Here below is a great article on how to leverage LinkedIn for career purposes.
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/career/how-to-use-linkedin-strategically/2734?tag=nl.e124
Good Luck.
About Me
- Di Wright
- I am an ESL Instructor, Communications Specialist, Career Coach and Novice Writer specifically for your communication/ career goals, and establishing your brand. For over 11 years, I have led leadership/communication workshops (and now online sessions ) on developing leadership skills, enhancing creativity, creating a work/life balance, and many other subjects for the Toronto Board of Education, and in the non-profit and corporate sector. My approach teaches the vital importance of clear, motivational, yet caring communication. I have recently written a journaling workbook for my students/clients that contains weekly reflections with activities. It has been used by life coaches, career consultants and communications instructors. Here is the link for those who wish to learn about my journalling workbook and to purchase it.. http://tinyurl.com/serendipityjournal I’m currently working on my second workbook – a unique guidebook for traveling your career pathway. For more information about my upcoming other workbooks, email me at: d.wri3420@gmail.com
Monday, January 31, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Sites for business research and trends
A new year means new beginnings and that also means new research re: career and business trends.
Here are some great sites for business research and trends. You can also subscribe to ezines from them, when they are avaiable and timely updates.. Good luck
www.forbes.com
www.economist.com
www.canadianbusiness.com
www.businessweek.com
www.canada.com
Here are some great sites for business research and trends. You can also subscribe to ezines from them, when they are avaiable and timely updates.. Good luck
www.forbes.com
www.economist.com
www.canadianbusiness.com
www.businessweek.com
www.canada.com
Monday, January 10, 2011
Promote your career with online article writing
With the new year, it is also time again to promote your talents and competencies online. One way to do this is to write an article and submit it to a reputable site.
Here below are some sites to submit articles on various topics related to many types of fields, such as business and career sectors. Good luck.
http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.ideamarketers.com
http://www.selfgrowth.com
http://www.submityourarticle.com
http://www.zeromillion.com
Here below are some sites to submit articles on various topics related to many types of fields, such as business and career sectors. Good luck.
http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.ideamarketers.com
http://www.selfgrowth.com
http://www.submityourarticle.com
http://www.zeromillion.com
Sunday, January 9, 2011
What is the colour of your grass
As we begin 2011, a lot of us make resolutions for change in our lives and yes, change is good, yet at the same time- to play the devil s advocate here- we have to reflect on what things we really genuinely should change in our lives.
To elaborate here,do you seriously believe that all the grass in your life is yellow. Something we sometimes simply have to come to terms with is that there is no perfect life, job, spouse, relationship, child or parent.
In other words, there is always going to be yellow and brown spots in our grass. This is something that we must take into account when making a major decision in our lives.
Yes, we all have heard of people who have made a drastic change in their lives—thinking that the grass is green over there only to find out that the grass was just as yellow over there. We often have used filters that coloured our experiences making the grass brown or yellow and so much more delectable on the other side... these filters often make us colour blind to the fact that our current grass is actually quite green exactly where we are. The filters have distorted the true picture for us thereby making us sometimes foolishly ponder a drastic and unwarranted change in our lives.
An epiphany is experienced when you realize that the grass is greener where you water it—in other words-- that only you and you alone are responsible for your life satisfaction and happiness. So sometimes you have to take out that hypothetical watering hose (vessel) and pour more efforts into your life to make that part of it green again.
We can look to others for inspiration and motivation in our watering efforts and how our water vessel is created. We also can journal to explore some of the issues that may be responsible for our yellow and brown spots. Depending on the situation, we can have conversations with loved ones, colleagues, coworkers, our life and work managers to get a deeper perspective on some of these issues.
With a more mature, seasoned perspective with the help of mentors, or life and career coaches, we can now look at our grass with as few of these filters as realistically possible.
Along with these efforts , we can with a little more initiative and patience ,slowly and purposefully, turn the grass green under our feet once again.
If we go through this contemplative and reflective process, better career and life decisions can made if we embrace and accept the reality that the grass is not always greener on the other side.
To elaborate here,do you seriously believe that all the grass in your life is yellow. Something we sometimes simply have to come to terms with is that there is no perfect life, job, spouse, relationship, child or parent.
In other words, there is always going to be yellow and brown spots in our grass. This is something that we must take into account when making a major decision in our lives.
Yes, we all have heard of people who have made a drastic change in their lives—thinking that the grass is green over there only to find out that the grass was just as yellow over there. We often have used filters that coloured our experiences making the grass brown or yellow and so much more delectable on the other side... these filters often make us colour blind to the fact that our current grass is actually quite green exactly where we are. The filters have distorted the true picture for us thereby making us sometimes foolishly ponder a drastic and unwarranted change in our lives.
An epiphany is experienced when you realize that the grass is greener where you water it—in other words-- that only you and you alone are responsible for your life satisfaction and happiness. So sometimes you have to take out that hypothetical watering hose (vessel) and pour more efforts into your life to make that part of it green again.
We can look to others for inspiration and motivation in our watering efforts and how our water vessel is created. We also can journal to explore some of the issues that may be responsible for our yellow and brown spots. Depending on the situation, we can have conversations with loved ones, colleagues, coworkers, our life and work managers to get a deeper perspective on some of these issues.
With a more mature, seasoned perspective with the help of mentors, or life and career coaches, we can now look at our grass with as few of these filters as realistically possible.
Along with these efforts , we can with a little more initiative and patience ,slowly and purposefully, turn the grass green under our feet once again.
