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Studies have shown that 93 percent of what is believed about people in business is based upon visual messages, not on credentials or on the content of conversation. An invaluable resource for today's job market, How to Gain the Professional Edge, Third Edition helps readers answer a multitude of questions about behavior, attitude, and image to improve professionalism and open doors to advancement and career success. This new edition has been updated to discuss evolving social media and technology, greater awareness of interpersonal issues in the workplace, and changing fashions. Chapters include: Critical First Impressions Do You Hear What You Are Not Saying? The Attitude Advantage Social Graces in Business Places Maximize Your Relationships Details Make a Difference You Are What You Wear Tune into Technology. Perfect for young readers preparing to enter the job market or workers who want to hone their professionalism and advance their careers, this informative eBook provides the tools, skills, and techniques to help people achieve their professional goals.

The must-read guide to understanding corporate politics in order to get ahead Designed to provide the reader with an understanding of corporate politics from a positive perspective, I Wish I'd Known That Earlier in My Career uses case studies to teach the essentials of organizational dynamics, power networks, and the decision-making processes and dilemmas involved in business. Examining corporate politics and the barriers many managers face in their efforts to reach the top, the book works to build awareness and strategies for business and career success. Taking a refreshing new approach to workplace politics, the book presents new ways to think about embracing opportunities in order to achieve personal and organization-wide career satisfaction. Rather than encouraging employees to move on and start their own businesses, it instead details how to move up within their current companies by learning to understand power bases and conversation more thoroughly. Combines individual case studies and real life situations with helpful tips and techniques designed to help overcome corporate challenges Each chapter tells a story that illustrates a constructive concept that can be easily learned and applied in the real world Covers topics including: political savvy, the benefits of self-promotion, performance management, sexual harassment, and other organizational challenges Essential reading for anyone looking to move forward in their professional life, I Wish I'd Known That Earlier in My Career provides genuinely helpful advice in a highly accessible, easily applicable way.

The devil is in the detail when looking for greater success in the workplace. How to watch the eye contact patterns in meetings to understand who the key players are; what to consider before you meet a crucial contact for the first time; interpreting the dynamics in meetings; how to avoid becoming a victim of politics at work - these are some of the specifics you need to learn in order to get ahead in your career.

Discover the habits that distinguish true business professionals—and how to make a great impression on customers, clients, and colleagues. Many people invest in their careers, yet have no clue how to set themselves apart from their competition. This guide, from the author of What Self-Made Millionaires Do That Most People Don't, reveals the unwritten and unspoken rules of success. It gives new hires and seasoned executives alike nearly effortless strategies—for avoiding mistakes that hold you back and climbing that slippery ladder of success. You'll learn appropriate ways to: •Introduce two people whose names you've forgotten •Ask for some of your boss's time •Manage coworkers who drop into your office on a moment's notice •Handle being put on the spot in a meeting •Play the corporate hierarchy game with your boss and other higher-ups •Deal with international hosts, colleagues and customers, and much more

Experience and paper credentials are often not enough in today's highly competitive workforce. One's image is an often-overlooked aspect in the workforce, but when considered, many limit one's image to that of mere appearance. However, one's professional image is about much more than just looking the part, but also behaving and sounding it. In this book, you will understand how your dressing can impact your superiors and subordinates perception of you, and how your behavior and personality can affect the impression that you want project. Learn to communicate in a fashion that reinforces – and not undermines – your authority or capability. Pick up tips on how to put your best foot forward and promote yourself in a manner that will get you remembered and going places. Let Pang Li Kin, a Certified Image Professional (CIP), show you how to evaluate your current image, how to decide on the characteristics to project and how to be consistent. She is the vice-president/president elect on the 2009–11 AICI South Asia-Singapore Chapter Board and is an appointed Success Coach with AICI globally. She runs her own company, Potenxia Unlimited, and has over 20 years of experience behind her.

This book is a practical, step-by-step guide for creating, cultivating, and capitalizing on networking relationships and opportunities.Updated from its first edition, Make Your Contacts Count now includes expanded advice on building social capital at work and in job hunting, as well as new case studies, examples, checklists, and questionnaires.You will discover how to:draft a networking plancultivate current contactsmake the most of membershipseffectively exchange business cardsavoid the top ten networking turn-offsshare anecdotes that convey character and competencetransform your career with a networking makeoverJob-seekers, career-changers, entrepreneurs, and others will find all the networking help they need to supercharge their careers and boost their bottom lines. Packed with valuable tools, Make Your Contacts Count offers a field-tested'Hello to Goodbye'system that takes you from entering a room, to making conversations flow, to following up.

In Company Manners, Lois Wyse gives the ploys, power plays, and protocols that have nothing to do with Emily Post and everything to do with making it to the top in any corporation.Company Manners will show you:• How to survive and win despite mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, shakeouts, and corporate warfare• How to star as a team player• How to be good to yourself in order to be better at your work• How to turn a social event into a business coup• How to make a one-hour lunch more productive than a two-hour meeting• How to beat the competition• How to deal with sex in the office• How to read body language and unspoken signals• How to take control of a meeting that isn't going your way• How to make corporate pressure work for rather than against you• How to develop your own style for successIn Wyse's no-nonsense style, illustrated with personal anecdotes and insiders'stories, Company Manners is the book for anyone who wants the best of everything in the fast-moving, hard-hitting business world.