by Bonnie Marcus | Sep 9, 2012 | goal setting, leadership, Self Promotion, Success, Women in Business
I had a client, a female attorney for a large healthcare system, tell me last week that when she approached her boss about her desire to move her career forward, he was surprised. That prompted me to think about our relationship to ambition, how others in the...
by Bonnie Marcus | Mar 18, 2012 | Self Promotion, Success, Women in Business
Have you noticed that it is now common to use the term personal branding instead of self-promotion? Personal branding and self-promotion are, in fact, the same. I have come to believe that the term self-promotion is so off-putting for women that we will do almost...
by Bonnie Marcus | Feb 12, 2012 | Assertive Communication, Customer Service, Entrepreneurs, fear and anxiety, marketing, networking, Sales techniques, Self Promotion, Women in Business
Are you being stingy?
by not letting others know what you have to offer?
by not speaking up and sharing your opinion or ideas? Sometimes we are so focused on our own stuff and our fears or discomfort talking about ourselves that we forget that what we have to...
by Bonnie Marcus | Dec 5, 2010 | Assertive Communication, Self Promotion, Women in Business
According to Donald Asher, author of Who Gets Promoted, Who Doesn’t and Why, “Bosses assume that any employee who doesn’t ask for more is satisfied with his job.” If this is accurate, which I suspect it is, why don’t we ask about...
by Bonnie Marcus | Jun 20, 2010 | Assertive Communication, Self Promotion, Success, Women in Business
If you don’t raise your hand, you won’t be called on and maybe that’s a good thing; a good thing, that is, if you want to remain invisible and safe. After all, when you raise your hand, you are risking public failure. When you raise your hand, you are sending a...
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