Polished People = A Trusted Brand
Does your company staff meeting look like this? Your CEO is constantly cutting team members off to ask questions. One engineer is rolling his eyes, another is looking out the window, and yet another is checking email on her phone. How do you FEEL after leaving your meeting, accomplished and validated, or ignored and agitated? [Read more…] about You Are Being Watched! Exercise These 3 Positive Leadership Behaviors
“If you get the culture right, everything becomes easier. If you don’t get it right, all is hard.” – Jack Daly, author of Hyper Sales Growth
Microsoft Inspire is a remarkable trade show. Thousands of IT geeks like myself fly in from all over the globe to connect with colleagues and vendors and get “inspired”by Microsoft’s new innovations. Since taking the leadership helm in 2014, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been driving two main initiatives: launching innovative cloud solutions like Office 365 and Azure and, just as importantly, radically turning the company’s “old” corporate culture of individual kingdoms into a more collaborative environment.
Corporate or departmental culture starts at the top. Nadella is making a concerted effort to encourage his department heads and managers to collaborate versus finding issues with each other’s ideas. While his efforts have certainly been met with trepidation, Microsoft is seeing change in their cultural mindset.
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Why is it so hard for so many of us to share our own success stories? This question continues to tug at me each day as I build Shorr Success.
I recently had the honor of being a “Speed Mentor” (like Speed Dating only the participants are a professional mentee and expert mentor seeking a business not a love connection!) at the Center for Women and Enterprise, Women Business Leaders Conference. The conference was brimming with brilliant women specializing in so many professional directions!
As a second year Speed Mentor, my anticipation was piqued wondering what marketing or branding questions were coming my way? The first woman sat down. Then the next and the next. Each woman shared their story in words, brochures and web pages. Each story touted the many fantastic benefits of their product line or business concept; nutritional analysis, expert engineers, team development, top-of-the-line technology offerings. As each woman sat down, I listened in awe to their innovative ideas and plans for implementation. To my delight, many of those ideas are already in motion and profitable.
A consistent answer continued to arise whenever I asked the question, “can you share some success stories your business has achieved?” [Read more…] about Three Techniques to Owning & Sharing Your Story
This weekend, I am attending the Annual Boston Caribbean Fashion Week Fashion Show. When I think about this event, I envision it looking like the image I created above, vibrant hues of blue and yellow cascading down the runway with attendees looking like a school of rainbow fish!
There have been so many studies done that analyze the human reaction to various colors. Inevitably, people’s reaction to black is drastically different than their reaction to yellow.
So, how influential is color? [Read more…] about How Does Color Influence Your World?
How many presentations do you give on a daily basis? This is a trick question. The answer: all day! Whether we are at the office delivering the quarterly numbers, sitting across the table in a heated negotiation, teaching about Newton’s Law in Science class, or networking at a Business After Hours, you are giving a presentation. [Read more…] about Take Your Presentation from Blah to Brilliant!
The run for Presidential office has taken a turn. A shift from the pressing issues of the economy and global warming to the significance of Republican Senator Marco Rubio’s shiny black boots! Of course, this focus on fashion is a direct attempt at fellow Republican opponents to sway public opinion to believe Rubio is a weaker candidate for wearing more effeminate, fancy shoes. [Read more…] about Five Professional Image Tips Thanks to Marco Rubio’s Boots!