by tgale | Sep 23, 2013 | Blog, Leadership Development
This week I met with three new employees who were recent college graduates. This was their first full-time job since graduating and my reason for meeting with them was to check in with them as to how their transition was going. Here’s what I learned: A different...
by tgale | Sep 16, 2013 | Blog, Monday Morning Wake Up Tips, Transformational Coaching
We have some news, and we want you to be the first to know. Over the past year, we’ve been working on Transform, Inc., updating our logo and creating a new, more interactive website. Now, we’re transforming our coaching services because you’ve told...
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...
by tgale | Aug 26, 2013 | Sales and Sales Management, Uncategorized
We were recently reading Daniel Pink’s book, To Sell is Human, and we came upon this excerpt: “One of the most detestable words in the lexicon of sales is “up-selling.” You go to a sporting goods store for basic running shoes and the sales person tries to get you to...
by tgale | Aug 19, 2013 | Blog, Monday Morning Wake Up Tips, Transformational Coaching
Did you know that Americans make an average of 70 choices a day? Kent Greenfield, author of The Myth of Choice, and Sheena Lyenger, The Art of Choosing, were interviewed yesterday on Fareed Zakaria GPS and their work reveals that when presented with too many choices,...
by tgale | Aug 11, 2013 | Leadership Development, Uncategorized
This inspiring 7-minute TED video, Every Kid Needs a Champion, is inspiring on many fronts but for those of us who work day in and day out with employees, there is a powerful message to be gained. Similar to teachers, we show up each day and work one-on-one and in...