Keeping every employee motivated and engaged is a big job for leaders and managers. Across the Pennsylvania, the attention is now on 2014 and the future looks good for our area and our state. Assurance and confidence are essential ingredients as we end the year and head into the new one. In 1956, Dale Carnegie’s…
5 Tips for Acclimating a New Employee
New employees generally feel overwhelmed with paperwork, computer passwords and log-ins, and remembering other employees’ names. But whether your company employs 5 or 5,000 employees, your organization can ease the transition for new hires. A facility tour and process overview is the best way to acclimate a new employee. Also pay attention to detailing their…
15 Classic Carnegie Principles for 2014
Dale Carnegie’s focus has always been people and relationships. And we know that people and relationships are integral to the holidays as well, with time and energy spent renewing old times and building new memories. This is the time of year for the true belief that we should treat each other well and with kindness…
6 Tips For Making A Strong First Impression
Regardless of our business, profession or career choice, we all must be salespeople to some degree—mostly in how we sell ourselves to others through first impressions. Unfortunately, one of the biggest mistakes most professionals make when they first meet someone is overselling themselves. With the exception of impromptu first impressions, scheduled first impressions like sales calls,…
Time Out!
I received a text from my son Sam who is attending Syracuse University this past Thursday night… “giving a marketing talk tomorrow in food class…need to close talk asking investors to give money…any thoughts” I think for a moment…Hmm! That’s a loaded question; I wonder what I could possibly text back that would be remotely…
Time Out!
How are you managing your stress? Pressure is increasing everywhere we look in life. How about this week, two NFL coaches admitted to the hospitals for stroke and heart conditions in which everyone is attributing to stress. Another executive coach and I were talking two weeks ago and he told me in a week’s time,…
Time Out!
I have just returned from a speaking engagement with the NLA in Atlantic City. Those of you who have been following me know of my association with the National Limousine Association and my yearly pilgrimage to Las Vegas to speak at their National Convention. The event in Atlantic City is new and is an attempt…
Time Out!
Letting go is hard. It is the transition of change, not the actual change, itself that creates heartache. I remember early in my career hearing that our current and past successes pave the way to our future failures. I understood it but never thought I would experience it. Life is a brutal teacher and our…
Time Out!
When was the last time you were so passionate and enthusiastic about a topic you were speaking about that you forgot to breathe? And when you were speaking before groups, you actually wrote into your speaking notes…”breath,” really? It has been a while for me, maybe never. However, this week I watched a young entrepreneur,…
Time out!
Isn’t business and life amazing! How quick in retrospect can markets shift or just go away. Remember VCR’s, 8-track, buying software packages to install, bag phones, and land lines…amazing. This past week I had the opportunity to travel to Chicago and toured the Sears tower at one time the tallest building in the world, no…