This Tuesday 23rd I will be appearing on Workopolis TV – part of Report on Business TV – being interviewed about the use of personal branding in the corporate environment. The show airs at 8 pm EST in Toronto and is repeated at 12.30 am and then on Sunday at 9.30 am – Click here for local channel listings across Canada
If you are currently telecommuting or feel that telecommuting is an ideal part of your next job you are going to want to consider some strategies to make yourself more visible. According to a recent Korn Ferry survey 61% of executives believe that telecommuters are less likely to advance compared to employees working in traditional office settings. If that is the perception then you will want to look at… Read More »Telecommuting? – Another good reason to consider personal branding
Se week 2 sees Team Arrow lose the task again – and if they had been firmer with one team member over designs for the mens swimsuits they would have easily won. See the details at the Yahoo website. Casey the member who insisted on his styles (or perhaps more accurately was the only one willing to stick his neck out) was the one fired. Team Kinetic get next week… Read More »Apprentice Week 2
I did set myself a few resolutions and goals at the start of the year, well actually I had already determined some of them before December 31st. One key this year for me was to become more organized, even though many people would perceive that this is one of my strengths, I was finding more and more toward the end of 2006 that I was dropping the ball on projects,… Read More »We Don’t Need No Resolution
As you may already know, whilst I am not a big fan of reality TV – The Apprentice seems to be one program I am hooked on! This is its sixth season and apparently its last – so Donald – true to his personal brand – is doing it bigger and better by taking he show to Los Angeles – it also happens to coincide with some developments that he… Read More »The Apprentice is Back – and in LA!
"When my colleagues elect me as speaker on January 4, we will not just break through a glass ceiling, we will break through a marble ceiling." – Nancy Pelosi, incoming Speaker of the House. It seems that 2007 is starting for women with a number of first's. 1. Nancy Pelosi is voted as the incoming Speaker of the House for the US Congress. The first in history. Her Google ranking… Read More »Women in 2007
The next phase of the social networking advance is now upon us – Enterprise 2.0 – as reported in this recent Globe & Mail article talks about how we will be seeing the use of various social networking technology, such as forums, blogs etc, inside companies. Forward thinking companies are already taking the notion of personal branding and applying it to employees internally to improve, amongst other things, communication –… Read More »Internal Networking Using Technology
Last night I attended a workshop put on by the recently launched Hamilton / Niagara chapter of the Canadian Society of Training & Development. It was a really fun event. – Using Laughter to Reduce Stress & Enhance Morale. The facilitator was a friend and colleague Sandra Summerhayes, the founder and organiser of the annual Leadership Expo. I did not know quite what to expect but Sandra soon had us… Read More »Laugh Yourself Silly!
I was mentioned yesterday in the Globe & Mail by Sean O'Donovan, he is writing a weekly column on his executive job search and I have been helping him out with getting a web presence and also taking the 360 Reach personal branding assessment. Here is a link to the article. Here is what Sean said about the 360 tool "I would recommend completing a 360-degree profile to anyone, unemployed… Read More »When the pen is mightier than the calling card
Meet Amber MacArthur (or her blog name Amber Mac), she was the lunchtime keynote at the TECH 2006 conference yesterday. She was a perfect second speaker for the event, young, confident, dynamic and extremely passionate about technology and her career in IT. She is the example of where careers are heading in the 21st century having already had a number of different experiences in a variety of roles – all… Read More »How To Get The Career (and life) You Want