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Career Conundrums: “A Matter of Interpretation”
Depending on your age and life experiences, you may notice that your interests and values are shifting. Additionally, your mindset, feelings, and thoughts affect your ability and willingness to welcome new outlooks. Broadening your perception through “What if?” thinking opens you to different interpretations and enables you to accept that paradoxes can coexist. Here are some perspectives on why you may be experiencing conundrums.
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Deploying Rigor In Your Communication Correspondence
Taking accountability to communicate and correspond in a timely manner can help you build your brand equity and credibility, strengthening your interpersonal relationships. Here are some tips for organizing, prioritizing, and deploying rigor in your communication correspondence.
Four Mechanisms to Solicit Feedback and Measure Success
Concrete data points—quantitative and qualitative—can help you engage stakeholders throughout your projects and provide baselines to measure progress between your current and desired states over time. To support you, here are four proven techniques that work well together.
Proactively Fostering Stakeholder Relations
Managing stakeholders is a process that includes communicating, aligning expectations, addressing and resolving issues or concerns, creating buy-in for decisions, and completing assigned actions. Here are some ways to proactively foster stakeholder relations.
Take Ownership of Your Personal Brand
One of the best gifts you can incorporate into your brand is “positive expectations,” i.e., an optimistic and hopeful outlook that centers on positive results where you believe your desired outcomes are attainable. As the ultimate owner of your brand, you can choose when to accentuate, modify, or refresh its story. Here are some steps to help you take ownership of your personal brand.
Distinguish Your Personal Brand With These Fundamental Skills
Build your brand equity and credibility by strengthening how you show up and interact with others. To support you, here are some essential skills that can help you elevate your visibility, be more memorable, and distinguish your personal brand.
How to Better Identify and Handle Stressful Situations
What causes you stress is based on your instinctual patterns, beliefs, conditioned behaviors, and experiences. It is essential to understand your triggers, i.e., what they are, what causes them to react, and how you handle the outcome. From there, you can evaluate what is and is not working and lean into more effective strategies to establish new habits that help you accept what-is and shift your outlook.
3S’ To Embrace Sustainable Self-Care Rituals
Self-care is a necessity that takes practice and discipline, especially when faced with competing wants, needs, responsibilities, and commitments. Being deliberate in your intentions and incorporating these 3S’ into your routine can be life changing.
6As of Communication To Foster Trust
Effective interpersonal communication requires listening intently, exhibiting patience, honoring different perspectives, and embracing silence. Practicing and experimenting with these 6As can boost your communication savvy and foster trust.
Communication: The Reality of Conversations
Conversations are usually a matter of interpretation between the sender and receiver. What gets said and what is heard can differ based on an individual’s preconceived notions and underlying motivations. Boost your insight with “self-check-ins” to communicate more effectively. Here are some steps to guide you.
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