I get my competitiveness from my mom, and it was certainly compounded growing up with two brothers. It started early in life for me, competing with my brothers playing yard soccer and “rough-ball.” This competitiveness continued throughout my schooling, and it showed up in my work as financial planner and training consultant. Being competitive is
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…is about how we communicate, what we communicate. At Dale Carnegie we know that people classify us as leaders and communicators in fours ways: what we do, how we look, what we say and how we say it. As we engage with others (at work or personally), we need to be aware of the message
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I attended an event recently where the speakers shared how organizations must review compensation, develop a work schedule that allows for flexibility and look at benefits offered and revise these to what the post Covid workforce desires it to be. This will aid in attracting talent! The experts are not wrong – compensation matters, benefits
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I am reading about companies implementing a 4-day work week. I do love the idea of this. Think about how awesome it would be to have a Monday or Friday to get all your personal stuff done. You can make doctors’ appointments, catch up on the yard work or cleaning around the home. My cousin
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A friend of mine Rory, shared this image on LinkedIn with the following caption: I saw being forced to work from home and another lockdown as a “punishment”, however, at the same time, my family saw it as an opportunity to shower me full of their love.“being BUSY” is so destructive!! As I reflect on
As the mask mandates are lifted and vaccines are administered to more of the country’s citizens, there is a sense that the working world is returning to some form of normality. The question many of us are asking ourselves is: “do we really want to go back to in office on a full-time basis?” This
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I am focusing on 3 key areas as I build my business. Engage existing client relationships to maintain rapport and secure work. Leverage Training Talent Trends and sharing how our organization equips our business partners with the mindset and associated behavior changes to leverage these key trends. Building a bench of skilled facilitators and consultants to
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…is when your mind is so busy working, you’re unable to sleep At times when I go to bed after enjoying time with the family or watching an episode of our favorite sitcom. One of two things happen, I attempt to sleep, and cannot as thoughts of work enter my mind and I process the
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One of the phrases we have always used over the years with our children is “choose to be happy”. This is a really difficult thing to do especially as circumstances dictate our happiness. Being happy requires us to be joy-filled. As I reflect back, I can think of all the moments of upset that impacted
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…we are going to hear these words a lot as we transition into 2021 Everyone will be talking about what it will take to make it in 2021, especially after what Covid did to us in 2020. As we set our goals for the year that lies ahead, a question we may be asking is
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