What Should You Stop, Start or Continue?
As a part of Entrepreneurs’ Organization, an amazing organization of entrepreneur peers that I’ve been a part of since 2011, I recently went to our new board’s Strategy Summit where our facilitator shared this exercise called Stop, Start or Continue. It’s very easy and simple team exercise and the results can be profound for our
Protect Your WordPress Site and Content with Backup Buddy
I’m super pumped to announce BackupBuddy 3.0 is out and into the wild! We believe it’s the MOST essential plugin you can have running on your WordPress site … because what good is it to write content, upload your photos and get your site all blinged out only to lose it all because of malware,
Be On Time, Every Time
This should be implied but I’ve realized it’s not. You must: Show up for work on time, every time, and even before time. When in doubt, ask what the expected times are. And be early and stay later. It adds up. People see it. It shows commitment. And by the way, just because other people
6 Ways to Combat Anger and Bitterness
My business coach Michael Smith of iMentorLeaders.com says, “Anger and frustration come from unmet expectations.” It’s solid truth to know as you start or grow a business. Ever since I heard that truth and as I’ve gotten angry or frustrated with something in our business (or heck, my personal life for that matter), I’ve thought
Learn Basic Web Design Skills
I might be biased in this regard, but most career professionals should have some set of basic web design and coding skills. Although I think it’s equally useful in large corporations, if you’re in a smaller organization, where there isn’t an “IT department,” “webmaster” or someone whose primary role is to maintain the web presence, you’re
The Hiring Process Is Like Speed Dating and Shotgun Weddings
For companies, hiring is like going on two dates and asking that person to marry you. Or, for job candidates, saying yes to a marriage proposal after only a couple of dates. Somehow we’re supposed to know from a couple pieces of paper and 30 minutes or a couple of hours that you’re the one
Learn to Type Fast
Keyboarding is an underutilized, under appreciated skill for career professionals. With the speed of technological innovation, computers are being integrated into virtually every job out there, even in manual labor type jobs. For employers it saves time as it democratizes data in the organization. For employees, it can save us time and energy that can
See What Companies Employees Are Flocking To With LinkedIn’s Insightful Statistics
For the last couple of hours, I’ve been fascinated with exploring “Companies” on LinkedIn when I stumbled onto a link on most company profile on the right sidebar that says “Check out insightful statistics about [company] employees >>” To find this, simply add “insights” to the end of any company profile URL. Such as: http://www.linkedin.com/company/apple/insights
Create Your Bucket List
I created a bucket list for the first time in August 2010. At the time, I had achieved some of my biggest dreams and was grasping for “what’s next” and “what’s left” in my life. I was struggling actually. I’ve always had big over aching goals to pursue. And with most of the major ones
New Series: Get Career Tips & Action Steps in 5 Minutes
Today I’m introducing the Quick Career Nuggets series at Purposeful Paychecks. The goal is to give career tips and practical steps for action in 5 minutes or less. In each Career Nugget blog post, I’ll seek to …. Give some key nugget Why you should heed it How to learn more and take action You