Getting Employees to Board the “Change Train”
Word Count: 1,214 Estimated Read Time: 5 min. How to Get Employees to Embrace Change Changes come in all sizes, from minor adjustments to total overhauls. For businesses, most changes tend to be...
View ArticleIs Your Brand Message a Rallying Cry for your Company?
Word Count: 1,436 Estimated Read Time: 5 min. Part I – Distinguishing between a Tagline, Slogan, Motto and Strapline Message Matters Most Companies spend a lot of time and money trying to perfect...
View ArticleIs Your Brand Message a Rallying Cry for your Company? Part 2 – Crafting...
Word Count: 1,487 Estimated Read Time: 6 min. Give A Company’s Brand Messaging a Boost Is there a commercial or ad for a product that is particularly memorable? Who can forget the funny Wendys’...
View ArticleFinding Success in Stillness, Part 1
Word Count: 1,326 Estimated Read Time: 5 ½ min. The world is in a perpetual tizzy of activity. There is always so much to do. Do this. Do that. Go… go… go. We buzz around with never-ending to-do...
View ArticleFinding Success in Stillness, Part 2
Word Count: 1,326 Estimated Read Time: 5 ½ min. Americans are known worldwide to be workaholics. We see “doing” and “working hard” as positive behaviors and view increased productivity always as a...
View ArticleThe Highest and Best Use of Your Team, Part 1
Word Count: 1,474 Estimated Read Time: 6 min. Is everyone at your company working on tasks that are the highest and best use of their time and talents? The very best leaders aim for that goal or...
View ArticleThe Highest and Best Use of Your Team, Part 2
Word Count: 1,496 Estimated Read Time: 6 min. The best leaders, managers and entrepreneurs know that a company’s success depends on getting maximum performance from employees. According to Anne M....
View ArticleWhen Failure Is and Is Not Okay
Failure due to Innovation vs. Incompetence Everyone gets it wrong at least once in a while. That is why they put erasers on pencils. There are judgment calls that don’t pan out. There are ideas...
View ArticleWhy Resolutions Fail 90% of the Time, Part 1
Word Count: 1,964 Estimated Read Time: 8 min. To err is human, and so is to want a ‘do-over’. When we fall short of the mark we set for ourselves (or that others might have set for us), we long for a...
View ArticleWhy Resolutions Fail 90% of the Time, Part 2
Did you make any resolutions for 2019? Most likely. LinkedIn’s feed has been full of posts of folks sharing their big professional goals for the year ahead. Most resolutions run the gamut from...
View ArticleAnalysis Paralysis: When Decision-Making Gets Stuck and How to Get Unstuck
Word Count: 1,656 Estimated Read Time: 6 1/2 min. When Decision-Making Gets Stuck The average person makes a lot of decisions daily. Researchers Barbara Sahakian and Jamie Nicole LaBuzetta estimated...
View ArticleBroken Promises: When a Brand Fails to Deliver on its Commitments
Word Count: 1,437 Estimated Read Time: 6 min. Businesses make promises to its customers. A brand promise spells out what customers can expect from the organization’s product or services. Those...
View ArticleWorkplace Communication– Part 1
Word Count: 1,316 Estimated Read Time: 5 1/2 min. Part 1: Looks Who’s Talking Communication abounds in business. It is needed for effective teamwork, sharing of ideas, collaboration across...
View ArticleWorkplace Communication– Part 2
Word Count: 1,520 Estimated Read Time: 5 1/2 min. Part 2 – Talking the Talk, and then Walking the Walk There is a lot of talking done at work. But all talk is not created equal. Some of it consists...
View ArticlePrepared to Do the Job
Word Count: 1,591 Estimated Read Time: 6 min. To Train or Not to Train, That is the Question Is staff training necessary? The short answer is yes. Training is necessary, in part, because every...
View ArticleThe Halo Effect in Business and Brands, Part 1
Word Count: 1,568 Estimated Read Time: 6 min. How the Halo Effect Impacts Business and Brands What is the Halo Effect? Simply put, the Halo Effect is a mental bias people demonstrate that takes one...
View ArticleThe Halo Effect in Business and Brands, Part 2
How the Halo Effect Impacts Business and Brands The “Halo Effect,” a cognitive bias in which one person’s overall impression is influenced by assumptions based on unrelated, concrete information. If...
View ArticleHow to Increase Work Excellence, Part 1
Word Count: 1,323 Estimated Read Time: 5 ½ min. According to Publishers Weekly, 15,473 business books were published in the U.S. in 2013 and 16,604 were published in 2014.[1] At that pace, there have...
View ArticleHow to Increase Work Excellence, Part 2
Word Count: 1,434 Estimated Read Time: 6 min. Organizations everywhere – from the smallest mom-n-pop shops to the largest, multi-national corporations and government entities– want efficient,...
View ArticleControlling your First and Last Hour of the Day to Amp Up Productivity
Word Count: 1,750 Estimated Read Time: 7 min. Some of the most prolific workaholics in the U.S. – people famous for it like Jeff Bezos, Mark Cuban, Elon Musk, and Oprah Winfrey — work an average of...
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