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“The crux of leadership development that works is self-directed learning: intentionally developing or strengthening an aspect of who you are or who you want to be, or both.” Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis & Annie McKee (Harvard Business School Press)

How to be Everyone's First Contact

In order to connect with new employers and clients and transform your potential into success, you need to establish your unique digital identity, build strong relationships with your audience(s), and gain visibility for all the right reasons.

Getting to Like is a practical, actionable guide to anticipating and staying one step ahead of the curve―and your competition. Each chapter provides specific examples for effective communication and engagement. “It’s a crowded, competitive marketplace out there,” adds co-author Jeremy Goldman. “Getting to Like will help you stand out, make your voice heard to take those crucial steps toward future-proofing your career.”

People are looking for you and you don’t realize it.

When it comes to searching for job candidates, companies primarily use Google and LinkedIn instead of job boards or talent databases.

Furthermore, many companies are even requiring that new applications be screened using Google. If the first page of your Google search results isn’t impressive, hiring managers may not even glance at your application.

While we love LinkedIn, we’ve been proponents of using Twitter for personal branding for years. If you’re looking to build your personal brand via Twitter, your bio is a great place to start. Just like in real life, portraying yourself as upbeat and optimistic will attract more followers.

As you follow more and more people and send out your first tweets, people will see your activity and follow you.

Creating a Twitter list is fairly simple. Simply go to https://twitter.com/lists and then click on “create new list.”

One of the key ways to build up your presence is to make sure that you find the time to actually engage with people.

Source: Jeremy Goldman: Getting to Like: How to Boost Your Personal and Professional Brand to Expand Opportunities, Grow Your Business, and Achieve Financial Success

May 31, 2016 in Books, Business Coaching, Career , Communication, Current Affairs, Personal Life, Self-Awareness, Skills, Success, Tips, Work life | Permalink | Comments (0)

Self Awareness Through Coaching

Being unaware, we unconsciously engage our default behavior. Only when we become aware of something, are we able to make choices as to the action we wish to take.

Sometimes, just being aware, allows the problem to solve us--rather than requiring us to solve the problem.

Martha Beck, a life coach and coach trainer, stands on stage, nearing the end of an effusive 90-minute keynote speech for the semiannual "Meet and Greet" of the women enrolled in her life coach training program. She has been telling the 80 or so trainees a story about her diagnosis many years ago of fibromyalgia, a chronic pain condition.

For the uninitiated, Beck is the Matryoshka doll of life coaches: She coaches herself, she teaches other coaches, they in turn coach, and so on.

According to a survey done by the International Coach Federation (ICF), as of 2012, there were more than 15,000 life coaches operating in the U.S. and 41,300 coaches worldwide taking in a total of $2 billion. While numbers are hard to verify, the federation's report found that accredited life coaches charge from $85 to $214 per hour. During training, Beck requires each aspiring life coach to collect fees for their time, even if it's a small amount--say $20 or $40 per hour.

What's surprising is that the coach trainees aren't people who believe they're doing so well in life that they want to tell you how to live yours. Instead, they seem to be people who didn't know how to live and found a way to at least ascertain what they want out of life. This skill, this ascertainment, is what they want so badly to share. But with Beck and her acolytes, for all their peculiar ways of speaking, they were gaining an understanding of the human condition--and accepting it--to an extent that few do.

A life coach is really just a coal miner used for digging through the platitudes and finding out what's true for the individual. The truth of a person's life isn't only about the will toward integrity; it's about discovering what you want under the layers of what you've been told you should want all these years.

