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Tip 90 – Talk to Your Boss About Your Next Job

Guess what? If you’ve built a strong relationship with your boss, you should be talking to him or her about your next job. It’s stupid to pretend you will be at your current job forever when everybody’s thinking about their next move...

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Boola Boola

I got a funny email from Stephanie, one of my employees, today. The subject line was “connecting at Whole Foods.” She is not feeling very well and it’s getting colder in L.A. so she was wearing her Yale sweatpants for the first time since she moved here four months ago. She walked from her home to Whole Foods and was getting ready to sit down with her taco lunch when someone about her age saw her pants and said, “Hey, did you go to Yale?”  “Yes,” she said, “Did you?” They exchanged class years, but she learned this guy had left before graduation to become a successful race car driver. Then Stephanie said, “Can I sit down with you?” I’ve taught her well. This is her not at Whole Foods.

Tip 89 – Drive-By Flattery

If someone you know has done amazing work, don’t just thank or compliment the person. Tell his or her boss. I call this drive-by flattery and do it all the time. It will increase the person’s political capital at work...

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What's Your BQ?

If you are interested in branding, check out the book What’s Your BQ? by my friend Sandra Sellani. She says the key for any brand is differentiation. Her book covers the success strategies of nearly three dozen brands including Netflix. There is also a quiz which will help you determine whether your strategy, alignment, communication, and execution are working.

http://www.whatsyourbq.com/

Free AMA Webcast On Wed

I wanted to let you know about a FREE webcast I'm doing next Wednesday, September 19th at 12 noon Eastern Time. I'll be sharing my methods for building personal and professional relationships so you can reach your life success goals.

Topics will include:

-Simple steps you can take today to start building your relationships of tomorrow
-Key mindsets needed to successfully form and manage deep relationships, inside and outside of your organization
-Powerful ideas for planning and executing savvy relationship-building strategies
-And many other secrets for success!

I hope you'll join me.

Attending the webcast is complimentary, but reservations are required (Code is CE7)

Register now by clicking here.

If the link above doesn't work, please copy and paste the text below into your web browser:

https://register.amanet.org/reg/reg2.nsf/fmStep1?Open&mtg=1714800001

You can also call 1-800-262-9699 to sign up, but be sure to mention code CE7.

Webcast Logistics:
Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Time: 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. Eastern
Meeting Number: 17148-00001

Tip 88 Don't Hide from Unhappy Clients

Customers and clients can be a great source of feedback and insight. But it’s not going to be smiles, smiles, smiles all the time. You must also talk to your dissatisfied customers or clients constantly. This works for co-workers and personal relationships, too. When someone is angry with us, it is easy to be embarrassed and say, “I don’t want to deal with that.” No!...

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Podcast and Website Advice from Sallie

My new friend Sallie at the Podcast Asylum has been generously sending me a lot of useful information on podcasts and websites. Thought you might benefit from her wisdom as well:

http://www.squidoo.com/squidwho/hq creates a page about a famous person in about one minute, collecting everything from books on Amazon to videos on YouTube.

At http://www.widgetbox.com/, you can take a blog and turn it into a widget that other people can put on their websites.

To use Google Alerts, go to http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en&t=1, enter the words or phrases you want to search for, select the places you want to search (web, news, blogs, everything), fill in your e-mail address, follow the instructions in the confirmation message, and sit back and wait for your daily collection of links.

For free articles about podcasting, go to the Asylum website at http://www.podcastasylum.com/articles/index.php.

The Podcast Expo (www.podcastexpo.com) is in Ontario at the end of September.

9/11 Anniversary

From my friend Mark Goulston:

The best way to commemorate 9/11
is to take a moment of silence
and then be as productive as hell.

-Tim Reuben
Reuben, Raucher & Blum

Six years ago today, life as we know it in the United States changed forever and America finally joined the rest of the world in realizing that nobody is immune to harm from determined, fanatical enemies. According to Reuben, “On that day many of us stopped, became depressed and went into a funk which is exactly what our enemies wanted. And to the extent that such funk of unproductivity continued, our enemies won.”

As you go about your busy and productive day today, keep in mind that living with life never being the same again, doesn’t mean that life is necessarily that different from what it was. There are and will be plenty of opportunities to laugh and love our families, enjoy our work and feel good about our country, the world and our future.

Share the ways you are planning or have commemorated 9/11 at Usable Insight blog.

Building Deeper Relationships Course

The Ferrazzi Greenlight team is leading a Building Deeper Relationships training course September 24 and 25 in Dallas, Texas.

This fee-based course, developed with the American Society of Training and Development, will show you how relationships can power your success. You will learn how to transform behaviors, identify those key to achieving your goals and understand how to use the principles of intimacy and generosity.

The course is open to the public and designed for HR and learning and performance professionals.

An attendee from a previous session said, "Not a day has passed since the workshop that I have not thought about and used the ideas and strategies I learned in that session."

http://www.astd.org/content/education/certificatePrograms/buildingDeeperRelationships/

Tip 87 How to Handle Your Toxic Boss

Many people have asked me what to do about their toxic bosses. You should know that while 50% of people seem like jerks, only 10% actually are. The remaining 40% are just insecure. They have personal issues and feel unsafe. They tweak people because they expect negative reactions and results...

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