To Amp Up Productivity, Creativity and Career Success, Go on Vacation
Word Count: 1,368 Estimated Read Time: 5 ½ min. Attention workaholics, movers and shakers, corporate climbers and rising stars! Want to increase your productivity? Have a desire to get your...
View ArticleOvercoming Most People’s Biggest Fear: Speaking in Public
Word Count: 1,421 Estimated Read Time: 6 min. Part 1 – Preparing to Speak Forget heights, planes and confined spaces. Snakes, spiders and frogs move over. Most people’s biggest fear is talking in...
View ArticleMaking Content Contagious
Word Count: 1,520 Estimated Read Time: 6 min. In the medical world, a virus is an infective agent that cannot grow or reproduce apart from a living cell. A virus invades living cells and uses...
View ArticleMaking Time to Sharpen the Saw
Word Count: 1,399 Estimated Read Time: 5 ½ min. Most people are familiar with the late Stephen Covey’s famous book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. First published in 1988, the...
View ArticleProfessional Correctness is the New PC
Word Count: 1,406 Estimated Read Time: 6 min. Recently, CBS fired a legal executive in their organization over comments she posted on Facebook after the tragic incident in Las Vegas. The executive,...
View ArticleCreating Great Digital Presentations Today
Word Count: 1,769 Estimated Read Time: 7 min. Auyush Jain of Microsoft once said that “A single 10-minute presentation has the power to convert an idea into reality.” That is perhaps why most...
View ArticleThe Smallest Gestures Can Have the Biggest Impact
Word Count: 1,477 Estimated Read Time: 6 min. Companies today compete furiously for market share. We see brick-and-mortar retailers fighting for every sale and struggling to survive. The Street...
View ArticleThe New LinkedIn: A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats
Word Count: 1,917 Estimated Read Time: 8 min. When LinkedIn launched, it was a social media site that encouraged people in the work world to connect with other known professionals for networking and...
View ArticleFail Big in 2018
Word Count: 1,315 Estimated Read Time: 5 min. As this fiscal year rolls to a close, business people will invariably begin tallying their professional wins and losses of 2017. Corporate execs at...
View ArticleHumility: The Trait that Costs Nothing but Delivers a Huge ROI
Word Count: 1,477 Estimated Read Time: 6 min. In today’s PR-driven, social-media crazed, self-promoting world, humility is a quality that has lost its appeal. While everyone is busy yelling “Look...
View ArticleGiving and Forgiving at Work
Word Count: 1,342 Estimated Read Time: 5 ½ min. The concept of giving gets a lot of attention this time of year. Lip service is paid to generosity, whether it be giving of one’s time or money....
View ArticleEmployee Loyalty and Employee Turnover in 2018
Word Count: 1,989 Estimated Read Time: 8 min. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate in the U.S. is holding at 4.1%, the lowest it’s been since December 2000.[1] In fact,...
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Updating Your Corporate Brand with 2018 Design Style
Word Count: 1,436 Estimated Read Time: 5 1/2 min. The relentless pace of change is accelerating. Just keeping up with technology, systems, processes, laws, regulations and trends can be positively...
View ArticleGrit is an Essential Ingredient for Success
Word Count: 1,714 Estimated Read Time: 7 min. Grit in Action, Part 1 Practically every major business news outlet has written or broadcast an article or show in the last few years about grit. New...
View ArticleGrit is an Essential Ingredient for Success – Part 2
Most every leader, entrepreneur and manager wants to have and hone the qualities that contribute to and best predict success. For example, most leaders want to demonstrate the qualities of confidence,...
View ArticleCustomer Service Is Everyone’s Job
Word Count: 1,191 Estimated Read Time: 5 min. Just whose job is customer service anyway? Most companies have a Customer Service Department that handles questions and complaints from customers....
View ArticleThe Search for Sound Business Advice
Word Count: 1,552 Estimated Read Time: 6 min. The world is changing fast… so fast that saying those words simply doesn’t do justice to the rapid-fire speed of transformation. New technologies,...
View ArticleHow to Find Talent Today – Part 1
Word Count: 1,510 Estimated Read Time: 6 min. Bill Gates once said that “The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead.” The truth is that finding the right people to fill job...
View ArticleTurning Customers into Fans
Word Count: 1,617 Estimated Read Time: 6 1/2 min. Every company claims to offer superior customer service, or some such assertion. Excellent service is touted so often as a distinguishing feature...
View ArticleAre You Listening?
Word Count: 1,212 Estimated Read Time: 5 min. Listening is a skill. We often think of listening as being the same as hearing, but it’s not. Hearing is one of the five senses that involves the ear....
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