by tgale | Dec 2, 2013 | Leadership Development, Personal Development
It’s that time of the year again. Many of us are working to hit those year-end numbers, planning for the New Year and celebrating the Holidays. I’ve been in the planning mode for the last two months helping our clients reflect on the successes and...
by tgale | Nov 18, 2013 | Personal Development, Sales and Sales Management
“Research tells us (Snyder 2007) that the most effective presentations will always do this one thing – solve problems. This is the key to a successful presentation. Presentation coach and author Dr. Andrew Abela has written “if you are trying to...
by tgale | Nov 4, 2013 | Personal Development, Uncategorized
“Most of the things we avoid are avoided because we’re afraid of being afraid. Too meta? Sorry, but it’s true. The negative outcomes that could actually occur due to speaking up in class, caring about our work product, interacting with the...
by tgale | Oct 21, 2013 | Personal Development, Uncategorized
“Between the stimulus and the response there is a space and in that space lies our power and our freedom.” Tara Brach Are you aware of the space between? It might be the space between a colleague’s comment about our work and our response to that...
by tgale | Sep 30, 2013 | Personal Development, Uncategorized
The Truth About the War for Talent by Seth Godin It’s more of a skirmish, actually. Plenty of recruiters and those in HR like to talk about engaging in a war for talent, but to be truthful, most of it is about finding good enough people at an acceptable rate of...
by tgale | Sep 9, 2013 | Leadership Development, Personal Development, Uncategorized
Years ago Steven Covey in his book, The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People, got the business community thinking about the skill of empathy when he introduced the fifth Habit: Seek first to Understand, then to be Understood. Then several years later Daniel...