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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.
For more information, please visit www.ElizabethFreedman.com.
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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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Bad Career Habits
Fix your bad career habits If 2010 is going to be your year, then get serious about fixing bad career and workplace habits that are dragging you down. Here are a few to think about: Bad Career Habit #1: Not Networking Let’s agree on one point – most of us would rather pull out our eyelashes than network. If you’re a networking champ, then skip this paragraph. Otherwise, consider the fact that one of the reasons you may avoid networking is simply because you’re not good at it. You’re not comfortable with it. You don’t enjoy it.
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How Much is Too Much When It Comes to Careers?
We’ve been told to be assertive, and ask for what we want – but do we cross the line when it comes to our careers? As a former fundraiser, I was taught to ask for the money – we can’t expect people to read our minds or to hand over their checkbooks. And, I’ve seen enough ‘Oprah’ by now to know that, no, I can’t expect my husband to know that, yes, I really did want to get a huge bouquet of flowers for Valentine’s Day, not just the card. The moral of the story?
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Getting Re-Hired By The Company That Laid You Off
As the economy starts to slowly get back on its feet, companies are also slowly starting to rehire. You loved your old job and would like nothing more than to be rehired by your former employer. How to get back on the short list when your company starts hiring again? Here are a few tips: Here’s the good news: You’re well-positioned to be a top contender for a shot back in the door at your former employer.
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Action, Not Confidence, Is What Counts For Career (and weight loss) Success
If you attend my Weight Watchers meetings on a regular basis, you know that I love talking about mindset.
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Job-Search Advice to Non-native English Speakers
Fair or not, it’s going to be tougher for you to get a job than your American counterparts. There are several reasons why, including the tighter restrictions on H1-B visas, and the fact that American recruiters may not feel entirely confident in your English skills, your ability to adjust to American culture, and so on.
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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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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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Why Your Job Search May Be Taking Forever
Here’s a scenario I read about the other day in The New York Times: An article profiling several unemployed white-collar workers focused on one man, in his early forties, who wondered why his job search strategy wasn’t working. According to the piece, this man, and many others featured in the story, had spent the greater part of a year submitting resumes to job postings online, to no avail. Sound familiar? No matter how terrific the Internet is, applying to job after job online simply can’t be your entire job search strategy.
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Planning Is The Key To Career Success
Winging it doesn’t work. Playing it by ear, seeing what happens or deciding what you’ll be ‘in the mood for’ when the moment strikes – all bad, bad ideas. If you’ve bought into the idea – as I had – that spontaneous people are more relaxed, or experience higher levels of creativity or fun because of their whimsical ways – think again. Studies show that those who ‘wing it’ earn less money, get less done, and experience far greater levels of stress and anxiety.
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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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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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Avoid Mistakes on the Job
Don’t Ruin a Good Thing: Avoid the 3 Mistakes that Hurt New Employees on the Job By Elizabeth Freedman, MBA www.elizabethfreedman.com Have you ever noticed how easy it is to ruin a good thing? If you’ve ever spilled coffee on a new shirt, added just a bit too much salt to a recipe, or thought that anchovies would make a great pizza topping (sorry, I hate anchovies), you’ve experienced the speed at which a good thing can become bad.
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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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