5 reasons leadership training should be for all employees
Regardless of the myth that "leaders are born and not created," skills can be taught and improved through leadership training. Developi...
Yearly Archives: 2015
Is Your Anger Irrational?
We know that how we think about things determines to a large degree what we experience, and this is particularly true about anger. Ange...
The Seven Human Emotions
We are all human, it is easy to become consumed by emotions. Whether it be anger, happiness or fear we all succumb to these emotions at...
The Steps of Product Development
Process Overview
There are many models for product development, but most models have the following phases:
Notice the dual arrow bet...
Customer Focused Selling
There was a time where sales efforts focused on getting as much product or service sold as possible. We worked with sales quotas based ...
Guidelines for Efficient Planning
Time is money, the saying goes, and lots of it gets lost in disorganization and disruption. We also deal with a constant barrage of tec...
Tug Of War
Ah…remember the fun of pulling as hard as you could? Then, as you leapt forward, you realized that you were being pulled back. Alarmed...
Business Card Etiquette
It is important to understand when it is appropriate to be handing out your business cards, and the manner in which to do so. When it c...
Defining Self-Leadership
Self-leadership is about choosing who we are, what we do, and who we become. It doesn’t advocate for a selfish approach to get what we ...
Defining Risk and Risk Management
What is Risk?
The ISO 31000 risk management standard defines risk as, “the effect of uncertainty on objectives.”
Risks are typically r...