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    How To Wine With Your Boss & 6 Other Tips To Fast Track Your Career
    How To Wine With Your Boss & 6 Other Tips To Fast Track Your Career
    How To Wine With Your Boss & 6 Other Tips To Fast Track Your Career
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    How To Wine With Your Boss & 6 Other Tips To Fast Track Your Career

    By Tiffany Yarde

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    Fourteen years of working in highly competitive international corporations will teach a person a lot about relationships, politics, and the "natural order" of things. There's no one way to the top of a respective field but there are tactics that many people employ to build trust and to make sure their hard work doesn't go unnoticed. How to Wine With Your Boss teaches you about positioning, tact, and how to tool your passions.

     Wine is Tiffany Yarde's story. For much of her career in accounting, marketing, and human resources, she has used her wine knowledge to connect with people. In How to Wine With Your Boss, readers are taking through her journey of how she built relationships with colleagues who didn't come from where she came from or necessarily saw the world through her lens. She gives readers an opportunity to build professional development skills while demystifying wine enthusiasm and potentially helping readers gain a new curiosity on the subject. People don't grow in isolation; they grow in community, so join Tiffany on this wine trip through grape regions, styles, and wine parties. While on the road, she ll share the bumps hit, and the resilience she fostered along the way.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherProdigy Gold Books
    Release dateJun 19, 2018
    ISBN9781939665973
    How To Wine With Your Boss & 6 Other Tips To Fast Track Your Career
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    Tiffany Yarde

    Tiffany Yarde is a wine specialist and marketing executive, who understands the power of relationships. For over a decade, her work has focused on branding, communications, business development, and human resources programs to drive successful initiatives for international law firms. She is the founder of Motovino, an organization at the intersection of professional development and wine education. Motovino is where people come together to obtain business skills while gaining an education in the fundamental art of wine. She has taken development strategies from the legal sector and repackaged them into replicable tools that can bring adults exponential success in their careers when applied effectively. She has positioned many of the smartest minds for achievement and lives with the purpose to help many others do the same. Tiffany is based in Brooklyn, New York and has spent her life watching this gorgeous borough change before her eyes. She has an undergraduate degree from Fordham University, a Master's degree from New York University and a Level 2, with distinction, certificate from the Wine Spirits and Education Trust. She is also a member of the Society of Wine Educators and enjoys frolicking through vineyards around the world, entertaining friends, and curling up with good books.

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      How To Wine With Your Boss & 6 Other Tips To Fast Track Your Career - Tiffany Yarde

      HOW THIS BOOK WORKS

      This book is a manual to get you as prepared as possible for every right encounter that you’ll have throughout the course of your career. Success is where opportunity meets preparation and I promise you those opportunities are coming. They might be in the form of promotions, meeting an investor for your new business, or getting that chance to meet your boss on a more personal level. But having something worth saying and possessing an air of confidence, will take you a long way.

      We can all earn a seat at the executive decision table. We can also leave room at our own table for the talent coming up right behind us in the companies we choose to launch. Whatever dream you have, articulate it now and remember that you are only several relationships away from achieving it.

      How to Wine With Your Boss is my story. It’s a decade’s worth of my business experience and how wine supplemented my efforts to get ahead. If you ever get a chance to attend one of my classes, you’ll see that my approach to skills training is just how this book is organized—one glass at a time.

      On this journey, I will walk you through concepts with replicable steps to follow that achieve similar results. We’ll then break between business topics for a walk down the wine aisle where I share why wine is my passion and how to get more versed on the subject for yourself. There are learning outcomes, anecdotes, things to ponder, and suggested readings for much of what we talk about. Take your time and think through your responses to the text. After all, once you’ve read this book, you’ll be equipped with keys to unlock barriers that may have been holding you back from cultivating the very relationships you want most.

      Take your time, get encouraged, and think about what your passions are. Along the way you’ll begin to learn that focusing on the right people consistently and articulating why you are worth knowing (because you are), will propel you toward the access that you need to realize your dreams.

      Having a subject matter unique to your interests and hobbies will prove highly beneficial when talking with peers and leadership. Being able to converse on interesting non-work related topics can exponentially help deepen connections with influential people.

      For some it’s sports, and for others it’s art or music. For me, it’s wine. So, this book will offer a combination of work and fun; effort and ease. For every topic such as public speaking and personal branding, there will be a wine lesson and tasting opportunity to follow. The aspects of business are important, but much like a dessert wine brings out the taste in chocolate, whatever your passion is, it brings out the star quality in you that can’t be ignored or overlooked.

