Taking Ownership Of Your Career
Greetings young professional and rising leader! Are you taking ownership of your career? Taking ownership of your career requires you to be responsible and accountable. Be responsible for the decisions and choices that you make. And be accountable for the outcomes of those decisions and choices – whether they are good or bad. As a young professional it will serve you well to embrace the fact that YOU are in charge of your destiny. All that you accomplish and all that you do not accomplish is tied to the story of your life and abilities that you believe. Not only should you believe in your...
Read More10 Coaching Tips To Build Your Self-Confidence
Greetings young professional and rising leader! As a young professional, developing your self-confidence early on in your career will pay huge dividends. As an aspiring leader, understand that leadership is influence. Yet there are multiple components that allow anyone to be influential. Perhaps no component is more important than self-confidence. Self-confidence is having confidence in your skills and abilities. If you think that you can’t, then you won’t. And if you don’t have confidence in yourself, then no one else will either. At the end of the day, your self-confidence...
Read MoreLeaders Challenge The Status Quo
Greetings young professional and rising leader! Are you challenging the status quo? Today I want to share a story with you about a recent experience I had while shopping. By now those of you who read the blog routinely know that I look for leadership everywhere I go – especially when I shop (always looking to be wowed with great leadership and customer service). This past weekend I was shopping at Express with my best friend. After selecting a sweater to purchase I made my way to the counter to checkout. The cashier asked if I wanted to use my Express charge card to save 10%. I did,...
Read More“I Just Wanted To Find A Way…”
Greetings young professional and rising leader! Today I’d like to share an inspirational clip with you from ESPN.com’s video series, Outside the Lines. The clip is the touching story of Jake Olson, a cancer surviving young teen who has lost sight in both his eyes, but has out of sight faith in his ability to still live life to the fullest! As Jake says in regards to playing football without sight, “I just wanted to find a way…” As a young professional and rising leader, the life and leadership lessons within this clip are truly inspirational. Leaders just find a way to make...
Read MoreTake Responsibility For Your Next Promotion
Greetings young professional and rising leader! Are you looking for your first or next promotion? Today I’d like to share one way to find it faster: ask for more responsibility. Everyone wants to get promoted, yet few people actually ask for more responsibility. As the saying goes, always provide more service than you are paid for. It is the best way to differentiate yourself, wow your boss and internal/external customers, and demonstrate you are promotion worthy. If you current job or manager is not challenging you enough, take charge of your career and desire to be promoted and ask for...
Read MoreSo You Don’t Get Paid Enough You Say?
Greetings young professional and rising leader! Every now and then I run across a disgruntled young professional who feels they are way underpaid. You know, that one person who is miserable in their job and always says, “They don’t pay me enough to do this.” Growing up my father always challenged me to under commit and over deliver. He said it was always better to do more than expected and when paid to do something – provide more service then I was paid for…and do it with a SMILE. Later in life this message would resurface from several of my mentors and my career coaches. To...
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