by tgale | Nov 30, 2011 | Leadership Development, Monday Morning Wake Up Tips, Personal Development
If we work with people long enough, we tend to form certain beliefs, assumptions and biases about them that sometimes can hinder our ability to be objective when working with them. Let’s look at some examples of this: A manager who has worked with an employee...
by tgale | Nov 13, 2011 | Leadership Development, Monday Morning Wake Up Tips, Personal Development, Sales and Sales Management
This is the title of a sales book that is about how to win complex sales deals yet the title lends itself to so many situations that we thought we’d look at it as this week begins. “Hope motivates virtually all human activity. Hope is the powerhouse...
by tgale | Oct 31, 2011 | Blog, Monday Morning Wake Up Tips, Personal Development
Recently, we were privileged to spend time with David Wythe, a poet, storyteller, and business consultant. Not only is he very charming (with a British accent) but incredibly gifted in his ability to capture the human spirit and story in poetry. In his poem, Start...
by tgale | Oct 24, 2011 | Monday Morning Wake Up Tips, Personal Development
I (Theresa) just finished reading High Altitude Leadership by Chris Warner and Don Schmincke. What an adventure that was! Chris Warner is the founder of EarthTreks, a Maryland-based rock climbing gym and mountaineering company and Don Schmincke is founder of SAGA...
by tgale | Oct 10, 2011 | Leadership Development, Monday Morning Wake Up Tips, Personal Development
“No matter what business you are in, everyone in the organization needs to know why.” Frances Hesselbein, President, The Drucker Foundation It’s that time of year when attention turns to the new year approaching and the internal wheels begin to turn...
by tgale | Sep 12, 2011 | Monday Morning Wake Up Tips, Personal Development
Heard the expression, “actions speak louder than words?” Well we believe that your energy speaks even louder than your actions. So what is energy? Energy is your life force. Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, refers to energy as the silent...