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Keep Your Promises To Yourself
Promises to Others Last week, the Message was all about making your word to others good as gold. When you make promises to others, your credibility is on the line and you earn their confidence that you are reliable. This is an important aspect of your professional...
Strengthen Your Credibility
The beginning of the new year is a perfect time to determine how you will improve this year. Rather than focusing on a lot of things, how about focusing on just one thing? It will be something that should always be on your mind: how to strengthen your credibility....
Get Off The Assembly Line!
Two Choices When you are in performance mode, you have you have to choose how you will execute your tasks. Option one is to complete them as efficiently and accurately as possible, kinda like being on an assembly line. Just do the same way you did the last one and...
Step Back To See The Big Picture
See The Big Picture With all the work you have to do, it’s so easy to work for efficiency and forget to step back to see the big picture. Getting things done and out the door becomes the primary goal. While efficiency certainly matters, your clients want more. Miss...
Lit Up Or Burned Out?
Burnout Is Real For a long time (since the 70’s), the topic of burnout has been on the mental health radar but has been too difficult to really describe what it is. Nonetheless, we know about burnout. We finally have some clarity from the World Health Organization...
Are You Engaged Or Transactional?
Early in your career, you have a highly energetic attitude to do what it takes to be successful. Your learning curve is steep and you put a lot of effort into absorbing the software, technical knowledge and procedures to get your work done at a high level. It often...
Grateful In The Moment
The most impactful discipline you can practice that produces the quickest results? You’ll never guess.
Being Productive Isn’t Easy
The logical conclusion you make is that the majority of interruptions come from outside of you—other people, technology and “immediate response requests” that distract you from what you should be doing. But an interesting study indicates that many of the distractions and interruptions you contend with originate with YOU. That’s right—it’s not “out there.” It’s “in here.”
Three Necessary Partner Traits
Make it easy for your decision makers to select you by demonstrating these three necessary partner traits.
Engagement: How Will You Show Up?
Employee engagement is all the rage. And rightly so. All the research shows that engaged employees are more committed, productive and generate more results than those who aren’t. And they are happier and more fulfilled with their careers. That’s why firms go to great...
