Imagine a world without colours. How would you feel if suddenly everything turned black and white? Colour creates powerful feelings. It lightens us up, it makes us think, it aids relaxation, boldness or optimism.There is a whole branch of Psychology, called "colour psychology" that looks into how colours affect our lives.Our personal brands could be no exception: the right colour enables emotional bonding with our personal brand. Colour is a subliminal method of communicating our personal brand attributes. Given that we are very clear on which our attributes really are we can select the colour...

Have you ever noticed that you might be looking for a solution to a problem all day long and you might end up finding it…in your sleep?! It does happen very often: when we relax suddenly everything makes much more sense and the solution is staring at us.That’s exactly what happens when we go away on a holiday. Many exciting ideas spring up and all we need to do is keep a note. For this summer, through my last post before the summer holidays, I only have one thing to say, besides my warmest wishes for a lovely holiday: “Please remember to pack two accessories this summer: a pen and a pad”.Write...

There are specific reasons why we should think of CVs and LinkedIn profiles as different career care tools:ContentA CV’s goal is to get us an interview. For that to be achieved our CV should create an emotional bonding with the prospective employer. Emotional bonding is created upon meeting a specific employer’s business need. Therefore our CV unlike our LinkedIn profile answers specific needs. LengthIn most cases a CV is no more than 2 to 3 pages long.  This limitation does not apply to LinkedIn, which instead can give us the opportunity to elaborate more on issues we could not delve int...

Successful careerists and leaders have their secrets. One of them is active listening. In this day and age, listening attentively is becoming progressively harder as there is just too much noise around all of us at work. Noise of any kind that real leaders just manage to block out to be efficient.Like everything else, excelling at active listening takes practice and time. We can start by..…letting people complete their sentencesFirst of all, not interrupting proves you respect your team. Secondly, it allows you to really understand what your colleagues want to say. If you have a reputation for...

Entrepreneurs are very special people: they are enthusiastic, inspiring, they believe that they will make it, they invest in creating strategic networks beneficiant to all parties involved, they love their jobs, they are open minded, they fall and rise again, they are innovative and embrace change.I believe us Greeks are born entrepreneurs. Despite the financial circumstances or rather because of the circumstances I firmly believe so. We are visionaries, we have innovative ideas that we believe in, we learn from a very young age how to create meaningful networks, we are careful but we are not ...