AN HONEST CHAT ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY

November 1st, 2011

My first business coach used to call it “count-on-ability”.  She was great.

The Oxford Dictionary defines “accountable” as: responsible: required to account for one’s actions.
If you’re immediately thinking of someone in your company who dodges responsibility, blames others, and seems unable to be accountable, you are not alone.  We all know people like this. (think typical [...]

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Head, Heart, and Guts

June 10th, 2011

I get a lot of calls and e-mails.  Every once in a while, they seem to “trend together”.  When that happens, and a certain topic pops up more prevalently, I feel the need to address it.
There are a bunch of frustrated CLOs, HR managers, corporate trainers and managers in the trenches right now with a little bit [...]

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Manage this!

March 25th, 2011

     Time management, change management, personnel management, project management, resource management, information management, business management, process management, risk management, chaos management……We talk about these things ad infinitum and ad nauseum.
 
For instance, time: It continues with or without our supervision or permission. It will not be managed in any way, shape, or form. Can you slow time or [...]

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Polishing up Your People

February 17th, 2011

Does your workplace feel or appear less professional these days? 
Here are six steps to help your team ”polish up” their presence:
1. Join Toastmasters.
Very affordable (about $75 per year) Toastmasters is a great place to practice your speaking and presentation skills in a safe and encouraging environment. It helps with your grammar, sentence structure, vocabulary, you name it. Almost every community [...]

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What are you reading right now?

September 15th, 2010

The new academic year is upon us. When school starts I always think of my friend Charlie “Tremendous” Jones, who devoted his life to getting adults to keep reading. Being a perpetual student of life myself, I promised to carry his torch after he was gone from this earth.  Soon after Charlie went to Heaven, my mentor Jim Rohn died, the [...]

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Getting the Right Things Done Right

August 9th, 2010

I was in Phoenix last week at the Summer Conference for TTI Performance Systems.  Always in pursuit of how we can help our clients manage their businesses and their talent better, a select group of 50 of us put our head down and went to work: branstorming, collaborating, sharing knowledge, and listening to experts in [...]

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Professionalism: The importance of image

July 29th, 2010

Professional image is one of the downward spiraling fundamentals in the business world, causing communication breakdowns, lost advancement opportunities, and negative outcome interviews.
Some of the simplest, most basic things are getting in the way of employees being advanced and getting jobs and companies doing business together.
Professionalism starts with appearance.  We are told as kids “not to judge a book by its [...]

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How to Engage Volunteerism

May 26th, 2010

Busy and successful people find themselves getting ”hit up” for all sorts of fundraisers, and to be on boards of directors on a regular basis.  If you are reading this post, you are probably thinking to yourself ”No kidding, it happened to me three times last week.”
Here are some principles I’ve learned since I began spending 1/2 my time volunteering [...]

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Employer Branding for the New Workforce

April 16th, 2010

The best book on branding I’ve read is “What is Branding?” by Matthew Healey. I recommend it be your reference book on branding.  Every graphic designer, product designer, artist, and business person should have a copy of this book and look through it regularly.
Branding is more than a logo, more than design, more than….listen to [...]

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What IS an Executive Performance Coach?

April 6th, 2010

What does an executive performance coach really do?
 
People hire physical trainers for a number of reasons: perhaps to lose weight, build muscle, gain overall health, rehabilitate from an injury, train for a specific event, such as a triathlon, or work on a specific skill (as a professional athlete would).
 
Great leaders in business hire executive performance [...]

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