360°Reach Branding Assessment Special

What Do People Think About YOU?

An executive brand is becoming a required business value. Your brand combines personal and business qualities. In today's marketplace senior professionals are beginning to take very seriously the concept of themselves as a brand.

Executives need to understand how they are perceived internally and externally. As well, it is important to constantly review their current brand and modify it.

The most successful leaders use what makes them unique, their brands, to help them succeed. Coaches work with executive clients on brand building activities to enable them to expand their personal fulfillment and professional accomplishments

What is 360°Reach?

360°Reach is the first and leading web-based personal brand assessment that helps you get the real story about how you are viewed by those around you. It gives you the critical feedback you need so you can expand your career or business success. It's an integral part of the personal branding process and an indispensable tool for thriving in today's professional environment.

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How Can a Coach Help Your Career?

Coaching has quickly become one of the leading resources people use to transform their lives from disappointing or merely successful to extraordinary.

From senior executives to up-and-comers, people who hire coaches are learning how to set better goals for themselves, increase self-awareness, improve performance, and develop strategies that improve their overall quality of life.

The relationship between coach and client is based on the premise that nothing is broken or wrong or needs to be fixed - coaches are not therapists. Coaches do help clients discover what is most important in their lives, but they do so primarily by looking at the present and the future, rather than by placing a heavy emphasis on the past. From this discovery, coaches assist in developing action plans to help clients create a better future for themselves. However, while a coach may be able to show the client a window, it's up to the client to look through it. Coaches will try to hold clients accountable, but in the end clients are accountable only to themselves. If a client is willing to work hard and think critically, then a coach can help bring clarity.

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A Move Within Present Organization

When making a move within your organization, it is usually one of two basic options: a) A move that is a step up (a promotion) or b) A move that is across the career ladder and/or the organizational structure (a lateral move). Since people are quite familiar with the concept of moving up or advancing your career and what a promotion implies, no further explanation is needed.

However, not everyone may fully understand what is and why someone wants to make a lateral move. A lateral move involves transferring to a different but equal to the one you presently have. This is a professional shift to consider when you want to remain with your present employer, but want to further develop as a professional and therefore, interested in expanding your skills and experience base. For example, Bill a HR Specialist with some responsibility for writing training materials, develops a growing interest in writing and editing. This results in his request for a lateral move to the In House Publications Department since one future possibility is working for an organization specializing in HR publications.

Read more excerpts from High Level Resumes! written by Marshall Brown and Annabelle Reitman here:

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