Link to Original Article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/career-mind-9-professional-power-transference-trent-rhodes “Power transference” may seem like an exotic name but the phenomenon has been around since humanity’s existence. It’s a process where power moves from one source to another. Sometimes this power is earned: a number one tennis player loses the final match, usurped by the …
Career Mind #8 – 15 Questions to Discover Your Strength
Link to Original Post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/career-mind-8-15-questions-discover-your-strength-trent-rhodes “Know Thyself.”– Kemetic Knowledge “Know thy enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated.” – Sun Tzu, Art of War Second to “tell me about yourself,” the next most challenging question I observe for professionals is, “What’s your strength?” The …
Career Mind #7 – 14 Ways to Leverage a Portfolio
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 …
Avoid This 1 Networking Mistake on the Phone
So you’ve done your homework. You found a list of 10 companies you want to apply to. The job descriptions look too good to be true and you could see yourself growing with the brands. Is it a dream? It is until you make this one move. You decide to …
Ask Questions to Enhance Workshop Engagement
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 …
How a Blog Creates Career Development Value
If you use an Internet search engine to research a topic, if you aren’t absorbing information from an organization you’re likely to do so from someone’s blog. Test it out for yourself. Search “The best way to shine shoes” and scan the first 10 links. Blogs. “Blogging” is defined by …
The Value of Having a Business Card
The business card is one of the most common resources for professionals and non-professional interests alike. I remember experimenting with a number of card designs during undergrad. I’d go to Vistaprint and toy with the options. Choosing different titles, seeing which resonated most. With a large stock available and card …
2 Ways to Have Empowered Meetings
Meetings appear to be dry gatherings of little worth, but they can be useful opportunities to expand your influence for missions you resonate with. P.S. – Meetings don’t just happen in companies and can take many forms (masterminds, lunch out, the classic golf scene, impromptu) so it’s essential to know …
3 Reasons to Take Meeting Minutes
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 …
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 …
How to Handle Illegal & Unethical Interview Questions
Did you know there are illegal and unethical interview questions? That there are questions you do not have to answer and they cross the bounds of what should be covered? This is rarely discussed and I sense part of that is because the ball is assumed to be in the …
3 Principles of Practical Personal Power
“Personal power” is a catch-all term given to our ability to create our reality. This power is what enables us to step out of bed just as much as it empowers us to write a book, influence a team or dissolve a cold. As important as this power is, it …
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 …
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 …
Professional Development 101: Tracking Performance
Tracking is everywhere. We check our phones to track the weather. And watch the news to track the happenings around the world. We can track our animals and grandparents with little chips just in case they become lost. We like to track our packages, especially when very excited about receiving …
Professional Development with a Blue Ocean Mindset
“When everything goes right, go left.” – Unknown “Watch what everyone does – do the opposite. The majority is always wrong.” – Earl Nightingale There are beliefs out there that we take as complete truth just because people continue to use them like: Opportunity only knocks once. No it doesn’t. …
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