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November 2020 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared 4 Tips for Improving Work/Life Balance. Jon Mertz of Thin Difference shared Social Entrepreneurs Are the New Social Capital Builders. By their nature, social entrepreneurs build social capital within their organizations and communities.

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5 Ways To Instantly Elevate Your Leadership

Joseph Lalonde

Leadership is a large role in any career development, and one has to put in the time, hard work and commitment to achieve results. Invest in your social capital by connecting more powerfully with others. Social capital is one of the most valuable assets that can be possessed by leaders and organizations.

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Your Social Media Press Kit

Coaching Tip

Since social media is becoming such an important tool for business, it is important that your business create a clear market presence message for those who want what you provide. Social media is also important for finding a new job or letting others know about your career strategy.

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Job Search and Person-to-Person Networking

Coaching Tip

Person-to-person networking continues to be job seekers’ most successful tool, according to a study by Right Management. The firm analyzed job data on the nearly 60,000 individuals throughout North America to whom it provided career transition services over the past three years. Certainly technology plays a growing role.

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How to Build and Repair Your Reputation

Skip Prichard

Building something as important as your personal brand and reputation requires the same attention you would give any crucial career asset.” One tool that I use with clients is called a personal branding agreement. I love speaking with young people as they start off their careers. Lida Citroen. Where do you start?

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

PMs have to have a deep understanding of how the organization operates and must build social capital to influence the success of their product – from obtaining budget and staffing to securing a top engineer to work on their product. Colin Lernell has more to say about these necessary skills here.

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What Africa's Entrepreneurs Can Teach the World

Harvard Business Review

This is simply because being in a job appears to trigger latent entrepreneurship, and also because there is a more intensive re-investment of social capital to generate financial capital than is customary in the West. This was crazy, we initially thought.