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Career Advancement – How Louis Quadrupled His Income

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Mastering soft skills is critical to your career advancement.   Louis Johnston, one of our executive authors, agrees.  He shared in this interview how mastering certain soft skills helped him skyrocket his career and quadruple his compensation.

Louis started as an Online Marketing Associate, 10 years ago.  He has since been promoted to Manager, Director, Senior Director, and now Head of Growth. This may sound like a straight-forward success story.  It is not.  He didn’t just happen to become super successful by working hard or hitting all his marketing numbers.  On the contrary, he was hitting his numbers, but not getting much credit for it.  Louis was stuck at the same level for awhile. ...  read more

3 Unexpected Lessons from My 15K Race

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hot chocolate run 2016

Two weeks ago, I ran in a 15K race in San Francisco.  It was the Hot Chocolate Run.   I didn’t run fast nor break any records.  On the contrary, I didn’t train for it, had only two hours of sleep the night before, and almost didn’t make it to the race.   This was not like me.  This article is less about the race and more about the three lessons I unexpectedly learned along the way. ...  read more

Are You a “Pleaser Achiever”?

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A month ago, my boss mentioned that everyone on our team is a “Pleaser Achiever”?   I have been meaning to write about it ever since.  So what is a “Pleaser Achiever”, you may ask?  Well, let’s start with a simple quiz

  • When someone comes to you for help at work and your boss tells you you can say no, do you still try to help them?
  • When your manager gives you feedback on where you could improve, do you think about it extensively?
  • If you have a bad meeting with your boss, does it affect you the whole week?
  • If you have conflicts or disagreement with anyone at work, do you think about it at night?
  • Are you quick to apologize?

If you say yes to most or all the questions above, then you are a “Pleaser Achiever.”  Here are the common traits ...  read more

4 Simple Presentation Tips You can Use Immediately

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With my new job, I have had many opportunities to learn useful and simple presentation tips.  In the last 3 months, I attended two conferences and three Town Hall presentations led by senior leaders.   Each one was memorable in its own way.   In this article, I summarized four simple presentation tips I learned from watching how these leaders engaged my attention during their presentations. ...  read more

A Necessary Skill For Every Senior Executive

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What skill does every senior executive has in common?

  • Is it an MBA?  No.  You do not need an MBA to succeed!
  • Is it an ability to achieve financial results?  maybe.  Achieving measurable results can always help, but this article is not about that
  • Is it ability to present well? Not always.  Not all executive are good at presentations, surprisingly

So what is the one skill that every successful senior executive has?  Listen to this 9 minute candidate conversation with Helena Light to find out.  I was even surprised at what she said and how executives practiced this skill every day.  You can also read the Audio Transcription of Our Conversation below ...  read more

Executive Authors

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I am proud to introduce to you – our Executive Authors team.  I am fortunate to have many friends and colleagues who are executives with deep business experience.  Like me, they also want to share their wisdom from the work trenches to help you succeed.

Every Executive Author has over 15 years of business experience working in Fortune 500 and/or start-up companies. See each Executive Author bios below and why they want to help you. ...  read more

Growth Mindset & Self Confidence

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“Whether you say you can’t or you can, you’re right.” – Walt Disney

“I am not the product of my circumstances.  I am the product of my decisions.”  – Steven Covey

It is up to you to

  • Give yourself confidence even if you have never done it before
  • Choose to feel empowered to face new challenges or take action in difficult circumstances

Given having a growth mindset is closely related to being self confident, we list the articles related to these self management skills here to help you develop both. ...  read more