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
Do You Have a Powerful Headline for Your Resumes and Online Profiles?
Do You Have a Powerful Headline for Your Resumes and Online Profiles? Headlines sell. They convince hiring managers and recruiters that reading your resume is worth their time. ~ Jaywren. Stick to the names of people, places, things, or ideas. Add action words: increased, doubled, succeeded. Skip opinion words: excellent, outstanding, experienced. Examples Of Powerful…… Continue reading Do You Have a Powerful Headline for Your Resumes and Online Profiles?
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
Powerful Headlines for Resumes and Online Profiles
Powerful Headlines serve several purposes. One purpose is to catch a person’s attention in a way that the person reads your content. A second purpose is to create a memorable impression in the reader’s mind. Headlines sell. They convince readers that your content is worth their time. Professional headlines convince hiring managers that you have…… Continue reading Powerful Headlines for Resumes and Online Profiles
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
Career Keywords for Resumes and Social Media Profiles
Career Keywords pull your resume or online profile to the top of the pile and engage recruiters and hiring managers in ways that you help you land job interviews. The Benefits of Career Keywords To find information on the Internet, search engines look up keywords. Having career keywords that will appear in Internet search results…… Continue reading Career Keywords for Resumes and Social Media Profiles
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
Winning Resumes that will Land You a Job Interview
Winning Resumes: Working through stacks of resumes, hiring managers and recruiters only spend seconds deciding whether to save you resume or delete it. You need to know how to write resumes employers will want to read. The best resumes show why you are the most qualified candidate for the job. ~ www.jaywren.com Thirty Years of Reading Resumes…… Continue reading Winning Resumes that will Land You a Job Interview
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?”
Fridays Just Feel Good. Carpe Diem!
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
Resume Headlines: What Good are They If No One Reads Your Resume?
Resume Headlines: Do headlines help or hinder in compelling the recruiter to read your resume? What you say in the headline makes all the difference. “Writing headlines is a specialty – there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn’t write a headline to save their lives.” – The Score Takes Care of Itself:…… Continue reading Resume Headlines: What Good are They If No One Reads Your Resume?
Resume Headline: A Distraction or a Compelling Title
Resume Headline: Do headlines help or hinder in compelling the recruiter to read your resume? What you say in the headline makes all the difference. “Writing headlines is a specialty – there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn’t write a headline to save their lives.” – The Score Takes Care of Itself:…… Continue reading Resume Headline: A Distraction or a Compelling Title
Powerful Resumes: The Critical Details for Getting Job Interviews
Powerful Resumes: Are you sending out dozens of resumes and not getting job interviews. Here are some resume basics that will increase the power of your resume. Truth and Accuracy Lying or stating inaccurate information on your resume can cost you an interview. Furthermore, lies can live forever. Six months into the job, your employers might…… Continue reading Powerful Resumes: The Critical Details for Getting Job Interviews
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.
Arriving Early: How a Simple Behavior Makes Life Easy
Arriving early: How does this simple behavior make life easier for you and the people around you? What does this character trait have to do with success in your job and success in your personal life? Get there early. You might miss something. ~ www.jaywren.com The Freedom from Stress of Arriving Early When I know…… Continue reading Arriving Early: How a Simple Behavior Makes Life Easy
Communication
hen communication fails, relationships fail and businesses fail. ~ www.jaywren.com Communication: Effective speaking and writing are part of the job for professionals in all fields and responsibilities. Here are some ideas to make your business and personal communications more powerful. http://www.jaywren.com/communication
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
Listening and the Persuasive Power of Asking Questions
Listening: What is the role of asking questions and listening in creating cooperation? Here are examples of how great questions lead you to getting what you want when you understand what other people need. The most effective people know how to ask great questions and how to learn from listening. ~ www.jaywren.com In the Workplace,…… Continue reading Listening and the Persuasive Power of Asking Questions
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,…… 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
