Quantity and Quality = Your Reputation
As recently discussed, the quantity of work produced and the quality of your work are keys to creating your good reputation. Let’s face it, if you produce a low quantity of work and the work you do produce is low quality, your days are numbered. Even the best...
Producing Good Work and Your Reputation
Having a good attitude, demonstrating good behaviors, and acting with integrity are only part of the reputation equation. In today’s fast-paced organizations, it’s almost assumed that your work production is good. Even colleagues who demonstrate a good attitude and...
Behavior and Your Reputation
Attitude reflects the intangible choices that you make regarding people and situations. Behavior reflects the tangible choices you make which influence your reputation. Behavior is easier to define than attitude, since we're able to see behavior more readily. While...
Attitude and Your Reputation
Your attitude plays a vital role in your reputation and how others perceive you. Hard to describe "attitude" If you are like most people, defining attitude is not quick and intuitive. Many of you will avoid trying to describe attitude and simply say, “I know it...
Articulate Your Reputation
Your reputation is built on a never-ending series of choices that you make every day. And in today’s transparent and frenetic organizations, your choices are seen by more of your colleagues, and faster than ever before. Today’s ever-changing organizations demand...
The Power of Choice and Your Reputation
The work that I do with my leadership coaching clients often focuses on the power of choice. My clients like talking about the concept of choice as they aspire to be more focused in what they choose to do and how they choose to do it. Often, however, in situations...
Information Sharing and Your Reputation
The proliferation of professional transparency is creating new ways for individuals to develop an opinion about you. Information sharing and your reputation are now inextricably combined. You can share information about yourself in endless ways (e.g., Facebook,...
Managing Your Reputation Today
Reputations back in the "old days" While the importance of a good reputation is not new, the environment in which you are working to build a good reputation is. Twenty years ago, your reputation as a business professional was confined to the experiences of...
The Importance of a Good Reputation
Many of the Visibility Accelerators we have explored so far are activities that you do or behaviors that you demonstrate in order to raise your visibility. Therefore, these accelerators are defined as the behaviors that help you get seen. Our final Visibility...
Your Boss’s Support and Joining an Association
Are you not feeling that you have the support of your boss when it comes to joining an association? In a previous post we discussed the importance of balancing work and industry events and being open with your boss. Here are a few more tips for getting your boss's...