One of the joys of travel for me is meeting new and different people. On our recent European trip, the first half was with a tour group from Collette Tours. Colleen and I had never experienced traveling with a tour group, and now we’re hooked! We highly recommend Collette Tours and are looking to do…
Three Factors that Influence Employee Stars’ Decision to Stay Onboard
When top talent leaves an organization, the immediate impacts on the department can feel tragic. Since employee engagement has barely budged in the last few years, many organizations are focused on developing better attraction and retention strategies. Gallup recently asked employees what they consider most when deciding to take a job with a different organization. Here are three factors…
Time Out!
It’s hard to believe people are talking about winter already. After all, we just celebrated Independence Day and winter is still 162 days away. Yet that’s exactly what happened as I heard an inspirational thought during the International Dale Carnegie Franchise Association meeting in Vienna this summer. Weather-wise, winter can be challenging for many of…
Step Outside of Your Comfort Zone and Into Success
Everyone feels familiarity, safety and security within their individual comfort zones. Our daily routines and patterns help stabilize our emotions and thwart feelings of anxiety and worry. To grow and transform, however, we must step outside of our comfort zones. Dale Carnegie said, “Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest…
Time Out!
What a great European vacation! Colleen and I spent over two weeks just seeing things we had only read or heard about, and now we have a completely new perspective and appreciation. Now that we are back, it seems as though we never left, and yet I am changed forever. First, thanks to Tom Mangan…
How to Adapt Your Leadership for Millennials
There may not be an industry that is plagued with more generational chasms and clashing than in professional sports. Specifically for the National Football League, every year new and eager Millennial rookies join teams with established cultures, playbooks, veteran players, and seasoned coaches who are separated by 1-2 generations. When Jim Tomsula was coaching the…
MidWeek Mentor
Twice I’ve run the entire Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail. It is a beautiful, scenic, challenging, technical, single-track, 70.5-mile trail with about 12,000 feet of vertical gain that goes from Ohiopyle, PA, to Johnstown, PA. LHHT is unique in that it has permanent markers at every mile. When people learn I run ultramarathons, the…
Three Ways to Win Work-Life Balance
If you struggle to achieve work-life balance, you’re not alone. Alarmingly, 94% of professionals reported working more than 50 hours per week and nearly half, more than 65 hours per week in a Harvard Business School survey. Whether at work or home, here are three secrets to winning work-life balance. Unplug. The question is not, ‘Can you…
Three Ways to Capitalize on a Setback
George A. Custer famously said, “It’s not how many times you get knocked down that count, it’s how many times you get back up.” If you’re not a U.S. military history buff, you’ve still probably heard plenty of motivational quotes to the effect that, ‘If at first you don’t succeed, try again.’ For most people,…
Mid-Week Mentor
“Why?” I’m told it’s a child’s favorite question to ask. My friends who are parents often seem frustrated when their young children won’t stop asking “Why?” over and over. No doubt answering why they should eat their vegetables or put away their toys gets old, particularly when each answer is greeted with yet another “Why?”…