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Successful People Never Stop Learning
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| Successful people are outstanding performers. Outstanding performers remain outstanding performers by becoming lifelong learners. They continually expand their knowledge in order to get out in front of the pack and stay there. Begin your lifelong learning journey by focusing on your strengths and working to improve them every day. Building on your strengths is easier that overcoming your weaknesses. When you build on your strengths you can make incremental improvements. However, if you have a glaring gap in your skills, address it now. Don't wait to take necessary quantum leaps. |
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Successful People Use Tough Times to Position Themselves for Better Things to Come
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| Successful people don't let the current economic situation derail their promotion plans. They spring into action to get the promotion they want and deserve. If you want to get a promotion in these times, begin by upping the ante when it comes to your performance. Put more time and effort into your current job. Go from good to great. Build your brand and your network within your company. Take a lateral move. Volunteer for tough assignments. Most of all commit to taking personal responsibility for your life and career. |
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Heed the Dalai Lama -- and Fortune Magazine
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| The Dalai Lama says:
“One can be deceived by three types of laziness:
the laziness of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate;
the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities;
and the laziness that is attached to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue.”
I really like this quote because it drives home an important point about personal responsibility and becoming an outstanding performer. The Dalai Lama doesn’t let us off the hook by saying, “I didn’t think I could do it.” Instead, he says that doubting our abilities is a form of laziness. That’s some tough love!
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How to Become a Dynamic Communicator
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| This article is about communication skills.
In my executive training sessions, I tell my clients that people with good communication skills share at least three things in common:
1. Good communicators are excellent conversationalists
2. Good communicators write in a clear, concise easily readable manner.
3. Good communicators are excellent presenters – to groups of two or 100.
In this article, I will look at each of these in detail.
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How to Become Interpersonally Competent
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| This article is about interpersonal competence.
In my work as an executive coaching consultant, I have found that interpersonally competent people share at least three things in common:
1. Interpersonally competent people are self aware. They understand themselves, and as a result they understand others.
2. Interpersonally competent people build solid, long lasting mutually beneficial relationships with the people in their lives.
3. Interpersonally competent people are able to resolve conflicts with a minimal amount of problems and upset to relationships.
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How to Create Positive Personal Impact
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| This article is about positive personal impact. My work as an executive coaching consultant has led me to conclude that people with positive personal impact have three things in common:
1. People with powerful personal impact develop and constantly promote their personal brand.
2. People with powerful personal impact are impeccable in their presentation of self.
3. People with powerful personal impact know and practice the basic rules of etiquette.
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Hard Work and Success -- One Follows the Other
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| The point here is simple -- and sobering for those who are looking for career success shortcuts. Be willing to go the extra mile. Create custom resumes for every job for which you apply. Once you get a job, work harder than others. Volunteer for unpopular jobs -- and then do a great job. Yes, if you want to become an outstanding performer, it's important to be a lifelong learner, set and achieve high goals, and get organized. But it's also important to do something a lot simpler -- and totally in your control; be willing to work hard. Hard work will help build your brand and put you at the top of the promotion list, and bottom of the layoff list. |
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