Posts Tagged ‘Plasticity’
What’s Your Business Networking System?
January 22, 2009 | 
Author I just finished this week’s installment of my Land Your Dream Job Seminar with Miriam Salpeter of Keppie Careers. Much of the Design Your Strategy, Devise Your Action Plan and Get Moving was centered around designing a strategy around networking. My guest in 2 weeks will be Jeff Klein founder of Klein Creative, speaker, author, and creator of the audio 30 Seconds to Success. If business networking is something that you’re still not comfortable with doing or aren’t receiving results doing, I wholeheartedly recommend Jeff’s teleseminars.
Posted in Business & Relationship Networking, Career Management, Small Business Success | 
Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Business Networking, Carolann Jacobs, coach, Extraordinary Results, facilitation, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Legacy Leadership, Neuroleadership, neuroscience, Plasticity | 
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Why Goal Setting is a Waste of Time
SMART goals. Set goals to be successful. New Year’s Resolution’s don’t work, set goals. You can’t make progress without goals. Sound familiar?
You’d think that as a coach, I’d be all over this goal-setting business. You’ve heard about goal setting all your life, haven’t you? Parents, teachers, and self-help gurus will all tell you that you need goals. People with goals are more successful, right?
Not entirely. There are a couple of challenges with the way most people set goals.
Posted in Life Coaching | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Carolann Jacobs, coach, coaching, Extraordinary Results, facilitation, goal-setting, goals, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Legacy Leadership, Life Coaching, Neuroleadership, neuroscience, Plasticity, vision | No Comments »
How to Thrive in Tough Times
This interview with Sandy Vilas, the CEO and owner of Coach U, author, speaker, and the man who built the largest coaching practice in the world, is an excellent resource for those of you who are feeling overwhelmed and anxious about the economy. If you’ve been feeling afraid because your job is in danger or gone, if you want to attract more business in 2009, or if you are looking for some tips that you can put into action today, this is an hour well spent.
Posted in Career Management, Life Coaching | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Career Management, Carolann Jacobs, coach, Coach U, coaching, Extraordinary Results, facilitation, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, job search, Leadership, Legacy Leadership, Neuroleadership, neuroscience, Plasticity, Sandy Vilas | No Comments »
Take a Leadership Role: Build Priceless Business Relationships
Dean LIndsay came to speak at my Winning the Game Lunch in Plano, TX last Friday. His talk not only gave me a different framework for talking about the importance of relationship networking, but also reminded me how important it is to you and yours to take a leadership role as a networker. In this article, Dean provides a 4 step process to becoming a great networker. These are also great tips for how to succeed in any environment that requires service, collaboration and trust.
Posted in Business & Relationship Networking, Career Management, Leadership, Small Business Success | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, Business & Relationship Networking, business coach, Career Management, Carolann Jacobs, coach, Extraordinary Results, facilitation, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Legacy Leadership, Marketing, Neuroleadership, neuroscience, Plasticity, Sales | No Comments »
Roaring LION Attracts Opportunities, How About You?
I have done a 180 shift in the last three months when it comes to LinkedIn.
I used to subscribe to the view that I should only connect with people I know and trust and leverage those connections to help others to connect and find opportunities. What I discovered is that I don’t need LinkedIn for this; I have Outlook. LinkedIn helps me to reach the circle of influence of the people with whom I’ve connected, but only when someone else takes action by making that introduction.
Posted in Career Management | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Career Management, Carolann Jacobs, coach, Extraordinary Results, facilitation, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Legacy Leadership, LinkedIn, LION, Neuroleadership, neuroscience, Plasticity | 2 Comments »
Less Job in the New Year?
Happy New Year!
I was reading a career advice column in the Dallas Morning News while I was taking a holiday last week. The letter was from a person who works at a small firm, who likes her job and who was informed that in order to avoid a layoff, everyone in the company will be taking a 15% cut in pay starting on January 1. Her question was whether she had to “roll over” and take it.
Assuming Your Team is Executing Your Plan?
Most of my prospective clients answer yes to this question. And, when I ask them “Based on what evidence?” or “How do you know?” I usually get a vague answer referring to some quarterly all-hands meeting (or worse yet, the yearly one). Business owners and Executives: If you aren’t keeping your vision and goals at the forefront every day, neither is your staff. It is too easy to be caught up in the day-to-day happenings and emergencies to keep the eye on the prize that was mentioned fleetingly in a powerpoint presentation delivered months ago.
Posted in Leadership, Small Business Success | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, business plan, Carolann Jacobs, coach, Extraordinary Results, facilitation, goal-setting, goals, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Legacy Leadership, mission, Neuroleadership, neuroscience, Plasticity, vision | No Comments »
Free Teleseminar to Land Your Dream Job
Miriam Salpeter just posted on her blog about our upcoming free Teleseminar: Land Your Dream Job: 8 Strategies for Outrageous Success. This is our gift to those of you who’ve been affected by the recent downturn in the economy and for those of you who are scared to death that your job might be next. It is free which makes it risk-free to you. 
Posted in Life Coaching | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, career, Carolann Jacobs, coach, Extraordinary Results, facilitation, in transition, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, job search, Leadership, Legacy Leadership, Neuroleadership, neuroscience, Plasticity, teleclass, teleseminar | No Comments »
Top 3 Reasons Why Gift Giving is Good
Critter underneath the Christmas Tree
I’ll start this with an admission: we abdicated on the holiday season this year. There are no latkes, no tree, no gifts, with the exception of those to non-profits such as Best Friends and the Heifer Project.
I didn’t miss any of it until today.
Imperfect Action Strikes Again
Confessions of an Blog Killer and Accidental Spammer
I don’t like bothering my web designer for small things.
You see, my background is in Information Technology. Nearly a decade ago, I was a web developer for about a minute. Adding an RSS Feed button shouldn’t be a big deal for someone with my vast experience with HTML coding, and so, I added that myself. I didn’t like what the About this Place said on the side bar, so I changed that, too. I didn’t like the paragraph color, so I changed that in my style sheet, too (in production, without taking a backup). All was well, until I got a call from Jeremy McKane, my web developer, “What did you do to your blog!”
