Raise Your Visibility & Value: Always Have Business Cards
I attended a team coaching conference in Washington D.C. for four days this past week. When I got to the conference, I realized I had forgotten to bring business cards. It was a big miss! Even business leaders who talk about the importance of raising your...
Raise Your Visibility & Value: Reasons to Engage With Your Industry
It is important to think about and identify your reasons to engage with your industry. Engaging with your industry without a compelling reason will not be sufficient to muster the energy, support, and time needed to do so. You can engage with your industry for a...
Raise Your Visibility & Value: What are the Reasons to Engage with Industry Associations?
There are a number of reasons to engage with industry associations in your effort to raise your visibility. As Chief Executive Officer of NEHRA, the largest human resources association in the Northeast with over 2,000 members, Tracy Burns knows firsthand how...
Raise Your Visibility & Value: Blending Organization and Industry Visibility
Your professional success rests with the degree to which you raise your visibility in your organization and industry. You could spend all of your time being visible within your organization at the expense of industry visibility. However, when you are only visible...
Raise Your Visibility & Value: Check Out These Videos!
Raising your visibility and value is about being bold and taking steps that you may not normally take within your organization and industry. To that end, I recently signed up to have myself video-taped during a presentation in Concord, New Hampshire, where I...
Raise Your Visibility & Value: Start with Your House in Order
During my tenure as an author, speaker, and leadership coach, many of my colleagues are curious how I got my practice started. Many of you may not realize that I started my business from “square one.” I did not know I was going to be laid-off from Iron Mountain and...
Raise Your Visibility & Value: Engage with Industry Associations
In addition to raising your visibility within your organization, it is more important than ever to raise your visibility outside of your organization as well. Your desire to attend an industry association meeting probably feels like a dream. Your ability to attend...
Raise Your Visibility & Value: Avoid Conflict by Seeking First to Understand
I would estimate that 90% of my clients are avoiding a conflict-based conversation. Who can blame them? Not only are conflict-based conversations uncomfortable, these individuals have experienced ZERO training in how to effectively manage conflict in the workplace....
Raise Your Visibility & Value: Ask Questions to Pause a Conversation
Many of my clients collect feedback from others that they talk too quickly when they are involved in a conversation. Even before their colleague is finished making a statement, my client is already answering the question or discussing next steps. My clients receive...
Raise Your Visibility & Value: Get Uncomfortable
Over the last two weeks, I have heard three people encourage their listeners to get uncomfortable. At first glance, getting uncomfortable does not seem like good advice. You always try to get comfortable as you nestle in to watch a movie. You frequently choose...