___________________________________ Andy Robinson, Career Success Coach CRG Leadership Institute LLC Phone: 239-285-5575 www.StrategicThinkingPartner.com www.AndyRobinsonCareerTips.com
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Leaders! Make Someone's Day - Recognize Team Members by Andy Robinson - Jun, 2010 Team member recognition is absolutely essential. Look for every opportunity you can to reward and recognize excellent results, "above and beyond" effort and value added. Listed below are seven relatively easy, but highly effective, ways for you to recognize your team members' effort, time and results: • It's all up to YOU. Financial rewards, your company's "brand" or the quality of your executive team will not, by them... |
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What Have You Gotten Better at So Far This Year? by Andy Robinson - Jun, 2010 Business As Usual so far in 2010? In the day-to-day, week-to-week conduct of our work, business life and personal life, we do the things we need to do to accomplish our job and get things done. We exercise our talents to get these things done; we utilize our key skills to do those things as well as we can. Six months go by, a year goes by, lots of work is done, lots of things get done. but...have WE gotten better?... or a... |
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How to Organize Your Contact Network for Success by Andy Robinson - Jun, 2010 All to often I find that my coaching clients, faced with an impending job change -- voluntary or involuntary -- realize very quickly that their contact network is "stale" and rather shallow. It is MUCH easier to maintain and nourish your network on an ongoing basis rather than play "catch-up" when you find yourself in need of help from others. Your network of business, professional and personal contacts is the most valuable... |
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Heads Up! You Already ARE In Business For Yourself by Andy Robinson - Jun, 2010 A Preamble to Today's Article: In the earlier part of my career, I was a CPA with the firm now known as PricewaterhouseCoopers ("PwC"). I quickly gravitated into PwC's highly profitable corporate finance consulting practice as a Director in the firm's Atlanta office, where I spent 10 years specializing in Financial Advisory Services to Fortune 500 companies. The last 15 years of my work life have been oriented around my ne... |
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Shift the Burden of Email Overload Back to the Sender with These Tips by Andy Robinson - Jun, 2010 Before email, SENDERS shouldered the burden of mail. Writing, stamping, and mailing a letter was a lot of work. Email bludgeoned that system in no time. Now the RECEIVER shoulders the burden of filtering, reading and responding to the endless stream of emails we receive on a day-to-day basis. Taming email means training the senders to put the burden of quality back on themselves. What's the best way to train everyone aro... |
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The Power of Keeping Your Promises by Andy Robinson - May, 2010 How effective are you at keeping the promises and commitments you make - those commitments you make to others and those commitments you make to yourself? The cost you pay for not keeping your promises may not seem like much at the time, but the true cost is a cumulative cost, a cost that, over time, will significantly erode (1) the trust others place in you, (2) your personal integrity, (3) your self-esteem, (4) your self-c... |
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Want to Accelerate Your Career Success? Then Sharpen Your Listening Skills by Andy Robinson - May, 2010 Hey, listen up...Want to really accelerate AND sustain your career success? Then, you've GOT to be a highly effective listener. As a leader, LISTENING skills are MORE IMPORTANT than your speaking skills...No question. You learn much more from listening -- you pick up details and key information that you tend to if you don't really dial into what the other person is saying. Others feel much more comfortable with you if th... |
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10 Habits To Energize Your Day! Time To Pump It Up! by Andy Robinson - May, 2010 Balancing "highly focused work effort" with adequate rest and recovery is invaluable in any performance venue - work, athletics, sports, hobbies, etc. Without adequate recovery time, we overstress our bodies physically, emotionally and mentally. Energy levels suffer and peak performance is impacted. Energize Yourself! With regard to work activities, recovery time not only includes planned vacations and time away from wo... |
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Why Helping Others Improve Helps YOU by Andy Robinson - May, 2010 Nothing else compares to the personal satisfaction and fulfillment of helping other people bring their dreams to life. Beyond the intrinsic satisfaction, however, is the true power of this principle -- When you help improve the lives of other people, your own life will improve...in many ways. When you consistently undertake efforts and actions to help other people grow, you create important cause-and-effect results: W... |
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Shift Your Career Into High Gear With This Tip by Andy Robinson - May, 2010 Whether you work for a global corporation, a small business, or for yourself, it is absolutely essential that you THINK and ACT like an "owner" -- "own" your job, own your role as a leader or manager, own your roles and responsibilities -- put yourself in the shoes of a business owner, and think and behave as any owner would do. This is not new advice; many of us have heard this before, and many of us have probably given this... |
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