Alexandra Levits Water Cooler Wisdom Gartner Unpacks Business Disruption

Alexandra Levit's Water Cooler Wisdom Gartner Unpacks Business Disruption I recently had the opportunity to attend a webinar on businessdisruptionhosted by Gartner VP and Fellow Daryl Plummer. Plummer shared how to understand disruptive influences and focused on the disruptions to which we aren’t yet paying attention. According to Plummer, disruption used to come out of nowhere (i.e. the Internet), and it was isolated in pockets. In 2017, however, it’s everywhere, having massive impacts across a large area. We can’t avoid it even if we wanted to. While it’s normal to have some disruption fatigue (otherwise known as getting mentally exhausted every time you hear the word digital), mastery of digital disruption is a critical discipline for modern success. The most celebrated organizations in this decade (Amazon, Google, etc.) have done so well because they’ve created new lanes to run in. They have embraced willful disruption, which Plummer defined as deliberate and aggressive use of disruption as a differentiator for digital success. They understand that every disruption will inevitably be disrupted by something else, so they can’t rest on their laurels. Willful disruption has five types: Offensive:Innovation, or creating something no one else has thought of (Apple and the smartphone). Defensive:Competition, or recognizing that something major is happening and that we need to do something about it (Google’s involvement with Android in response to the iPhone). Serendipity:Chance, let’s get 1,000 flowers to bloom and see what develops (Twitter and its hashtag changing the face of news delivery). Destruction:Anarchistic, or destroying and replacing a market (Netflix vs. the DVD market). Self-Disruption:Reinvention andagility, coming up with something better than what you’ve already invented yourself (Apple’s transition from the iPod to the iPhone). For more on Gartners predicted disruptions, read the full post on the QuickBase Fast Track blog.

Things to Learn This Week Work at Home Moms Summit - Classy Career Girl

Things to Learn This Week Work at Home Moms Summit The more you learn, the more you earn, right? I am on the hunt to learn more in 2016 so that is why I am doing a new weekly series  on this blog called Things to Learn This Week. This week my team and I are taking  Instagram training to learn how to use it and  meet new future #classycareergirls through the platform.  Whether you work at home or in an office, I know it is hard to block out the time in your workday to actually make time to learn. But, I know how excited I get when I learn something new and can actually implement it the very next day at work. **Note: If you have a course you would like us to feature here, please reach out to us at info@classycareergirl.com. We do our best to feature great training courses for women taught by women. Here are the top 4 things to take advantage of to learn this week: Free Video Summit: Mompreneurs Lead With Heart Video Summit At this free virtual summit, 20 women who are experts in marketing, vision, coaching and mindset, as well as work at home moms summit, will come together for 10 days to share stories, struggles, and successful strategies on building a business and life with your family just for you. Level: Beginner Time: 8-10 hours Click to sign-up (its FREE). Book: The  Professional Womans Guide to Managing Men If youve ever thought that men can seem difficult to figure out, let alone manage, then this guide is for you. Through step-by-step exercises and practical techniques, you will learn  the most effective ways to communicate with and manage your male employees. You’ll learn what not to do when managing men and how to expertly handle management situations you might have floundered in. Level: Beginner Time:  4 hours Click to purchase. Free 7-Day Challenge: New Year, New Career, No FEAR! This free challenge by our friend, Christie Mims, is the one BIG thing you need to do if you want to get a new job in 2016.   Thousands have signed up already â€" make sure you don’t miss out!   Level: Beginner Time: 7 Days Click to sign-up (it’s 100% free). Online Course: Dream Career Launchpad A quick start plan to take the  first steps to launch the ideal  career or business for you. Level: Beginner Time:  3-5 hours Click to  purchase.

What Do Famous People Think - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

