Not everyone loves to network. Here are a few tips to flip the script and enjoy the event. Connect with me at emily@wordsofdistinction.net if any of these tips help!
Pooja Dang is back to talk about habits and how we can transform them while celebrating small wins. You can visit her website, www.poojadang.com to learn more about her services, or contact her at hello@poojadang.com.
Resources:
Atomic Habits (James Clear)
The Power of Habit (Charles Duhigg)
Better Than Before (Gretchen Rubin)
www.tinyhabits.com (BJ Fogg)
My guest this week is Cindy Skalicky. Cindy is the founder of On Point Communications, a boutique firm that helps global executives and their teams Master the Message. With a graduate degree in rhetorical techniques and persuasion, Cindy brings more than 25 years of experience developing, refining and delivering effective messages in the corporate, academic, and entrepreneurial worlds – including the virtual world.
In this episode, Cindy shares tips on how to make your online presence pop, advice for connecting with your audience, and guidance on what has and hasn’t changed as we’ve moved to a virtual reality. She also shares some really interesting advice on using slides at virtual meetings, which is different from what many of us have learned about in-person presentations.
To learn more about Cindy and her services, and follow her excellent YouTube how-to videos, you can visit her website:
www.onpoint-communications.com
You can also connect with her via:
Follow the three Rs: Research, Relationships, and Readiness, to organize and energize your job search.
Following me at:
www.linkedin.com/in/emilyfithianwong
@careersemily
Or schedule a free complimentary call to discuss how I can help you move forward.
My guest is Cheryl Benedict, author of The Wisdom of Transition.
Even when our career goes through a dramatic change, and even when this change is thrust upon us, we have the power to choose our path forward. Most important, we have the power to choose how we navigate that path.
It all starts with self-awareness and reflection. Cheryl compassionately reminds us that since change is the one constant we can count on, we should embrace it and celebrate our courage in doing so.
Connect with Cheryl on her website, www.thewisdomoftransition.com. You’ll also find some great tools and resources for navigating your own transition.
I’m excited to have Pooja Dang on my show again, this time to discuss *meaningful* productivity. You can visit her website, www.poojadang.com to learn more about her services, or contact her at hello@poojadang.com.
Following are the instructions for setting the iPhone “do not disturb” option Pooja mentioned during the call:
If you don’t want to receive calls from certain people or any calls at all, you can create a group and put the numbers there.
Block All Calls on Your iPhone Except Contacts
Open Settings > Do Not Disturb.
Tap Allow Calls From.
You have several options, but one is All Contacts.
For a couple of great books on how you can improve productivity for the things that matter, I highly recommend Cal Newport’s Deep Work and Gretchen Rubin’s Better Than Before.
I’m so very grateful for my career-focused community, including the professionals who so generously share their ideas and my clients, listeners, and guests who inspire me with their stories. During this episode, I hope you’ll get some ideas for building and nurturing your own community as we enter this new kind of holiday season.
In this very special episode, I interview my sister, Alice Woods, who set sail in the spring of 2011 on her 38’ boat, True Blue, with a small crew of mostly women on each leg of her journey around the world. This daring circumnavigation wasn’t just an adventure of physical endurance. It was an amazing testament of how we have the power to discover what we’re truly capable of, even while navigating tremendous grief. Alice and I hope you’ll find inspiration and a path to self-empowerment from her story. If you’d like to send Alice a note or questions, please feel free to send them to me, at emily@wordsofdistinction.net, and I’ll forward them to Alice, who will respond to you.
I get a lot of questions from my clients about the top priorities when it comes to their LinkedIn profiles. Here, I focus on the top three. If you have any questions, connect with me at emily@wordsofdistinction.net, www.linkedin.com/in/emilyfithianwong. Follow me on Twitter @careersemily and my website/blog: www.wordsofdistinction.net
Join my guest, Pooja Dang, and me for a conversation about perfectionism and how we try to manage it with ourselves and with our clients. As Pooja says, it’s time to “break up with perfect!”
