Oh, no. Your worst fears have come true. You had too much to drink at your company’s holiday party and you ended up on the floor. A “friend” captured the embarrassing incident on his smart phone and thought it would be funny to post it to YouTube and tweet the link to his Twitter followers.
Even the thought of tooting your own horn may make you squirm. But it isn’t enough to work hard anymore. You need to be better at selling yourself to build your career or your business, if you’re an entrepreneur. The art of selling is really the art of business communication.
The very word “negotiation” implies potential conflict. When you enter into a negotiation, the participants often have different agendas or goals. That’s why negotiations can be difficult. Even the thought of it makes some people want to flee. While few of us welcome confrontation, always “caving in” can sabotage your career or diminish your efforts to
You stand there stunned. The audience is on its feet begging for more at the end of your presentation. There is wild applause. People are rushing up to congratulate you. Then you wake up from the dream. Could this have actually happened after your last presentation? Yes, if you had injected your talk with energy
Do you find you’re not sleeping at night? Are you taking aspirins to relieve your splitting headaches? Have you complained to your friends about your “client from hell?” These are signals that something isn’t right. Taking Stock If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then it’s time to re-examine your client relationship and
Have you ever been at an event and started to introduce your boss to a Very Important Person and then, out of the blue, you couldn’t remember the VIP’s name? You’re a rare and lucky person if that hasn’t happened to you. What do you do? How do you recover and save face? It’s Not
As if being interviewed in person isn’t pressure enough, job candidates these days often find themselves in the hot seat doing video interviews on Skype or Zoom. It’s a simple and relatively cost-effective way for employers to weed out applicants. Plus the probability of traveling in these waning Covid-19 lock-down days isn’t particularly great.
A recurring – and some would say nerve-racking – event is the sell-side analyst briefing. A sell-side analyst works for a brokerage or financial advisory firm that manages individual accounts. The analyst makes stock recommendations and earnings forecasts to clients of the firm. Public corporations assiduously court these analysts because a favorable rating by an
Do you find you’re not sleeping at night? Are you taking aspirins to relieve your splitting headaches? Have you complained to your friends about your “client from hell?” These are signals that something isn’t right. Taking Stock If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then it’s time to re-examine your client relationship and
Imagine yourself at BIO, the largest biotech convention in the world and 7,500 penguins walk in. That would be the effect if the women attending the event in San Diego followed the advice of Forbes fashion columnist, Kristina Moore. She suggests wearing combinations of a white dress or blouse with a black blazer and black skirt
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