Bud Bilanich
BS Human Development, Pe State; MA Interpersonal Communication, University of Colorado; EdD Adult Education and Organization Behavior and Intervention, Harvard University
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Bud Bilanich: Common Sense Advice for Career and Life Success Expert
Bud Bilanich Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Career and Life Success, Team Building, Organization Effectiveness
- Best Sellers
- Straight Talk for Success, 4 Secrets of High Performing Organizations, Leading With Values, Solving Peformance Problems
- Career Focus
- Career and Life Success Coach, Author, Blogger, Speaker, Consultant, Business Owner
- Affiliation
- National Speakers Association, International Speakers Network, International Blogging and New Media Association, American Society for Training and Development
Bud Bilanich's pragmatic approach to business, life, and the business of life has earned him the title The Common Sense Guy, and made him one of the most sought after speakers, consultants and executive coaches in the USA!
Dr. Bilanich’s work focuses on improving the performance of individuals, teams and entire organizations. Bud is Harvard educated, but has a no-nonsense, common sense approach to his work that stretches back to his roots in the steel country of Western Pennsylvania.
Bud has authored 11 books, the latest five Star Power, 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success, Your Success GPS, I Want YOU...To Succed and Straight Talk for Success are devoted to the topic of careeer and life success, Straight Talk became a bestseller in 2008. It details his thoughts on career and life success.
Recently, he created the Common Sense Success Club, a five month, 21 learning module program in which he teaches he success system. You can learn more at www.Commo SenseSuccessSystem.com/freedvdoffer.
Bud has 30 years experience in the organization effectiveness field. He has worked all over the US, Europe and Asia. His clients include Pfizer Inc, Johnson and Johnson, Abbott Laboratories, Schein Pharmaceuticals, PepsiCo, General Motors, UBS Financial Service, AXA Advisors, Citicorp, JP Morgan Chase, AT&T, Pitney Bowes, Dana Corporation and The Boys and Girls Clubs of America.
Bud is a cancer survivor, and lives in Denver with Cathy, his wife. He is a retired rugby player and an avid cyclist. He likes movies, live theatre and crime fiction.Free Articles & Book Excerpts
Star Power
http://bbilanich.typepad.com/star_power_ebook/
4 Secrets of High Performing Organizations
http://bbilanich.typepad.com/blog/get-your-complementary-eb.html
Straight Talk for Success
http://www.StraightTalkforSuccessBook.com
Common Sense Success System
http://www.Commo SenseSuccessSystem.com/freedvdoffer
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Successful People Treat Life as a "Splendid Torch"
The other day I saw a great quote from Margaret Thatcher… "Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it." Ole' Iron Maggie really nailed it with this one. I like this quote because it gets at the essence of commitment to taking personal responsibility for your life and career. You demonstrate your commitment -- to yourself and to the world -- by doing three things. First, take personal responsibility for your success. Only you can make you a success.
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Successful People Make Their Own Luck
A while back I wrote about a book called The Luck Factor by Richard Wiseman who claims that you can learn to be lucky. In fact, Dr. Wiseman even lists five steps for learning to be lucky. First, don't assume there is nothing you can do about any situation. Make the decision to take control. Second, do something now. Third, make a list of various options. Be creative. Brainstorm. Come up with as many ideas as you can. Fourth, decide how you will move forward. Consider every possible alternative. Fifth, take action.
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Self Awareness and Success
In an effort at providing more value for my ezine subscribers, I have created a new feature. It's called, THINK, ACT, SUCCEED. I send my subscribers a daily quote on success. I urge them to think about the quote and how it applies to their lives.
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Want Success? Take a Lesson From Lindsey Vonn
Did you watch the Olympics Wednesday night? The Americans did pretty well, winning gold medals in skiing -- Lindsey Vonn, speed skating -- Shani Davis and snowboarding -- Shaun White. Good for them. Their years of training, hard work and dedication paid off. In this post I want to focus on Lindsey Vonn. She lives in Vail, my favorite Colorado mountain town. I live and do my career success coaching work in Denver, so I think of her as kind of a neighbor. More important, I find her story compelling. Right now, she is the best woman ski racer in the world.
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Successful People Face Their Fears and Act
You can become self confident by doing three things. First, choose optimism. Believe in your heart of hearts that today will be better than yesterday, and that tomorrow will be better than today. Second, face your fears and act. Procrastination and inaction feed fear and rob you of self confidence. Action cures fear. Third, surround yourself with positive people. Don't let the naysayers into your life. Hang around with people who are positive about themselves, their careers and life in general. Fear is the enemy of self confidence. Self confident people face their fears and act.
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Presentation Tips for Success
Competence is one of the four keys to career and life success. There are four key competencies that will help you become a career and life success: • You have to be able to create positive personal impact. • You have to be become an outstanding performer. • You have to be a dynamic communicator -- in conversation, writing and presentations. • You have to build strong, lasting, mutually beneficial relationships with the important people in your life. If you want to become a dynamic communicator, you need to become an excellent presenter.
