Did you know caution is an emotion? Caution isn’t just an emotion; it’s intelligent emotional fuel for many. Do you have a child who’s genuinely concerned about the details of every change? Do you know friends who feel and act very unsettled until there’s a plan in place? You are
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Do you have a friend, a child, or a spouse who seems to operate with an unending stream of positive thinking? Do they love action and excitement? Have you noticed they stay focused on the present, looking for just the right way to make an impact on the world around
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How well you know your staff makes all the difference in their success, your success and to successfully reaching company goals. There is a better guide to placement, hiring and development that will ensure such success. What do we really know about prospective employees? We have often been caught
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Plato told us the key to building successful teams. How do we build a team that works and performs to its potential? Plato gave us the key to building successful teams some 2,300 years ago: Have each person work, exercising their native inner strengths (the core urges that shape their
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Making a connection in sales and service requires knowledge and understanding of people Knowing how to close a sale and/or service a client with the unspoken advantage of making that client feel at home with you is a skill from which all sales people could benefit. Achieving connection in sales
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How can we lead people successfully if we don’t understand them? That question inevitably leads to this one: Are they supposed to understand us in the daily interchanges of business, or we, them? Understanding is underrated and often incorrectly evaluated. Leadership is about people knowledge and understanding, and understanding is
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If you lead a company or a team in a company, your executive skill may be what put you in that position. Now, however, you are frustrated and looking for answers to continue the forward momentum. You want to develop and grow your business and achieve increased personal success and
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When life’s circumstances turn on a dime and plunge your positive outlook into the pit of your stomach, what can you do? An awesome day, full of promise, can morph into the worst day of your life with just one negative comment from a critical person. Why is that? Have you
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—by Janet Kellogg Have you ever wondered why when you keep finding yourself in the same negative, going-nowhere-fast situations, even when the circumstances have changed. Do you relate to this? Do you feel “stuck.” Some describe it as “one of “life’s lessons you haven’t learned yet.” I call it “feeling
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—by Janet Kellogg Making hard choices at the pool . . . and in the check-out line . . . or even on vacation is inevitable. Will you choose to approach these situations looking like an imposter version of the Real You? Or will you equip yourself with the intelligent use
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by Janet Kellogg Making hard choices can be much easier when you start with the simple question that narrows all the choices down to one clear front runner. Stop and consider this . . . Why do some choices feel so much easier (and more fun) to make than others?
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Self-understanding requires a few basic steps. The first and most crucial is to consider our design Are people different from each other? Of course. Your partner or child is different from you. Ever noticed that? Self-understanding begins when you realize that each of us is different from others. Have you
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