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- Stop Selling Failure by Talking Yourself Out of Success - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2010 from Sarah HathornOne of the obstacles I face with my professional clients is their inability to recognize and overcome sabotaging self-talk. Through coaching them I realize how personal image can be, and how easy it is to be overly critical of ourselves –when we really need to be our own biggest fans. We often ...
Views: 1687(12 votes) - Zigzag Your Way to the Top in 2011 - by Submitted on Feb 21, 2011 from Sarah HathornIn response to the growing number of recent corporate downsizings many large companies have adopted an organizational structure that involves fewer layers and levels of corporate hierarchy than we saw during earlier decades. In order to adapt to these new developments it is important for ...
Views: 1291(3 votes) - Top 5 Tips for Spring Closet Cleaning - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2010 from Sarah HathornAs a professional image consultant one of the things that always amazes me is how many clothes professionals own that they never wear. Women tend to wear only 25 percent of their wardrobes, and men wear 85 percent of the clothes in their closets. That statistic indicates that women like to go ...
Views: 2075(5 votes) - Etiquette for the Polished Professional: The Art of Business Introductions - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2010 from Sarah HathornOne way professionals convey a powerful presence is through proper business introduction etiquette. We make introductions before important business meetings, at networking events, and at social business affairs. But unfortunately few professionals use introduction opportunities to leverage their ...
Views: 1245(4 votes) - Leadership Mindset: Getting Out of Your Own Way - by Submitted on Oct 20, 2010 from Sarah HathornWhen I am coaching leaders and high achievers regarding their executive presence I hear of the same obstacle over and over again. In fact it always comes up in the very first conversation we have – although they do not realize it or recognize it. Because I have coached so many people I can ...
Views: 1568(2 votes) - The Suit Makes the Man - But which Suit Matches the Man? - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2010 from Sarah HathornIt's interesting to me that whenever I give a presentation to men in a corporate setting or work one-on-one with a male client I get a lot of questions about what kind of suit to wear for their body type and what the correct "button-rule" is for suits and jackets. As a professional image ...
Views: 3862(2 votes) - Unleash Your Leadership Presence for a Value-Added Career - by Submitted on Oct 20, 2010 from Sarah HathornWhether you are a corporate leader or a high achieving entrepreneur, everyone today is scrambling to upgrade their professional presence to stand above the competition. We all have good intentions in that regard, but many times we are not really focused on our presence but are instead fixated on ...
Views: 1628(2 votes) - Recession-Proof Holiday Style - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2010 from Sarah HathornWith the current economic situation continuing to restrain spending, I don’t foresee that many companies will throw the kinds of extravagant holiday parties of years gone by. But you may receive invitations to holiday parties, and don’t RSVP that you won’t be attending just because it is going ...
Views: 1181(3 votes) - 12 Leadership Lessons from “The King’s Speech” - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2011 from Sarah HathornThe inspiring 2010 Oscar Best Film “The Kings Speech” was based on the true story of the Duke of Windsor struggling to overcome a speech impediment in order to fulfill responsibilities as a great leader. While preparing to assume the throne as King George VI he was faced with the challenge of ...
Views: 5224(4 votes) - Game Changers: Women Empowering Women for Synergistic Success - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2011 from Sarah HathornThe newest professional development trend is focused on cultivating women leaders to not only ascend into higher-level positions but also become game changers for their teams, organizations, and industries. I find that many large corporations have established new women’s affinity leadership ...
Views: 1604(5 votes) - Be a “10” in 2010 by Maximizing Your Potential - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2010 from Sarah HathornThere is no better time than a new year to inspire professionals to shine the spotlight on their personal and professional goals. As we begin this year’s journey it’s a wonderful time to really delve into what’s working in your life – while also acknowledging what’s not. During this uncertain ...
Views: 1095(1 vote) - Brand Essentials: Every Leader’s Image-Critical Messaging Tools - by Submitted on Aug 02, 2010 from Sarah HathornWhenever I’m working in a corporate environment and attending a networking event or meeting with my potential “leadership tribe,” it amazes me that the business tools of executive leaders look worn, outdated or overly casual. These are strategic business meetings where everyone present hopes to ...
Views: 3185(2 votes) - Finding the Courage Within to Advance Your Life - by Submitted on Jan 29, 2012 from Sarah HathornIn these uncertain times many otherwise powerful professionals are becoming paralyzed by fears and insecurities. They want to overcome the challenges to their executive presence, their leadership brand, their professional image, and the advancement of their career. But to get to where they want ...
