Tell a Good Story to Pitch Yourself and Your Business
Everyone loves a good story, but how many of us are good at telling good stories? For the most part, I think we create exciting and stimulating stories about our personal lives. We certainly have a tremendous amount of material to serve as our database. We love to...
Is Self-Confidence Your Friend or Foe?
I often talk and write about the importance of having self-confidence for business success. I believe that when you connect with your value proposition, you can talk about your accomplishments and talk up your business with confidence and authenticity, and that most...
Cross Train Your Brain
You know how some people at the gym do the exact same workout every day? Have you noticed that these people never seem to make any progress with their fitness level? Thats because they are using the same muscle groups in the same way and these muscles become...
Can We Make it to the Top without a Ladder?
Its pretty common to hear people talk about climbing the corporate ladder when they are talking about career advancement. It implies that every step we take is one that will move us closer to the top; to the executive or senior management level. This ladder metaphor,...
Are You Being Stingy?
Are you being stingy? by not letting others know what you have to offer? by not speaking up and sharing your opinion or ideas? Sometimes we are so focused on our own stuff and our fears or discomfort talking about ourselves that we forget that what we have to...
Everything Changes When You Understand Your Value
An amazing shift takes place when you connect with your unique value. Its an incredible ah-ha moment! When you truly understand your value, you present yourself with confidence; your body language changes; your communication changes; your relationships change and the...
13 Tips to Build Assertive Communication Skills
For the past two weeks, the focus of this blog has been how you would handle a situation at work when someone takes credit for your idea. Unfortunately, this happens quite frequently according to many of my readers, and their responses demonstrated a wide range of...
She Stole My Idea and Here’s What I’d Do
My blog last week posed a theoretical situation to all of you about a woman who was very excited about an idea she had to move a stale project forward for her department. She shared her idea with a colleague at lunch and the colleague ended up presenting the proposal...
She Stole My Idea and I Don’t Know What to Do
Sometimes ideas come to me at the strangest times, like when Im taking a shower, at 2 am when I cant sleep, or when I'm driving my car. But when a great idea comes along you know it right away, right? This happened to me a couple of weeks ago. As I was driving my...