Endorsements or Smoke and Mirrors
Endorsements or Smoke and Mirrors? In the real world I’m not sure LinkedIn skills and endorsements really matter unless you have the actual degree and/or years of experience behind you. Just copying some cool and trendy vocabulary that you think “might” match your talents, can be costly to you in the end. Really think about those skills – could you get a job in the field that you are listing? Or is what you have listed all smoke and mirrors? Is what you have listed all smoke and mirrors? Like everyone else I have learned that friends are great about endorsing you for things like Microsoft Excel and Customer Service.…
Leadership Lessons – The Golden Rules
This was originally written for a group of K-12 dancers. It has been modified to reflect the business environment. If a group of K-12 students can learn these lessons, others should be able to learn them as well.Learning how to become an effective leader takes time and patience. Leadership involves listening to what others have to say (on both sides) and being able to come up with solutions that are best for your team and/or organization. Leadership should not be self-serving.Sometimes your decisions will be challenged. It’s when you are challenged that you shouldn't allow your emotions to show. If it is an explosive situation and your first instinct is…
How to keep from falling behind, when you are already ahead – STOP
How to keep from falling behind when you are already ahead: Stop. A lot of us live our lives like this. Meeting deadlines, negotiating deals, and setting up operations or systems. Once you are caught up and on track, you still sense a nagging thought in the back of your mind that says, “I gotta keep going”. “I can’t relax”. I’m all caught up, but why do I feel like I’m late? I’m all caught up, but why do I feel like I’m late? Just recently, I finished a project that was eating up a lot of my time, and left me feeling on the edge of my seat. If I finished…
Effective Leadership missing in the Equation?
Effective Leadership missing in the Equation? I was reading an article this morning from Harvard Business School called American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do. It was to the point, but it had one thing I thought was missing: effective leadership. Effective leadership was missing from the equation This is the type of topic that authors write about. You find one disgruntled employee who had a manager or supervisor who turned out to be the devil him or herself, and you have a story. How that story is spun will determine the type of outcome you will have. I know the problem, I want the solution. Are…
It’s Leadership Quiz Night
It’s Leadership Quiz Night! Leadership, social media, community outreach, research, and training all mean very different things to different people. What I have learned is that you need to be able to show your work. In a job interview, that can become a very interesting prospect to have thrown at you, unaware. It’s those little questions…. Show your work Show me leadership. Tell me how you perform community outreach. How many hours a day do you work on social media? How many social media applications can you link to? What is content marketing for social media? While doing research, did you actively engage in experimentation that provided you with factual…
