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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Happy St. Patrick's Day from Transform! Wishing you the 'luck of the Irish' in your 2025 endeavors!
Sources of Conflict
Conflict is inevitable in business and in relationships at work, and our experience is that most organizations and individuals find conflict uncomfortable and undesirable. The first, most important step in understanding and addressing the conflict is to determine...
Don’t Miss This Step During Your Sales Process
Think back to a time when you were buying a service from a salesperson or a company. Did you have specific expectations about what you wanted or what was important to you in the company or salesperson you chose? Maybe you had a previous experience with another company...
Professional Growth
In February we shared a few tips that all relate to your own professional growth and being the best version of yourself. We started with playing as a team, and what a winning team does sets itself up for success in the future. We followed that up by sharing...
Valentine’s Day Got Us Thinking
“Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex.” –ALBERT EINSTEIN Valentine's Day got us thinking. Can you recall the last time you paused to share a genuine moment of deep appreciation with a member of your organization? A heartfelt moment to...
How Does Your Enneagram Type Respond to Stress?
When some people are stressed, you know it immediately. With others, you wouldn’t know unless they say they are stressed. At times, it’s difficult to identify that we may indeed be stressed ourselves. In studying the Enneagram, we learn that what causes stress and how...
Play to Win
By the time this comes out, we will be closing in on Super Bowl LIX. The Chiefs and the Eagles will compete for the coveted Lombardi Trophy. One team will take home the trophy, and one will go home in defeat. It doesn’t seem fair to me that 2nd place doesn’t win, too....
Get Focused and Stay Positive
As we kicked off the new year we shared a couple of great tips on personal improvement for 2025. In terms of your focus for this upcoming year we talked about resiliency—what it looks like and your current level. Theresa also discussed how you might be eroding trust...
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
"We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Martin Luther King Jr. Today, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we are reflecting about these powerful words from Dr. King.
Where Will Your Focus Be in 2025?
As we step into a new year, it's the perfect time to reflect on where your attention will be in 2025. In a previous blog about setting goals with clarity, conviction, and confidence, we shared: Clarity and conviction stem from deeply understanding the compelling...
How You Might Be Eroding Trust in Your Colleagues
This week we are rerunning one of our most read blogs in 2024: Assumptions and Judgments Erode Trust. Theresa discusses how small observations during the work day—a quick assumption here or a larger judgment based on an incorrect assumption—can quickly erode our trust...
Happy New Year
As 2024 comes to a close, we’re excited for the possibilities in the new year. We recently came across our website as it looked in the early 2000's and became energized for 2025 after reading the homepage. We were particularly drawn to this statement that still rings...
Happy Holidays From Transform, Inc.
Wishing you love, light, and laughter for this holiday season and the coming year.Happy Holidays!FROM TRANSFORM, INC.Mary Anne, Theresa, Tibetha & Christine
Discover Your Working Genius
Have you ever considered what aspects of your work truly energize you and bring you the greatest satisfaction and joy? Imagine if you knew the answer to this question. How would that impact how you feel about your work? How significant would it be for you and your...
The Gift of Self-Observation
Let's give ourselves the gift of transformation this holiday season. Here's a simple and powerful process for developing the vital skill of self-observation. Cheers to an enlightened season. Engage Catch yourself in the moment. (Self-Awareness and Self-Observation...
Reflecting on 2024 for a Refreshing Start to 2025
The end of the business year is near, and most say it has been a very interesting one. As we all know, change is a constant, and one vital key to success is to cultivate higher levels of insight and awareness. One simple exercise to help with this is to identify and...
Personal Growth: Ground Yourself and Set Effective Goals
During the month of November we talked about how to grow as a person through setting more effective goals, and knowing when and how to ground yourself to help handle anything going on in your life. We hope these tips will help you as we wind down 2025 and get ready to...
From Hope to Reality: Setting Goals with Clarity, Conviction, and Confidence
The book Hope is Not a Strategy, by Rick Page, got me thinking about setting goals. It is that time of year, and I’m wondering where you are with the goals you set last year. Did your hopes and dreams turn into reality this year? If not, maybe this Tip can help you in...
Veterans Day
"This will remain the land of the free so long as it is the home of the brave." Elmer Davis This Veterans Day we honor all who have served, for their courage and commitment.
Anybody Need a Little Grounding?
Here is a short video by Theresa on a grounding body practice that might come in handy.
Optimize Your Time & Space
During the month of October we talked a lot about how you can manage your time throughout each day. Our main themes were optimizing decision making and strategies for analyzing time logs. We also talked about The Enneagram, and the best work environments for each...
It’s Time to Help
What a few weeks our friends in the Southeast have had. You can’t miss the regional aftermath of Helene and Milton. It’s heart-wrenching to hear some of the stories, while, at the same time, it’s inspirational to listen to the stories of the helpers who have shown up...
Best Work Environments for Each Enneagram Type
Each Enneagram type has distinct motivations and focuses that influence how the type shows up in the workplace. Here are some insights into the work environments that best support each type. 1 – THE PERFECTIONIST Type 1 works best in a work environment that is ethical...
Part II: Take Control of Your Time Now That You Know Where You Are Spending It
In Part 1: Take Control of Your Time: Find Out How You Are Spending Your Time, we explored the benefits of tracking your time through time logs and provided a tool to help you do so. Now, in this second part, we’ll focus on how to review those logs and identify...
No Need to Decide Right Now
Chances are, you’ve already made 50+ decisions from the time you’ve started your day to this moment — when you are reading your weekly email/post from us. There is no shortage of things to make decisions about. We make hundreds, sometimes thousands, of choices in our...
Understand Yourself Better
During the month of September we talked a lot about how you can better understand yourself. The two main themes were focusing on what you're spending your time on and the different ways fear manifests in the Enneagram Types. We encourage you to take a look at these...
How Fear Manifests in Each Enneagram Type
My continued Enneagram journey of being a Six leads me to explore the realm of fear fairly often. I've come to know that it's never entirely going to go away; the best I can do is understand its origins in my life, become more and more aware of how it's impacting me,...
Take Control of Your Time: Find Out How You Are Spending Your Time
Do you ever get to the end of your day, and you cannot think of what you did, or you couldn’t do the work you needed to get done because of fire drills, crises, or interruptions that arose? If this happens to you often and you want to gain greater control of how you...
Happy Labor Day!
Wishing a very happy and restful Labor Day to all of our hard working followers, friends, and clients!
Happy National Dog Day!
Today is National Dog Day so we're sharing some adorable photos of some furry friends from both the Transform team and our clients and friends!
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