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Interview Basics
May 19, 2013
in Business
Interview Basics – What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
It astonishes me how many job seekers in today’s day and age are held back because they lack the information and skills necessary to interview well. I have developed a simple list of basic interview skills every job seeker should posses before stepping foot in the door of an interview. You may be amazed by what you don’t know.
Prepare a resume that sells. Is your resume a timeline, historical document, or a sophisticated marketing and sales piece? Sell the employer on your best attributes and what you can bring to More >
Guest Writer: Indie Music Promoter and Author James Moore
RobertJRGraham.com Interviews James Moore, Author of “Your Band is a Virus” & Indie Music Promoter
Can you tell us a bit about how you got involved with the music industry?
I started off promoting artists on a freelance basis in my local music scene. I’ve always been a uni-tasker and it’s very easy for me to get consumed with what I’m doing, from doing puzzles in my childhood to obsessively researching promotion tactics and music industry information, so through my passion for music, this is a role I naturally slipped into. My slant in learning was that I was interested not so much in the More >
Changing Attitudes and Behaviours
Attitudes and Behaviours
By Kellie Auld
There was an interesting conversation that took place not long ago on HR Linked In, in which the following question was posted:
“Can changing a behavior really change an attitude? It’s often said that changing a workplace behavior can be “easily” done through strong and immediately enforced incentives/disincentives. But does changing a behavior also result in a changed attitude? What do you do with an employee who’s behavior has changed for the better but they still have a very “bad attitude” towards such things as racism, sexism, ageism, etc? Will More >
Leaders Do the Right Thing
March 21, 2013
in Business
Essential Leadership Skills – Do the Right Thing – Integrity and Accountability
What’s the one essential leadership skill you can’t do without? What one thing will carry you through any crisis? What one value is paramount to your success as a leader?
Integrity.
According to The Millionaire Mind, most first generation, self-made millionaires say they could not have gotten to where they are without uncompromising integrity. Integrity is one of the essential skills of a leader and a foundation for success. The honesty and fair dealing you bring to your position speaks More >
Respect – Essential Leadership Skill
March 17, 2013
in Business
Treating All People With Respect – An Essential Leadership Skill
People will like to be treated with respect and those that feel disrespected office seek revenge. Therefore, a leader should treat all people with respect otherwise they can assume that there will be some active disrespect coming their way and perhaps even a little sabotage. Once an organization breaks down to the point where people are sabotaging the success all is lost and the team is no longer viable, and therefore, cannot win.
Most people believe that respect must be earned. Most everyone believe that More >
Beliefs, Behaviours, Results
Understanding the Belief, Behaviour, Results Model
What is the BBR Model?
Our belief system determines all of our behaviours and consequently, our behaviours determine our results. For each of our goals to be achieved successfully, they must have a clearly defined measure of success that conforms to the rules of well formed outcomes, enabling us to judge whether we have successfully achieved the goal or not. In the event that we have not achieved the goal then we will inevitably make excuses why we haven’t achieved it. Remember, “that we are in total control of our minds More >
Dream Big, It’s Important
The Importance of Dreaming Big
By A McIntyre
As children, we all had our own big, crazy dreams for the future. Some may have wanted to become the first astronauts to land on Mars, while others wanted to end all wars and achieve true world peace. But where have those big dreams gone? As we grew older, looked at those old dreams and dismiss them, believing that they’re unattainable or that they were just products of a child’s naïve fantasies.
The sad thing is that these days, even the children seem to be afraid to dream big. Research has shown that only 10% of Americans actually set a goal More >
Fostering A Positive Attitude
Creating a Positive Attitude
By Judy Braley
A positive attitude is a disciplined decision of the mind to maintain a consistently confident expectation of good results. John Terhune
I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. Martha Washington
All you need is positivity. The Spice Girls
I’m sure there are people out there who have naturally positive attitudes. People who were blessed to be born with sunny dispositions that weren’t destroyed or distorted by the negativity of others (parents, More >
Humour in Presentations
Telling Jokes – Techniques to Keep ‘Em Laughing
I love telling jokes. I am not a stand up comedian, but I love to use humor in my public speaking. I finished a message recently and had someone come up to me and confess that they had not laughed that much in a long time. I know the value of laughter. If you enjoy laughing, then you know the value of laughter as well!
As a public speaker I want to learn to use humor throughout my presentation for the following reasons:
