Andy has over 15 years experience as an Executive Coach, Career Success Coach and Personal Branding Strategist. He has a total of 25 years business and leadership experience across a variety of industries, serving scores of companies of all sizes (Fortune 100 to small, locally owned businesses) as a management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers (10 years), a professional advisor, and an outside executive coach. Andy is also an author, speaker, professional trainer and co-host of the Career Success Radio Show on Exceptional Wisdom Radio. To add to his respected list of credibility, he is a licensed member of the International Coach Federation (ICF). He loves what he does for a living!

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	Leaders .... What's Your "Likeability Factor"? by Andy Robinson - Dec, 2011 Leaders .... Stay conscious of your "Likeability Factor." Are others drawn to you because of your friendliness and approachability? Do you make an effort to help others -- whever possible -- feel better about themselves? Do you tend to seek out and point out the "good" in others...
	15 Incredible Business Men Who Refused to Retire by Andy Robinson - Dec, 2011 For many who reach the top echelons of business, retirement is a time to enjoy the spoils of a life well lived and years of hard work and perseverance. Others, however, take a different approach. For every businessman anticipating retirement, there’s also one who dreams of working until ol...
	Personal Excellence: Turning Tasks Into HABITS by Andy Robinson - Nov, 2011 We recently interviewed Stever Robbins as a guest on the Career Success Radio Show. In preparation for the interview I read Stever's newest book, "Get-It-Done-Guy's 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More," -- a book I highly recommend. One of the helpful tips that Stever suggests in his book...
	Do You Take Advantage of Dead Time? by Andy Robinson - Oct, 2011 "Dead Time" -- What is it? • It's waiting in the hallway for an upcoming meeting or • The time spent taking a cab to a client's office • It's waiting "on hold" on a phone call, or • Standing in line a Starbucks, or • Waiting for an appointment to show up, or waiting at a doctor...
	In What Ways Have You Improved This Year? by Andy Robinson - Oct, 2011 In the day-to-day, week-to-week conduct of our work, business life and personal life, we do the things we need to do to accomplish our job and get things done. We exercise our talents to get these things done; we utilize our key skills to do those things as well as we can. Six months go ...
	Leaders: Embrace Being Wrong by Andy Robinson - Oct, 2011 True leadership sometimes means owning up to the idea of admitting you’re wrong. Consider this .... If you've done a great job of surrounding yourself with incredible team members, it's important to understand that they MAY have better ways of doings things or breakthrough ideas to con...
	Tagging Your Interactions With a Compliment by Andy Robinson - Oct, 2011 As you move through your day today, make a special commitment to tag a compliment or a word of gratitude on to every conversation or every interaction you have with another person. Look for something kind to say Express your gratitude or say thank you as often as you can Take ...
	Step Onto the Stage of Boldness by Andy Robinson - Oct, 2011 Leadership, professional development, and personal growth require us (DEMAND us) to take risks, to "push the envelope" and to occasionally (frequently?) step onto the stage of "boldness." Being bold requires courage, being bold may put us in a vulnerable position; but being bold also c...
	Avoiding the Cloak of Invisibility by Andy Robinson - Oct, 2011 "I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily. " Gary Coleman How VISIBLE are you to your boss or manager and other members of your senior management team? "Face time," visibility and frequent engagement with your boss is critical to your success; h...
	Focus FIRST on Your "20% Tasks" by Andy Robinson - Oct, 2011 The "80/20 Rule" applies to all that we do. The 80/20 Rule states that 20% of our activities will account for 80% of the value we add and 80% of our success at work. FACT: Out of the ten most important items on your current list of things to do, two of those items are almost alw...
	"Painting the Picture" for Your Network by Andy Robinson - Sep, 2011 I just wrapped up a call with another one of my high-performing coaching clients. I often find, as I did in this situation, that a learning point emerges from my conversations with these bright, super-talented individuals. In reflecting back on this call, the learning point was the r...
	A Failed Opportunity and a Learning Lesson at the Drugstore by Andy Robinson - Sep, 2011 "It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion." - Rene Daumal When people ask you what you do for a living, what is...
	Bridge Closed! A Leadership Opportunity by Andy Robinson - Sep, 2011 "Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that." - Louis L'Amour, To the Far Blue Mountains I had the pleasure this past Saturday of joining an executive coaching client on a local group bike rid...
	On-the-Job "Interval Training" for Peak Performance by Andy Robinson - Sep, 2011 As an amateur cyclist and former road bike racing enthusiast, I am all too familiar with one of the sport's toughest and most lung-busting workout routines, popularly known as "interval training." Interval training consists of two elements: (1) working HARD at a heightened level of effo...
	The Prep Zone - A Great Habit by Andy Robinson - Sep, 2011 I made a personal commitment at the beginning of this year as follows: "If a business appointment or meeting is important enough to be on my calendar, then scheduling a block of time to PREPARE for that appointment is equally important." In the past, my practice had been to leave enou...
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