Chic Office Outerwear
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Savvy Workplace Strategies
Corporate Success: 5 must-do strategies to enable women to succeed in the corporate sector Here are 5 must-do strategies to help you stand out and succeed within the corporate sector: 1. Be clear on your authentic personal brand and continue to be ‘on brand’ in everything you do. Often your qualifications, experience, skills and the projects you have worked on may be similar to your colleagues; however what can … [Read More...]
How to Stand Out at Work
Reprinted from Essence.com by Yolanda Sangweni If you feel like you're inching closer and closer to the glass ceiling in your current position, most likely it is time to start going after a more challenging job description. Even with a tough economy and employers scaling back on promotions and new hires, marketing yourself more aggressively to will help you stand out from the crowd and get you to the next level. ESSENCE.com spoke with … [Read More...]
Body Language Mistakes
Improve your communication skills. If you improve your body language you can get your thoughts across in a more effective way. You can create a connection to another person more easily. When using more powerful and appropriately balanced body language your communication skills become better and more focused. Emotions are linked to your body language. Emotions work backwards too. If you feel good you’ll smile. If you force yourself to smile … [Read More...]
Be HIP to the Game
A big percentage of your credibility, competence, professionalism, will influence how you are perceived in the workplace by colleagues, staff, and clients. Even though you have worked hard to gain specialized training and expertise to advance in your job, performance counts for only 10% of career success. However, 90% depends on your professional image, personal brand, and visibility; your appearance, presence, ability to get along with others, … [Read More...]
Savvy Quote of the Week
If you feel like you’re inching closer and closer to the glass ceiling in your current position, most likely it is time to start going after a more challenging job description. Even with a tough economy and employers scaling back on promotions and new hires, marketing yourself more aggressively to will help you stand out from the crowd and get you to the next level. ESSENCE.com spoke with Austin-based executive coach and author, Ann Daly PhD … [Read More...]
Professional Savvy Woman
Oprah Winfrey - The Leadership Brand repost from John Baldoni, who blogs on leadership & managing people All leaders have a brand. Whether that term is used or not, leaders have an identifiable persona that is a reflection of what they do and how others perceive them. I call this the leadership brand. When it comes to cultivating a leadership brand, look no further than Oprah Winfrey, who recently announced that she would be ending … [Read More...]
How to build a Leadership Brand
How to build a leadership brand that your company values Excerpt from Ask Jo, by Jo Miller, CEO Women's Leadership Coaching Inc. Your ideal leadership brand is one that utilizes your talents, feeds your passions, and delivers a service that is needed and wanted by your company. Titina Ott is Vice President of Organizational Effectiveness with a leading global software corporation, and founder of their corporate women’s initiative. … [Read More...]
Personal Leadership Brand
Here is a Harvard Business video interview with David Ulrich and Norm Smallwood, authors of the book Leadership Brand: Developing Customer-Focused Leaders to Drive Performance and Build Lasting Value. … [Read More...]
Savvy Success: Define You
Defining YOU by Niurka ( reposted from Success for Women e-zine) A personal challenge to innovate in a rapidly changing environment As human beings we have an instinctive drive to innovate, evolve and improve, to make things faster, smarter, easier and better; and with technology we are exponentially expanding the scope of what’s possible. But even as new opportunities arise, many people find their old jobs obsolete or changing and … [Read More...]
