If you are one of the 8.4 million adult Americans relocating this year who will need to find new employment, how will you find an excellent job in your new city? Historically about 13 % of the US...

A solid LinkedIn strategy got you noticed enough to get invited to a job interview. You aced your first and second interview.

Your strong social profile contained the right keywords to identify you as a top candidate for the position. Now your challenge is to separate yourself from the dozen or so who passed their screening...

Curiosity is rumored to have turned out poorly for the cat. Yet things usually end quite well for curious, career-minded people and the employers who seek them out! The World Economic Forum recently...

You never know the level of influence a gatekeeper may have with the person you are trying to reach. A “gatekeeper” is anyone who restricts access to people you want to speak to, or who places...

Feedback is a powerful force that can move people in mere moments, yet its effects can last a career. Feedback is defined as providing someone with your observations about something that you witnes...

Navigating a career transition need not be overwhelming. Here are the right questions about successfully navigating a career transition that should be answered before taking the leap.

B2B Buyers make their purchase decisions at two levels: a business level and a personal level. That’s why each of us must learn to sell at both levels.

The interview process of 2025 must discover the right things about a candidate, in order to ensure consistently good hiring decisions. Ever since we first experienced the massive disruption of...

Last year in the US alone there were more than 1 billion video meetings. Yet people are still making noticeable mistakes that cost them credibility.

Why is it that despite what you believe to be a clear assignment turns out resulting in something much different than what you expected? In a recent leadership development session with the leadership...

If you really want to understand what makes a job candidate tick, conduct a conversational job interview The Oxford Languages Dictionary defines the word conversation as “a talk, especially an...

Few employers hire with just one round of face-to-face interviews. Here’s your strategy to be invited to the finalist round.

Why do teams succeed where groups fail? A group is a collection of people while a team is a collection of people aligned around a shared cause, purpose, or conviction. The key word is alignment.

Most people associate the North American holiday of Thanksgiving with pictures like those above… peace, family, joy, thanks, food, and fellowship. Such traditional celebrations are rooted in the...

When you master the Bolt Principle, you position yourself to consistently be in the best place possible for excellence and consistent winning. Most of the world still recognizes this iconic picture...

It’s natural for most managers to want to be liked by the people they manage. Yet when the need to be liked gets in the way of the manager being honest and transparent, the unintended consequences...

Whether you’re a sales and marketing professional, or someone who needs to get others to buy into your ideas and points of view, emotional intelligence is perhaps the most powerful approach to doing...

It’s been 25 years since First Break All the Rules sat atop the business bestseller list. Its guidance on employee engagement and retention is a necessity as we move into 2025.