Successful people are great presenters. As Tweet 115 in Success Tweets says, “Become an excellent presenter. Careers have been made on the strength of one or two great presentations.” Stories make presentations come alive. They are not difficult to create. Follow my 1 – 2 – 3 formula for creating and telling great stories. First, identify your truth – something that in your heart of hearts you know to be “true.” Second, think of the critical experiences you’ve had that have led you to this “truth.” Third, shape those experiences into a story that you can tell at the drop of a hat.

The career success coach point here is simple common sense. Successful people follow the career advice in Tweet 124 in Success Tweets. “Everyone has something to offer. Never dismiss anyone out of hand. Take the initiative. Actively build relationships.” Following this career advice will help you create the life and career success you want and deserve. More important, it will lead to a richer and fuller life. When you have the right attitude, when you engage people, when you expect to find them to be interesting, you will open yourself up to a world of ideas that will not only help your career success, but will also help you succeed as a person.

The career success coach point here is simple common sense. You have to be a great communicator if you want to create the life and career success you want and deserve. Lisa Giruzzi’s new book, Bringing Out the Best in Your Employees, while written for people in formal leadership positions contains some great career success advice –for leaders and people not in formal leadership positions. Learning and applying the ideas in Lisa’s book will put you on the road to career success – and will probably help you get promoted into a people leader position. The most important point here is that you can’t not communicate – everything you do and say, every little eye movement or body shift communicates to the people around you. Get conscious about how you communicate and you will become not only a better communicator, you’ll become the life and career success you deserve to be.

Did you watch any of the Tour de France?  Cadel Evans of Australia won it all.  He was amazing to watch in the Alps on Thursday and Friday and in the time trial on Saturday.  I was glued to my TV set every night during the race.  I found it oddly compelling – don’t know what it is, but bicycle racing is very interesting to me.   We’re having a pro cycling race here in Colorado in August.  I’m looking forward to watching a few stages in person.
Today’s career advice comes from a story related to …

I had a conversation with a prospective new client the other day.  It went particularly well.  It appears as if I will get some significant new consulting business as a result.  As I thought about the conversation that evening, I realized that I followed my own career success advice as presented in Tweets 106 and 107 in my career advice book, Success Tweets.
Tweet 106 says, “Demonstrate your understanding of others’ points of view.  Listen well and ask question if you don’t understand.”  Tweet 107 says, “Become an excellent conversationalist by listening more than speaking.  Pay …

Today is President’s Day in the USA.  If you are lucky enough to have a day off, enjoy it. 
They played the NBA All Star game yesterday.  That reminded me of one of my favorite career success stories.  Read on to check it out…
Communication is a key life and career success skill.  The ability to engage in meaningful conversation is a key communication success skill.  Tweet 104 in my latest career advice book Success Tweets says “Learn how to handle yourself in conversation.  A brief conversation with the right person can greatly help – or hinder …

Dynamic communication is one of the keys to career success that I discuss in my latest career advice book Success Tweets.  If you want to become a dynamic communicator, you need to master three basic communication skills: conversation, writing and presenting.
Stephen King is one of my favorite authors.  I once saw a quote from him that is some of the best career advice on communication you’ll ever come across.  “Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
Stephen’s words apply to each of …

If you’ve been reading lately, you know that I’m doing a series of blog posts that further explain the career advice in Success Tweets: 140 Bits of Common Sense Career Success Advice, All in 140 Characters or Less, my latest career success coach book.  I’m going to be sorry when this series is finished.  I hope you’re enjoying reading it as much as I’m enjoying writing it. 
 
Success Tweets has gone into its third printing.  That really pleases me.  It has become a greater success than I thought it would be.  I really appreciate your support.  …

I’m continuing my series of blog posts that further explain the career advice in Success Tweets: 140 Bits of Common Sense Career Success Advice, All in 140 Characters or Less, my latest career success coach book.  I’m going to be sorry when this series is finished.  I hope you’re enjoying reading it as much as I’m enjoying writing it. 
 
Success Tweets has gone into its third printing.  That really pleases me.  It has become a greater success than I thought it would be.  I really appreciate your support.  You can pick up a copy at your …

If you’ve been reading lately, you know that I’m doing a series of blog posts that further explain the career advice in Success Tweets: 140 Bits of Common Sense Career Success Advice, All in 140 Characters or Less, my latest career success coach book.  I’m going to be sorry when this series is finished.  I hope you’re enjoying reading it as much as I’m enjoying writing it. 
 
Success Tweets has gone into its third printing.  That really pleases me.  It has become a greater success than I thought it would be.  I really appreciate your support.  …