Job Search Timing: The Things You Must Know
ob search timing. Is this the right time in your career to make a job change? What are the things you must know to answer this question? Success is greatest when timing meets necessity. ~ www.jaywren.com Are You in the Wrong Job? Here are some questions that will help you know that it’s time to…… Continue reading Job Search Timing: The Things You Must Know
Become Discovered: How Powerful People Find Great Jobs
Become discovered: You have all the skills, the talent, intelligence, charisma, and emotional intelligence for success. But what does it matter if no one knows? To Become Discovered, 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.…… Continue reading Become Discovered: How Powerful People Find Great Jobs
Job Change: 4 Powerful Steps Executive Officers Use
ob Change: What are the things you must know to conduct a successful job search? These four tips might help you launch the career you deserve. Making a Job Change Scott Wallace is a CPG executive officer and a long-time client. Recently, he asked me to help two undergrads launch their career. Here is the note…… Continue reading Job Change: 4 Powerful Steps Executive Officers Use
Business Writing: A Skill that Successful People Master
Business writing is a skill everyone can learn. ~ www.jaywren.com Writing is part of the job for most business professionals. Business writing includes emails, proposals, contracts, Internet posts, letters, business plans, memorandums, reports, job descriptions, and resumes. The measure of effective writing is how well the reader can understand the writer’s message. Therefore, the writer must…… Continue reading Business Writing: A Skill that Successful People Master
Internet Profile: Creating Your Internet Brand
Internet Profile: your internet profile is more than your identity on the Internet. This profile becomes your personal and professional brand. ~ www.jaywren.com The Contents of an Internet Profile An online profile has some or all the following elements: Your name Picture Skills Employment Education Training Accomplishments And your comments and likes. When you publish…… Continue reading Internet Profile: Creating Your Internet Brand
Productivity: 5 Things Highly Successful People Do Differently
Being busy means nothing. Success comes from getting things done. ~ www.jaywren.com Productivity: Some people have a successful career based on their ability to get things done. Other people accomplish less and their careers fail. Why? 1. Have a Simple Productivity Process Bricklayers start the day with the same tools and supplies. From there they…… Continue reading Productivity: 5 Things Highly Successful People Do Differently
Simplicity: The Essential Leadership Skill for Success
Simplicity: As situations become more complex, simplicity is a powerful tool. How do leaders eliminate the clutter to create success? Simplicity creates clarity and empowers leaders to remove the roadblocks to success. www.jaywren.com The Clarity of Simplicity Simplicity creates clarity. When leaders speak with simplicity, their message is easier to understand. Simplifying their schedule creates…… Continue reading Simplicity: The Essential Leadership Skill for Success
Happiness: Making Better Choices About How We Feel
Happiness is easy when everything is going our way. Some people seem happy all the time. How can we be happy even when life is challenging? Feeling unhappy is normal. Staying unhappy is not. ~ www.jaywren.com Happiness Takes Place Inside of Our Head. When things frustrate, disappoint, or anger us, we feel unhappy. These unhappy…… Continue reading Happiness: Making Better Choices About How We Feel
Resumes Must Close the Sale on Getting a Job Interview
Resumes must close the sale on getting a job interview ~ www.jaywren.com Resumes: Do you have all the qualifications and are not getting job interviews. Look at your resume. These resume tips might help. I owned a recruiting company for thirty years. Like most recruiters, I spent a couple of seconds scanning for the correct…… Continue reading Resumes Must Close the Sale on Getting a Job Interview
People: 18 Point Check-Off List for Making Great Hires
People: What are the steps for building teams? How do you know which person is best for the work you need done? If a company has great people at all levels, great goods and services will follow. ~ www.jaywren.com The Challenging Work of Selecting Great People As a recruiter who worked with wonderful human resources people…… Continue reading People: 18 Point Check-Off List for Making Great Hires
Winning Behavior: 8 Bad Habits to Break
inning Behavior: 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. Sometimes it’s the things that you don’t do that count the most.…… Continue reading Winning Behavior: 8 Bad Habits to Break
Luck Needs Action. We Have to Play to Win.
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. Luck needs action. We must play to win. In the Lottery, buying a ticket comes before success. ~ www.jaywren.com Good Luck I have had good luck and bad luck. But…… Continue reading Luck Needs Action. We Have to Play to Win.
