Tag: Career Management

• June 22, 2022

  Build Strong Foundations

  Build Strong Foundations before you grow higher. Are you investing in your own Foundations – or are you building the house of your life on sand? Leadership coach Luis Soares shared the story in the video below a few years ago on a leadership retreat for Vistage Spain. There are two metaphors in the video:…
• February 17, 2021

  Building a Successful Career: The PIE Model

  It is not enough to just do great work to build a fulfilling career. In this short video I share the 3 elements of the PIE model for Career success 😉 The PIE Model for Career Success Performance Impact Exposure
• January 12, 2021

  You Don’t have Time to Figure Everything Out on your Own

  Life is too short to figure everything out on your own.  Humans spend the years from birth to 12 learning how to survive.  Our parents have a vested interest in helping us develop the Stop there: we merely survive.  We live in a highly complex society.  There is intense competition for status in whatever hierarchy…
• August 2, 2020

  How to Lead Up

  

  Life 101: Develop competence. Build the discipline to finish small projects. Solve interesting problems. Help good clients succeed. Do lots of small good things for other people. Share the credit. Take the blame. Share your journey. Associate with good people. Help others realise they are capable of more than they think. Give them confidence. Lift…
• February 22, 2019

  The Career Advice you Probably didn’t Get

  You’re doing everything right at work, taking all the right advice, but you’re just not moving up. Why? Susan Colantuono shares a simple, surprising piece of advice you might not have heard before quite so plainly. This talk, while aimed at an audience of women, has universal takeaways — for men and women, new graduates…
• January 17, 2019

  Career Momentum

  Are you making progress in your career? Gary Burnison, the CEO of leading global headhunters Korn Ferry recently shared a tool for understanding the current health of your career, the Career Momentum Index (CMI). Gary says that, in our careers, we also need to honestly know “Where am I right now?”. For a healthy body,…
• July 17, 2017

  LinkedIn Is Testing A New Feature That Matches You With A Mentor

  LinkedIn is testing out a new free service for members that will match them with other professionals who can give them career advice. LinkedIn will help to make matches between mentees and mentors via its online platform. Mentorship is a significant part of the careers of every successful person that I know. I personally have…
• June 21, 2017

  The Hidden Secret Of Success | Raúl Cristian Aguirre

  

  I had the pleasure of attending TEDxIESEBarcelona a couple of months ago. My good friend and fellow EO member Raul Aguirre gave a passionate talk on a special secret that has led to his success. The hidden secret that led to Raul’s success This talk reveals new insight about the real reasons of success of…
• October 21, 2013

  Become Indispensable: Solve Interesting Problems

  Question for you: What do you have as your description line in your LinkedIn profile? Mine says “Moving People to Action”   What does your LinkedIn Description say? I see several varieties of description.  Some people just put their job title: “VP Marketing at Corporation Inc”.  Some people an abstraction of their past experience “Experienced…