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Professional Presence: A Four-Part Guide to Building Your Personal Brand

Being successful in the business world takes more than just having a degree and an experience. It takes quality professional presence (or brand) that includes everything from your appearance and professional demeanor. And if you are a starter, it is very important to keep in mind that you will not always have a second chance to make a good first impression, especially in today's very competitive world. That's why it is crucial to project an image of confidence and great character to everyone you are dealing with. So whether you are navigating your way in to the business world or just wanting to improve yourself, I highly recommend reading Peggy Noe Stevens' "Professional Presence: A Four-Part Guide to Building Your Personal Brand".

 The author divided the book into four "soft-skill" sections; Protocol, Personal, Professional, and People. As a young professional myself, I am very pleased with the content of this book because it covers different skills that are crucial in building a professional image. To name a few, Peggy talks about proper grooming, inter-personal skills, and running effective meetings.

There are also different scenarios that offer powerful thought lessons for skills application at the end of each section. To me, the scenarios are my favorite part of this book because it makes me think about how I can better deal with the given situations without sacrificing the quality of my professional brand. Site links are also provided to see how you can properly handle the given scenarios. 

 While this book can feed your mind with tips on how you can develop a professional brand, it is important that you apply and put that knowledge into practice. The only way to effectively build a better professional brand is through practice. Practice... Practice... Practice... until doing it becomes a second nature that will help you stand out in a milieu of routine job seekers with mediocre skills and talent.

Professional Presence: A Four-Part Guide to Building Your Personal Brand by Peggy Noe Stevens

Overview:Study after study has proven that “soft skills” which includes professional presence are one of the biggest factors in professional success. Without them, it’s hard to build critical relationships, develop a positive reputation, manage effectively and ensure your financial security.

If you hope to move up in the business world, Professional Presence can help. It delivers a step-by-step program to develop the social skills you need for career advancement. The four-part learning process focuses on business etiquette, personal brand development, professional presentation, and people skills. By following the exercises in the book, you can learn crucial behavioral strategies, from how to give a successful presentation to how to dress appropriately to how to align personal and professional goals. Imaginative case studies offer powerful thought lessons for applying these skills.

Author Peggy Stevens runs a global image branding business, helping companies develop exceptional talent by teaching confidence, self-awareness, and professional presence. With her well-developed plan and the determination to learn critical soft skills, you’ll soon find yourself on the path to building your personal brand.

About the Author:Described as the ''Oprah of entertaining'' Peggy Noe Stevens began her career working for in the hospitality industry for Hyatt Hotels Corporation before moving into event planning and experiential marketing for a major corporation. A trail blazer for women, she is the world's first female Master Bourbon Taster, has designed women's research and strategy studies, and has spoken to countless professional organizations on issues in the workplace as to the effective steps of strategizing careers. Her consulting company specializes in image strategy for both people and places.

Buy it: Professional Presence: A Four-Part Guide to Building Your Personal Brand is available at both Amazon and Barnes & Noble in Hardcover.

To learn more about Professional Presence and the author Peggy Noe Stevens, you can:
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A Peacock in The Land of Penguins: A Tale of Diversity and Discovery



About a month ago, I had an opportunity to read a very charming and engaging book called A Peacock in a Land of Penguins (Thanks, Professor Bob!). It’s one of those corporate fables that teach life lessons about the beauty of diversity. Although this book focuses on the corporate world, the valuable information you can get from this book applies to almost everything in life.


Here are the top three important things we must remember as a peacock:
1) Make sure that you are aware of your own thoughts! It is important to be aware of your inner dialogue so that you know where you stand.
2) Make sure you know that your strengths, talents, skills and ideas are valuable, even if yours are different from what they possess.
3) I think it is also important to look for other peacocks who values diversity for support.

On my journey as a young leader, I value and appreciate diversity so much. To me, diversity is what makes the world so beautiful. It allows innovation and each of us have unique talents and skills that we must all appreciate. One may be weak at one aspect, but the individual can be of great help in some other aspects. Instead of using our differences to divide us or as fodder for gossip and time-wasting judgments about others, I have always believed that there is a great advantage if we employ our differences for good use.

As a young business professional myself, I am hoping to further develop my ability to manage and my understanding of the inevitable relationships that exist between diversity, innovation, and leadership. I believe that if we properly welcome and allow diversity, we will be able to see an unimagined growth together.

Together, let's build on the strength of our differences! ~trish

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Her Online Bookshelf Supports Bernie's Book Bank!


For more information about ROCK THE BANK, please go to: http://www.berniesbookbank.org/about/our-events/

Do you remember having a favorite book as a child? What book was it? Was your favorite book the little red riding hood?... or the little engine that could?... maybe you even had a set of Disney books sitting on your shelf back in the day... Everyone had a favorite book as a kid – you know, that raggedy old thing you carried from room to room? We know our lives were shaped in part by the books we loved as children. Having an access to books helped us develop our creativity and knowledge which somehow contributed to who and where we are right now. Wouldn't we want to pass this blessing to the next generation?

Last October of 2011, I volunteered at Bernie's Book Bank in Lake Forest, Illinois. It was a great opportunity for me to spend my Saturday morning with friends and other community volunteers! The young scout volunteers were in charge of putting the stickers on the book covers, while I was one of those 'strong' people who lifted a truck load of heavy boxes packed with children's books. I enjoyed it ( A LOT!). Volunteering at Bernie's Book Bank was a very remarkable experience for me because I know that the books will be shipped out  to children of low-income families!

What's Bernie's Book Bank?
Bernie’s Book Bank collects, processes and distributes quality new and gently used children’s books to at-risk children in Chicago and its suburbs. Since our founding in December 2009, we’ve distributed more than 680,000 books and now serve more than 40,000 children annually. “We have a problem in this country,” says Bernie’s Book Bank Founder and Executive Director Brian Floriani, “where many children show up to their first day of kindergarten never having seen a book before in their lives. We can change that.”Bernie’s Book Bank was founded with the mission of increasing book ownership of at-risk children. “At Bernie’s Book Bank, we have one main focus,” says Floriani, “and that is to be the logistical bridge – between where books are and are no longer being used, to where they are not and desperately needed – and significantly increase book ownership of at-risk children in Chicagoland. Because it is through books – holding them, touching them, reading them, learning them – that children have the best opportunities to succeed in this world.”

Why is this important to me? Why am I supporting this cause?
Having an access to books enabled me to dream as a little girl. The creativity and knowledge I gained from reading books have opened quite a few doors in my life as an adult that I wouldn't have had otherwise. My hope is simply to give every children an opportunity to have that same wonderful world of imagination that I was given by the world of books. By supporting this non-profit organization, either as a book packing volunteer or by extending my support for them through my book blog, I am able to make this possible. THANKS BERNIE'S!

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