One of the most popular speakers on the subject of personal development and success is Jack Canfield, author of The Success Principles and Co-Founder of the Chicken Soup For The Soul series of books. This summer we have the opportunity to meet Jack Canfield live in Dublin. 

The details of the Jack Canfield Dublin event are as follows:

Date: Sunday, May 18th

Time:  9am - 6pm

Venue: The Mansion House, Dawson St., Dublin 2

Event Organisers: Horizon Speakers

Registration: To book your place at Jack Canfield Success Principles event in Dublin, contact Horizon Speakers on 086 122 1359 0r 01 443 3326, info@horizonspeakers.com

Brochure for the event: Access more details about the Jack Canfield Success Principles Event in Dublin here

Investment: €445

At the live event, Jack will share the strategies, activities and exercises he teaches in his Success Principles book

• How to change the outcome of any event simply by changing your response to it
• How to access powerful mentors and friends who’ll open doors for you
• How to complete past projects, heal past relationships and process old hurts, so you can embrace the future
• How to prepare and be instantly ready when opportunity comes knocking
• How to implement the unique time management system that insures you’ll have time to focus on success
• How to say “no” to the good, so you’ll have room in your life to say “yes” to the great
• How to ask for and get everything you want…from people who can give it to you
• How to maximize your success with money, your finances and your future.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

You can subscribe to Jack Canfield’s free newsletter and access his free e-course and audio programme here

You can get a taste of what Jack Canfield has in store for the Dublin Success Principles event by watching the video below.

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If you are a coach working in Ireland you might be interested in the forthcoming conference being hosted by the Coach Institute Of Ireland.

DATE: 17 and 18 May 2008

VENUE: The Radisson SAS Hotel, Dublin Airport

REGISTRATION: Details are on the Coach Institute Of Ireland website or see the booking form here

PRICE: €120 per person 

Some of the subjects to be covered at the Coach Institute of Ireland Conference include:

• Alive at Work: How Coaching can help re-build Employee Engagement
• The Inner Game of Life, Business & Executive Coaching
• CEO’s At The Performance Edge: What Corporate  Executives Value in their Coach
• The Inside Story: Coaching Within the Police Service of Northern Ireland
• Managing Your Career in the 21st Century
• Self Esteem & the Coaching Process
• Core Creativity in Coaching, & Learning Music
•  Perception: How to See the Invisible

I’ll be speaking on the subject of executive coaching and will be sharing how in an increasingly competitive world, more executives and CEO’s are working with a professional coach to support them both professionally and personally.

In the session I will be drawing on my 20 years of executive coaching experience and recent research I have undertaken about what executives look for and value when they work with a coach especially when they are facing the “performance edge” – the tightrope that we all tread between breakthrough and breakdown and how can we as professional coaches ensure that we are equipped to support them.

I’m looking forward to attending the Coach Institute of Ireland and especially to hearing about coaching in the Police Service in Northern Ireland.

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As you know I write a lot about the power of social media to help you build your reputation online.

One of the case studies I share in my speaking about social media, personal branding and career success is of my good friend and mastermind buddy  Jessica Bowman who is an SEO expert.

After relocating across the US, taking up a role at Yahoo, Jessica lost her role in the recent massive shakedown to everyone’s surprise in just 90 days after taking up her appointment.

Jessica has a blog that is well regarded in her field of expertise and as she has been providing excellent advice and tips there, she is well known by key influencers in the world of SEO.

This has led to her story and how she has successfully managed career transition since leaving Yahoo to be picked up by a major US glossy where she will be featured in their July edition (sorry can’t tell you who until she makes it public) and she is attracting great opportunities from consulting to speaking, all through her network both online an offline.

So Jessica is using the power of her social network through blogging to manage her career transition.

But here’s the thing - you actually don’t need to be blogging yourself to make sure of the power of blogging and social networking when in career transition or when searching for another job.

I can not recall the thousands upon thousands of speculative CV’s I have received through the post or email over the years. And unfortunately it is rare that those speculative CV’s ever amount to someone landing a new role in the businesses I have been recruiting for- the reasons for that warrant an article or two on their own so I won’t go into it here.

I must declare that I get really frustrated when someone connects with me by email with their CV looking for a new role and they have not gone to the time to research who I am or how to correctly spell my name.

Take a situation that happened just this week when someone addressed their email to me ‘Dear Sir’. You see I am not a man. 

So take note of the following - this is something I can guarantee most career coaches, recruiters, HR professionals and executive recruiters will not even think to tell you…

A little time researching online would have told the job hunter that I have a business blog where they can find out a lot about what I am interested in, what services I provide and what kinds of clients my company serves. They can research me online before even applying fingers to their keyboard to send me their speculative CV or resume.

