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5 Common Mistakes That Can Kill Your Promotion
You work hard for a promotion and give it your best shot. But what if your hard work isn’t enough? What if you’re not doing the right things? Worse yet, could you be making these mistakes without knowing it and killing your chances?
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How to Build Your Network in 5 Minutes a Day
Your network is one of your most important assets. But how can you fit networking activities into your already overstretched day? Use this simple strategy. It has generated the most “quick wins” for me and it will for you, too.
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9 Capabilities to Achieve Career Success
At any given point in your career, people will be forming opinions on whether you’ve “got what it takes” to make it to the next level. Which of these capabilities would make the biggest difference for you if you worked on it now?
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How to Speak Up Without Risking Your Job
When we’re unhappy at work, we naturally think we have two options: either leave for another job or suck it up and stay. But what if you could use your voice in a constructive way to influence outcomes and change things for the better?
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How to Decide If a Late-Career Change Is Worth It
It was a hard decision but I made a late-career change and I’m glad I did it. But we’re all different and there’s no single “right answer”. So here are eight things to consider when deciding to make a late-career change.
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What Not to Do or Say to Your Sponsor
It takes time and effort to find a sponsor and then build a trusted relationship. The key to success is what you do and say once you have a sponsor. But it only takes one misstep or negative interaction to lose their support.
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How to Recover After Saying Something You Regret
Have you ever said or done something without thinking and then regretted it? Recently, I had one of those moments. This is what I did to recover and turn something bad into something good.
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How to Be More Decisive
Being indecisive is a showstopper if you want to progress to senior levels in your career. Here are 4 steps to becoming more decisive so you can be a better leader and decision-maker, and live your life without regrets.
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What Kind of Decision-Maker Are You?
Living a life of no regrets means making conscious decisions followed by taking action. But for many of us, it’s not so easy. That’s because there are two kinds of decision-makers in the world. Which one are you?
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Are You Limiting Your Team’s Potential?
It’s easy to fall into the trap of putting people in a box, to pigeon-hole and put them in a category. But when you do, it can stifle their development and hurt their confidence. Here are ways to change the situation.
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How to Stop Feeling Sorry for Yourself
I recently faced a setback. A project I was working on was nowhere near hitting our targets and time was running out. I almost gave in to wallowing in self-pity and feeling sorry for myself, but I didn’t. Instead, I did something else and it felt satisfying.
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How to Create Your Promotion Plan
You can’t leave your promotion to chance. Having a plan substantially increases your chances of success because you know exactly what to do. Discover the 5 elements that make up your promotion plan and why they’re important.
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How I Nearly Won a Ferrari
When my team returned from a live event in Phoenix, Arizona, and said, “we’re going to enter the Ferrari competition!”, I said without hesitation, “I’M IN! What do we have to do?” That’s when the “fun” began.
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7 Signs That You’re Ready for a Promotion
If you want to be promoted, you’ve got to show you’re promotion-ready. But, what does that look like? These seven universal signs tend to show when someone is ready to be promoted. How do you measure up?
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7 Common Mistakes That Can Kill Your Promotion Chances
Every promotion is a milestone in your career. So you work hard and give it your best shot. But what if your hard work isn’t enough? What if you’re not doing the right things? Worse yet, could you be making these mistakes without knowing it and killing your chances of promotion?
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