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Talents are the key to hiring the right employee or for job seekers to apply for and get the right job. Fire Up! makes it easy with the Talent and Thinking Style Assessment for MANAGERS to learn how to...
View ArticleRecruit and Hire the Right Employee
In many areas of the country there is a supply of employed talent. Many organizations now have a greater choice to fill openings or realign. But wait – you first need to know what you need. Learn how...
View ArticleDo you know what makes you great?
Look at today’s greatest performers in sports, business, medicine, teaching, or in any other field. They are powerful performers because they have taken the time to define, understand and live what...
View ArticlePlay to Your Strengths
So, job seekers, what are you great at? What are you passionate about? Know these and you’ll start to identify the areas of your greatest performance. To be successful today, you must work in areas...
View ArticleAre You Bland and Boring or Fired Up?
We all need some excitement in our lives – at work and at home. Excitement means playing to your passions – to those things that get you out of the bland and boring and into a fired up! life and work....
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The Seven Steps to Finding the “Right” Job
How to Find the Job You Love Most people don’t believe that it is possible to love your job – to love what you do and to be passionate about doing it. Most feel that work is how you make the money to...
View ArticleEveryone Should Have a Voice and a Place
A number of months ago I was fortunate enough to be the keynote speaker for an association of women designers (WithIt – Women in the Home Industries Today). My program was titled,Right Brain, Right...
View ArticleRunning on Empty?
When your car’s gas tank is empty, you don’t sit and get depressed and think it’s permanent. You go fill it up. It is the same with life-when you’re running on empty, go fill up your tank with a better...
View ArticleWhat Hooks Your Employees?
What gets your employees excited, passionate and fired up? What hooks or inspires them to perform? Consider this: Not everybody is great at everything. No kidding, right? But this is important because...
View ArticleStand Out and Get Hired in 2010 – Week 2 of the Plan
Week 2: Know your talents and passions – learn what you are great at and love doing. Most people continue to apply for the wrong jobs because they don’t know what they are good at. And today, to have...
View ArticleGet Hired in 2010 – Step 5 – The Talent-Based Resume
Face it, the old skill and experience resume is outdated, ineffective…dead. Today’s work is more about your brain than your hands. Hiring managers want to know how you think, not just what you have...
View ArticleAre You The Right Kind of Smart?
Your IQ – your hardwired intelligence (actually your ability to learn) accounts for 4 – 10% of your career success. Important, but not the most important. Your EQ – your emotional intelligence (your...
View ArticleGet Hired in 2010 – Step 6 of the Plan
Use social media to get hired. Technology is a great new tool in the job hunting process. Our social networks put us in touch with so many more people – those who are hiring and may be interested in...
View ArticleGet Up When You Fall
“The greatest glory consists, not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” Oliver Goldsmith. Some celebrities seem never to fall. Their careers keep rising, they have money, fame, great...
View ArticleManagement Michelangelo-Style
What can the great renaissance artist tell us about management? Two important things: 1. Know what your employees are good at and are passionate about doing. 2. Allow them to play to these attributes...
View ArticleWhat Is Your “Thing?”
We are not good at every ”thing” – but we are good at some “things.” We create our best lives and work when we build them around what we are good at and love to do; when we build them around our...
View ArticleGet More Done With Less
Many organizations have been carrying extra employees for years – employees who continued to show up each day without adding a level of value commensurate with their pay and benefits. The recession...
View ArticleReinvent Your (Work) Self
In today’s changing workplace, finding one job may be a thing of the past. Instead, what do you do very well and could do for several employers? How can you reinvent your (work) self. The greatest...
View ArticleCome to Work Stupid
I was listening to a Change Nation, an audio interview with host Ariane de BonVoisin of First 30 Days fame. She had as her guest, Polly LaBarre, author of the book,Mavericks at Work; Why The Most...
View ArticleWhat is Your Masterpiece?
When most people think of the word masterpiece, they think of a painting by Degas, Rembrandt or even Warhol. Many think of da Vinci’s Mona Lisa or Botticelli’s Primavera. But a masterpiece just means...
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