Source: Bloomberg Businessweek, May 23, 2016

Books---Self-coaching guides for Career Women:

Anne-Marie Slaughter: Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family

Pamela Stone: Opting Out?: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home

Sheryl Sandberg: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

When Doing It All Won't Do: A self-coaching guide for career women. (ebook edition $0.99, Workbook Edition in paperback $13.41)

Women, Know Thyself: The most important knowledge is self-knowledge. (ebook and paperback editions)

Women and Time (ebook and paperback editions)

May 31, 2016 in Books, Career , Personal Coaching, Personal Life, Self-Awareness, Success, What is, Women, Work life | Permalink | Comments (0)

Car-Mileage Targets: Only One Part of the Solution

The average fuel-economy of light vehicles sold in the United States, increased by about 5-mpg over the past eight-plus years, but has been flat recently: from October 2007 at 20.1 mpg to April 2016 at 25.2 mpg.

Our personal family average mpg experience is: 27.4 mpg of a 2008 Ford Escape SUV HYBRID over 135,000 miles and 39.7 mpg of a 2013 Ford Fusion HYBRID over 27,500 miles.

However, U.S. government environmental regulators fuel economy standards are out-of-step with reality due to cheap gasoline prices causing buyers to purchase larger vehicles with higher mpg rating. "Oil and gasoline prices fluctuate and are unpredictable," an Environmental Protection Agency spokeswoman said, adding that current rules portend unprecedented emissions reductions by 2025. "The standards...function as insurance so that fuel prices don't stall progress on cutting greenhouse gases."

To reduce greenhouse gases and packed automotive freeways, the automobile industry must sell, not just build, vehicles getting higher mileage...in concert with the federal and state governments setting higher taxes on fuel while making economic rapid transit (train, bus and rental vehicles) available for people to use in place of higher priced fuel for personal car and truck usage.

Such government sponsored programs have been wildly implemented in Europe; where people commute to work and back home on rapid transit (reducing today's slow commuter traffic of automotive vehicles) and primarily using their private automobiles, SUVs, trucks, etc. for personal pleasure or tasks close to home.

Car executives contend cheap gasoline lowers demand for more efficient vehicles needed to meet an ultimate fleet target of 54.3 mpg by 2025.

Today, automotive leadership is taking a wider view of future mobile operations to improve transportation alternatives beyond today's personal vehicle usage.

Source: The Wall Street Journal, May 25, 2016

May 26, 2016 in Business Coaching, Current Affairs, Health, Leadership, Memes, Safety & Security, Science, Self-Awareness, Travel, What is, Work life | Permalink | Comments (0)

Leading a Cultural Change

Leading a business transition through a cultural change, to deliver dramatically increased value, is a tough assignment.

Getting the people side right can make all the difference.

Business transitions are times of heightened emotion where perceptions, feelings and hunches trump logic.

Everyone's decision making is emotional, not rational...subconsciously under the control of their emotional brain (limbic system), not their analytical (neocortical) brain.

When people make decisions, their decisions are not just about rational data weighing of the pros and cons. Buying a car, choosing a mate, selecting a new home, following a career path, perceiving how the world works is all decided emotionally.

Emotion is always operating below the surface and the executive doesn't recognize how important his or her feelings are at the time of the decision. That is why it is important to help leaders of organizations be emotionally stable, free from the fear of failure, when making important decisions.

Albert Einstein once said, "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles but no personality. It cannot lead; it can only serve."

Transformation leaders must have a clear collective vision and communicate it effectively to all employees. By acting as role models, they inspire employees to put the good of the whole organization above self interest.

Transformational leaders know and science has discovered emotional's deeper purpose: the timeworn mechanisms of emotion allow two human beings to receive the contents of each other's minds. They are using the power of emotion to get managers to innovate through taking risks on-the-job.

Yet, after years of cost-cutting initiatives and growing job insecurity, most executives don't feel like putting themselves on the line. Add to that individual performance incentives, where a one-year term determines a large bonus while investing in risky long-term payoffs takes a back seat.

Most managers postpone risky decisions for fear of failure---yet to make incremental mistakes can lead to innovative successes.

That's why it is difficult to make the shift from a play-it-safe corporate culture to an innovation-driven culture.

