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How Safe Is Your Career Today?

Rich Gee Group

Today, work is weird, complex, and ever-changing — but you have the talent and tools to take advantage of this situation and grow your career. Past and present contacts, colleagues and friends are the lifeblood of any career (“It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.”). This may be a sports cliche, but right now, it rings true.

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Free Coaching Session. Yes, That’s Right.

Rich Gee Group

If you ever were in a sport in school, you had a coach. Unfortunately, not a lot of people have applied these coaching elements to their business or career. That’s why I sometimes get weird looks when I say I’m a coach. The comparison I use at parties and networking events centers around athletic coaching. Guess what?

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All Great Employees Have This Secret Ingredient.

Rich Gee Group

Sports Teamwork is not something you're born with, you have to learn it on-the-job. Participation in a sport, especially a team sport, teaches you to rely on your friends and step-up/push yourself when things get tough. It's this can-do environment you absorb — the ability to push past the pain and not be afraid of losing.

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All Great Employees Have This Secret Ingredient.

Rich Gee Group

Participation in a sport, especially a team sport, teaches you to rely on your friends and step-up/push yourself when things get tough. Teamwork is not something you’re born with, you have to learn it on-the-job. It’s this can-do environment you absorb — the ability to push past the pain and not be afraid of losing.

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Two People To Keep Your Eye On At Work.

Rich Gee Group

In sports, be wary of the player who swings for the fences or the one who waits to be walked. I’ve always said, keep your eyes on people who live at the ends of any spectrum. In politics, be wary of the extreme conservative or liberal. In school, stand back and watch the student who [.].

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A 5 Step Action Plan to Require of Colleges.

Rich Gee Group

They have invested mightily in fabulous sports facilities, luxurious dorms, gourmet cafeterias, and overall campus beauty. Unfortunately, this includes canceling all college sport team activities, such as games, practices, and group meetings. For the fall semester, it is necessary to eliminate non-essential activities.

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5 Steps To Motivate Your Team (and you).

Rich Gee Group

Recording Keeping score is a motivator in business as it is in sports. Objectives must be realistic, easily understood, meaningful, and the result of every member of the team getting together to set them. Keep score of performance during a critical project, customer service, production, sales and any other performances that can be measured.