What is Meant by Professional Transparency in Your Organization?
Networking while employed and performance appraisals are becoming increasingly ineffective due to the explosive growth in professional transparency. As recently as seven years ago, unless the subject of your search was your favorite movie star, rock star, or...
What is Meant by the Pace of Change in Your Organization?
Networking and performance appraisals are becoming increasingly ineffective for employed business professionals due to the pace or how quickly you are expected to change. You are being asked to do more with less, and do more, faster. Listen to Virginia Rometty, the...
What is Meant by the Frequency of Change in Your Organization?
Frequency refers to how often change occurs. There was a time when organizations were proud of their stability and consistency. Acquisitions were infrequent, co-workers with whom you attended new hire orientation twenty years earlier still were around to join you...
What Are the Benefits of Networking?
Networking is and will continue to be an important professional activity for business professionals. In fact, 60 - 70% of employed individuals located their most recent job opportunity through networking. In a poll I conducted on LinkedIn, these numbers were...
Are You Accessible?
Being accessible is not just having an “open door policy” or ensuring your team knows your cellphone number. Accessibility is about creating an atmosphere where your colleagues can reach you – even interrupt you – and leave the interaction with a positive feeling....
What Happened to the Art of the Introduction?
Let’s face it. At some point in the development of our society, we lost the ability to introduce ourselves to one another. I was not alive when this loss occurred, so I do not have firsthand knowledge of when this happened. I am not a sociologist, so I do not have...
Why Don’t We Introduce Ourselves Well?
Regardless of your comfort level or skill, you are probably one or more of the following when you introduce yourself to a new colleague: • Inconsistent. Sometimes you introduce yourself to others effectively and sometimes you do not. • Uncomfortable. You find...
Which Visibility Accelerator Needs the Most Attention?
As you work to raise your visibility in your organization and industry, certain activities and behaviors are more productive and will accelerate your efforts. These “accelerators” are like putting rocket fuel in a Honda Civic. When you “step on the gas,” you will...
Value is the New Corporate Currency!
The head-spinning advances in technology, endless bottom-line financial pressures, and growing networks of global economies demand a need for superior performance and sustainable efficiencies. Organizations aspire to motivate their employees to do better, be more...
How to be on Time
Being on time is an important part of my public profile. Whether as a corporate employee or an independent consultant, I have always believed there are a million ways to be early and yet, if you are late, you are late. Of the hundreds of meetings that I’ve attended...
