by Ed Evarts | Oct 18, 2017 | Interacting, Relationships, Reputation, Visibility and Value
I have observed that reputations are influenced by four areas – articulation, attitude, behavior, and production. First, a look at articulation. When it comes to your reputation, your colleagues are going to think what they want to think and say what they want to say....
by Ed Evarts | Oct 11, 2017 | Interacting, Relationships, Reputation, Visibility and Value
Your reputation is built on a never ending series of choices that you make, every minute of 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...
by Ed Evarts | Oct 4, 2017 | Interacting, Relationships, Reputation, Visibility and Value
There are certainly things you cannot choose. You can’t choose not to get multiple sclerosis. You can’t choose to win a million dollars in a lottery. You can’t choose someone to love you. However, if you were to list all of the experiences in your life and weigh each...
by Ed Evarts | Sep 27, 2017 | Interacting, Relationships, Reputation, Visibility and Value
The nexus of the growth in the ways that you can share information about yourself and the number of opinions that can be developed about you is exploding. While you are working your life away in Dubuque, Iowa, a colleague from another city is reading a blog you wrote....
by Ed Evarts | Sep 20, 2017 | Interacting, Relationships, Reputation, Visibility and Value
Imagine a situation where you are attempting to be a “work-in-progress” in an environment that is always changing. It’s like learning to play golf in the midst of a hurricane. Learning to play golf is hard, even on a beautiful day. Surviving a hurricane is hard, even...
by Ed Evarts | Sep 13, 2017 | Interacting, Relationships, Reputation, Visibility and Value
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 individuals with whom you interacted within...