In past centuries, when someone wanted to develop a skill and had the opportunity, he or she would be introduced to a master craftsman. After an evaluation based on criteria including potential for the craft, discipline, overall “the right stuff,” the individual became an apprentice. An apprentice was a direct …
How to Answer This Very Important Interview Question
If you’re not prepared, interview questions may feel like a grueling interrogation. While in the “hot seat,” you might be sweating, feeling gaseous and forgetting what you’ve practiced the night before. Interviewing is an in-depth experience that can be covered over several posts, which we’ll do over time. The important …
2 Tips to Avoid Digital Self-Sabotage
So you’ve clicked the “Submit” button on the online application. Or you sent the resume to someone specific by E-mail. Or you’ve just handed off your business card to a potential employer in an unexpected social event. This is an opportunity to congratulate yourself for taking that step, grasping the …
Technology for Productive Writing
There are numerous techniques for writing but what I find to be most challenging for people is the literal production; taking the ideas from the mind onto some medium that can be tangibly used. It’s my observation that we generate many ideas daily; we’re constantly thinking so there isn’t an …
How to Skill Build with a Company in 90 Days
On an interview it’s been my observation that questions of professional skill development rarely surface, unless asked by the candidate. In all the interviews I’ve personally been on, only about 2 employers asked me directly about how I’d like to grow with the organization. Every other time I was the …
Metaphysical Preparation for Job Interviews
Having been on the side of an interviewer and interviewee, and assisted people with their process I’ve come to recognize a few perceptions of this event. One, there’s a lopsided perception that the candidate must plead for the job opportunity. Two, the employer needs to be on their best behavior …
Examples of a Whole-Brain Approach to Holistic Thinking
Enter Hurricane Maria. This force of nature destroyed Puerto Rico’s infrastructure with its titanic winds, rain and flooding. The storm was strong enough to disrupt the land’s entire economical and engineering systems. Over 90% of the population was without power and basic necessities like food and water. Like Hurricane Katrina, …
Pepper, Sophia & The Creative Powers
I attended an event at The Japan Society earlier this summer, to see the display of the AI robot Pepper. The system is built with a humanoid-type upper body and a lower body that’s more machine-looking. Pepper doesn’t have a face (yet), but it’s capable of interacting with people, recognizing …
Deep Connection with the Power of Eye Contact
“The eyes are the windows to your soul.” – William Shakespeare They’re also the doors. When we walk inside, we enter another’s house. We gain access to their rooms, the closets, the places where they cleanse, purify. And depending on how comfortable the host becomes with us, these rooms will …
Is Your Job Description Successful?
Question: Is your job description successful? Every employer’s answer should be, “absolutely.” Even if you feel like your worst pitch could never grab the attention of candidates you seek, fear not because: Every description that every employer has ever created, posted anywhere, at any point in time on the Internet …
A Cure for Divisiveness – Hidden in Plain Sight
Where is the best place to hide something? Directly in front of us, because we quickly assume the thing that’s missing must be far away to be considered “disappeared.” This same idea can be applied to the loaded word, “divisiveness.” This term is chock full of meaning, layers and arouses …
When You Have to Hide Your Intelligence
Imagine this: You’re speaking to someone and because the person may feel afraid, intimidated or insecure about your ways of thought, you hold back, put on a mask and go on with the conversation. Inward, you’re suppressing. Suppressing what? – The scope of your thoughts and where you want to …
Can You Become Divergent?
The Divergent Series captured minds (and hearts) with its futuristic, apocalyptic-style scenes and the idea that people can be categorized by personality type. It’s not far off from truth. Ever hear of the Myers-Briggs or the DISC Assessment? Each attempt to give us an analysis of our temperament / personality …
3 Ways to Prep for An Online Course
Congratulations. You’ve taken the leap into online education. Don’t worry; even though online classes have been available for years it still remains challenging for people. And to some, it’s still “alternative” type of schooling. This is the 21st Century, where more people are walking around with Internet-connected devices in their …
Library Beast – The Ultimate Self-Learning Resource List
How would you define the ultimate resource? “Resourcefulness” is such a buzzword. We know it when we see it and yet it can still have this aloof nature. To be resourceful sounds like a positive trait. And when venturing into entrepreneurship, resourcefulness is one of the word’s closest relatives. But …
The Mind Map for Super Learning
[embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgJzG_4hiCc[/embedyt] Scene: Classroom Your professor starts the lecture and you immediately feel compelled to either zone out or capture every word. So you take out your trusty notebook, pen and start writing down every word the professor speaks. You write down every word she writes on the board. And …
How to Answer Difficult Interview Questions
Interviewing can be stressful enough. You have to prepare to meet someone you might’ve talked to once or twice on the phone, someone whose name you just saw on the job posting or a few contacts on the same day: multiple interviews. You should adopt the mindset that having a …