75 of America’s Largest Employers – Mapped
Largest Employers This map has the name, address, and phone number of America’s largest employers. There are also links to more resources. How to Use This Map Click the icon pin to see the company name, address, and phone number. When you click the icon, a new tab will open to help you find you…… Continue reading 75 of America’s Largest Employers – Mapped
Career Burnout: When Working Less Becomes a Priority
Career Burnout: In a culture where people believe that working hard can overcome any obstacle, reality teaches us that we have limitations. We burnout. ~ www.jaywren.com I am a few days late writing this article on purpose. For the past two weeks I have had trouble writing. During that time, I sensed that I needed a…… Continue reading Career Burnout: When Working Less Becomes a Priority
Job Counter Offers: The Stress of Leaving a Company
Job counter offers are ways companies avoid the annoyances of losing employees at the wrong time. ~ www.jaywren.com Should you stay or should you go? Job counter offers are risky. If you stay, the reasons you resigned seldom go away. In addition, when you met with your boss to turn in your resignation, you showed…… Continue reading Job Counter Offers: The Stress of Leaving a Company
Passionate Living: Turning Resolutions into a Lifestyle
Passionate Living: Common sense tells us to sleep, exercise, and eat correctly. How do we find the passion for a healthy life? 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 Living: Turning Resolutions into a Lifestyle
Attitudes: How to Choose the Way We See the World
Attitudes: How is it that some people seem to have a natural, positive attitude? Even when life gives them challenges, these people live wonderful lives. Attitudes not only affect the way we see the world. Attitudes change the way we deal with the world. Understanding Moods and Attitudes When I am in hungry, tired, or…… Continue reading Attitudes: How to Choose the Way We See the World
Self-Empowerment: 5 Traits of Highly Productive People
Self-Empowerment: What are the things that successful people do for themselves to create power other people never have? Are they things that you can do? People who empower themselves don’t see the world as the source of their problems. ~www.jaywren.com What is Self-Empowerment and How Can We Achieve it? Self-empowerment is taking control of your…… Continue reading Self-Empowerment: 5 Traits of Highly Productive People
Breaking Habits: How to Quit by Doing Something Else
Breaking Habits: Why is quitting unhealthy or counterproductive habits so difficult? What are the tools that everyone can use to end these habits and start healthier and more productive habits? Quitting a bad habit is easier when we do something healthy instead. ~ www.jaywren.com Here are some typical unhealthy or counterproductive habits: procrastination, sitting, overspending, drinking…… Continue reading Breaking Habits: How to Quit by Doing Something Else
Complaints: How Top Managers Manage Feedback
Complaints are a grievance issue, not a management feedback issue. Knowing the difference is important to becoming a strong manager. www.jaywren.com Why do weak managers confuse complaints with reporting a problem? How can we train managers to build teams with an effective flow of information? The Difference Reporting a problem is feedback that something isn’t…… Continue reading Complaints: How Top Managers Manage Feedback
Worrying: The Pointless and Painful Abuse of Fear
Worrying: Fear is a healthy emotion. However, when we turn our fears over and over in our mind, we experience pain with no purpose. Things That Worry Me I am a risk taker. I stepped out of a secure career in the consumer products industry to start my own business. At the time, I had…… Continue reading Worrying: The Pointless and Painful Abuse of Fear
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Stress: 7 Steps to a Smarter Way of Living
Stress Dealing with stress is simple, but it is not always easy. ~ www.jaywren.com Life’s challenges create pressure. I can’t always control the world around me. However, I can reduce stress with my actions. Here are seven things I do. I Fight Procrastination. I feel tremendous stress when I put things off. Also, thinking…… Continue reading Stress: 7 Steps to a Smarter Way of Living
Anger: Managing Your Emotions for a More Powerful Mind
Anger gives us the energy to avoid or overcome danger. However, managed incorrectly, anger can destroy relationships, ruin careers, and linger forever. Success starts with a clear mind that is free from anger. ~ www.jaywren.com Why I Wrote This Article About Anger I am not a professional mental therapist. Nor am I qualified to give…… Continue reading Anger: Managing Your Emotions for a More Powerful Mind
Persuasive Presentations: 10 Powerful Steps to Success
Giving successful persuasive presentations takes more than showing up. ~ www.jaywren.com Persuasive Presentations What are the things that make persuasive presentations successful? How can you persuade your audience to accept your proposal? Here are 10 powerful steps for giving a persuasive presentation. Whether you are in an salary negotiation, business meeting, or sales call, these…… Continue reading Persuasive Presentations: 10 Powerful Steps to Success
15 Leadership Soft Skills that Create Greatness
