Being professionally valuable to colleagues and clients is an ethical, strategic, and purpose-driven choice. You put the work in to attain those 10,000 hours of mastery. Your value is how you deliver on your professional promise. So why do you feel as though you are constantly justifying your value to others? And why do you… [Continue Reading]
Are You Professionally Valuable or Just A Professional Freebie?
Are You Perceived As Being Too Easy To Work With?
Are you perceived as being too easy to work with? Think about it. Yes, you focus on being a team player. And you always try to do “whatever it takes” to acquire and/or serve colleagues and customers. Yet colleagues and clients just do not take you as seriously as you wish to be regarded (and… [Continue Reading]
Revenue Generation is Everyone’s Collaborative Responsibility
Revenue generation is everyone’s collaborative responsibility, regardless of whether it is stated or not in your job description. Are you engaged in revenue generation or cost containment in your current professional role? Instead of either-or, let’s transform your role into yes-and. Are you going back into traditional professional roles which separate people by how they… [Continue Reading]
What Do You Do When You Professionally Blue Screen?
Do you ignore or dismiss signals that you are going to professionally blue screen? Consider these signals are opportunities for you to move one millimeter beyond where you are today. Get to where you really need to go, tomorrow. Now, a computer blue screen is nothing to look forward to. I dealt with this issue,… [Continue Reading]
Focus on Brain Cross Training To Vitalize Team Collaboration
Brain cross training is a potent strategy for becoming more professionally visible, cross-functionally relevant, and strategically valuable. And this hybrid skill set is tailor-made for what is new and next in our workplaces. Sound daunting? It’s easier than you think. Just give yourself permission to move one millimeter beyond what is currently professionally comfortable. Let’s… [Continue Reading]
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