What Do Famous People Think - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career On SNL last Saturday night, we had three Mark Zuckerbergs, only one of which is actually the FB/Social Network god/demon himself. The cinema Zuckerberg, Jesse Eisenberg and the SNL Zuckerberg, Andy Samberg landed on stage with Zuck himself. Your brand extensions So, there he stood with the least flattering versions of himself. Could you keep your composure if that happened to you? Does a $40 billion valuation take the sting out of it? Perhaps, but Zuckerberg is as human as you and me, so it must have made his heart pound (or his blood boil) just a bit. It made me wonder how much control over your personal brand remains, the more important or famous you become. It made me clearer than ever that there is no privacy now (and that was before Zuck’s FB page was hacked), and that more and more people know you â€" and can interpret you, from the pastiche you put up all over Internet. Do you control your brand? How would it be if someone or several people played you? Maybe not exactly you, but the lampoon of you â€" or the dark side of you? I bet you think no one knows the really dark side. Except that everyone has a really dark side, and because we have ours, we know you have yours. Nearly everyone also believes that they will be “found out.” Don’t you have that feeling you are overreaching and underperforming, and it will be unmasked at some horrible moment when we’ll see you for who you really are? Are you afraid we will feel disappointed or infuriated or shocked? That despite your tailored suit, your underwear has holes in it? Almost every great person I get to know in business and media is self-conscious about something. It ranges from not having graduated college to not making their first billion before they were twenty-five. Some believe that the whole house of cards upon which they built their career will collapse at some inopportune time. I have to say that if there is a recurrent theme among highly visible people I know, it is these two inner demons. One: they have a dark side to hide, and two: they have a deep fear that they arent who we think they are. For example, a man recently found out he is not really the anchor and editor of a big news program. No, not Dan Rather, much more recent than that. Our friend Keith Olbermann found out just minutes (or perhaps days) before, that Friday, January 21, 2011 was his last show on MSNBC. He waited until the end of the broadcast to let us know. Having scuffled with his network for years, this wasn’t a great surprise. But, the shock of no longer being who you are, is nonetheless a shock. Soon SNL will have someone play Olbermann, there might even be a movie, and there perhaps there will be Keith himself on stage with his doppelgangers. After Zuckerberg’s appearance perhaps that is a triumph. A mark of having really made it as a personal brand. Keith has a dark side. He thinks about who is the worst person in the world each day, and has put up that day’s winner on his show, day and day. So what do those maligned people think now, now that Keith has been fired? Perhaps Keith thinks it was worth it. A trade for telling it like it is, being authentically who he is. Did he overreach â€" did he not have the clout or capital he leveraged to express his opinion? Did he get found out and put out? I don’t think so. The NBC corporate brand is changing with the new acquisition, and Keiths bombastic and partisan personal brand really doesn’t sync up with the new normal. Brand doppelgangers We feel no pity for Zuckerberg and we don’t need to feel any for Olbermann. We know who they are, through not only our own eyes but also those who revile them or at least make fun of them â€" and they are each doing just fine. At least, that is what they will say. Personal brands, anything that makes you self-conscious is not worth worrying about. Anything you think you are hiding, likely you are not. And, we will still like you, hire you, and even admire you (even more) when you will drop your guard and get human with us. Perhaps the best thing we all could wish for you is this: see you on the big screen and the small one, too. Along with those who would seek to imitate you. And yet for all the lookalikes: you be you. Remain inimitable, as you are when you are an authentic personal brand. Author: Nance Rosen is the author of Speak Up! Succeed. She speaks to business audiences around the world and is a resource for press, including print, broadcast and online journalists and bloggers covering social media and careers. Read more at NanceRosenBlog. Twitter name: nancerosen

