by Randi Bussin | Nov 21, 2016 | Mentoring, Networking, Personal Branding
“What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.” -Oprah Winfrey Thanksgiving is around...
by Randi Bussin | Apr 12, 2016 | Career Reinvention, Marketing Yourself, Mentoring
Networking is critical for building your personal brand, especially in a competitive job market. You may have the experience, education and work ethic to be successful on paper, but a lot of us lack a crucial social component that’s necessary to take a career to the...
by Randi Bussin | Mar 1, 2016 | Employment Trends, Mentoring
We’ve all experienced a manager that just doesn’t get along with their team. Or seen a supervisor who shuts themselves off from their colleagues and doesn’t take the time to understand the employees working under them. What were these leaders missing? The key to not...
by Randi Bussin | Feb 9, 2016 | Employment Trends, Mentoring
Often in business, we are tasked with leading an initiative that involves a group of individuals inside or outside the organization over which we have no positional authority. This has become more and more common now in the workplace due to flatter management...
by Randi Bussin | Apr 24, 2013 | Mentoring
In the first article, I discussed the importance of mentoring to career/life success and for extending your brand. In this article, I explore the essential skills and behaviors a mentor should possess and that you might want to look for when you evaluate someone...
by Randi Bussin | Apr 10, 2013 | Mentoring
In the old work world, being a mentor had a different flavor. Typically a mentee or protégé had a single relationship with an individual, who was hierarchically superior to the mentee, and usually in the same organization. This old form of mentoring was truly a...