If we go through this contemplative and reflective process, better career and life decisions can made if we embrace and accept the reality that the grass is not always greener on the other side.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Journalling and the year 2011
As we begin a new year, I thought it might be nice to revisit the benefits of journalling in my life and in others.. Journalling is a wonderful way of seeing your life- both professionally and personally in a different light.
So here again are the main benefits of journalling:
-getting clarity re: what you want in your life.
-Creating and setting boundaries.
-Ferreting out life goals.
-Beginning a journey to walking your own pathway.
-Tapping into your intrapersonal/ retrospective side by means of reflection.
-Helping you take yourself and others through the experiential learning cycle.
-Finding hidden talents and abilities within your authentic self
-Finding the positive strengths in yourself and others, and building on them
For a great guidebook on journalling, you can check out my journalling workbook at " A Year in Serendipity: A Journalling
Workbook"http://tinyurl.com/serendipityjournal .
All the best for 2011
So here again are the main benefits of journalling:
-getting clarity re: what you want in your life.
-Creating and setting boundaries.
-Ferreting out life goals.
-Beginning a journey to walking your own pathway.
-Tapping into your intrapersonal/ retrospective side by means of reflection.
-Helping you take yourself and others through the experiential learning cycle.
-Finding hidden talents and abilities within your authentic self
-Finding the positive strengths in yourself and others, and building on them
For a great guidebook on journalling, you can check out my journalling workbook at " A Year in Serendipity: A Journalling
Workbook"http://tinyurl.com/serendipityjournal .
All the best for 2011
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Holistic Employee Engagment
As you work on your communication and career goals, you might like to reflect on nurturing and creating holistic employee engagement.
Holistic employee engagement is really about creating a positive influence on people s behaviour.
This goal can be achieved through many of the following means:
1. Support them emotionally, within the context of workplace communications
2. Provide guidance and positive feedback for performance enhancement
3. Recognize good work publicly and openly
4. Demonstrate a commitment to honouring their views and opinions—ask for their perspectives and act on their workplace needs and wishes- what is needed to do their job
5. Work one- on -one in positive collaboration with employees on their work
6. Avoid too little or too much guidance
7. Avoid detailing to extreme measures about their respective projects
8. Avoid unconstructive feedback by addressing only the issue at hand—not all their past transgressions at once or vague comments that do not address specific work behaviours and performance..
9. Do not hold grudges—move forward each day in your attempt to engage them holistically
Holistic employee engagement is really about creating a positive influence on people s behaviour.
This goal can be achieved through many of the following means:
1. Support them emotionally, within the context of workplace communications
2. Provide guidance and positive feedback for performance enhancement
3. Recognize good work publicly and openly
4. Demonstrate a commitment to honouring their views and opinions—ask for their perspectives and act on their workplace needs and wishes- what is needed to do their job
5. Work one- on -one in positive collaboration with employees on their work
6. Avoid too little or too much guidance
7. Avoid detailing to extreme measures about their respective projects
8. Avoid unconstructive feedback by addressing only the issue at hand—not all their past transgressions at once or vague comments that do not address specific work behaviours and performance..
9. Do not hold grudges—move forward each day in your attempt to engage them holistically
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Joining the Digital Revolution
The 21st century is ushering in the Digital World—gradually shifting from the analog world.. Even Canada is getting onboard building its national Digital Media Action Plan across the spectrum. One example is the Canadian Digital Media Network.
Universities are also now exploring Digital Media opportunities by blending together liberal arts, computer science and business marketing.
Likewise we need to have a Digital Media Plan for our career. Most positions are now found through such social networking sites as LinkedIn and Facebook. As such, it is crucial that we map out a strategy for our Digital Media Action Plan and consciously implement it with all our actions and updates on these sites, along with the other business and career apps that these sites offer.
Furthermore, in our current knowledge economy, we need to focus on sensitivity,intuition and willingness to collaborate. These factors have to be an integral part of our digital media strategy and part of our personal brand.
.Workopolis is also leveraging the power of the net & digital social media to help companies find new talent . In fact, Workopolis has redesigned its site offering a new service called Employer Brand Optimizer .
Workopolis audience numbers is about 15 million potential employees with the help of Facebook and Twitter—once again showing the power of Digital Social Media in action.
Moreover, Facebook has recently developed a career app that is making strides in developing and promoting your professional portfolio. LinkedIn also has updated its professional follow of companies apps.
Those persons who fail to join the Digital Generation – Revolution will fall behind in the competitive workplace and professional world of the 21st century.
Universities are also now exploring Digital Media opportunities by blending together liberal arts, computer science and business marketing.
Likewise we need to have a Digital Media Plan for our career. Most positions are now found through such social networking sites as LinkedIn and Facebook. As such, it is crucial that we map out a strategy for our Digital Media Action Plan and consciously implement it with all our actions and updates on these sites, along with the other business and career apps that these sites offer.
Furthermore, in our current knowledge economy, we need to focus on sensitivity,intuition and willingness to collaborate. These factors have to be an integral part of our digital media strategy and part of our personal brand.
.Workopolis is also leveraging the power of the net & digital social media to help companies find new talent . In fact, Workopolis has redesigned its site offering a new service called Employer Brand Optimizer .
Workopolis audience numbers is about 15 million potential employees with the help of Facebook and Twitter—once again showing the power of Digital Social Media in action.
Moreover, Facebook has recently developed a career app that is making strides in developing and promoting your professional portfolio. LinkedIn also has updated its professional follow of companies apps.
Those persons who fail to join the Digital Generation – Revolution will fall behind in the competitive workplace and professional world of the 21st century.
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