Self-Coaching Leadership Books in ebook or paperback editions:

Can't Get Enough Leadership ,

Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide ,

Ask the Coach

May 25, 2016 in Books, Business Coaching, Career , Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Communication, Failure, Safety & Security, Success, Tips, Work life | Permalink | Comments (0)

Millennials and Business Leadership

May 23, 2016 in Business Coaching, Career , Current Affairs, Leadership, Memes, What is, Work life | Permalink | Comments (0)

Living Longer

The prospect of living to the age of 100, once a rarity, has now become so commonplace that its implications for the way people plan their lives, as well as for governments, businesses, and public policy, can no longer be ignored.

These implications are explored in “THE 100-YEAR LIFE: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity” by London Business School professors Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott. The book delivers straightforward and vital advice on both the risks and rewards of living much longer than ever imagined, and on how to make better decisions to be happier at each life stage.

“We are in the midst of an extraordinary transition that few of us are prepared for,” say Gratton and Scott. “If we get it right it will be a real gift; to ignore and fail to prepare will be a curse.”

Working for Longer

More than half of those in their 60s today will live past age 90, and more than half of millennials will live past 100, according to the authors. And today’s workers may be in for a rude awakening when they discover that the nest eggs they have accumulated for retirement will be insufficient.

Getting your finances right is essential to the 100-year life, but money is far from being the most important resource. Family, friendships, mental health, and happiness are all crucial components.

One of the themes of this book is that money, while important, really isn’t everything when it comes to dealing with a long life. It is, however, the place where most people begin.

Our focus is only on pensions. Yet, over a long life with many stages, it is clear that life savings will also be a preoccupation and by only considering pensions, we acknowledge we are taking a rather narrow view of financial planning. However, even this narrow view leads to some sobering insights.

Source: Lynda Gratton: The 100 Year Life: Navigating Our Future Work Life

Books for Boomers: Reviews & Coaching Tips (FREE ebook edition)

Boomer Retirement Life Tips ($.99 ebook edition)

Ask the Coach (ebook and paperback)

May 20, 2016 in Books, Career , Current Affairs, Health, Personal Life, Safety & Security, Science, Tips, What is, Work life | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tech investor, beware. Read this urgent new report...

"How to lose $355 million in two weeks"

It's a lesson tech CEO Jack Dorsey just learned the hard way. Over a recent two-week period as April rolled into May, shares of the two companies Dorsey founded and now runs, Twitter and Square, lost $3.7 billion in market value, $355 million of which was Dorsey's personal stake.

As founder and CEO, Dorsey may be locked in for the long haul, but you don't have to be.

Our friends at Elliott Wave International, the world's largest financial forecasting firm, have just released an urgent new report for tech investors. Inside, EWI's top U.S. market analysts warn that a new trend is racing at fiber optic speed through the tech industry, and if you have money invested, you need to get ahead of it, right now.

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May 18, 2016 in Business Coaching, Communication, Current Affairs, Safety & Security, U.S. Stock Market, What is, Work life | Permalink | Comments (0)

World's Most Innovative Internet Company:

Alibaba’s Pathway

To someone in the Internet industry in the United States, the success of Alibaba is rather peculiar. Although one can vaguely see some traces of American Internet companies in what Alibaba has accomplished, the overall shape of its innovation has been totally different. Alibaba’s success has taken a different path.

While China’s economy is facing challenges and uncertainties, its e-commerce giant, Alibaba Holding Group, had a banner year in 2015.

How is the company steamrolling ahead, while China’s economy lurches along?

The answer is in the very structure and diversity of Alibaba. Part eBay, part Google, part PayPal, part Amazon Web Services, the Chinese company hews to the mantra that founder Jack Ma started with: “Small is beautiful.”

The site enables grassroots-level business people—including farmers and micro-vendors—a storefront to reach millions of potential customers. According to The Wall Street Journal, Alibaba dominates business throughout the world with more than 10 million e-commerce participants and a digital ecosystem serving 100 million consumers per day

“THE ALIBABA WAY: Unleashing Grassroots Entrepreneurship to Build the World’s Most Innovative Internet Company” by Professor Dr.Ying Lowrey is the first full-length account of this e-commerce phenomenon.

