JMI Professional Skills Institute, Inc.

07/28/2022

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07/28/2022

What Skills Do Employers Look For?

The top tangible and intangible skills employers seek when they recruit employees, including the most valuable attributes companies look for when hiring.

06/28/2022

Dan Palladino of Heritage Hill on leadership: Let go of your ego, listen, take care of your team

His family farm turned to organic crops, added a market, brewery, restaurant, and event center with priceless CNY views

06/02/2022

04/24/2022

Recently, as my husband and I were watching one of the Fyre Festival documentaries, he gave the mother of all eye rolls when a man and woman, both identified as “influencers,” appeared on screen.
To be fair, both of them came off — well, pretty much as one might expect, given the subject of the film. But still, the eye roll hit a nerve. I paused the documentary, turned to my husband, and said, “You know influencer work pays some of our bills, right?”
While I’m not on the level of the influencers featured in the Fyre Festival documentaries, my modest online following, combined with authoring books, does come with the opportunity to work with brands in an influencer capacity. But even to many people who identify with the term “influencer,” the label can be less than desirable, conjuring up images of superficiality and ripoffs.
“I cringe at the word ‘influencer,’ though I have yet to find a better word for it,” says Grace Atwood, the founder of lifestyle blog The Stripe and co-host of the podcast Bad on Paper who boosts more than 100,000 followers on Instagram. “To me, it feels a little sleazy. It makes it sound as though my job is to push a product down people’s throats or get them to try and be just like me.”
I know what she means. There’s something almost laughable in the way some influencers promote things they would obviously never use themselves — like the makeup tutorials where a brush clearly isn’t actually touching the YouTuber’s face. So, in this potentially disingenuous world, where it’s alarmingly easy to sell your integrity, how do you keep yourself trustworthy and make sure you aren’t scamming your community for a payday?
To start, it helps to define the term. Broadly speaking, an influencer is “a brand or person that people listen to or take action as a result of something that they shared,” says Tiffany Aliche, CEO of The Budgetnista who has more than 400,000 followers on Facebook and more than 150,000 followers on Instagram. (Obviously, celebrities have a certain level of influence and cachet, but micro-influencers — who often have fewer than 1 million followers — also carry weight in the marketing world.)
The influencer role can also encompass a wide variety of more specific jobs. When asked what she does for a living, for example, Aliche uses the term “personal financial educator.” Atwood, meanwhile, prefers to describe herself as a writer.

In a role that’s often tagged as disingenuous, it’s difficult—but not impossible—to maintain your integrity and ensure you’re deserving of…

04/04/2022

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03/09/2022

10 Emerging Skills for Professionals
Analytical thinking and innovation. ...
Active learning and learning strategies. ...
Creativity, originality, and initiative. ...
Technology design and programming. ...
Critical thinking and analysis. ...
Complex problem-solving. ...
Leadership and social influence. ...
Emotional intelligence.

Ten critical soft skills leaders should maximize to improve their leadership capabilities and successfully advance their careers.

02/04/2022

Why are you feeling tired and burnt out
Before we can address how to stay creative, we first need to take a look at why you might be experiencing this in the first place. There could be any number of reasons why you’re feeling this way, but some common causes include:
Too much work and not enough rest
Stress from personal or professional life
A creative block that you can’t seem to breakthrough
Lack of motivation
Once you have a better understanding of why you’re feeling this way, you can start to develop strategies to help address the issue.
Let’s take a look at 4 of those strategies that will help you stay creative.

4 strategies I use when I feel my creativity is at an all-time low

11/23/2021

11/16/2021

Education Department Announces $2 Billion Of Student Loans Will Be Cancelled Within Weeks

Great news for student loans.

10/24/2021

The Top 120 Most Empowering Words in English …

Use these 120 most empowering words for a variety of things: affirmations, copywriting, business, or just life! 1. Abundance. 2. Adventurous.