Leaders are always improving, innovating, inspiring and changing. I just ran some financials – five years ago, what was once 89% of my gross income, is now 37%. My challenge is that my business structure is not matching my new offerings. What about your business? In my executive coaching we are constantly dealing with 5…
A Sure-Fire Topic to Hold Your Audience’s Attention
Dale Carnegie knew that you may possibly bore people if you talk about things and ideas, but you can hardly fail to hold their attention when you talk about people. Stories about people are what fuel the millions of conversations floating over fences in the backyards of America, and over dinner tables. And the predominating…
How to Turn Worry Into Productivity
In his book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, Dale Carnegie tells the story of Leon Shimkin, whose business was spinning into a cycle of unproductive time and meetings. In Shimkin’s own words: “For fifteen years I spent almost half of every business day holding conferences, discussing problems. Should we do this or that—or nothing at all?…
How to Stay Flexible During Change
To truly succeed on a day-to-day basis, think of yourself as stretchable, expandable, and able to adapt to anything new. After all, who wants to view themselves as static, inflexible, and unable to adapt? Periods of change are unpredictable, and we may be asked to adapt to changes that we never anticipated. In order to…
4 Tips for Just Being Yourself on Your Next Job Interview
Job interviews can be a stressful ordeal. Before you even walk into the interview room you’ll likely be wondering if the employer will like you, if you’re wearing the right clothing, if you’ll say the right thing, or if you’ll just flub the whole thing. Most interviewees claim they did not get a job they…
6 Components to Creating an Effective Business Team
Have you ever wondered why some teams complete goals efficiently and successfully while others fail? When components are missing, a team can end up elongating a process instead of completing a task. While every team is different, you will increase your chances of building a strong team by incorporating the following 6 tips from your…
Do What’s Right and Let People Say What They Will
Early in his career Dale Carnegie discovered that although he couldn’t keep people from criticizing him unjustly, he could do something infinitely more important: He could determine whether he would let the unjust condemnation disturb him. Eleanor Roosevelt, who probably had more ardent friends and more violent enemies than any other woman who ever lived in the…
Time out!
When you have to make a tough business decision – you know, the decision that wakes you up in the middle of the night; the one that you are wrestling with and it seems no one but you can ultimately make. In this moment it is hard to gain perspective because you are too close…
Employees are the Pipeline for Success
2014 is the year; it is finally here. It is the year that will feature the employee for both effort and organizational opportunity. Here in Pennsylvania, our success and economic growth depends on the quality of talent found within the business and the organization. Employee-driven companies now react more quickly to the marketplace and show…
Effective Presentation Skills and Public Speaking Tips
There are more highly trained people in the business world today than ever before. And with training comes an enormous body of knowledge on all levels of business management, organizational structures, and effective sales techniques. Add to this the readily available supply of new information that can be garnered quickly and easily through electronic information…