Why Social Engagement is Key to Recruitment

Why Social Engagement is Key to Recruitment We speak to Chad MacRae who is a recruiting leader and design thinker with over twelve years of experience in talent acquisition. He is the founder of Recruiting Social, a recruiting services company that supports talent teams across North America and donates 10% of profits to education charities. He has found talent in 45 countries (Including the U.S., Canada, Greece, the U.A.E, and Afghanistan) and provided recruiting strategy to top organizations including OpenX, Hearts Science (an Omnicom company), Grindr, Rubicon Project, and Activision. Why do  candidates want to work with you? Aside from working with some of the best workplaces in North America, my design thinking background has equipped me to really understand the candidate perspective, paint an exciting and honest story about the organization, and deliver a positive candidate experience. What talent challenges are you faced with? Getting hiring managers to consider candidates with alternative backgrounds and qualifications â€" i.e., diversity. How do you communicate and activate this? It’s important to get leadership, as well as all employees, directly involved â€" seeing the potential of people with different experiences, and building an inclusive workplace. For example, to help one of our global tech clients become more transgender-inclusive, we partnered with a local organization called  TransCanWork. Every employee completed their training program and spent time learning from members of the trans community about this untapped pool of talent. Best  source of hire? You need a mix: employee referrals deliver faster time-to-performance. Sourced candidates present greater diversity and attract people you may not otherwise get. What initiatives are you particularly proud of? Last year, Recruiting Social was a named a Top 25 Most Socially Engaged Staffing Agency by LinkedIn. What hard lessons can you share with us? Anyone who’s started a business (like a recruitment company) has considered hiring a friend or family member. I’ve done this, more than once. But you need to really sit down and consider your business plan. Can that friend/family member help you get where you aim to go? Hire the person who will help you get there, not the person who is easiest to hire or most immediately available. What are the most common mistakes you see recruiters make? Not giving feedback to a declined candidate. You never know. That person might not be the right hire now, but they might be the right hire for a future opening. Candidates remember a good â€" and bad! â€" experience. I’ve had candidates hired who, ten plus years earlier, I’d declined! And yeah, they remembered their earlier (positive) experience with me. What’s your tech stack? The list: ATS + Candidate Texting:  CATS Reporting :  PGAdmin PostgreSQL tool  or  Tableau  for larger datasets Scraper:  Data Miner AI Sourcing Tool:  Hiretual Social Sourcing: LinkedIn Recruiter, Facebook, and Instagram Job Board:  AngelList,  BuiltInLA Project Management:  Asana Web browser tab suspender:  The Great Suspender Calendar:  Appointlet Internal Communication:  Slack Team Collaboration:  Donut What are your top 3 tips for recruiters? Never stop learning. Go to conferences outside of the HR/Recruiting industry. Consider how you can contribute beyond the typical, req-to-offer hiring process. Who inspires you and why?   Netflix I love all the video content they are doing, combining their consumer and employer brands. Check out #FirstTimeISawMe, an interview series with Netflix employees talking about the first time they saw themselves represented in a Netflix Original. Also, the #SheRules content highlights some of the women that work at Netflix and how they impact the work done at the company. What’s up next for recruiting? AI:  There are a lot of tools that will help with sourcing and screening candidates and we will continue to see a rise in use and adaptation with agencies and in-house recruiters. Scenarios Planning:  Internal recruiting will continue to solidify their seat at the table with leaders and build their consultative approach. Organizations will have to move from a “forecasting headcount” culture to true scenarios planning, where they map out current state to future scenarios based on environmental factors. New Collar:  When we look at talent, we will see continued growth of “New Collar” hiring. With coding boot camps and accreditations from organizations such as the General Assembly, we are going to see some organizations relax their narrow expectations of what school candidates went to and other illogical qualifications. Especially in more aggressive markets! Connect with Chad  on LinkedIn.

