Goals waning? Need motivation? Turn to your colleagues. January is over, and your health and fitness resolutions might be waning. Maybe you resolved to work out three times per week or lose 30 pounds during the year. Don’t worry if you are starting to struggle or find yourself lacking motivation. You are not alone. Ask around your office and you …
Building a Personal Brand
Five steps to defining and executing your own. If you’ve been following the news lately, it’s not uncommon to hear reports of off-the-cuff comments made by C-Suite executives who have disrupted their companies’ image in the marketplace. Just as a defined brand for a company is critical, equally so are defined personal brands for executives. Successful leaders exemplify their company’s …
1-2-3 to a Better Personal Brand
The author of “Brand Aid” offers three steps toward building your more-important-than-ever individual brand. The market demands authentic brands. Consumers, employers and vertical connections now rely on word of mouth, social groups, recommendations and strong connections above all else. It is with that, plus extensive research for “Brand Aid,” that I can confidently state: The individual is now more important …
All Productivity Tips are Not Created Equal
With so much advice to take in, what really works? By Jaclyn Crawford With the amount of media coverage tailored to the topic, it seems everyone has a new trick to make life simpler and work faster. I enjoy being highly organized and efficient, and am always open to learning a new way to make a task less complicated. If …
Ten Steps to Get that Promotion You’ve Been Eyeing
With appropriate planning and strategy, you can reach that promotion you’ve been eyeing An increasing trend in corporate America today is the feeling of being “stuck” in your current job, with little to slow opportunity for promotion. More executives are staying put because of economic conditions, fear of the unknown and valuing what they have even though they may be …


