Coaching HR leaders and small business owners this month revealed a couple of types of responses to the holiday/end-of-year crush:
- “This could not have come at a worse time!”
- ...
Announcements of holiday parties are met with either go-for-it’s or groans.
The go-for-it’s are the ones who enjoyed last year’s party or just look forward to any social...
Ever worked in a company culture that goes to war on just about anything?
I encourage my coaching clients to bring “hot and now” topics to sessions in addition to their leadership...
Last week, I listened to a couple of my favorite podcasts driving to do an onsite with a client company. Too close to start a third one, I switched over to local radio stations and scanned...
Study after study reveals “Thank you” as an integral part of a positive work culture. Customers spend more money and return more often. Employees tell their friends to come join the...
“How do you know you’re doing what you’re supposed to be doing for work?” the college student asked me.
A middle-aged guy and I had the same discussion recently as he...
You want to buy a vehicle. You go to the dealer’s lot and look at a white Honda CRV. You test-drive it. You really like it, but the salesperson won’t get the price right.
As you turn...
When my younger brother and I went trick-or-treating as kids at Halloween, he was scared of ghosts. When he was very young, he had eye surgery a couple of times. All of the OR people wore white. He...
My grandparents told me numerous stories about how hard making a living was during the Great Depression. Listening to them, I always felt a certain sense of financial uncertainty like “Whew!...
The dark shadows start on Sunday night as you try to close your eyes and settle your mind to sleep. They call them the “Sunday Night Scaries.”
Your pulse rate increases. Your brain...
I was lying flat on my back in the grassy outfield, trying to come around. I had drifted back from my third-base position for the Little League team White Sox into shallow left field to catch a fly...
Days are getting shorter. It’s dark when I wake up and gets dark earlier in the evening. The temperatures are cooler in the mornings. The leaves are transitioning in my neck of the woods.
The...
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