THINK! Maximizing Personal Effectiveness May 2, 2011
Sign up for our THINK! Maximizing Personal Effectiveness Workshop being held on May 2, 2011 at 1624 Market Street, Suite 202, Denver, CO 80202. This is a condensed module of our GE Session C nominated...
View ArticleEngage Employees Produce Fruit and Fruit Produces Success
Three of the major focal areas in business today are employee engagement, innovation, and leadership effectiveness. I believe these the concepts have a significant impact on organizational...
View ArticleWhere Did You Get Your Baggage and Are You Ready to Leave it Behind?
I picked up my bags in Port Arthur, Texas, 1964. One bag was filled with my circumstances, things I did not choose and could not control: an environment of poverty, drug addiction and mental illness....
View ArticleTeamwork
As I sit here in Hvar Croatia with my wife on vacation after spending a few days in Rome, I am recalling the teamwork that it took to get here. In 1999 we took a trip to the South of France which,...
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Are You Ready to Start Your Journey?
To maximize your personal effectiveness you must align your purpose, goals, thinking, practice and passion and find peace. I find that no matter where we are in our lives, we all need help personally...
View ArticleReinventing The Brand That You Reflect
Reinvention is about assessing how you are perceived and how those perceptions impact your ability to be effective. Reinvention is about mapping out a strategy to modify your behavior to align with the...
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Relationships Are the Landscape of Our Lives
Our relationships with others can be viewed as the landscape of our lives. We spend our entire lives tending to that landscape. In some periods of our lives divorce, death, feuding, marriage, new...
View ArticleAre You as Effective as You Could Be?
My working definition of reflection is taking time to think about where we are in our journeys, how we got there and what is possible for the future. It provides us with the opportunity to not be in...
View ArticleLove in Business. Is It An Oxymoron?
THE CHALLENGE We often think of business as a place where professionalism is the standard and emotional expression is unprofessional. I beg to differ. As human beings, we are emotional creatures driven...
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My Best Friend Blayre
Blayre is my daughter. She is a person with special needs and developmental disabilities and she is my best friend. Blayre is the greatest gift I have ever received in life. She has taught me so many...
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The Information Silo—Keep It Up or Tear It Down?
You’ve been staying on top of all the latest management strategies and operational techniques, and now you’ve set your sights on siloes — specifically the ones that exist in your company that you...
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The Multi-Generational Melting Pot — Making It Work at Work
If you’ve got an alphabet-soup of generations at your business, you’ve probably struggled with making your message fit your audience. However, the problem may not be with the content, but with the...
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Interviewing Strategies — How to Choose the Best Candidate for the Job
It’s not easy finding the right employee. Even if you hire a job search firm, at some point it comes down to you and the candidate, and you may not be entirely sure you have asked all the right...
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What They Want: Identifying Your Employees’ Preferences in Key Areas
There are those employees that are your star performers. You can tell from their attitude and accomplishments that they really want to be part of your company. If you were going to give them a...
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How to Give Productive Feedback
Whether you’re the owner, department head, supervisor or staff person, there will come a time when you have to provide your input on someone else’s performance. As uncomfortable as you might find the...
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How to Handle Getting Feedback
Part one of my two-part post on giving and getting feedback covered how to effectively provide feedback to your staff. But what about when the review shoe is on the other foot? How can you make sure...
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Creating a Company Culture: What it is and why it matters
You’ve developed your company’s slogan and have a tagline that appears on every marketing piece and press release. But what about your corporate culture? Can you describe it? Do you even have one? And...
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Course Correcting a Negative Culture
In the previous post, I covered the concept of company culture: what it is and why it’s important to develop one that supports your company goals. But what if your culture is a mass of confusing or...
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Creating a Productive Team
The saying “too many cooks spoil the broth” is true both in the kitchen and in the business environment. And it becomes obvious when teams are formed without a clear understanding of how a team should...
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9 Qualities of a Good Team Leader
The previous post detailed some strategies and tips for creating a productive team. In this post, we’ll look at what is needed to be a productive team leader. You can have the best, most productive and...
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