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How to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done
If you’ve ever had something linger on your “to do” list for days or maybe even weeks, then know that you are not alone. Often, procrastination occurs when you’re at a crossroad – a fork in the road where a decision must be made. Here's what has helped me to decide and move on more often.
Why You Don’t Want to Be the Smartest Person in the Room
Do you want others to see you as smart, capable and successful? As the smartest and best person in the room? The thing is, truly successful people surround themselves with people who are smarter so they can continue to learn, grow and become better.
Why Most People Never Achieve Their Dreams
What’s holding you back from pursuing your dreams? What exactly are you waiting for and isn’t it time you stopped waiting? Here are questions to help you move beyond the waiting game and start taking action.
How to Help Your Team (and Yourself) Feel Good at Work
Have you ever felt like an outsider at work, like you don’t belong? That happened to me many times during my career, but it doesn’t take much to turn things around. Here are strategies to feel part of a team, and what the team leader can do to help people feel they belong.
How to Stand Out at Work
Since work represents the majority of your waking hours, not showing your true self can make you shrink as a person over time and let work suck the life out of you. In my experience, it’s essential to bring your whole self to work if you want to stand out and excel.
How to Receive Feedback and Mistakes to Avoid
We all have blind spots so getting feedback is vital to accelerate your progress toward a successful career and life. But asking for feedback is not the key success factor. The key to success is receiving that feedback well.
How Playing It Safe Puts Your Career at Risk
Are you someone who does things perfectly, plays it safe, and doesn't take risks? If you are then you could be missing out on opportunities and holding back your career. This is what happened to me for most of my career, and here's what I did about it to advance.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.