Productive Leaders
For many people, the holidays are stressful. Go into the holiday season with the understanding that you have to be nicer to other people during this time, both for them and for you. We need to be cognizant that people are operating at a higher stress level during the holidays…
Many organizations desperately need a strategic planning session. They may want better vision, team cohesion, or new products. Most companies hold meetings, hoping that some strategic planning will magically emerge. This is unrealistic…
Wealth is discretionary time.
-Alan Weiss
I am not sure if Alan was the first to say it, but it resonated with me. Many people work to make a living, but they don’t have much of a life. There are a few ways of building real wealth, not monetary wealth…
Work like a dog? Perhaps you should...Things improved for me at work when I started to behave more like my dog. What do I mean? There are a lot of articles on how to be a better manager. This is about how to be a better employee.1. Work with enthusiasm. There are days...
Bringing people together for meetings can be a great way to increase team interaction, discuss ideas, and share valuable information. However, 100 people polled in the last 42 days indicated that most employees perceive meetings as a colossal and inconvenient waste of time…
Many people rely on referrals and repeat business to sustain their livelihood. But there is a difference between repeat business and business loyalty that makes your clients happy to refer you to other people. I have a friend who has been with his insurance…
Fresh Palisades Peaches!!!! They are so juicy and delicious fresh from the farm, but they also fabulous as a dessert, tucked nicely under a cobbler crust. (My friend Deborah Hoskins went peach shopping two weeks ago and she put the cobbler idea into…
Not everyone loves delivering speeches or presentations, so knowing a few tricks make it easier. In some instances, using power point or other visual aids is helpful. In other situations, an after dinner speech for example, the speech by itself reigns supreme…
Step 1: Go to www.LinkedIn.com and start filling in the blanks for a new profile. Use your common email address as a secondary and use your business email for your primary (you don’t want business contacts to find you at your college email address…
April Peterson