Views: 1644(2 votes) - From College to Career: How to Get Hired In a Recession - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2010 from Sarah HathornThis year many college graduates will continue to interview for their first executive position during a very unusual economic time. As a young professional, you are armed with a world of knowledge. However, now comes the art of gaining real-life experiences in your field of expertise. It will be ...
Views: 1090(1 vote) - How to Express Professional Image Concerns to Your Employees - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2010 from Sarah HathornLately it seems that almost every day I hear from a human resource professional who is struggling to talk with someone in their organization about their image. Personal image can be a very private, personal, and difficult thing to talk about, after all. Who among us wants to find out that our ...
Views: 1482(2 votes) - Immerse Yourself for Accelerated Success - by Submitted on Jan 29, 2012 from Sarah HathornIf you have ever come to Atlanta to work with me in one of my intensive sessions, you know that I devote the entire time to coaching, advising, and consulting on a variety of key strategies and techniques. The intensity of this kind of laser focus really gets to the core of your leadership ...
Views: 1683(2 votes) - Law of Attraction: Create a Brand Image that Communicates Success - by Submitted on Feb 21, 2011 from Sarah HathornAre you feeling discouraged by your inability to stand out and command more lucrative fees or higher salaries during this economic downturn? Whether you are a corporate leader or a high-achieving entrepreneur – everyone is looking for effective methods and fresh strategies to attract a more ...
Views: 1206(2 votes) - My Personal Passion: Presenting the ABCs of Corporate Presence - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2010 from Sarah HathornCustomizing and designing corporate programs to help organizations take their businesses to the next level is one of my great passions. Large, successful companies always understand that people are their most valuable asset. But not all of them train their personnel about how to positively ...
Views: 1209(1 vote) - Radical Change in the Corner Office: 2010 is the Year of the Woman - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2010 from Sarah HathornMany top organizations where I work as an outside consult or a speaker delivering professional development seminars are rushing right now to create new internal women’s leadership groups. That’s because these large companies understand that as the economy imposes changes in how they do business, ...
Views: 991(2 votes) - The Importance of a Brand New You - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2010 from Sarah HathornEveryone knows the importance of competitive corporate branding strategies to market to a targeted group of people with unique offerings of specific goods or services. But what is often forgotten is that professionals each have their own personal brands, whether they know it or not. It doesn’t ...
Views: 936(1 vote) - Time for Action: What’s Stopping You from Achieving a Promotion in 20 - by Submitted on Feb 21, 2011 from Sarah HathornEven before the big ball dropped in Times Square to celebrate the advent of 2011, the media had been bombarding us for weeks with advice about our New Year’s resolutions. Lose a few pounds. Get back in shape. Kick a bad habit. Spend more quality time with your kids. Make better choices in your ...
Views: 993(2 votes) - Transform Past Failure into Future Success - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2010 from Sarah HathornWhether they are emerging leaders in a large corporation or solo entrepreneurs, almost everyone has experienced a painful career failure or two. The end of the year is always a great time to really look back over the past months and years with a view toward learning how to leverage past failure ...
Views: 1411(1 vote) - 3 Secrets to Reinventing Your Brand, Image, and Value - by Submitted on Sep 23, 2011 from Sarah HathornEveryone fears change, but change is the one thing we can depend upon as inevitable and unavoidable. Professionals tend to be afraid of reinventing and repositioning themselves, but we have to remember that if we don’t evolve we risk become stagnant, outdated, and replaceable. Whether it’s a ...
Views: 1707(2 votes) - 6 Leadership Development Steps to Get You to the Next Level - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2011 from Sarah HathornHere are six highly valuable steps to help you snag that next promotion, attain the next level of success, and be a more effective high performance leader. #1 Don’t just set goals; crystallize them with clarity Everyone with high potential has goals and dreams. But it is rare to find a ...
Views: 1026(2 votes) - Secrets to Stop Self-Sabotage: The Mindset Key to Higher Earnings and Career Success - by Submitted on Feb 07, 2012 from Sarah HathornAfter they hear my personal story of how I rose to a senior executive position with a Fortune 100 company in record time, many of my clients ask how if it’s also possible for them to step up their game and make a lot more money fast. The answer is yes, but it involves some critically ...
