Business and Career
Job-Listing Websites: How They Can Help You
Job-Listing Websites: Everything is easier to find when you know where to look. ~ www.jaywren.com. Job Boards and Job Search Engines, how they work and what to expect from both of them. Job-Listing Websites: Everything is easier to find when you know where to look. ~ www.jaywren.com Are job boards useful? In some industries, job…… Continue reading Job-Listing Websites: How They Can Help You
Interview Practice: How to Prepare for Success
Interview Practice: What can you do to prepare and practice for your job interview? Here are some ideas that will help you. What good are your talent and skills if no one can see them? ~ www.jaywren.com .com How You Benefit from Interview Practice No one can know with any certainty what questions to expect in…… Continue reading Interview Practice: How to Prepare for Success
Resigning Gracefully: A former employer is a future reference.
Resigning Gracefully: When Leaving a Company, knowing how to say goodbye gracefully is important. What are the do’s and don’ts of an exit interview? When Leaving a Company, there are things to do and things not to do. One of help you resign gracefully. The other with burn bridges you may need later. Using these…… Continue reading Resigning Gracefully: A former employer is a future reference.
Communication: How Effective People Speak and Write
Communication: Effective speaking and writing are part of the job for professionals in all types of fields and responsibilities. Here are some ideas to make your business and personal communications more powerful. Headlines Even when speaking, you will help people understanding you with a headline. The headline states the topic. “Bill, let’s talk about the plan…… Continue reading Communication: How Effective People Speak and Write
Collaboration: Increasing Your Success with Synergy
Collaboration where the goal is to create results where, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” ~ Aristotle How do companies create teams where team members produce greater results together than working separately? How do great leaders create powerful teams? Here are some ideas to help answer those questions. Collaboration by Combining Different Skills…… Continue reading Collaboration: Increasing Your Success with Synergy
4 Essential Steps to a Highly Successful Career Change
Career Change: Below are powerful tools and suggestions others have found helpful in making an effective career move. 4 Essential Steps to a Highly Successful Career Change Resume Resume Cover Letter Interview Preparation Thank You Letter You don’t have to do everything for success. But you do have to do the right things. ~ www.jaywren.com…… Continue reading 4 Essential Steps to a Highly Successful Career Change
Quit Struggling to Get Jobs Below Your Qualifications
Qualifications: Quit Struggling to Get Jobs Below Your Qualifications. Are you frustrated, because hiring companies will not see you for jobs you can do easily? Are you overqualified for these jobs. There risks to you and the employer in hiring people who are overqualified. Risks to Employers Speaking as a recruiter, I can tell you…… Continue reading Quit Struggling to Get Jobs Below Your Qualifications
Impact Writing: 4 Ways to Engage Your Reader
Impact writing: In a digital world, everyone is a writer. However, not everyone entered the digital world with the same writing skills. How can you engage your readers for action and interest? 4 Ways to Engage Your Reader with Impact Writing Don’t Add the Word, “Very.” Don’t write “Is, Was, and By.” Use Words that…… Continue reading Impact Writing: 4 Ways to Engage Your Reader
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Time Management: Building the Skills for Staying on Task
Time Management: Success comes from getting things done. Successful people use their time effectively to accomplish more. ~ www.jaywren.com Big Projects and Time Management When going through lengthy periods with big projects, I sometimes forget to set a daily schedule. Deadlines come at me quickly. The most pressing tasks take priority over everything else. But…… Continue reading Time Management: Building the Skills for Staying on Task
Character: Four Leadership Traits for Long-Term Success
Character traits for leadership are more than a leader’s personality. These traits are a leaders’ moral, emotional, and mental makeup. What character traits empower leaders to excel? Leadership Character Traits They are many character traits that make leaders successful. Here are four of those traits. Accountability Authenticity Commitment Humility Accountability President Harry Truman said, “The…… Continue reading Character: Four Leadership Traits for Long-Term Success
New Year Success: Personal Steps to Powering Up 2018
New Year Success: The new year is a great time to reset routines. Here are things that I am doing to make this year fun and productive. Plan play time Spend Time with Supportive People Meet New People and Make New Friends Spend Twenty Minutes for Quiet Time Forgive My Enemies New Year Success Do more…… Continue reading New Year Success: Personal Steps to Powering Up 2018
Creating Future Leaders: 4 Steps to Leadership Development
Creating Future Leaders: How can companies hire and train future leaders? Here are four steps companies can take to strengthen their leadership for the long term. The Four Steps to Creating Future Leaders Creating future leaders is critical to the long-term growth of a company. ~ www.jaywren.com Hire for leadership Establish Authority & Responsibility Teach for…… Continue reading Creating Future Leaders: 4 Steps to Leadership Development
Open-Ended Questions: Solving Problems and Creating Leadership
Open-Ended Questions: What are they? How do they create opportunities for greater understanding in solving problems and creating leadership? One of the most important skills in leadership is the ability to answer open-ended questions. ~ www.jaywren.com Examples of Open-Ended Questions Open-ended questions enable a person to give meaningful, well-developed answers. The person uses knowledge, feelings, creativity,…… Continue reading Open-Ended Questions: Solving Problems and Creating Leadership
Career Intelligence: Aligning Your Career with Your Brain
Career Intelligence: Aligning your career with the way your brain works will increase your ability to excel in the workplace. How can you shape your career around the way that you are smart? What Kind of Solutions Come Easy for You? Creating a career that matches the way you think can empower you for success. To…… Continue reading Career Intelligence: Aligning Your Career with Your Brain
Triggers: When Emotions Control Our Thinking
Triggers are anything that cause negative emotoinal response. Everyone feels stress. However, the degree that people experience stress, the things that create stress, and the way people respond to stress varies. Different Triggers for Different People We all have individual triggers. I say individual triggers, because different things create different feelings and different responses in…… Continue reading Triggers: When Emotions Control Our Thinking
Toxic People: How to Deal with Destructive Personalities
Toxic people create stress that spreads throughout an organization. What are the skills that you can develop not only to survive but to grow around destructive personalities? Change What You Control If you can control the actions of toxic people, your first step is to stop what these people are doing. The way that I…… Continue reading Toxic People: How to Deal with Destructive Personalities