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Successful People Make No Little Plans
"Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work." This quote from Daniel Burnham is a perfect to begin a post on outstanding performance. If you're going to set goals, you might as well set big ones. As Mr. Burnham says, big goals will "stir your blood." He ought to know, he designed famous landmarks like the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington DC. I agree with Mr. Burnham; many people set their sights too low.
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Fear, Courage and Success
You can become self confident by doing three things. First, choose optimism. Believe in your heart of hearts that today will be better than yesterday, and that tomorrow will be better than today. Second, face your fears and act. Procrastination and inaction feed fear and rob you of self confidence. Action cures fear. Third, surround yourself with positive people. Don't let the naysayers into your life. Hang around with people who are positive about themselves, their careers and life in general. Fear can -- and will -- paralyze you.
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Dealing with Procrastination
As you know, all outstanding performers have three things in common:.1. Outstanding performers are technically competent. 2. Outstanding performers set and achieve high goals. 3. Outstanding performers are well organized. Well organized people manage time well. The other day, I came across an interesting quote on time from Luanne Oakes, PhD: "Time is within your control." My first reaction was "maybe in your world, Luanne, but try mine for a while and then we’ll see what you have to say." However, as I thought about it, I realized that Dr. Oakes is right -- time is within my control.
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Social Networking and Success
If you want to create positive personal impact, you need to do three things. 1) Create and nurture your unique personal brand. 2) Be impeccable in your presentation of self -- in person and on line. 3) Know and follow the basic rules of etiquette. Even if you're not in business for yourself, you need to have a personal brand and a web presence to create positive personal impact. These days, I hear the question, "If you don't exist on line, do you really exist?" That's a good question. Prospective employers will Google you. You'll be better off, if they like what they see.
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Persistence and Success
As you go through life you will encounter many problems and setbacks. You need to react positively to the negative stuff and move forward toward your goals. I live in Denver, the weather here is very changeable. On December 21 2009, the first day of Winter, we had 60 degree weather. That night the weather announcer on TV reminded us that we had snow on the last day of Summer. This got me thinking about the unpredictability of life. As I frequently say, as you go through life stuff will happen -- good stuff, bad stuff, happy stuff, sad stuff, encouraging stuff, frustrating stuff.
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Become "Worthy Of Recognitio "
In my executive coaching work, I have found that all successful people have five things in common. • Successful people are self confident.r • Successful people create positive personal impact.r • Successful people are outstanding performers.r • Successful people are great communicators.r • Successful people are interpersonally competent. Abraham Lincoln once said something that applies to the idea of creating positive personal impact.
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Bud Bilanich
Bud Bilanich, The Common Sense Guy, is a success coach, motivational speaker, author and blogger. He helps his clients apply their common sense to achieve the career and life success they want and deserve.
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Bud Bilanich, The Common Sense Guy, helps individuals, teams and entire organizations succeed by applying there common sense. Bud adds new content to the site five days a week. Visit often to get valuable advice on ceating the successful career and life that you want and deserve.
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Bud Bilanich, The Common Sense Guy
Bud Bilanich, The Common Sense Guy is one of the most sought after executive coaches, leadership consultants and key note speakers in the USA. Bud is Harvard educated, but has a no nonsense approach to his work that goes back to his roots in the steel country of Western Pennsylvania.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Bud Bilanich
"Success has four c's not two: Clarity , Commitment, Confidence and Competence."
"If you want to succeed, you need to:
- Clarify your personal definintion of success.
- Commit to taking personal responsibility for your career and life success.
- Build your self confidence
- Get competent. Learn and use the skills you need to succeed."
"It's not what you do that's important. It's how you do it."
"Give yourself permission to be human -- don't beat yourself up over your mistakes."
"Everyone is good at something. Understand and tap into your natural strengths."
"Always, always, always keep your commitments. Do what you say -- and more."
Contacting Bud Bilanich
Bud Bilanich
The Common Sense Guy
875 South Colorado Boulevard
Suite 773
Denver, CO 80246
303 393 0446
How to get started
My website is the best place to learn more about me. You can find it www.BudBilanich.com.
Check out my blog at www.SuccessCommo Sense.com. I post there five days a week.
You can get 25 of my best success tips in audio format and sign up to receive my free weekly ezine by going to http://budbilanich.com/success.html.
You can receive a free 87 minute dvd outlining my thoughts on career and life success and learn about my Common Sense Success Club at www.Commo SenseSuccessSystem.com/freedvdoffer.
You can email me at Bud@BudBilanich.com
You can call me at 303 393 0446.
And, I do respond to letters. My mailing address is:
Bud Bilanich
The Common Sense Guy
875 South Colorado Boulevard
# 773
Denver, CO 80246 USA