Today’s world moves fast and is full of noise. In fact, the argument can be made that we live in a world of distraction. Remember Dug, the lovable pup from Disney’s Up? Squirrel! He was easily shiny-marbled. People are easily shiny marbled. If you don’t grab their...
Leadership brings responsibility. Responsible leaders have every intention of getting things done, but sometimes fall into the pit of boring. Being focused on the intangibles and forgetting about the people they are supposed to be leading. In another life, I worked...
My son is in a Personal Leadership class at college. He has some pre-work before the semester started, one of which was that he had to take a StrengthsFinder assessment. He was mildly irked that he had to pay for and take the assessment for class. I confess I was a...
January is Get Organized Month. We hit the new year and part of turning over usually means a frenzy of goal setting and getting organized. Some of us (raising my hand high) thrive on organization. I love it. I love planning out the big picture. Mapping out a process...
It’s no secret that your people are the foundation of your business success. Your company can’t survive and thrive without your employees. So don’t forget employee training. In Ryan Jenkins’ article in Inc., his #5 trend for 2016 is Training...
It’s that time that I start seeing people post about what they’ve chosen as their 2016 word of the year. I’m so not into the whole “word of the year” movement. But 2015 was terrible in so many ways and I’m ready to close the door on...
