Beate Chelette's Blog: The Women's Code, page 39

How to Grab Hot Jobs and Advance at Lighting Speed

It’s so blatantly obvious. The new guy is trying to grab all the hot jobs—those jobs that get the most exposure and have the highest dollar value—even though he isn’t a very good project manager. He’s a number cruncher for crying out loud! Why won’t he let the team member who has the most experience [...]

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Wallflower Be Gone – How To Strut Your Stuff And Get Noticed

Last week I wrote about creating your personal value proposition so you are noticed for the right reasons by your colleagues, friends, and family. Here is the second step on how to create your PVP. A PVP represents your personal brand. It is what you stand for. Or, as my friend Michael Drew says—it is [...]

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Stop Blending In – How To Create your Personal Value Proposition

The single biggest mistake that most people and most businesses make is that they don't know what makes them special. To be noticed you want to identify why you or your business are not like the others. If you don't, you may as well be wearing an invisibility cloak. The first step to getting noticed [...]

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Stop Blending In - How To Create your Personal Value Proposition

The single biggest mistake that most people and most businesses make is that they don't know what makes them special. To be noticed you want to identify why you or your business are not like the others. If you don't, you may as well be wearing an invisibility cloak. The first step to getting noticed [...]

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Why Women Need To Pay Attention to Monica Lewinsky

As the founder of The Women’s Code, the recent revelation of Monica Lewinsky as “patient zero” in cyberbullying stopped me dead in my tracks. In The Women's Code, all women support each other so ripping one of us apart in public is just not what we do. Yet, what she is saying rubs me and [...]

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This One Thing Will Drive Customers Away — Guaranteed

If you've been following my posts, you know your business needs social proof. This is how buyers can verify your credibility through accolades on your website and tantalizing descriptions of your brilliance on places like Yelp, Facebook, Amazon, and TripAdvisor. But there is one big mistake many businesses make that can annoy even happy customers. [...]

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What Are You Waiting For?

Why Aren't You Having Any Fun? We work so much and we are always busy, overwhelmed, and plugged in. We feel guilty if we don’t respond within minutes to a constant incoming stream of pinging emails. And no matter how many we answer and delete, the count keeps getting higher. My inbox currently has 1734 [...]

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How To Throw A Virtual Temper Tantrum, And Why You Should

Blogs and shared content gives us glimpses into the inner workings and belief systems of the thought leaders who post them. There is a reason why some posts get thousands of reads and "Likes" while other musings barely get a few glances. It all boils down to strategy. Strategy matters. Let me explain. Social networks [...]

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Why Not Getting What You Want Is A Good Thing

I've been looking for an answer to a seemingly simple question: Why do we resist change even when something doesn’t work for us? For an entire year I have been cleaning up, changing, maneuvering, and moving things around. I made physical changes, emotional changes, and I’ve changed my mind over just about everything at least [...]

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STIR The Pot: The HOW Of Social Networking

One of the biggest buzzwords you should pay attention to is relationship building. Social networking (not social media) is all about getting others to connect with us. That means we have to understand how to engage people we haven’t even met in meaningful conversations. I recently wrote about the WHY of social networking, and this [...]

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