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ApochroMinute 16: LinkedIn Mistake
Your online image is an important part of your executive presence. Yet many professionals make a mistake online that undercuts the image they want to portray. Are you making this mistake?
Check out this week’s ApochroMinute for a quick tip to fix it.
ApochroMinute 15: Be Ready
Victor Hugo wrote, "Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise." Be ready when the sun rises.
7 Productivity Strategies During Challenging Times
It can be difficult to be productive right now, so we wanted to suggest seven strategies if you’re struggling.
ApochroMinute 14: Sleep
If you’re having trouble with your sleep schedule right now, a tool built into your phone can help.
Check out this week’s ApochroMinute, and visit our Covid-19 resource page for more timely tips as we get through this challenge together.
ApochroMinute 13: Making a Quit List
How do you want things to be different in your life after the Covid-19 crisis is over? A quit list can help you get there.
3 Ways to Serve Your Network
Some of the ways you may typically network are off-limits right now, but this can actually be an ideal time to expand your network and deepen connections.
ApochroMinute 12: 2 Things
If you’re having trouble feeling productive right now, you’re not alone. Skip the memes shaming you for not decluttering your house and adopting 10 new habits. Instead, we have a suggestion to feel more productive and more in control.
And, when this is over, you might just be a better ukulele player, have improved that rusty high school French, or mastered Excel pivot tables. But you’ll also have your sanity and energy intact.
Career During Crisis
The second quarter is here! For our first blog post of the new quarter, check out Apochromatik’s Keith R. Sbiral on Chicagoland Chats with Adam Czerwinski and Butch Zemar earlier this week. They discussed topics relevant for those currently on the job market and those who expect to be: job searches, resumes, and interview presence. While their discussion applies to a job search any time, it’s (unfortunately) especially relevant now.
ApochroMinute 11: Q2 2020
Today we will briefly address goal achievement in the age of Covid19. For more resources go to www.apochromatik.com/covid19 and be sure to join us for networking, problem solving, and coaching for #cocktailsduringcovid on Monday and Thursday at 5 p.m. CDT. Register at www.aposignup.com/cocktailsduringcovid.
ApochroMinute 10: Video Meetings
Suddenly spending a lot more time in video meetings? This week’s ApochroMinute shares tips to make your video image as professional as possible, even in less-than-ideal work conditions.
COVID-19 Response Resources
We have launched a resources page to help individuals and organizations manage the changing professional environment. Click here for the COVID-19 Response Resource Page.
ApochroMinute 9: Social Distancing Networking
Today in the ApochroMinute, a quick tip to help you build and deepen relationships in your network, even in a time of social distancing.
ApochroMinute 8: Automate
On this week’s ApochroMinute, time management and the benefits of automation.
Apochromatik Book Bundle 6: Be Your Own Valentine
Today we are releasing Apochromatik’s sixth book bundle, and it is a special edition.
On February 13, Amy M. Gardner was thrilled to speak to one of her favorite gatherings of the year: the Be Your Own Valentine event hosted by Chicago Certified Financial Planner Jen Dawson of Hemington.
In honor of this the seventh year of this special event, we’re sharing a book bundle that ties into Amy’s presentation to the female lawyers, accountants, consultants, and executives in attendance.
Lawyer Well-Being Week, May 4-8, 2020
With the announcement of Lawyer Well-Being Week May 4-8, many firms are wondering how they’ll participate without adding more stress to already overloaded staff.
Apochromatik's Holiday Guide
The holidays are here! With the combination of work parties, family activities, an expanded to do list, and all the end of the year craziness, you may not have been sitting at your desk, hitting refresh on the Apochromatik blog. We’ve rounded up some of our resources on the holidays, both articles that have quoted us as experts, and our own blog posts that can help you end December with deepened work relationships, having advanced your career, and with time and energy left for your most important relationships.
How can a mastermind help you transform your career in 2020? | VOTW 111919
For this week’s Video of the Week, we’re featuring an episode of the Hustle & Flow podcast hosted by Heather Hubbard. This particular episode discusses masterminds: what they are, and why attorneys and other professionals can benefit. If you haven’t joined a mastermind this is your chance to learn what they are all about.
There are only 48 days left in this decade!
There are only 48 days left in this decade!
Finding time to attack our goals can be difficult because there are literally dozens of competing interests vying for our limited time and attention, but we encourage you to seize the chance to make the remainder of this decade a productive time.
Apochromatik Book Bundle 5: Negotiation
Today we are releasing Apochromatik’s fifth book bundle, and it is on the topic of negotiation.
First, the disclaimers: These are books we’ve read recently; this isn’t a “best of negotiation” book list.