I have always held that the most challenging times of our lives come when we face redefining ourselves. Like when we go from being a high schooler to being a college student. From being a college student to being employed. Or employed by someone else to employed by ourselves. Or from being single to being [...]
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Coach Jennifer Bush recently wrote this article for The Southeastern Council on Foundations and has allowed us to reprint this article on resistance from their October/November,2011 newsletter. If you or your organization has an article to share about learning or development,please let us know; we’d love to re-publish it! In the face of economic and [...]
Does the transactional communication style of those in younger generations affect your business? A friend manages a sales organization for a heavy equipment manufacturer. While most of his sales reps are 45-plus, the engineers who provide installation and service are in their mid-twenties. He receives regular complaints from the reps about the cavalier way in [...]
Dear Reader, You don’t know what to do. Oh, you’ve got plenty of ideas about what you could do. About what’s possible. About your dreams. Or maybe you’re really, really busy – pursuing a hundred leads at once and reeling from all the potential paths available to you. But somehow nothing’s really happening. Nothing’s clicking. And [...]
Anna started working in the family business when she was in grade school and never worked anywhere else. When other kids were playing or reading, she was in the store, sweeping up, straightening stock. That’s where she wanted to be. She spent weekends and summers learning inventory, working production, fixing machinery. She wanted to learn [...]
Do your seasonal recruitment efforts result in babysitting “warm bodies” all summer? Many organizations struggle with how to recruit quality applicants for seasonal positions. When they promote the opening as a “fun” job, they end up with staff who quit when things get challenging. Approaching the process in a more serious manner produces few applicants to choose from, especially [...]
You’re barreling toward the next year, bent on doing it better, faster, smarter than … what? If you look back over the last several months, certain behavioral issues have already surfaced as leading contenders for top problems. What impact are they currently having on your business and what can you do to course correct before [...]
I love this time of year. Yes, the spirit and the festivities and the cool snap in the air. Love that. But I also love this time of year because of a reflective ritual I always perform – by myself, and for myself. Every December, I sit down and write down my 25 Accomplishments for [...]
Tom (Dick, or Harry) has a problem. He’s in way over his head. Competent, well educated, articulate, he’s scared of the slippery slope that lies ahead. He could veer off the path, but he’s chosen to stay the course. And he’s relieved it will soon be over. They’re going to fire him, he just knows [...]
It’s a crazy world out there. Weird weather, uncertain employment, foreclosures, freak accidents. It’s as if we’re all leaning forward, tensed in advance of whatever might hit us next, in a collective anxious anticipation. I don’t know about you, but I find it utterly exhausting. Like living under seige. Right now there’s a lot of [...]