In April 2007, I returned from The Alliance Conference like an athlete recovering from strenuous exercise: heart racing, exhausted, and amazingly energized. Last week’s Global Branding Summit had a similar affect on me: I wish there were more productive hours in the day to experiment with all the new ideas and Web 2.0 strategies I’ve been exposed to.
Many of the current readers of Career Acceleration Notes were not reading this in April, so please allow me to restate and reaffirm my commitment to my career, and most importantly, to your career:
You + Me = Success 4 Us 
from April 2007:
My immersion into professional development activities leaves me
even more invested in providing you with the most current ideas and
strategies in career development. My head is spinning with the success
stories of the most successful career coaches, résumé writers,
recruiters, and business developers in the country. So what’s in it
for you, current, future, and past Career Acceleration clients?
• "The Brand Called YOU", the article by Tom Peters that
I have sent to most of you, is the center of a relatively new movement
in career development. Those of you who are already working with me
have been developing your Value Proposition or Brand as it relates to
target organizations; we’ll do this more purposefully and broadly from
now on.
• We’ll be more daring as we
differentiate you from others in your field. I’ve been emboldened in
my thinking about your résumés, prospecting letters, and cover letters.
• We’ll work together more selectively in building and nurturing your network.
• We’ll work together more
effectively in bringing together all the actors in the career
development sphere – other career coaches, recruiters, HR
professionals. Your success is THEIR success too.
• We’ll practice using Web 2.0
technology to achieve our goals, and move toward Web 3.0 so we are
never relegated to technological irrelevance and incompetence.
Thank you for choosing to work with me; thank you for helping me
to learn and grow alongside you as we reach for our shared success in
the world of work. Inspired by the UBS tag-line, let’s commit to You + Me = Success 4 Us.
