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Take Time to Invest in Self-Awareness
If there’s one thing we believe, it’s that for real transformation to occur understanding yourself is vital. Self-awareness, all those large and small insights you gain through making mistakes – as well as also paying attention to your successes – enables you to keep...
Lessons Learned about Relationships: An Enneagram Nine’s Journey
How many relationships do you have in your life that are peaceful and harmonious? For years, that was my main relationship goal. As an Enneagram Nine, I was hardwired to do whatever it took to avoid conflict and keep things peaceful and harmonious in all my personal...
Ask Our Friend – Q: “How Important is a Leader’s Relationship with Themselves?”
Meet Marilyn Finch Williams, LCSW/Founder of MEDIAN Center for Resilience and Brain Training! Our "Ask a Friend" content feature is designed to provide our Transform community members with access to professional subject matter experts who provide answers and insights...
Partnerships
This is a shout-out to Theresa for being the “Best Business Partner” in the world. Yes, I’m biased– just so we have that out of the way. However, I can make a solid case for it being the truth, at least my truth. We’ve seen many super partnerships in our 22 years as...
Searching for Longevity? Focus on Strengthening Your Relationships
Have you given much thought to what it takes to live to 100 or beyond? ICYMI, Susan Pinker has! Watch this outtake from her TEDTalk to learn more about the surprising predictors of a long, healthy life: According to Pinker, a Canadian psychologist and author of The...
Creating an Innovative Culture One Step at a Time
To be honest, this month’s theme of Innovation leaves me a little dizzy. While intellectually I agree that innovation is a must for a company to stay ahead of the curve, my gut resists when I look at my “To-Do” list and I move back up to my head and think, “How do I...
Inviting “Messengers” Helps Drive Innovation
IN BRIEF: Innovation is no longer a specialized activity or effort that exists inside a dedicated organizational silo. Continued advances in interactive technologies and social platforms along with a growing acceptance of crowdsourcing methodologies offers companies,...
Oh, Everyone Loves a Class Field Trip!
Creating lasting enthusiasm and buy-in for new behaviors, possibilities, ideas and customer experiences requires a formal, on-going commitment from organizational leaders. You already know this. If you need your team to approach problem solving by thinking differently...
Empowering Innovation to Drive Growth
"All organizations need one core competency: innovation." –PETER DRUCKER, MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT Big ideas have always been at the core of changing how the world works and lives. We live in a time when people who have new ideas – and understand how to eliminate...
It’s Transformation Tuesday! Ready? Set? Launch 2018 with an Innovation Mindset
“My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action.” ― SHANNON L. ALDER Happy New Year! No doubt...
Welcome to 2018!
Cheers to a great year! WHAT'S OUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION? New Year, New Transformational Tips! We're shaking things up in 2018! Starting in January, we'll be replacing our Monday Morning Tips with our new weekly email, Transformation Tuesday. Get...
Season’s Greetings!
Wishing you a wonderful holiday season! WHAT'S OUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION? New Year, New Transformational Tips! We're shaking things up in 2018! Starting in January, we'll be replacing our Monday Morning Tips with our new weekly email, Transformation...
‘Tis the Season
Just as the afterglow of Thankfulness settles down from Thanksgiving, you’ll hear me start humming my holiday refrain, “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.” For me, this is when expectations bubble up from the recesses of my past and mingle with my desires of...
3 Questions on Time Well Spent
Around here we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious ... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. —WALT DISNEY, Film Producer, Director, Animator, Entrepreneur “Wow, it’s...
Preventing Workplace Harassment is a Shared Responsibility
Wondering what you can do to create a sexual harassment free workplace? We turned to Christine Walters, our go-to employment attorney, to share some tips with us. Let us know if you have additional questions you would like to have answered. Today’s media headlines are...
How to Take Gratitude to the Next Level
There’s no doubt about it: gratitude has a powerful ripple effect in our individual lives and relationships with those who receive our positive words and actions. Turns out, with focus and intention, expanding gratitude is another habit we can nurture and cultivate....
Want Insight on How to Improve the Customer Experience? Ask For It!
Have you seen an episode of VOGUE’s 73 Questions? If you haven’t, we really think you should. Really! Why? Because its a brilliant concept. For decades, Vogue has been considered one of the most influential, thought-provoking brands in the world of fashion and the...
Reflections on Time, a Transformational Tool and Our Purpose
“Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.” –WARREN BUFFETT It’s really a beautiful thing when you intentionally set a course to pursue a specific purpose that’s mixed with equal parts passion and then, are able to pause, look back and...
The Power of Gratitude
“Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex.” –ALBERT EINSTEIN 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 thank them for their efforts and...
Shine Your Light to Stay Relevant
Have you watched Meryl Streep’s “mic drop worthy” 2010 Barnard College Commencement Speech? Last week it began popping up in various social media feeds. Here’s the link to the Goalcast video. Sometimes, when content from a speech, delivered almost a decade ago,...
Want to Be an Employer of Choice? Prioritize Wellbeing
When most people think of what it takes to build a thriving workforce, retain and recruit top talent and be an employer of choice, the word “wellbeing” probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. The reality is, with nearly 70% of the workforce reportedly...
The Revolution – Doing What We Can
In 2013, India mandated that companies of a certain size and profit level must give 2% of their net to charities. Meanwhile, back in the States, our companies are choosing to make a difference, unmandated. Personally, I like that plan better. More and more companies...
Want to Increase Impact? Train Your Brain to Think Strategically
In theory, four simple steps ensure a great annual strategic planning process: Assess. Design. Build. Manage. Most folks are familiar with how it goes. Members of the organization’s senior leadership team meet as a large, formal committee, on a routine basis. The...
Where to Next? Shaping Strategy in a World of Constant Disruption
Redefining how you approach strategy – during constant disruption and turbulent times – can feel overwhelming these days. We get it. However, no business can afford to ignore the importance of disruptive innovation. So, if you are curious and ready to rethink how...
The State of Sales Report
Has your sales team prepared to shift to meet the changing needs of your customers? Have you reprioritized or adapted the team’s sales objectives for the next 12-18 months to take into account changing dynamics in your market? What issues are impacting sales...
Managing Career Transitions: From Student to Young Professional
The first few weeks after Labor Day always signals change. Sometimes its when cooler temperatures show up but more frequently those “back-to-school” season feelings come to us as our day-to-day weekday routines change. Those conversations about summertime...
Sales Motivation
Our friends at Objective Management Group, which I always call Kurlan, have new data about what motivates salespeople. I find the data interesting and useful in terms of understanding that salespeople are actually human and individually motivated by different things....
Happy Labor Day!
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What does Human to Human #H2H Mean?
Social business strategist Bryan Kramer comments, “Communication shouldn’t be complicated. It should just be genuine and simple, with the humility and understanding that we’re all multidimensional humans, every one of which has spent time in both the dark and...
Lead by Influence Rather Than Positional Power
Regardless of title or the specific role each employee plays in your organization – everyone has the ability to lead others and impact business outcomes. How? Influence. Are you interested in learning how to “up” your influence game? Here are two resources from...
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