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Tips to promote yourself with humility and style

Tips to promote yourself with humility and style

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Tips to promote yourself with humility and style

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- [Boss] All right, let's get started, everyone. Tatiana, welcome back, I hope you had a good trip. Any highlights? - Yeah, great to be back, everyone. Thank you, I had a great trip. It was, it's good to be back. It was all good. A polite response to my boss or a missed opportunity to promote myself. If I really had accomplished something relevant to my professional development, this would be the best place to share it. But I should have been ready to use a brag bite. I could have said that 30 minute keynote I gave in Athens to over 100 Chamber of Commerce members in Greek was my highlight. See, I was worried about speaking that long in any language other than English, but I prepared obsessively. I teach presentation skills in my courses, and it was a good lesson to put myself in my student's shoes. Now that's a solid self-promotion. It was relevant to the context of the meeting, tying to my position as a faculty…

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