5 Personal Branding Experts To Follow In 2018 - CareerMetis.com

5 Personal Branding Experts To Follow In 2018 Source â€" Pexels.comPersonal branding is a process of creating an impression of who you are; your values and what you stand for in your career and life. Your personal brand encompasses unique skills and experiences that make your stand out. Having a great personal branding will give you an unfair advantage over others in your field.There was a time when personal branding was meant for only CEOs and celebrities. Nowadays, successful companies know the values of personal branding and they ensure all of their employees have that.Creating a unique brand enables you to stand out from others and that’s one way to become successful in your career.As a business owner, it’s impossible to build a successful brand without showing people how credible you are. In business, 84 percent of buyers start their buying decision based on a referral. And they check your brand out online to see who you are and why they should buy from you. evalThis means your brand online is as important as your brand offline and if you don’t take charge of your brand online you might be missing out on some benefits.Do you want to create and expand your personal brand? That should not be a problem as we have taken care of that for you in this post.This post features the top 5 personal branding experts you should follow in 2018 to make you build and boost your personal brand and attract the benefits attached to it.1. Gary VaynerchukevalGaryVee is popularly known as a 4-times New York Times bestselling author. He has worked in many industries and has worked hard to earn himself a name in those industries. He was a part of the early investors in Twitter and Tumblr. Also, he owns the first wine e-commerce site in the world, WineLibrary.Gary has been around for some time and has developed a reputable name in the marketing industry which made him create his own digital marketing agency, VaynerMedia. Vaynerchuk also runs a video blog, Wine Library TV, which he has used to expand his liquor business a nd became a social media giant.He is definitely one person to follow this year as he has built himself a strong followership online using his own social media influencing strategy. evalHe teaches growth hack to create a solid online personal brand and influencing. Following him can be the best decision you will make for your personal brand development.2. Dan SchawbelDan Schawbel is referred to as a personal branding guru by The New York Times. He is a renowned career and workplace specialist and the Managing Partner of a Gen Y research and consulting firm, Millennial Branding.He is the founder of the Personal Branding Blog, a blog that was ranked as number 1 Job Blog by CareerBuilder. He is a columnist at Forbes and Times, a syndicated columnist at Metro US, and has contributed to Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardians Numerous many others.He’s been invited to speak at some of the world’s top companies including Google, IBM, Time Warner, McGraw-Hill, and Siemens, as wel l as Harvard Business School, Stanford, Cornell, and MIT.evalDan has been labelled as a personal branding guru and he has much to offer if you diligently follow his strategic branding tips.3. Leonard KimLeonard Kim is a managing partner at InfluenceTree, a company where himself and his team has developed a comprehensive course that teaches top secrets in personal branding. He has been regularly featured in high-ranking publications such as Fox News, Fortune, Forbes, and Entrepreneur. Leonard Kim’s TEDx Talk, Why You Should Let Your Fears Guide You, has been ranked by Forbes and Inc. Magazine as one of the best TED Talks. Leonard Kim was recognized as a top digital marketing in 2016 and he is reputable for creating top content that instigates people to work towards their dreams. He also teaches how to discover, establish and develop personal brands.4. Tim FerrissThe 4-Hour Workweek author is a veteran when it comes to creating buzz. He has mastered the art of using digital marketin g and offline strategy to turn his books into a bestseller. Tim Ferriss was included in the Fast Company‘s list of “Most Innovative Business People”, also one of Fortune‘s “40 under 40.”He is an investor/advisor in some of the world leading technology companies eval5. Brian TracyBrian Tracy is a Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development author. He has written well over seventy books that have been translated into different languages.Brian Tracy is the Chairman and Chief executive officer On a final note, many people are devoted to getting better and building their personal brand these days and if you don’t attempt to grow, you will be left behind. Build yourself and your team to become irresistible in your field by adding values relevant to the growth of your business. Start Your IT journey today with ISACA courses and become a certified professional.

I could dance I am so happy! - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

I could dance I am so happy! - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog I just got an email update from Pixel Peony, who, as I previosuly blogged about, found that being positive opened some new doors for her: I never expected that a retail job would lead to meeting the owner of a company. Literally, it was all due to treating people well and having a good attitude. I?m convinced. I was pleasantly surprised by the lengths people will go when they like you and like the way that you work. The whole experience taught me not to take a ?little? job for granted, or to take the people you work with for granted. Everything counts. Well she now has a new, exciting job and wrote to tell me about it, ending with this gem of a motto: Hard work, a positive attitude, thank you cards and a few bouquets of flowers and voila! I could dance I am so happy! Woo-hooooo :o) Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related

How to Write a Resume - Tips That Can Help You

How to Write a Resume - Tips That Can Help YouA resume writing service in Janesville, WI can save you a lot of time and stress if you are worried about coming up with something that is perfect. The following tips will help you to think of different ideas before you start writing your resume.Think about different skill sets you have: in other words, think about different skill sets that might be useful to you. If you can prove that you have some experience that can give you an edge in your new career, then do not write the resume yourself.Remember, it is not what you write, but how you speak that will speak the most. When you are writing a resume, be sure that you use the right grammar and spelling when you write down your information.Use relevant examples of writing: writing is a skill; however, when you are writing a resume, it is very important that you choose relevant examples. You will find some examples in magazines, on the internet and other places where you can learn from. The re are also very good books that can teach you how to write a resume.Be sure that your examples are appropriate for the job you want: examples are important, but you have to make sure that they are appropriate for the job you want. For example, if you are applying for a clerical position, you will want to write an example of writing for a person who only holds clerical jobs. Another example would be a person who has a legal education or who has recently graduated from a law school.It is also important to keep your work history simple: while you may need to go into a little detail, keep it simple and uncomplicated. If you are looking at a college degree, do not write about a bachelor's degree; instead, write abouta master's degree. It is a better practice to write about a bachelor's degree from a school in the area you want to work in than to write about a master's degree from a college that you did not attend.Give your resume proper and appropriate attention: do not go over your wri ting with more detail than necessary. Do not end a paragraph abruptly. Consider these tips when you are writing your resume.The best way to ensure that you are able to write an effective resume is to find a professional writing service in Janesville, WI. A professional can help you out by coming up with different examples of writing and teaching you how to edit your resume. These services are available online or from local businesses.