Views: 1324(2 votes) - The Secret to Career Success: Negate the Negative - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2012 from Sarah HathornPerhaps the biggest secret to career success – whether you are an entrepreneur or high potential leader working for a major corporation – is to learn how to neutralize or negate negativity. Negative energy comes in two forms, internal and external. To help insulate yourself from the external ...
Views: 1314(2 votes) - Give Your Attitude a Raise and You May Win Your Next Promotion - by Submitted on Feb 21, 2011 from Sarah HathornEmerging leaders can have all the technical skill, educational background, and hands-on job experience to qualify them on paper as the outstanding candidate for a promotion. But resumes don’t run companies, people who can handle pressure with grace and show an exemplary positive attitude do. ...
Views: 1100(3 votes) - 12 Leadership Lessons from Dad to Help Me Play a Bigger Game - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2011 from Sarah HathornMy dad attended seminary at Columbia University at a time when many of the great theologians of the 20th century emerged. Later on, as a minister in charge of his own large congregation, he was a rather prominent public figure in town and was continually under the spotlight. No matter where I ...
Views: 960(1 vote) - 5 Ways to Design the Best Year of Your Life - by Submitted on Jan 27, 2012 from Sarah HathornPicture yourself at a New Year’s party, on the last day of 2012. You are preparing to head into 2013, and are raising a glass to toast the last hours of 2012. Because it was the best year you’ve ever experienced you have plenty to celebrate. Now imagine that over the next 12 months you will ...
Views: 1015(1 vote) - A Year Without Fear: Stay Above the Fray and Win the Day! - by Submitted on Feb 29, 2012 from Sarah HathornIf you want to seize the day and capitalize on your window of opportunity to move up in your career you have to be fully prepared to jump at the chance. Opportunity doesn’t linger; it knocks and then moves along to the next person’s door. These are scary times. People all around you are being ...
Views: 1196(1 vote) - Acquiring Critical Leadership Criteria - by Submitted on Apr 04, 2012 from Sarah HathornSenior management understands the value of investing in future leadership, but also realizes that to find extraordinary leaders it is important to look for outstanding qualities that are multidimensional, strategically developed, and tempered by experience. Here are a few questions to ask ...
Views: 815(1 vote) - Adopt the Steve Jobs Attitude - by Submitted on Feb 07, 2012 from Sarah HathornSteve Jobs helped to harness technologies that improve the quality of our lives and the lives of generations to come. He also provided a great role model for leadership success, and we can learn much from his remarkable mindset. Acquiring 21st Century Tools Steve Jobs signature products ...
Views: 3675(2 votes) - Analyze Promotions from Every Angle - by Submitted on Jan 27, 2012 from Sarah HathornOftentimes a great looking promotion comes along only because it satisfies a temporary need. Maybe they had to fire someone, for example, or the company is in the middle of reorganization. Once the position is filled and your company feels stable again they may start a more in-depth search for ...
Views: 1307(1 vote) - Confidently Clarify Executive Communication - by Submitted on Apr 04, 2012 from Sarah HathornSpeaking with greater clarity and purpose is vital for any leader, whether they are talking to an employee, client, board room, or the news media. Those who lack this ability will appear weak, befuddled, and ineffective – and will fail to convey their ideas and leadership vision. But those who ...
Views: 918(1 vote) - Decoding 5 Unwritten Dress Code Rules That Will Make Or Break Your Career - by Submitted on Apr 30, 2011 from Sarah HathornSenior decision makers and HR executives constantly confide in me that high potential candidates for promotions and leadership positions just do not exude the kind of image that will let them keep moving onward and upward. But they don’t know how to explain this to these employees without the ...
Views: 2971(1 vote) - Leadership Tips for Troubled Times - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2012 from Sarah HathornHere are my top three tips for leaders who find themselves challenged by the unprecedented events and markets of 2011. 1. Leverage leadership opportunities into enhanced career value – Assert yourself as a leader by accepting even greater responsibility without being asked. Go beyond the call ...
Views: 949(1 vote) - Magnitude of Success: Get a running start on your career leap NOW! - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2011 from Sarah HathornIn times like these I often have to gently nudge my clients who become too fatalistic, reminding them that they still hold the cards in terms of their ability to change their internal perspective. To see your greater potential you have to first adopt a more panoramic and long-range view of the ...
