“Mentorship”. It’s like a force of nature! When attentive, wise mentors apply the right amounts of pressure at the right times in the right places needed by a chunk of coal, in time it can become an exquisite, highly valuable diamond. It helped me many times in
It’s a concept that I made up formed from two words, and it’s derived from a decade plus years helping 13K+ military veterans translate their experience into a language that Corporate America understands and get hired for those positions. “Provable Fluency” is the combination of three key things: experience
I keep a document to which I add my favorite quotes as I come across ones that really resonate with me. After watching the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in Orlando, Florida this past weekend, I heard a fantastic one attributed to the King, golf legend Arnold Palmer.
Solution Selling. It’s the best kind of selling to government, well, anyone for that matter, and it has application beyond sales. A great analogy is a related one, headaches. It’s what a lot of folks get when they think about a sales interaction. But what’s the solution, two
At the risk of oversimplifying, here is the hiring process illustrated. It’s from the perspective of the folks in an organization in Corporate America looking for a candidate to hire, the functional manager and their HR partner. And it’s for the veteran hiring candidate’s benefit to understand its
Everyone loves it! And for good reason. We like to make sound decisions. And proof helps us do that empirically. We can be confident in our conclusions and the decisions we make based on them. You can use proof pudding to help you start a new career or
That’s the phrase that I close with in my email signature block and that I autograph books with at book signings. It encapsulates everything I do as a professional; help military veterans achieve meaningful, lucrative post-military service careers. And although, as a military veteran, I primarily speak to
That’s because his statement “The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by our nation”, and we see a decline in the already small
Everyone that holds a project management credential from the US-based Project Management Institute must earn Professional Development Units, i.e., “PDUs”, to maintain those certifications. You do not want to take these professional exams twice! PDUs are self-reported through one’s account at www.pmi.org, and PMI awards 1 PDU for every
Since civilian projects share the same definition as military missions, military leaders have project management experience! Find out it translates…
