Guest Speaker: Lou Longo on Public Speaking
Lou Longo, a member of my network, shares his thoughts on public speaking. As you know, public speaking is a time, where you interact directly with your audience and where they judge you based on appearance, competency, personality and differentiation. Lou understands this and shares his thoughts:
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An Aggressive Personal Brand is the Only Way
You could be an intellectual and subject matter expert in your field or function, but without an inborn desire to go out and pursue your goals, you will fail. To get attention, you must demand attention from your audience. You have something important to say and material to show off, so do it, but make …
Setting yourself up for success
You just received a project due in 5 days. How will you accomplish this goal in a timely manner and deliver?
It’s all about setting yourself up for success, so that you deliver the best possible content in a 5 day span, and actually finish it before it’s due. This way, it will allow leway …
Goal Alignment
Your goals are how you measure success. They are the objectives you set for yourself, either in the short-term or long-term of your career. When you evaluate your goals, make sure they are attainable and are noteworthy. For instance, if you want to be an accountant, your short term goal could be go obtain your …
Leverage: Doing more with less
“Leverage” is a popular vocabulary word in the corporate world. Why is this? Because it is strategic and allows a single person to utilize all the resources around him or her most effectively and efficiently in order to have a positive impact on the bottom line.
What we leverage:
People or human resources – people…Experience vs Income
What is more valuable, the experience you gather from working in a particular position or the compensation for the work you create?
Let’s first isolate each variable, in order to distinguish there contents. First, you have experience, which combines the communication and technical skills, along with the cognitive and business skills that you gather while …
What Should be Included in a Resume?
What is a resume? The majority of the population view a resume as a piece of collateral that is a prerequisite for obtaining an interview. Those who have enriched resumes, will be granted an interview and those with resumes that are inadequate will lose opportunities. Today I would like to share my philosophy for creating …
Success is in Process
Improving the process of your job will compliment the success of your business. Have you ever been frustrated from countless engagements with management in order to get something approved? If you answered “yes”, then you understand that there must be a more efficient process and selection criteria for accomplishing ones job. The Six Sigma practice …
Getting Your First Job
Like you, I once struggled with landing my first job. Luckily, through my broad network, I established a link to a well established entrepreneur that mentored me into what I am today. You might be thinking that I was fortunate in this respect, but if you take a step back and examine your contacts, including …
Effective Work Process
Through experience I have learned that in order to accelerate in any environment, you must take follow a common trend: Learn, Build and Execute. You can’t build a highly innovative project, without acquiring skills and knowledge. Saying this, you can’t execute a project into production without first learning about what you are going to build …