This deck includes the important points from my keynote presentation “People are Profersonal™.” People are Profersonal™ View more presentations from Jason Seiden Jason Seiden is Co-founder and CEO of Ajax Social Media, a training company that shows professionals how use social media to work more effectively.
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Self-Development
This is a hypothesis. I could be way off. But I don’t think so. Actually, let’s make it: Men think noun/verb, women think adjective/adverb. Now I’m probably a little less off. The idea of this struck me the other night while my wife was watching Real Housewives. I sometimes join her, until I can’t stand [...]
I’ve been a mentor and a coach to professionals at work. I’ve put career development tools in peoples’ hands. I’ve written books that spell out what to do. I’ve even ghost-written board-level presentations. But of all the things I’ve ever done to be helpful to others, the most powerful is to have been a friend. [...]
Last week I decided to run the North Shore Half Marathon, which was today. No real reason; I just like setting challenges for myself and then overcoming them. The longest I’ve ever run before was 8 miles, though I also did the Chicago Triathlon 10 years ago. I didn’t really train; I was in Dallas [...]
I got a call the other day. A friend needed help. He explained his situation and listened to my advice. Then he responded by changing the scenario. He said, “OK, I hear you, but what you don’t understand is that…” and proceeded to add a bunch of facts that didn’t change the core issue. I [...]
OK, we’ve heard the arguments about how staying at home means stepping off the career path and all that. Here’s the deal: There’s not a business on the planet that wouldn’t benefit from the skills moms bring to the table: Moms are entrepreneurial, scraping together the resources to take care of what must get done. [...]
This is a post I wrote a little while back… if you found your way here from my guest post on Victorio’s Creative Chaos Blog, you’ll want to take a look: Q: Why Don’t Math & I Get Along? A: You and math are best friends. The problem you have is that your third grade [...]
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