Fascinate Blog - How To Fascinate

Meet Fascinate Certified Advisor (Director of Coaching!) Finka Jerkovic

This post is part of a series where we’ll be getting to know members of our outstanding Fascinate Certified Advisor™ (FCA) team. Our FCAs are expertly trained to coach individuals and groups on how to…

Your Primary Advantage is the most effortless YOU

Your Primary Advantage describes your main style of communication. It feels easy and natural for you to express yourself in this way. When you put your Primary Advantage in play, your words come more…

Different is diversity: My interview with advocate Brandon Wolf

When you were growing up, did you ever get the message that in order to succeed, you needed to try harder? Or get "better" at something? Or even “fix” yourself? Here’s the reality: It’s good to be…

The battleground of commoditization

Today it’s not enough to be the world’s best if no one realizes you’re there. In a crowded market, your talents and skills won’t even be noticed unless you find a way to truly fascinate your…

Overcoming the threat of competition

It’s not enough to be the best if no one realizes you’re there. In the battle against competition, our talents and skills are hopelessly lost unless we find a way to fascinate our listener. Meet your…

Your #1 threat to standing out: distraction

It’s not enough to be the world’s best if no one realizes you’re there. In the battle to make a memorable impression, our talents and skills are hopelessly lost unless we find a way to fascinate our…

8 Creative ways to apply personal branding

You only have seconds to make a meaningful first impression in-person or on the phone. How much time do you have in the virtual world to make your introduction? Your Personal Brand is your key to…

How to give an instant smile

A couple of years ago, when my son was 11, he stood for an hour on a San Francisco street, as hundreds of people rushed past after work. He held up a sign to each person who passed, no matter how they…

Meet Fascinate Certified Advisor Toi Sweeney

This post is part of a series where we’ll be getting to know members of our outstanding Fascinate Certified Advisor™ team. Our Advisors are expertly trained to coach individuals and groups on how to…

5 Stages of creativity– and how to create ideas that fascinate

I love the creative process. Yet I hate it, too. Creativity is almost always a love/hate/love relationship. Creativity is a glorious, and frustrating, and absurdly difficult but infinitely rewarding…