Unfortunately, many professionals hurt and undermine their personal brands without even realizing it. There are some key on-line and offline habits that I am regularly raising with my personal branding clients to help create awareness, and to diminish the impact.…
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Your Manager is Not Your Friend
It is ok to have a friendly relationship with coworkers. Actually, this makes the work day much more enjoyable. However, becoming friends with direct reports is a little trickier. As the boundaries are getting blurrier in corporate America and the…
Need Effective Visual Branding? How to Vet Designer Candidates
What vetting steps do you take with visual designers to determine whether they are able to create effective visual branding components that are reflective of your brand? Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most successful young entrepreneurs. YEC members represent nearly…
How To Build a Strong Social Media Influence
There’s a lot you can do to improve your personal brand’s social media influence. When you persuade people, your visibility and authority will both rise as a result. How can your brand gain more recognition online? By forging meaningful relationships…
What Role Do You Play In Meetings?
Meetings are forums and events where perceptions are built and broken. Every meeting is different – even regularly occurring and frequent ones. Sometimes they are predictable and standard operating procedures, sometimes they are promising yet tense. Considering how much time…
5 Ways to Improve Your Interviewing Skills
An interview is a business transaction wherein the objective of the hiring manager (the person who has the authority to hire) is to make a selection among job candidates called in for interviews. A candidate has two challenges: first, to…
Following Through: The Toughest Easy Job
What is as unique, authentic and differentiating to your personal brand as a handwritten thank you note in a world of email, text messages and instant message? The answer: following through on promises and closing the loop, even if conflict…
Universities that CEOs Attended the Most
Having a good education is one of the first steps of having a good career. In order to find out the colleges that CEOs attended, Kittleman Search made a study with 500 CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. In this study,…
What are the Four Most Common Interview Question Types
There are a few basics that every person who’s preparing for or facing a job interview should know. A job interview is not an interrogation or an investigation. You are not guilty and you are not on trial. In fact,…
10 Ways to Incorporate Media Accolades Into Your Brand
How should professionals who’ve been featured on a media list, such as Forbes 30 Under 30, use the recognition as part of their online brand? Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most successful young entrepreneurs. YEC members…