Views: 1170(1 vote) - Powerful, Successful, Ambitious Women - by Submitted on Apr 04, 2012 from Sarah HathornFor more than 30 years I’ve coached and mentored women who are top-caliber Fortune 500 executives and high-level entrepreneurs. Meanwhile during that whole time I was either a Fortune 100 senior executive or the founding CEO of my own successful consulting firm. Many things have changed for ...
Views: 1440(1 vote) - Success Coaching: Stop Constructing Your Own Glass Ceiling - by Submitted on May 01, 2011 from Sarah HathornThis month in the Wall Street Journal there was an intriguing and somewhat unsettling article, “Coaching Urged for Women.” The piece revealed that according to a new McKinsey & Company report “inadequate career development holds back female executives.” The report examined the kinds of career ...
Views: 1114(1 vote) - The Enduring Leadership Legacy of Steve Jobs - by Submitted on Apr 04, 2012 from Sarah HathornSteve Jobs was one of those rare souls who will likely be as influential in death as he was in life, because he was a living legend who also left behind an enduring legacy. As Jobs’ successor at Apple, Tim Cook, explained “Steve built a company and culture that is unlike any other in the world ...
Views: 1280(1 vote) - The Seven Ways to Utilize Technology to Build Your Brand - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2011 from Sarah HathornMany professionals working in large organizations or as entrepreneurs don’t really understand the importance of utilizing great technology to communicate your personal brand. The world is a different place today. We already utilize the Internet to search for everything from products, and ...
Views: 896(1 vote) - Why You Are Where You Are - by Submitted on Jan 27, 2012 from Sarah HathornI hear so many leaders express impatience about where they are right now in terms of their careers. Attitude and perspective have a direct effect on everything around you, though, so frustration with your present situation only serves to amplify the feelings of stagnation and dissatisfaction. ...
Views: 1072(1 vote) - Women's Fashion-Forward Fall Trends - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2012 from Sarah HathornFall 2011 is just around the corner, and now is a great time for women to consider adding some stylishly attractive wardrobe trends. You should not buy every trend that comes along, but you do want to take advantage of those that resonate with your image and brand to make you look and feel ...
Views: 1670(1 vote) - 3 Ways to Align the Universe Behind Your Career Success - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2012 from Sarah HathornYou can call it intuition, quantum physics, faith, or just a honed and polished ability to listen to your gut as you navigate the fiercely competitive world of business. But whatever name you give it or however you prefer to explain, the fact is that sometimes there are definite signs that we ...
Views: 1227 - 5 Tips for Managing Your Boss and Selling Your Ideas Upward - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2012 from Sarah HathornThere is one problem we’ve all encountered that can be simultaneously frustrating and disappointing. As an innovative leader and team player you present a great idea to your boss. But the boss doesn’t accept the idea or promote it upward through the organizational chain of command. Instead he or ...
Views: 2365 - 5 Ways to Leverage Your Personal Brand for Greater Career Success - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2010 from Sarah HathornNew times demand new solutions, and with most professionals fearful of corporate downsizing or restructuring measures, personal branding methodologies are more critical than ever. Organizations have to navigate to survive in today’s new business climate, and so do top leaders and high achievers. ...
Views: 2791 - 6 Tips to Make New Year's Resolutions Stick - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2012 from Sarah HathornUnless you can stick to your goals for the long haul they will totally backfire and make you feel like a failure. But we’re not going to let that happen in 2012, and to ensure that your goals are doable and empowering, be sure to follow these six tips. Don’t Candy-Coat the Medicine ...
Views: 894 - Be a Dream Team Talent Scout - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2012 from Sarah HathornOwners of professional sports franchises invest tens of millions of dollars to draft the top players, and their talent scouts start following athletes as early as junior high school. They have to invest with a forward outlook, and that means they have to constantly be on lookout for talent no ...
Views: 1407 - Call Off the Search: The Answers you Need Are Under Your Nose - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2012 from Sarah HathornWe are surrounded by off-the-shelf brands and prepackaged professional images. But those who have learned to listen to their intuition and trust their instincts will always be one step ahead of the pack – and they’ll exude the kind of brand and leadership presence that others want to ...
Views: 1026 - Five Expert Tips for Getting the Perfect Branded Headshot - by Submitted on Aug 02, 2010 from Sarah HathornEvery professional needs to have several great headshot photos in their personal branding toolkit. Your mug shot does matter, especially in this era of new media marketing. The business competition is fierce and you need photographs that visually articulate your personal brand. This is true ...
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