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Stay safe and say the right things on Twitter

Posted by Haja in Personal Brand, Personal Branding

While your personal brand can be accentuated with your online presence and your ability to manage the discussions on Twitter, there are downsides – and this is, unfortunately, an example of what can go wrong.

Be very careful about what you say and put up on the Social Sites.

You never know what comes back to bite you- with more and more reference check being done online… be careful, be very careful.

http://www.slashgear.com/microsofts-creative-director-resigns-after-twitter-rant-10277381/

Apr.11

Your Online Personal Brand- Mistakes with Twitter

Posted by Haja in Personal Brand, Personal Branding

Excellent Infographic on Mistakes you could be making on Twitter. A must read – and Twitter is a key vehicle for your online branding.

Courtesy: http://www.youtern.com/thesavvyintern/index.php/2013/04/10/10-twitter-mistakes-that-harm-your-personal-brand-infographic/

Apr.11

Make today a Masterpiece

Posted by Haja in Attitude, Career, Personal Branding

“What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour? “

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are just completing the quarter end. Most of you, who are in sales, marketing or any other line of business, the last month of the quarter is when there is pressure to ensure that time counts. Everything that we were working on – comes to the fore now. If we miss it, the time is gone. The impact is lost.

So, the whole team works to achieve the goals- be it sales goals, budget goals or any other goals that are driven by a time limit.

It has happened every year for the last 20 years. The amount of work I see done by me, the team, and every other member in the company – in the last 5 days, is amazing. People bring a level of energy that they normally don’t… till these last 5 days.

The last 5 days are a masterpiece of success – for each of us.

And it makes me wonder!

Why?

Why do I (and many others) suddenly come to life in these last 5 days- and make impossible things happen! Why did we not do it every other day of the week, month, quarter and year?

Imagine, what we could have achieved, if we brought this level of energy to the table- every day.

And this is what I am trying to do.

Every day, start by asking these 5 words.

“What we I do today”?

Some of the best coaches do not focus on just the main match, but on every day when the team is practicing. By getting into a mode of doing the very best, every day, while becoming a habit, also opens up the avenues to achieve a lot more in our life.

Most of us tend to look at the outcome- and postpone many things that can be done now- to later, to tomorrow to another day.

Start today- and make this day a masterpiece.

If at home, make it a masterpiece for your family.

At work, make it a masterpiece for yourself, your team, you company.

The ripple effect of what you start, will start moving across others – and before long your team and your company will be bringing about change, that other can just dream of.

All because- you made your day today- a masterpiece.

Mar.30

Have you left your MARK?

Posted by Haja in Management, Personal Branding

With a look bordering on panic, Weatherhead School of Management Professor Richard Boland Jr. watched as Matt Fineout, an architect with Gehry & Associates, casually tore up the plans for a new building.

Boland and Fineout had been struggling for two full days to remove some 5,500 Square feet from the floor plan designed by star architect Frank Gehry, while leaving groom needed for meeting spaces and office equipment.

At the end of the marathon planning session, Boland had breathed a sigh of relief. “It’s finally done,” he thought. But at that moment, Fineout rose from his chair, ripped the document apart and threw the scraps into a trash bin.

He responded to Prof. Boland’s shocked expression with a gentle shrug and a soft remark- “We have shown WE can do it; now we need to think of HOW we want to do it”.

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This is a fantastic example of how some companies and some successful people go about creating magic in what they do.

For them, it is not about just doing a job! It is about leaving their mark!

Every time you start a project, think not just about the outcome – but think about how you will leave your mark!

Think of every project you have done over the last couple of weeks-

List out if there is anything you could have done differently
What would you have done to evoke a “WOW” from your readers, bosses, colleagues?
Now look at your current project. What are you doing about it? What can you do differently!
Just do it for the current project. Look for the changed feedback!

Dec.14

Love what you do..

Posted by Haja in Goals, Management, Personal Branding, Personal Effectiveness

Courtesy: http://www.savagechickens.com/2005/11/love-your-work.html

This is an oft repeated advise in various personal development courses (and books). Many a motivational speaker has become richer telling this- and here we are, reading this blog, and wondering, how many more will say this.

And you know what? So it is.

If you don’t love what you are doing, you won’t be happy at it or good at it- and worse, it will show.…and , this is great advice on paper for people who have an option.

For many of you (as it is for me), that option does not exist.

You are doing things which you just have to do because you have very limited choice.

So how do we make work life totally enjoyable?

First find something that you love in your job. There must be SOMETHING in your job that you love (apart from shutting shop end of the day). Find that. Focus your energy around that area- and bring in one new thing into that circle (of things you love doing) everyday. You will be surprised at how your energy levels will start going up post that- and your work will start shining.

From a job that was “boring”, “not stretching my abilities”, it will become more interesting & the passion will rise every day.

Stardom is just one task away!

Let me know if this works.

Sep.18