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[13 Oct 2011 | No Comment | ]

The career success coach point here is simple common sense. Demonstrate your respect for other people by paying attention to them and what they have to say. Don’t act like some of the members of the Denver City Council. Follow the career advice in Tweet 108 in Success Tweets. “Live people take precedence over phone calls. Continue in-person, face-to-face conversations, rather than answering your cell phone.” Focusing on live people – rather than your electronic gadgets – is the best way to demonstrate your respect for others. Respect is the key to building strong relationships with the people in your life – not just those who can do something for you, but everyone you meet. Strong relationships are an important key to your life and career success.

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[12 Oct 2011 | No Comment | ]

The career success coach point here is simple common sense. Dynamic communication may well be the single biggest life and career success skill. Rob Biesenbach’s book Act Like You Mean Business shows you how to employ acting tools to help you become a great communicator and career success. I found his chapter on stories and story telling to be really solid common sense life and career success advice. If you want to become a great communicator, you need to be able to tell your story in a manner that makes other people sit up and take notice. A good story can really help you build a strong personal brand. And a strong personal brand is important if you want to create the life and career success you want and deserve.

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[29 Sep 2011 | No Comment | ]

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.

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[7 Sep 2011 | 2 Comments | ]

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.

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[14 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]

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 …

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[8 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]

On Sunday April 3 the New York Times Business Section had an interview with Chris Cunningham, CEO of Appsavvy, a social media marketing firm.  Mr. Cunningham’s company has a unique twist to their hiring process.  Check it out.  There is some interesting career success advice here…
“Every job candidate must present to five to seven people as the final step before we hire them…This is where you can make or break it, and we find out if they’re an all-star or whether we just avoided making a bad hire.”
Imagine that – having to make a presentation before …

Career Success Coach, Competence »

[8 Oct 2010 | No Comment | ]

My new career success coach book Success Tweets: 140 Bits of Common Sense Career Success Advice, All in 140 Characters or Less is turning out to be quite a hit.  Over 1,000 people have downloaded the free eBook version and several people have purchased multiple copies of the hard copy book.  I think it’s a great addition to my career advice writings.  Go to www.SuccessTweets.com to get a .pdf of Success Tweets for free. 
If you want to purchase a hard copy for yourself – or two or three to give to friends, associates, people you …

Career Success Coach, Competence »

[1 Oct 2010 | No Comment | ]

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.  …

Career Success Coach, Competence »

[30 Sep 2010 | No Comment | ]

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 …

Career Success Coach, Competence »

[29 Sep 2010 | 2 Comments | ]

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.  …