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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 Be More Productive
Knowing how to get more of the right stuff done leads to a satisfying career and life. Here are productivity strategies that help manage your energy, beat procrastination, combat negative self-talk, and to concentrate and focus.
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How I Attracted Amazing Opportunities
Amazing opportunities just don’t fall out of the sky and drop into your lap. But you can attract them by growing your network and raising your profile and brand. Here are steps you can take to be noticed and get opportunities to advance your career.
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How to Be a Great Communicator
The capability that makes the biggest difference to career advancement is being a great communicator. Discover what it takes to be a great communicator, and the three steps that will move you from being good to great.
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Does Your Personal Brand Need Changing?
Are you the exact same person you were 10 years ago or have your aspirations changed? Here are three things you can do to bring your personal brand and reputation along with you as your aspirations change.
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What to Do If You Don’t Feel Heard at Work
Don’t you hate it when you get interrupted in meetings? Or when people talk over you and your point gets lost? It’s not only frustrating but also demoralizing. Here are five things you can do if you’re continually being interrupted.
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The One Investment that Always Pays Off
Back in the day, I let things hold me back. If I had a chance to do it over, here’s one thing I would have invested more in that would have gotten me ahead sooner in my career.
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3 Actions to Set You Up for a Great Year
I’m not a fan of New Year’s resolutions. Here’s how to get and stay on track in the new year, and handle change and uncertainty as the year goes on, so you can achieve your goals.
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7 Strategies to be More Focused, Productive and Successful in 2017
These strategies, tools and activities helped me stay focused over the past year to be more productive and achieve more success. Look through this list and see which ones to adopt to help you in your career and life.
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8 Key Habits for Achieving Career Success
This is a natural time of year to reflect back on where we’ve been and look at where we want to go. To help you do that, I asked a small, select group of people to share their key success habits and how that’s helped them in their careers.
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What to Look For in Your Next Boss
It’s hard to be a perfect boss. In fact, nobody is a perfect boss. So what do you look for when you’re looking for a really great boss? For me, it boils down to these three types of characteristics.
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How to Deal with a Career Limiting Boss
I was asked recently, “How do you identify and deal with a career limiting boss, you know, a bad boss?” Here I identify the seven types of career limiting or bad bosses, and share four strategies for dealing with the situation.
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3 Things You Can’t Cram in Life
Back in high school or college, you may have waited until the last minute to cram all the knowledge into your head before an exam. There are things in life that you just cannot cram. Here are three of them.
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