Three Ways to Up-Level Your G Factor to Increase Your Influence at Work

What in the world is G Factor? And why would you want it? Good question. Do you remember that kid that everyone flocked to when you were growing up? What about the coworker that everyone liked? And the leader everyone loved working for? All of these people had G Factor – the gravitational pull that […]

Seven Secrets of Successful Women in Business

We all have those successful women we admire who seem to turn everything they touch into gold. I’ve had the opportunity to interact with numerous women like this over the course of my career.  Here are seven secrets of success that I have learned from them that you can benefit from too. Be a Problem […]

Three Strategies to Accelerate Your Team’s Success

Many of you know that I have served on several non-profit boards including president of an international professional association. Earlier this month, I wrote an article titled Five Key Leadership Lessons I learned from Serving on Non-Profit Boards. The five lessons that were critical to a leader’s success included: have a vision; plan the work, […]

Polish Your Executive Presence by Projecting a Successful Image

What is executive presence and what does it have to do with you? Everything! Assuming, of course, that you want to be successful in your career, be influential in your company, and achieve your full potential as a leader. Whether you know it or not, you have already been sized up and assigned a rating […]

Seven Strategies for Inflating Your Success

When I ask people to describe characteristics of successful people, they often identify characteristics that they associate with others but not themselves. This never ceases to amaze me. In an informal Red Ladder poll, respondents indicated that the top two drivers for success were 1) having a strategic vision (87.5%) and 2) having written goals […]

Resolutions and Goals – What is your plan?

It is already mid-January, and the New Year is already well underway.  Like most people, you probably took inventory and made plans for the coming year.  Some of you probably even took the time to identify one or two New Year’s resolutions.  Yet, the experts say that 30 percent of the people who make New Year’s […]

How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence

In my recent LinkedIn article Emotional Intelligence – Imperative to Success.  I go in depth about the topic. For more information about EQ, I suggest you read it. Here I’m going to focus on ways to raise your emotional intelligence (EQ). The simple techniques I am about to offer will help anyone easily and quickly […]

Assess to be Your Best

How to Use Assessments for Individual and Organizational Development Let’s face it continuous improvement is a winning strategy for anyone with the CEO mindset. It’s an asset for professionals and entrepreneurs alike. Regardless of where you are in your career or your business there are always opportunities to grow. Throughout my life I’ve seen many […]

The Professional Edge – What is it and how do we get it?

  Many of us go through our entire lives in business never really considering if we have The Professional Edge or not. We work hard at our jobs, we take additional trainings and we have mastered our work tasks like a pro, yet we still aren’t climbing the corporate ladder as we expected. We’re doing […]