{"id":591,"date":"2009-12-04T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/?p=591"},"modified":"2009-12-04T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T20:05:00","slug":"how-to-brag-with-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/career\/how-to-brag-with-style","title":{"rendered":"How to brag with style!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody likes a braggart.\u00a0 But there are times where you need to promote yourself &#8211; to your boss, to potential customers, to future employers.\u00a0 How do you promote yourself in a way which doesn&#8217;t come across as shameless and inauthentic?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the trick:\u00a0 You promote in a way which is well-founded, or where promotion isn&#8217;t the primary message.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Here are a few examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Share the recognition.\u00a0 The message is a lot softer when a <em>group<\/em> of us achieved something, as opposed to just my own personal accomplishments.\u00a0 And it can be more powerful as well, because typically a group can achieve more than just an individual.<\/li>\n<li>Provide objective evidence.\u00a0 The fact that I&#8217;ve published a book or delivered 433 hours of coaching is more powerful than just claiming that I generally have lots of experience.\u00a0 In addition, <a href=\"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/book\/mondays-stink-23-secrets-to-rediscover-delight-and-fulfillment-in-your-work\" target=\"_blank\">the book<\/a> is almost always a great conversation starter: people want to know about my writing and publishing experience.<\/li>\n<li>Relate it to a future goal.\u00a0 I may not be the world&#8217;s best expert yet, but it&#8217;s very interesting to tell people about the business I&#8217;m building.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not uncommon to find people who want to help me, then find that I already have considerable expertise to offer.<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrate expertise in a helpful way.\u00a0 I often sell my coaching services merely by having coaching conversations with people, or as part of a presentation I might give.\u00a0 When people like the way I come across, they see that I can bring them value in a paid coaching engagement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than anything, keep the conversation open, honest, and useful to your audience.\u00a0 Let that work to build up the impression that you have expertise and experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody likes a braggart.\u00a0 But there are times where you need to promote yourself &#8211; to your boss, to potential customers, to future employers.\u00a0 How do you promote yourself in <a href=\"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/career\/how-to-brag-with-style\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36,15,6,29,35],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-carl","4":"has-more-link","5":"post-591","7":"format-standard","8":"category-career","9":"post_tag-brand","10":"post_tag-career-coaching","11":"post_tag-coaching","12":"post_tag-job-hunt","13":"post_tag-marketing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}