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10 Ways to Use Linked In To Find A Job

Feb 16

Carolann Jacobs on February 16th, 2009

Guy Kawasaki wrote a very nice post about some more sophisticated ways to use LinkedIn to help you. Most of my recent postings have focused more on using social media to build relationships. This is about the nuts and bolts of doing research. Small Business Owners, the ideas that Guy talks about in his post [...]

What questions do you have about coaching?

Feb 4

Carolann Jacobs on February 4th, 2009

This is your day to get your questions answered. What have you always wanted to know about coaching, but have never had a risk-free way to ask? Leave a post below.
Peace and Prosperity,
Carolann

Top 10 Business Tools You Can Get for FREE

Feb 3

Carolann Jacobs on February 3rd, 2009

I came across an excellent article on Entrepreneur.com about some of the best free tools to help small business owners. I had been looking for things like this for my business a few months ago, and I wish I’d found some of these.
Here are my top 10 picks:

Dimdim.com: Open source web conferencing applicaiton.
Adrive.com: 50GB of [...]

What are you doing differently today in your small business?

Feb 2

Carolann Jacobs on February 2nd, 2009

A funny thing is happening at some of the networking events I’ve attended recently. Many of the stock brokers and real estate agents are complaining about the market (one realtor even said she was bored). Every time I tell them that I don’t get it, they look at me like I’ve lost my [...]

How to Get Real Performance Out of Your Performance Management

Jan 30

Carolann Jacobs on January 30th, 2009

Yesterday, we talked about the most common way larger organizations set about the performance management and how it demotivates rather than focuses on success. Today we’re going to talk about how you as a leader can be that Calibrator of Accountability and Responsibility™ (by Legacy Leadership), and create meaningful and motivating objectives in your organization.
The [...]

Is Performance Management Killing Performance?

Jan 29

Carolann Jacobs on January 29th, 2009

“Goals without a vision are just a task list.” ~ Ken Abrams, Top Coach Consulting
We set goals to take us somewhere greater, and without that strategic plan, we’re just chasing after to do’s on the road to nowhere.
It’s getting to be that time of year when many groups and individuals within groups are looking ahead [...]

The Best Mentor Coach

Jan 28

Carolann Jacobs on January 28th, 2009

One of the things that new coach’s realize in the first months of their training is that we didn’t know what we were talking about when we said that we’d been “coaching all of our lives.” At the beginning, most of us thought that because people seek us out for advice and support that we [...]

The Biggest Mistake I Made Trying to Reward Peak Performers

Jan 27

Carolann Jacobs on January 27th, 2009

Several years ago, I was sitting in my VP’s office after my team spent a grueling year implementing a doomed-to-failure-from-the-start software project. Over the course of time and two divorces. it had been reduced and re-reduced into something achievable, and we were discussing how to reward the team for less than $100.
Unless we stuck to [...]

Would Disclosing the Salary Secret Explode Your Organization?

Jan 26

Carolann Jacobs on January 26th, 2009

Do you remember the days when car shopping was fraught with stress because when it all came down to the price you paid for the car came down to how well you negotiated? Back in the day, all the buyer had to work from was the MSRP, which nearly everyone knew was thousands more than [...]

Save The Day With Collaboration

Jan 23

admin on January 23rd, 2009

Today, I want to take a look at Best Practice Number 2 from the Legacy Leadership® model (this is the model that serves as the foundation for my Inimitable LeadershipTM series of group masterminds). This best practice states that a leader is a “Creator of Collaboration and Innovation.”
Generally speaking, great innovation comes from groups of [...]

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