They could also have found me on Facebook or LinkedIn, noted who is in my network and who are mutual contacts so they could have had someone introduce them to me in a more personal way.

They might even have followed me on Twitter where they could get a feel for other things that are going on in my life, not just work and business.

Even better would have been if they invested a little time in building and nurturing a relationship with me online before they email me about looking for a job move.

For example they could have added insightful comments or experiences about the issues I cover in my articles or podcasts.

You can be sure I would have taken more notice of them when I received an email about them looking for a new role. 

I would probably even have connected them to my network to assist them in their job search.

So before you hit the send button on that next email, whether it be a job opportunity you are looking for or a new assignment, why not use the power of the Internet and the accessibility of social media to research and nurture  relationships with the people you are connecting to.

That will ensure that you are more specific and relevant in who you connect to and what you say in your letter or email.

The result is that your personal brand will stand out from the crowd of people interested in that same next job or assignment you are interested in.

So why not access the power of social media and social networks in your career research - I’m sure the results will surprise you.

And if you are not looking for your next big gig, why not pass this guidance on to someone you know who is.

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Today I met with a new client who consulted with me about how to build their new ecommerce business online.

Interestingly due to the fact that he has a website representing his personal brand online, he is number one in the search engines here in Ireland for key words relating to his expertise.

You see although he is currently in employment i.e. he is on the payroll of an organisation, he realised the value in promoting his experience and his portfolio of skills online - he is using his own name as the domain name for his current website.

One of the tips I always cover in my personal branding workshops and consultations is to ensure that you purchase your own domain name - even if you have no plan to use it at this time to host your own business blog, website or career portfolio.

Even if you are employed in a company, the chances are that you won’t be in their employ in 10 years or 20 years time - but the one thing that will be constant is the need to ensure that you continue to nurture your personal brand and reputation online as many people search for us prior to or after meeting us.

An example of when not purchasing your domain name is the recent case of Shel Israel, author and social media consultant.

Shel is one of the contributors at FastCompany.tv. He would not position himself as being an expert in video or film production, however the expectations of his interviews with guests seem not to have been met by his audience as you can see from the video here and the accompanying comments where there is concern being expressed over the production values of the video.

You can read more about the story here at the Blog Herald and at Shel Israel’s blog.

What resulted is that someone create a website as a parody of his interviews - and yes you guessed it - the domain name for the site is ShelIsrael.com. You see, Shel had not purchased his own domain name so it was freely available for someone else to purchase.

You could conside it a form of online identity theft.

I am sure that Shel is kicking himself now - though it does mean that he is getting many people talking about him online - perhaps not for reasons he anticipated or would like.

But let his case be a lesson for us all - if you don’t own your domain name - please buy it even if you have no plans to use it at this time. And if you love your children - buy their names as domain names too. They’ll thank you for it in a few years time.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Here’s an article  about making sure that you have your own name as a domain name, published in the Wall Street Journal that I was quoted in called “You’re A Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well”.

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Did you realise that today is International Women’s Day?

I’ll be celebrating by hosting a panel on the subject of “Women in Technology” and a session about using social media to create, publish and market your book at Creative Camp, taking place in Kilkenny.

I’ve also been invited by Frank Fullard, CEO of the Mayo County Enterprise Board to facilitate a workshop for female business leaders in celebration of International Women’s Day 2008.

The event will take place at Knockranny House Hotel, Westport on Tuesday 11 March 2008 starting at 7pm with refreshments and networking at the end of the workshop at 10pm.

WORKSHOP OUTLINE

Personal branding is a revolution in the way we manage our careers or businesses.  It’s a way of clarifying and communicating what makes you different and special and using those qualities to separate from yourself from your peers so that you can greatly expand your success. 

At the end of the workshop the will have developed a personal action plan for further nurturing your personal brand so that in 2008 you’ll be able to enjoy even greater professional success.

In this interactive workshop, we will be covering:

• An Introduction To Personal Branding – the origins of personal branding and why it is relevant for our success in the 21st century
• Defining The Essence of Your Personal Brand – the steps we must take to define out personal brand
• Expressing Our Personal Brand – how do we make sure that everything we do is on-brand and consistent with our vision
• Getting Known Now – how do we create our personal marketing plan based around the 3 keys to building connections - we will look at these three strategies both through traditional and new media
• Action planning - developing your personal branding action plan.

HOW TO BOOK YOUR PLACE

You can book your place to attend the “Personal Branding Masterclass” here. I do hope you can join me the other female entrepreneurs. And if you are planning to atten, don’t hesitate to email me or post your questions here about how to nurture your personal brand - just add your questions to th comments section.

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