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February 17, 2020 by Eric Butts Leave a Comment

Career advice from this public enemy will be some of the best you ever hear

You ever heard of Flavor Flav?

If so, I’d bet you probably know him from a painfully bad reality show — Flavor of Love (so painful I watched every season).

But what you might not know is that Mr. Flav is also an inductee into the Rock N Roll hall of fame as part of the iconic group Public Enemy.

I’ll get to why you should care about this in a minute but first I want to share a story about a phone call I had today.

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Filed Under: Career Advice Tagged With: productivity, professional networking

September 25, 2019 by Eric Butts Leave a Comment

Are you sure what you’re doing is “networking”?

 

I want to let you in on a secret…

That thing you’re doing on Linkedin probably isn’t going to get the result you think it is.

Here’s what I mean. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Career Advice, Marketing Tagged With: networking, professional networking

August 16, 2019 by Eric Butts Leave a Comment

Bandwagon sports fans might be onto something smart for your career

When it comes to baseball, my kids are San Francisco Giants fans first.

It hurts my heart a little bit because I represent Chicago in all things sports (and pizza!), but there’s a good explanation.

When we moved to the bay area in 2010, the Giants were really good — like, so good it was a decent bet they were going to win the World Series if it was an even year.

Then there was the fact that my Chicago Cubs were underperforming…

… again…

There was so much disappointment growing up a Cubs fan, where this infamous moment was probably the lowest point:

So the reason I somewhat begrudgingly stood by and allowed such a thing to happen is this…
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Filed Under: Career Advice Tagged With: career, networking, professional networking

December 27, 2018 by Eric Butts Leave a Comment

The fastest way to build strong business relationships that will endure the test of time

stronger relationships

I recently took a training on advanced networking and one of the things I talked about as my desired outcome was more techniques on forming stronger relationships faster. The training was with Performance of a Lifetime, a program which involved a lot of improvisational work as the primary method to work on those networking techniques. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Management Consulting Tagged With: consulting, professional networking, relationship management

March 25, 2015 by Eric Butts Leave a Comment

How Do you Find The Right Mentor?

After reading the post about the 12 reasons you NEED to have a mentor, a reader asked a great question in the comments about how to find the right mentor.

Now that we know we need a mentor. How do we go about getting one and choosing the right one?

As you can probably guess, it’s all about the relationships. But I’m also going to tell you how to target the relationships you want to cultivate. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Career Advice Tagged With: career management, mentor, mentorship, professional networking

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