Get Your Teens To Succeed: Encourage Them To Volunteer!
“It’s Cool To Be Kind” –Beth Kuhel
Best Buddies International and Friendship Circle International (FC) are not your typical volunteer organizations: Teen volunteers provide life altering friendship, companionship and mentoring for special needs children. The scope of activities is customized to the needs of the families and to the skill level of the teen volunteers. …
What is In Your Way?
“Not enough time”, “Not enough support from others”, “Lack of ideas”, topped the list for my survey question: “What is in your way of having more satisfaction from your career”. All these seem correct and expected. It would be wonderful if these external factors of time and support were resolved so you and I could …
Temper is a Personal Branding Torpedo
It can happen to anyone. One minute you think you have everything under control and the next you are out of control.
Work really is a fairly emotional place but we are socialized to keep those emotions in check. Hey, we’re humans right? Too much stress, frustration and overload can lead to moments of unchecked …
Goodbye Job Security, Hello Employment Security
I meet lots of job seekers each month and see lots of resumes. The stories I hear and the resumes I review indicate that, increasingly, job tenures have shrunk and people are changing employers much more frequently than they did in the last century — in most cases, through no fault of their own.
My …
How to Brand Yourself Outside of Your Career
We know your personal brand is all about how other people see you. It’s how we market ourselves to others. Usually, when we think about our personal brand, we tend to focus on the professional aspects to further our careers.
But what we do in the workplace is not the only thing that impacts our …
Personal Branding Weekly – Gambling Your Brand
Taking more risks and letting your hair down when there’s an air of anonymity because you’re some place you’ve never been or will never be again can have more than interesting consequences with our ever growing social footprint. Our social memories are lasting.
This has been the topic of many tweets, updates and blog posts …
Don’t Turn Off Those Who Can Help
I had lunch with a friend recently – a talented marketing manager who is not loving her job in a professional services firm.
We had only just sat down when she started moaning and groaning. “Where is my ideal job Kate? Tell me what I should do?”
Okay, I realize I am a career coach …
Five Things I’ve Learned About Business from Boating
If you have ever gone boating you know there are a lot of things that need to be checked and double checked. From the obvious things like making sure everyone has a life jacket to the not so obvious, but equally important, things like making sure the safety kit is on-board and easily accessible. Too …
4 Ways to Build Your Employment Brand
So there’s been a lot of focus on your personal brand, but have you ever considered your employment brand?
Your employment brand is very similar to your personal brand in respect to marketing your expertise to the people in your networks. However, when you create your employment brand, you’re specifically marketing yourself as a job …
Personal Branding Weekly – 12 August 2013
Last week I shared how on Facebook every day I throw down a Bootstrapping Buzz challenge. So, who accepted the challenge? Which ones did you do? How did you do?
Please be sure to share in the comments below.
Here’s the challenges from last week:
Friday’s bootstrapping buzz challenge
Think of one mistake you’ve made …