Elizabeth Freedman
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- Motivational Speaker, Corporate Communications Expert, Author,
- Best Sellers
- Work 101: Learning the Ropes of the Workplace without Hanging Yourself
- Career Focus
- Strategic Communications Consultant, Executive & Team Coaching, Workshops and Communications Audits
- Affiliation
- National Speaker's Association
Elizabeth Freedman is an executive coach, author, and CEO of Elizabeth Freedman & Company, her consulting practice that improves her clients' businesses by helping employees and leaders Have Better Conversations® with their teams, clients, and each other. Elizabeth Freedman & Company offers strategic communications consulting, executive and team coaching, workshops and communications audits/assessments. Clients include Thomson Reuters, PricewaterhouseCoopers and The Gillette Company.
Elizabeth is author of Work 101: Learning the Ropes without Hanging Yourself (Bantam Dell), and The MBA Student’s Job-Seeking Bible, was required reading for all first-year MBA students at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, ranked #1 in International Business by The Wall Street journal.
Elizabeth has been a featured contributor toTopMBA.com and Collegeboard.com, where she writes about work and life choices for students and new professionals. Elizabeth is the National Workplace Issues Blogger for The Examiner, and she shares work/career advice on her blog, CareerSmarts. Elizabeth has also appeared in dozens of publications, including The New York Times, Boston Business journal, U.S. News & World Report, and CNN. She has also been a featured career coach in The Boston Globe.
Elizabeth is a dynamic, motivating speaker who speaks at dozens of conferences and events annually. Her high energy programs have appealed to corporate, nonprofit, and association audiences, and Elizabeth has spoken to thousands of colleges students across the country. She was a 2005 finalist for College Speaker of the Year, awarded by the Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities.
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Keynote Speaker Elizabeth Freedman Plays Personality Poker
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Networking, Relationship-Building Advice, Career Tips from NALP Speaker Elizabeth Freedman
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Successful Career Conversations, Interviews and Selling Yourself
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Elizabeth Freedman Audio & Video Programs
Burning Bridges is for Arsonists
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Our Top Resolutions for Job-Seekers, Entrepreneurs, and Bold People Everywhere
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Pursue the Right Job Opportunities For You
Are you pursuing the right job opportunities for you? Laid off and getting nowhere in your job search? Between the rejections, the unanswered phone calls and limited opportunities, it’s far too easy take it personally, give up altogether, and even worse, assume that you’ll be unemployed forever. Instead of beating your head against the wall and quit now, take a hard look at your job search efforts. Here are a few tips: • Go with your super strengths. What is your super strength?
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Uncomplicated Leadership: Make it Easier to Get the Job Done
Unfortunately, making things complicated is easy to do. Take something pretty straightforward, like weight loss. I don’t know about you, but if you gave me a donut for every time someone said, “All you have to do to lose weight is eat less and exercise more,” I’d be up to my eyeballs in powdered sugar. I’d also hate to admit that something so challenging has a pretty simple solution, particularly after spending time and money galore on diet books, systems, programs, powders, shakes, and nutritionists.
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You’re Not An Employee – You’re a Guest
Here’s something that has been forgotten, overlooked – or just simply unrealized in the workplace: You’re a guest. Think about it: You’re an intern, employee, freelancer or anything else at the invitation of your employer. And, if you can be invited, you can be uninvited, too. Our goal? To be great guests, naturally. After all, if you’re at a dinner party and dazzle your companions with your witty banter and funny jokes, you know it’s only a matter of time before you’re swamped with invitations – because we all want to have people we know, like, and trust at our gatherings.
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How to Complete Your Own Self-Assessment at Work
It’s review time at the office and your boss has asked you to complete a self-assessment – those forms that ask you to rate yourself on your own work performance. Here’s where you’re going to have to walk the gauntlet like never before. After all, you’re being asked to step back and consider how your work on the product launch, or office reorg, “exceeded” or “met” expectations (or, God forbid, only met the “minimum” requirement) – no easy task. Here’s how to cope:r
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Would You Have More Career, Workplace Success if You Had Superpowers?
If you had the choice, which superpower would you want to have? Here are the choices – Superpower #1: The Power of Flight, like Superman. Superpower #2: Being invisible – go anywhere, anytime, unseen.
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Career Advice: Less Computer, More Face Time
Here’s a math problem for you: Take a look at your life over the past days, weeks, or months, and compare how much you spent in front of a screen (including phone, computer, TV), with how much time you spent face-to-face with someone. If you’re like a lot of us, the screen time wins out over face time, every time. Here’s what we also know: When it comes to landing bigger opportunities, more business, or promotions, it’s face time that counts. We know that people do business with people they know, like, and trust, and it’s hard for most of us to build that trust through email alone.
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Would You Have More Career, Workplace Success if You Had Superpowers?
If you had the choice, which superpower would you want to have? Here are the choices - Superpower #1: The Power of Flight, like Superman. Superpower #2: Being invisible – go anywhere, anytime, unseen.
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Secrets of Internship Success
Congratulations! You’re in, you did it – after all that hard work, the 42 rewrites of your resume, the hours preparing for interviews – you landed your internship. Now, before we get too carried away and start sending ourselves flowers or calling the Pope, let’s remind ourselves why we worked so hard for this internship in the first place: • To Get Work Experience – The reason most students apply for internships?
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Want Better Results? Have Better Conversations
What would it mean to your business if…. Sales professionals had better conversations with prospects? Leaders had better conversations with clients? Managers had better conversations with their teams? Employees had better conversations with each other? It isn’t any secret that it makes bottom-line sense to have great conversationalists within your organization. Did you know: • Organizations who rate high on communication skills are up to 43% more productive than other companies (Hay Group)r
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Easy Networking For Your Job Search
When it comes to new networking, think of an onion. Like the aromatic onion, your networking strategy works best when you peel back a layer at a time. When you network effectively, you ‘peel back’ layers and layers of people to get to the heart of what you’re looking for – if you stop at the first layer, you may not get what you need. With that brilliant analogy, I will assume that you’ve already peeled back the first layer of your job search onion and that your friends and family already know what kind of job you are looking for because you’ve told them.
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It's Called A Cubicle for a Reason
It’s a Cubicle, not a Living Room: What to Bring to your Workspace (and what to leave at home) If you’re reading this article at work right now, stop – at least, momentarily. Take a minute to stretch your legs, stroll around the office, and, oh-so-discreetly, check out what your coworkers have displayed in their respective work areas. Notice anything interesting? As you glance from cubicle to cubicle, chances are that if you work in a typical office, you’ve just seen more than your fair share of knickknacks, trinkets and other signs of whimsy in the workplace.
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The "F" Word: Surviving and Thriving in the Face of Failure
“You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there." -- Edwin Louis Here’s a recent conversatio I had with a prospect I had been wooing for months: “You know, Liz, we’ve decided not to use your services, after all. Thanks so much for your time.” In one brief moment, a simple phone call ended the months I had devoted to potentially selling some services to this possible client. Or how about the time, at age 15, I delivered a presentation during a high school speech competition? “Horrendous,” wrote one judge, evaluating my performance.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Elizabeth Freedman
How would performance on your teams improve if managers had better conversations with their employees?
How would your business improve if your sales reps had better conversations with customers...?
Passionate about work - how we choose it, how we excel at it - how it ceases to become 'work' and becomes something we love to do.
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