Leadership soft skills: What are the leadership soft skills that create great employees and successful companies. How can you develop these skills? The most successful leaders not only develop technical skills; they also develop powerful leadership soft skills. ~ www.jaywren.com 15 Leadership Soft Skills that Create Greatness “That some achieve great success is proof to…… Continue reading 15 Leadership Soft Skills that Create Greatness
Internet Trolls: How to Steal Their Power
Internet Trolls: A personal story about killing the power of an Internet troll by not responding to them. This method might work for you. When we troll the Internet trolls, we only give them more power. On the Internet, criticism is attention, and Internet trolls love attention. Take away their power by ignoring them. ~…… Continue reading Internet Trolls: How to Steal Their Power
Trust: The Most Important Trait of Leadership
Trust: What makes this trait so valuable to leaders? What is the role of this trait in the relationship between leaders and their teams? Building trust can take years; losing trust can happen in an instant. ~ jaywren.com Creating Trust There several traits that make leaders great. Intelligence. Emotional maturity. High energy. Decisiveness. But…… Continue reading Trust: The Most Important Trait of Leadership
Composure: How to Overcome Meeting Anxiety
Composure: Whether they make mistakes or simply must deal with intimidating people, everyone has stressful moments in meetings. How can you stay composed? Composure creates poise under pressure. ~ www.jaywren.com Composure: How to Overcome Meeting Anxiety Anxiety in meetings can be a problem for anyone. However, whether you have natural poise or suffer social anxiety,…… Continue reading Composure: How to Overcome Meeting Anxiety
Great Leaders: 7 Steps to Creating Greatness in Others
Great Leaders: Some leaders are not only great themselves, but also inspire others to become great. What do they do differently? Great leaders do more than achieve success. They create greatness in others. ~ www.jaywren.com Great Leaders: 7 Steps to Creating Greatness in Others Some leaders have command presence. Colin Powell is an example of…… Continue reading Great Leaders: 7 Steps to Creating Greatness in Others
No Job Plan: Why Long-Term Career Plans Fail
No Job Plan: To increase your income, do you plan to change jobs every three years? On the other hand, do you plan a career at the same company? No Job Plan: Why Long-Term Career Plans Fail Are you basing your career on changing jobs every three years to increase your income? On the other…… Continue reading No Job Plan: Why Long-Term Career Plans Fail
Winning Teams: 5 Traits that Lead to Team Success
Winning Teams: How is it that some teams continue to win while other teams continue to lose? What are the things that winning teams do differently? Here are some traits for team success. The power of winning teams exceeds the power of the individual members. ~ www.jaywren.com Winning Teams: 5 Traits that Lead to Team…… Continue reading Winning Teams: 5 Traits that Lead to Team Success
Confidence: How to Feel Comfortable in a Crowd
Confidence: From time to time, everyone feels insecure. Our feelings turn inward. Here are five tips for turning insecurity into poise and confidence. Confidence: Only You Can Deny Yourself Permission to Feel Comfortable in a Crowd. ~ www.jaywren.com Confidence: How to Feel Comfortable in a Crowd I have a fair amount of confidence in a crowd.…… Continue reading Confidence: How to Feel Comfortable in a Crowd
Sales: How to Stop Selling and Start Helping People
Sales: Why is it that some companies have return customers and continue to attract new customers? Does the way they sell make a difference? Sales is About Helping People Get What They Want. ~ www.jaywren.com Sales: How to Stop Selling and Start Helping People. The most important thing a salesperson can do is to help…… Continue reading Sales: How to Stop Selling and Start Helping People
Perspective: How to Refocus, Realign, and Create Happiness
Perspective: How is it that some people live balanced lives while other people damage themselves and their relationship through a loss of perspective? When perspective is not automatic, the happiest people create perspective. ~ www.jaywren.com Perspective: How to Refocus, Realign, and Create Happiness These three steps help me keep perspective. They may help you. Refocus.…… Continue reading Perspective: How to Refocus, Realign, and Create Happiness
Authenticity: The First Step to Greatness
Authenticity: Why are rebels so appealing? Why are they so successful? Authenticity – The First Step to Greatness If you copy other people, you are an impersonator. When you remake the work of other people in ways that it becomes your own work, you are authentic. When authenticity leads you to break the rules and…… Continue reading Authenticity: The First Step to Greatness
Wisdom: How to Choose Intelligence over Bias
Wisdom: Is this a hollow word? A meaningless concept? Or is wisdom a powerful force that is available to everyone who seeks it. The voice of wisdom is always there, even when we can’t hear it. ~ www.jaywren.com The Wisdom to See Through Bias Wisdom is that quiet voice that makes us pause and question…… Continue reading Wisdom: How to Choose Intelligence over Bias
Bias: How We Interpret the World with Our Feelings
ias is the noise above reason and wisdom, but is it always bad? What role does it play in decision making and in governing our actions? It is always easy to believe the voice of my own bias. I have always heard it. ~ www.jaywren.com Bias: How We Interpret the World with Our Feelings Bias…… Continue reading Bias: How We Interpret the World with Our Feelings