Saturday, September 10, 2011

4 C’s To Career Success

Creating the life and career success you want and deserve is simple common sense. It's not hard, but you need to do it right.

First, focus on the 4 C's of Success: clarity, commitment, confidence, competence.

1. Clarify the purpose and direction for your life and career.

  • Create clarity by figuring out what success means to you personally.
  • Create clarity by creating a vivid mental image of yourself as a success.
  • Create clarity by determining your personal values.

2. Commit to taking personal responsibility for your life and career.

  • Take personal responsibility for your life and career success.
  • Take personal responsibility by setting and achieving high goals.
  • Take personal responsibility by choosing to react positively to the people and events in
    your life; especially the negative ones.

3. Build unshakeable self confidence.

  • Build your confidence by choosing to be optimistic.
  • Build your confidence by facing your fears and acting.
  • Build your confidence by surrounding yourself with positive people.
  • Build your confidence by finding a mentor to help you create your success.
  • Build your confidence by sharing your knowledge and wisdom through mentoring others. Get competent: create positive personal impact, become an outstanding performer, become a dynamic communicator, build strong relationships.

4. Positive personal impact.

  • Create positive personal impact by creating and nurturing your unique personal brand.
  • Create positive personal impact by being impeccable in your presentation of self; in person and on line.
  • Create positive personal impact by knowing the following basic rules of business etiquette.

Outstanding performance.

  • Become an outstanding performer by keeping your skills up to date by becoming a
    lifelong learner.
  • Become an outstanding performer by learning to manage your time and life.
  • Become an outstanding performer by living a healthy life style.

Dynamic communication.

  • Become a dynamic communicator by demonstrating strong conversation skills.
  • Become a dynamic communicator by writing clearly and succinctly.
  • Become a dynamic communicator by mastering public speaking skills.

Relationship building.

  • Build relationships through self awareness. Use this knowledge to better understand
    others.
  • Build relationships by paying it forward; give with no expectation of return.
  • Build relationships by using conflict to strengthen, not weaken, relationships with the important people in your life.

Bud Bilanich is a motivational speaker, author and blogger who will help you create the life and career success you want and deserve.

 
 

 

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