Career Mind #7 – 14 Ways to Leverage a Portfolio

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Original Post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/career-mind-7-14-ways-leverage-portfolio-trent-rhodes/?trackingId=54aGSQngQgGYUrmzWVgEAA%3D%3D If you think about the physical portfolio, business portfolio, artist’s portfolio, it’s the skill sample you take around housing important materials. A collection of sorts.  The portfolio website is the digital version, serving similar purpose. Enjoy the read. The personal portfolio can be seen as an unnecessary …

Career Mind Newsletter #4 – 3 Sales Skills for Job Candidates

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Original Post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/3-sales-skills-job-candidates-trent-rhodes The Ultimate Salesperson The most successful salesperson on the planet is…the baby. It’s a master at charisma, rapport virtuoso.  With its chunky cheeks, plump limbs, bright eyes and a voice that sounds the same no matter the background, it’s designed to persuade adults to take care of …

From Mouth to Ear – P4 

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From his “Think & Grow Rich,” Napoleon Hill isolated a phenomenon already in existence but often unspoken: networks comprising like-minded people who had defined goals and supported each other tended to amplify all involved. Focused units like this existed for millennia. He decided to call them mastermind groups. They shared …

Expression & The Power Jewel – Chakra Final

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Blue – Throat – Expression / Communication Even though the blue chakra sits quite high up on the scale compared to many of the energy centers, it may be one of the most understood at a practical level. Sometimes it’s solely associated with the throat, but the voice box is a singular instrument …

MCP: Dissolving Dependency

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MCP, or MasterLearn Coach Philosophy is a coaching path that harnesses self-directed learning methods for realizing inner capabilities through the subconscious. A coach holds a powerful position. By powerful, I mean influential. When a client decides to work with a coach, it begins a relationship involving a mutual ebb and …

Networking for Long-Term Value

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Imagine yourself at a networking event. There you are, dressed in your best professional clothes because that’s what the advertisement suggested on Meetup.com. You’re standing at the front entrance. It’s about 45 minutes after the event started; you didn’t want to be the absolute first one to walk in without …

Reputation Management for Career Growth

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Strategic planning is at the core of career reputation management. Preparation. Positioning. Thinking not just of how circumstances are now but how they can be in the future. How a professional intends to direct that future. This connects quite conveniently to the knowledge of time in metaphysics, which proposes that …

Ask Questions to Enhance Workshop Engagement

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A workshop differs from a presentation or lecture in the focus on the “work” in the “shop” the space creates. Some kind of effort is done that places the audience in a direct experience of the topic. In a workshop, the audience tends to leave with results from the activities …

3 Reasons to Take Meeting Minutes

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Unless you’re working in a well-developed organization, you may not come across meeting minutes. “Meeting minutes” are literally the minutes (or moments) recorded from a meeting. When there are many members in the meeting, it’s likely there will be plenty of information, recommendations, cross-talk, possible disputes, ideas, all sorts of …

3 Questions to Ask Employers on Interviews

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An interview is an opportunity for the candidate and employer to evaluate each other and confirm if value matches the role offered. Mentioned in one of my previous writings, this engagement is a reciprocal relationship and should be treated as such. When the candidate forgets this, she becomes susceptible to …

How to Create a Poised Presentation Mindset

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There’s a general assumption that people prefer death over public speaking. Perhaps it’s the fear of it that weighs being in a casket lower on the scale. This fear in the mind of the possessor appears justified. After all, there’s much to fear about speaking in public right? There is… …

Metaphysical Preparation for Job Interviews

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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 …

Communication: From Mere Talk to Art Form

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When was the last time you had a quality, deep, mind-penetrating conversation? The kind that you and everyone else involved departed from with a sense of wonder and forethought; you actually wanted to learn more about what you talked about. Either you were heated to a point you wanted to …