      I can’t tell you how many times I sat in team meetings or stood at networking events and purposefully spoke up about a wine bottle that I was newly obsessed with. And there were many times that I shared stories about a vineyard that I visited on vacation. Seeing the interest come to life on those faces and watching the body language adjust to warm welcomes and smiles was an adrenaline rush for me. After a quick chat about my favorite chardonnay or tempranillo, all of a sudden the people around me were that much more interested in the other ideas I had to share. I’m sure this is the same for your friends who run their own football fantasy leagues or can’t stop talking about their favorite basketball players. The point is, if it’s important to you and if it’s a great story, share it as often as you can. Easily enough, people connect when they like the same things. People can also connect with you when you have an understanding of something intriguing they know nothing about.

      So join me on this journey of learning and journaling of your thoughts. At some point, you might want a bottle of some fun and fancy wine. Becoming an educated wine buyer without a stuck-up stereotypical label of pretentiousness is just the tip of the iceberg; I’ve got you covered with some down to earth conversation that may launch you into a wine world you might grow to love.

      Underneath the shroud of mystery to wine understanding is the truth that no other beverage has such a rich and profound way of connecting people regardless of their socioeconomic background. Know wine, and you’ll impress guests at dinner. Know wine, and you’ll be seen as someone with a unique knowledge base. Know wine, and you may fall in love with the history. Every bottle has a story and I want to make sure that if wine is your thing you grow into a more informed professional. If nothing else, I hope to give you a new lens of appreciation for the beauty of a beverage that’s almost as old as time itself. Try the wines I talk about and bring friends along for the ride. Cheers!

      NICE TO MEET YOU

      My passion is wine and I’ll forever be a student of the grape.  I love talking about it and sounding like an authority to my friends with descriptions such as swirling amber or intense cinnamon color with sensual aromas and complex bouquets. I’m half kidding, but in fact, whether poolside with a refreshing white wine or a steak dinner and a movie with a fun red wine, I delight in my favorites, and revel in any opportunity I get to pass on recommendations.

      I consider the office a good setting for sharing conversations on wine, and throughout the course of my career that’s exactly what I learned to do. In fact, having an affection for something beyond spreadsheets and never-ending projects is absolutely essential to career development. Because you spend so many waking hours at work and with people, business settings become the perfect place to share your interests whether it’s wine, gourmet cooking, or travel. Sports, as you know, is more commonly known as  a popular default topic to bond and socialize on.

      Business cultures are complex systems. Sure, you can have the education, the experience, and the conversation skills to get the job. But maximizing the growth potential of your career can be frustrating and confusing if you are not sure of who you are and where you fit into the scheme of things. When I began my career in the accounting world, I got my first glimpse into how seasoned professionals climbed the ladder and what those with power (CEOs, department leaders, etc.) were genuinely interested in. What I observed in those early years were that sports, arts, global affairs, and literature were always the hot topics.

      Although I see nothing wrong with waving the foam finger while watching the NBA playoffs or waiting all year for the football season to start, sports never resonated with me in any profound way. I relied heavily on my intelligence, work products, professionalism, and ability to make friends by tolerating sports talk, office bracket pools, and obligatory bar outings. It wasn’t always fun. It was a lot of work to put myself out there every day, trying to stay visible to my bosses. It was work to attend after-hour functions and regurgitate the Giants scores and the few players’ names I knew.

      I was never naïve enough to think that my work alone would be enough to get me promoted or championed by my supervisors, however I felt unwelcomed by the culture because I didn’t have a lot of the same interests that my white and male colleagues did. I knew I had to figure out how to better connect with people in an authentic way, and to achieve that end I needed to discover what I was genuinely into.

      Wine became an easy and enjoyable way for me to plant seeds of support and trust among my peers and supervisors. Oddly enough, I didn’t realize the sheer exposure to how people navigated the subject had been influencing me for years. I would later find myself researching wines or learning about grapes so that I could confidently describe them to people I met at casual business meetings. Some of these people had no idea how valuable of an employee I was, but after a few conversations on wine, I was no longer invisible. To impress potential clients, I would search for recommended wines before picking up a bottle for private dinners. I even used my wine education to spark conversation with older members of my firm. Their faces would light up from the wine questions I asked, and they were more than happy to answer them.

      Developing My Palate

      Many of my supervisors throughout my career had profound knowledge on the history and economics of the wine industry. They knew grape styles by heart and could describe what was in a bottle long before they opened it. In my early 20s, I was fascinated by this! Those in the higher ranks at the companies I was fortunate enough to work in at a young age maintained wine cellars, traveled to wine regions, and brought back tons of stories. Oddly enough, this encounter happened at every stage of my career at almost every firm I went to.

      For example, a partner at one firm was obsessed with Barolos. A senior manager on an engagement in another office hosted a tasting party on Riesling styles at their home one weekend. At another firm, a friendly debate ensued at a team meeting over the secondary flavors of a Chianti someone brought in. Apparently, only a sophisticated palate could pick up the tobacco. My eyes were rolling, naturally! Who cares, I thought. Did it taste good? It wasn’t until I got to a law firm, that would later catapult my career into legal marketing, that wine

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