This book has sought to uncover the secrets of Alibaba’s unprecedented growth in China. Innovation is the uncovered secret of how Alibaba emerged and strode out into the world.

If Alibaba can prosper by unleashing entrepreneurship, so can the nation.

Source: Ying Lowrey: The Alibaba Way: Unleashing Grass-Roots Entrepreneurship to Build the World's Most Innovative Internet Company (The Global Business Thought Leader Series)

May 16, 2016 in Books, Business Coaching, Career , Current Affairs, Leadership, Success, Tips, U.S. Stock Market, What is, Work life | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tell Job Seekers Who Is Looking At Their Resume?

Achieving Success Ever post your resume online and feel like it fell into an enormous black hole?

CareerBuilder is shining a much-needed light on the progress of one’s job search by launching exciting new features that tell job seekers which companies are viewing their resumes and why.

After a job seeker posts a resume on CareerBuilder.com, the job seeker can visit the home page and see up-to-the-minute information on the number of times his/her resume has been viewed and the frequency in which the resume has come up in company searches. The job seeker will also receive weekly emails highlighting the number of times his/her resume has been opened throughout the past week and which specific companies are looking at his/her qualifications.

CareerBuilder even goes a step beyond this to provide insights into why employers are looking at a job seeker’s resume by showing the search terms the employer used to find that candidate. This feature provides an unprecedented gauge of whether one has the right keywords in his/her resume to attract desired employers or whether a revision is needed to place more emphasis on other keywords.

“No one is offering job seekers the level of transparency and personalization that CareerBuilder can provide,” said Matt Ferguson, CEO of CareerBuilder and co-author of The Talent Equation. “Job seekers want to know where they stand, and these new tools give valuable insights into the progress they’re making in engaging employers. In the future, we will also be providing recommendations to job seekers on which phrases they should use in their resumes to increase their chances of getting noticed.”

Another key benefit to posting a resume on CareerBuilder is to take advantage of quick apply capabilities. More than half of jobs on CareerBuilder can be applied to with the click of one button through either a desktop or mobile device. This especially comes in handy if job seekers have been notified that an employer has already expressed interest by viewing their resume in CareerBuilder’s database.

May 12, 2016 in Books, Career , Current Affairs, Self-Awareness, Success, Work life | Permalink | Comments (0)

Your Life's Work Discovered

Callings come in many ways, some unexpected.

Such events are more prevalent than one might expect. A 2006 Gallup poll of 1,004 adults, the most recent it has done on the subject, found that 33% of Americans said the following statement “applies completely” to them: “I have had a profound religious experience or awakening that changed the direction of my life.”

A sense of calling can come through a message, a realization or a series of unlikely synchronistic events.

People of all ages and faiths, agnostics and atheists, have such experiences, yet they rarely talk about them. Sometimes words fall short of conveying the intensity of what they felt.

Some scientists and scholars are beginning to pay attention.

“The study of spiritual experience is potentially one of the most important areas of research that may be pursued by science in the next decade” writes neuroscientist Andrew Newberg in a chapter of “Transformation of Brain Structure and Spiritual Experience.” They are asking questions like: Can we distinguish between actual callings and delusions? Is a feeling of being called good for you, and can it ever be bad? Do such experiences come from within—certain brain activity—or without—a source that can only be described as divine?

As a 17-year-old college student, I had a near-death experience (before it was categorized as such) during an automobile accident. During this intense positive experience, I said to myself, "If this is what it is like to die, it's not all bad." For I was at peace; calmly watching my "life review" play out while time seemed to stand still.

That experience forever changed how I lived the rest of my life; for I no longer feared death nor failure as I led a passionate life. People like me who have experienced near-death encounters make life-changing decisions and these "Eureka Effects" can help us all think about death as a peaceful and pleasant ending to this physical life experience.