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The Enneagram and Relationships in Focus Webinar Series
The Enneagram and Relationships in Focus Seeing through the eyes of another: How your Enneagram Type impacts your relationships. Join Mary Anne Wampler, Theresa Gale, and representatives of each Enneagram Type as they explore the dynamic and fertile ground of the...

Where is Your Attention?
What is attention and what impact does it have on whether you have a bad, good, or great day? Did you know that you have control over your attention? Join Theresa Gale and learn how to gain greater control of your attention. Have you taken our survey yet? We believe...

“What to Remember When Waking” – A Poem By David Whyte
In these challenging times we find ourselves thinking about time, how we use it and taking advantage of this opportunity to reflect. Last week we considered how you could use each hour, minute and second of your day with Theresa Gale. This week, we are taking a moment...

How Will You Use This Day?
While we are in uncharted, uncertain times right now, there is one thing that remains the same — that is the amount of hours, minutes and seconds we have in each day and how we make use of our waking hours is the topic of this thought by me, Theresa Gale. The...

Difficult Times Require This Essential Ingredient
I recently attended a webinar hosted by Gallup Organization on How to Keep Remote Worker Wellbeing High. One of the key takeaways was the urgency for leaders, right now, to stay attentive to their own and their employees’ wellbeing. By wellbeing they include...

Strategizing Change
Listen in as Theresa reveals what really inspires her in her work with clients. What inspires you these days? We'd love to know. Check our Theresa's interview here! The Enneagram in Focus Join Mary Anne Wampler, a nationally recognized Enneagram teacher and co-owner...

Human Universals: The Enneagram and The Pandemic with Leslie Flood Hershberger
Leslie Flood Hershberger is a colleague and friend of Transform, Inc. She is a certified Enneagram Trainer, a skilled facilitator and Integral Theory expert. We asked if we could share her recent message with our community. Luckily, she said, “yes.” I’ve been asked...

Maximize Your Leadership Team
As a successful business owner, you’ve dedicated your life to building your company, and you’ve felt the weight of responsibility that comes with running it all on your own. But, you also know in your heart that it’s not good business to have your company completely...

Tips on Fear
Who among us isn’t experiencing fear running through us these days? You can feel it in the ethos. We are engulfed by the news of a pandemic (COVID-19) and our daily routines have been greatly altered. Economic uncertainty is afoot for many. I am wondering, how are...

The Impact of Understanding
Plain and simply put, “To be an effective leader you need to understand yourself as well as your impact on others.” Everywhere you look, it’s easy to see examples of leaders who charge ahead, adopting a take-no-prisoners stance. These leaders then often are taken by...

Minimize the Impact when a Key Employee Leaves the Company
In last week’s blog we talked about a business owner having a succession plan to ensure the continuation of the business in the owner’s absence. In this blog, we want to give some tips for developing succession plans for your key employees. Has any of these scenarios...

Succession Planning Helps Business Owners Sleep at Night
Have you ever had these thoughts? “I lay awake at night and wonder if my business would be okay if something were to happen to me.” “The business is too dependent on my sales. If something were to happen to me, would the business survive?” “If something were to happen...

“I’ll Be There for You…”
“...cause you're there for me, too.” –I'll Be There for You by The Rembrandts Last year, Friends turned 25. Back in 1994, when the series debuted on NBC, millions tuned-in and watched weekly. Viewers grew to know six people in two distinct ways. First, as the ensemble...

The Enneagram: The Real Deal on Relationships
Ready for the possibility of creating extraordinary relationships? The Narrative Enneagram is the real deal for developing the depth of self-awareness necessary to understand and appreciate others’ worldviews, thereby allowing you to truly understand and enrich all of...

Can We Rewrite the Script?
Are We in a Movie All Just Playing Our Parts, or Can We Rewrite the Script and Be Aligned with Our Hearts? As this movie called 2020 rolls, are you the director, truly connecting with and responding to the real people and situations right in front of you, or are you...

Future-proofing Leads to Team Wins
“The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.” –Charles Dickens, David Copperfield So, the first annual professional athletic championship of the decade...

Percolation before Inspiration
Have you created a vision board or set your goals for 2020? For the past 5 years I have created a vision board for the upcoming year. Typically, on New Year’s Eve I am inspired to do this but this year I spent New Year’s Eve with my mother and wasn’t at home for this...

What’s Your Lesson to be Learned?
This week we’d like to share with you the life lessons for each of the 9 Enneagram Types to learn. Our colleagues at The Narrative Enneagram have created a brief description of what each Type needs to learn to live a freer, more fulfilling life. If you know your...

It’s Not You, It’s Me
Picture this: You’ve arrived at work this morning and more than three-fourth of the team isn’t there. Now, what? Of all the workforce trends, topics and “buzzworthy” opportunities for improvement demanding your focus and attention employee experience and engagement...

Old Long Since
“Sign me up!” “Subscribe today!” “Register now!”…Do you feel like are you are suffering from seasonal “call to action” fatigue? All those inputs and things to do. And then now there is some space. You can finally take a deep breath. Really. Stop and breathe. Now,...

Happy New Year!
Cheers to a wonderful 2020! From Transform, Inc.

Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays! From Transform, Inc.

Got Humbug or Humble?
If you had to choose a favorite boss among all the holiday classics, could you? UGH! Chances are, images of movie characters are now flashing across your mental big screen – your mind’s eye is busy – since we’ve just thrown a momentary curve ball into your “get it...

Do the Hustle
“Persistence has its own momentum.” —Cheryl Strayed Quick. Pulse check. How is your energy level today? Is it a driving or dragging force on your team? [Rate yourself (scale of 1-5) then, yes, keep reading.] The best business leaders understand and believe customer...

Are you Guy-I-Am or Sam-I-Am?
The book, Green Eggs and Ham, written by Dr. Seuss is having a resurgence in a Netflix 13-part cartoon. I had forgotten about the book until I read a review of the Netflix show in the Washington Post. As with all of Dr. Seuss’ books, its lesson for children (and...
Let our lives be full of…
Happy Thanksgiving from Transform, Inc.!

Pace Yourself
Sweet November. Season 3 of The Crown, the royal biopic of Queen Elizabeth II, finally returns to Netflix. Along with the annual kickoff of: seasonal celebrations and gatherings, fighting for prime parking spots, standing in those Black Friday lines, visiting our...

The Gift of Gratitude is Timeless
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” —Cicero Ah, “sweater weather.” Those chilly autumn days have arrived! Naturally, along with the ebb and flow of seasonal weather changes we are also entering that time of year when...

Stand and Deliver
As a business leader you can’t predict the future with certainty. If you can, we suggest that you guard that superpower! However, you can build a team and an organization that’s well positioned to thrive in uncertain times. Leaders that cultivate new mindsets,...

Increased Focus and Attention with These 4 Steps
One of the biggest challenges for us today is to manage distractions whether in the workplace or at home or driving. We are constantly bombarded with beeps, buzzes, horns, alarms, ringtones, people, etc. and our brain can only handle so many of these stimuli. It goes...