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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...
2020 – Let the Planning Begin
It’s time to start looking ahead to 2020 and to make sure your business is recession-proofed and ready to steer successfully through shifting economic times. We see it time and time again—companies use the same goal setting process year after year and then, get the...
4 Ways to Proactively Enhance Client Experiences
Whether you are of the opinion it’s a Bull or Bear market, the bottom line remains, regardless of economic analysis, shifts and cyclic trends, all clients (and customers) want results. When faced with conflicting priorities we are of the mindset that a team of...
POP QUIZ for Sales Leadership
Answer these two important questions on a scale of 1-10. Q1: Are you aware of and addressing your sales leadership blind spots? My, oh my, it’s tough to have the leadership bravery necessary to actually look for blind spots. By their nature, you can’t see them...
Economic Eyes Wide Open
Rumble. Rumble. Rumble. Are you tuned in? Most of us are hearing and talking about it. There are certainly conversations happening and important questions being posed. There are signs and economic indicators that we may be heading towards a recession. We’ve heard...
It’s All About Execution!
You’ve held the meetings. All the priorities have been defined. Next year’s strategy has been drafted. Then, more emails and follow up discussions arose. Now, everyone (well, almost everyone!) on the leadership team agrees, is aligned and the annual strategic plan and...
Ready. Set. Reimagine Goal Setting.
Whether you like it or not, it’s time to start looking ahead to 2020. Chances are, your leadership team is having conversations about the annual strategic planning approach or goal setting retreat. You know you have to do it, you want to do it, you want to be excited,...
Manager Addresses Challenging Employee Performance Issue
Thanks to everyone who responded to last month’s “What Would You Do?” The scenario: Laura is a new manager and is having difficulty with one of her six employees. This long-time employee moved into the department a year before Laura took over the management of the...
Happy Labor Day!
Today, we celebrate the courageous contributions that American workers have made to the well-being of our country. Happy Labor Day!
What Should She Do Next?
Laura is a new manager who has six employees reporting to her. Five of the six employees are inquisitive, take initiative, know when to ask for assistance, and receive feedback well. The sixth employee does not. Laura shared several ways she has tried to engage with...
Best > Excellence
“‘Doing the best I can’… is actually not the same as, ‘doing everything I can.’ When we tell people we’re doing the best we can, we’re actually saying, ‘I’m doing the best I’m comfortable doing.’ As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.” —Seth...
Courage Empowers a Regret-Free Journey
“All of our regrets come from a lack of courage.” —Bronnie Ware Have you heard of Bronnie Ware? After spending several years as a palliative caregiver to terminally ill patients and learning first-hand about the pain and anguish of those who faced their final days...
Just Listen to This
Does it feel like you have about a million things competing for your attention? These days, the “always on” lifestyle is taking a real toll on our available attention spans – for ourselves and others. Plenty has previously been written regarding the price associated...
Bring Your Human to Work (Part 2)
Last week, we learned the first five approaches to making the workplace more human shared in the book Bring your Human to Work: 10 Surefire Ways to Design a Workplace That’s Good for People, Great for Business, and Just Might Change the World by Erica Keswin. Did you...
Bring Your Human to Work (Part 1)
Erica Keswin’s book, Bring your Human to Work: 10 Surefire Ways to Design a Workplace That’s Good for People, Great for Business, and Just Might Change the World, has some great advice for those of us involved in creating Great Places to Work. She writes that...
Success Formula-WBT
Is there a winning formula to success? Successful companies share one common trait: they invest time, money and energy executing strategic plans to insure they will continue to flourish. Let’s simplify it. Do you have the three elements of WBT in place? Stop. What is...
Take Me Away
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place came from with new eyes and extra colors.” —Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky Summertime. The season that brings us longer days and more leisure time. And, ahh, sweet VaCays. The weeks...
Happy 4th of July!
Happy 4th of July from Transform, Inc.!
Let’s Count Our Blessings Instead of Sheep
Here’s an astounding fact, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s annual American Time Use Survey (ATUS) some 100M Americans are still looking for a consistent, good night’s sleep. [1] Do you find yourself waking up in the middle of the night lately? In clinical...
More Silence. Less Noise.
The Italians have a concept for piddling around known as “La Dolce Far Niente,” which means the sweetness of doing nothing. The Finnish Tourist Board developed a campaign to promote Finland as a destination – to entice tourist to visit and experience the natural...
Now or Later?
90 days. According to recent research[1] on workforce trends that’s the average number days your organization has before a new hire makes a decision – to stay (or leave) a new job. Other onboarding points of view say it happens much sooner – during the first days of a...
Tips to Build a Strategic Partnership
Companies decide to form strategic business partnerships for many reasons. Collaboration is useful. It offers the ability to develop existing resources and find new ways to thrive in the marketplace. Strategic partnerships can keep you in the driver seat and expand...
6 Everyday Exercises to Practice Resilience
Most of us know one. That person-colleague, business partner, or leader—who continues to emerge stronger and wiser after being “knocked down” by life. If you aren’t a naturally resilient person, don’t fear. It turns out, resilience can be practiced and perfected. It’s...
Summer Reading Suggestions from the Transform Team
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice By Bill Browder Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom By Rick Hanson and Richard Mendius Soul of America:...
So You Wanna Be in a Rock Band …
If you had to write a job description for an "Aspiring Rock-n-roll Band Member," could you? For most of us mere mortals, it's kind of easy to fall under the spell of magical thinking that the lifestyle of being a fulltime rocker would be the ultimate dream job. The...
The #1 Way to Stay Motivated
For years, I have taught that if you really want to keep yourself motivated, it is important to understand the difference between “have to, should and must” and “want to.” Since we were born, we have been programmed with what we “should do” to be accepted, what we...
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