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People Management - Having An Open/Closed Door Policy
It's important to be accessible to your people. Being available means that you have the opportunities to bond and be willing to create excellent relationships. And there's a time to stop as well...

Setting Strong Boundaries- A Key Ingredient in Goal Achievement
Experience the elation and fulfillment of achieving a goal you can be excited about by setting boundaries when you set your goals. Learn how to set boundaries to add the structure and commitment to maintain focus day after day thereby improving your end results.

Your Bill Of Rights

What do you think you are worth? Do you think you deserve to be treated fairly? Do you believe that other people deserve to be treated better than you do? Actually…………….We all possess the same basic rights! Many people seem to have forgotten or may have never been told that these basic rights exist. If you are working at achieving assertiveness in your life, your own personal Bill of Rights is a useful tool to refer to. It will help you validate your own needs, opinions, and boundaries with other people effectively. This will also help you stand up for yourself without violating the rights of other people. So…where do we start?

Good Boundaries Make Great Presentations

If limiting the scope doesn't work. If you frame the questions and someone still asks something unrelated, try saying, "That's a great question, but it's outside the scope of what I'm covering here, and I have so much to give you. Write it down so we can catch that a little bit later." Or, "That's outside the scope of what we cover in this class. We do, however, cover that in depth in our XYZ program. I'll tell you more about how to access that a little later today." 2. Dealing with "Blurters" If you decide that you aren't going to answer questions, you may have to set boundaries with "blurters." That may sound derogatory, but I can say that b

Top 5 reasons to mix personal with business
Although seemingly counterintuitive, mixing personal with business when addressing the topic of psychological boundaries, is just plain smart. Learn the top 5 ways in which healthy boundaries contribute to you and your business' wellness and prosperity.

Lesson #2: Know Where to Draw the Line
Spielberg is a hands-on director, known throughout Hollywood for liking things done right and done his way. Everything from the film’s budget to a specific camera angle had to have Spielberg’s seal of approval. But, he is also widely respected by his peers for knowing where the boundaries lie and when it isn’t appropriate to cross them.

Changing the World One Shampoo at a Time: How The Body Shop Became a Success

“If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just,” says Roddick – a phrase that could very well be her company motto. She has taken her $6,500 loan and turned it into a successful multi-million dollar corporation that continues to not only make popular cosmetic products but also push the boundaries of corporate social responsibility. She may no longer be the driving force behind the company, but her influence on the business world is undisputed. How did she do it?

Lesson #1: Playing it Safe is Not Playing at All

When Barnum was just 19 years old, he started the weekly newspaper, “The Herald of Freedom.” Based in Danbury, Connecticut, the paper was meant to be controversial from the onset. Barnum wanted to use the four-page “Herald” as a platform from which to argue against religious oppression and the militant Calvinism in which he was brought up. On every issue was even printed Thomas Jefferson’s famous saying, “For I have sworn upon the Altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”

Lesson #2: Do Not Try to Please Everyone All the Time
“Your vision is very important. You should know whom you’re selling to, what your marketing and advertising says about you, and whom it’s speaking to,” says Lauren. “Me personally, I don’t try to please everyone. I understand who I am selling to and I work towards that vision all the time.”

Lesson #3: Own Your Competitive Advantage
When Schwab first launched his discount stock brokerage company, he made it a habit to outsource his back office information technology to other companies. At the time, that was the standard practice throughout the industry. But by 1979, Schwab began to realize that if he was going to grow and gain competitive advantage, he was going to have to own that very technology.

Church ATMs
When it comes to money, churches are getting smart.

Kick-Start Your Priority Focus
At a conference earlier this year, I was handed a copy of Les Hewitt's "Power of Focus" workbook, an awesome little spiral bound book that contains dozens of exercises to help individuals FOCUS in on goals, and not just any goals, but the right ones. Hewitt is the co-author with Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen of The Power of Focus (more info at thepoweroffocus.ca).

Ten Ways to Manage a Rapidly Growing Business
While some new business owners face the issue of not enough customers, others face the issue of too many customers/clients. Both are serious issues and must be dealt with carefully. There are many lists on how to find new customers/clients. Here is a list of 10 ways to deal with a rapid influx of new customers. The goal is a steady flow of just the right customers/clients.

Three tips on how to manage your time & attention and increase productivity
Busy professionals can all relate to feeling like there is just not enough time in the day. The world is out for our attention and workplace reactive behaviour is on the rise. Multitasking, once considered an attribute, has now come to light as having some pretty serious consequences. Your attention is your most valuable asset, take some time to find out where it is being spent.

Boundaries Show Self Respect
Purpose is powerful. Do you know the reason you have deeply committed to your business? What drives you to share your gifts with others? Why you devote so much of your life to your business? Connect with the underlying passion. Discover the compelling reason you do what you do.

Swallowing your Anger
How do you react if someone over steps your boundaries or makes an inappropriate comment towards you? Do you feel anxious or awkward? Your body is a great compass and will usually highlight in some way, that you are being faced with inappropriate behaviour and that you may need to take some action towards the person who has made the snide remark, or an unsolicited criticism towards you.

How to Deal With a Bully
Article of 1292 words explaining the techniques to use when dealing with a bully and the importance of maintaining your composure to demand respect.

Anger Rising
Anger is a feeling that is or has been a challenge for most of us to accept and express in healthy ways. Collectively, we receive a multitude of messages about anger being ‘bad’ or ‘negative’ or ‘wrong’.

Why some people can make a six figure income easily, and you can't.
The secret of the the six figure income is a mystery to most of the population. But the ones who have achieved it know that there are two simple principles to achieve the six figure income.

The Manager's Art and Skill of Managing Exceptions
It's vital for any manager to create a disciplined approach to the way they manage their team. And, of course, show they can be flexible too, so there's the paradox...

Strategies In Implementing Personal Development plan
Following a personal development plan can be difficult when it is your first time. If you want to change your behaviour, learn new skills and change some of you personality traits, you can benefit from the tips and strategies that this article provides.

Get Your Life Back: Three Strategies for Taking Control
You can have a successful career or growing business and thrive outside of the office. Our three “take it back” strategies put you in the driver’s seat again, running your race your way.

Marketing Strategies: 7 Tips to Thrive in Today's Economy
Do you let depression about the economy get in your way? Learn how be successful no matter what the circumstances! This article gives you some great tips on how to thrive.

Just Say No!
Why is it so hard for some of us to say No?

Strengthen your business boundaries
If you want to have more energy and more confidence it pays to have strong boundaries. If you say yes to too many requests from other people you could find yourself feeling harassed and even resentful. Not a good combination for your confidence levels!

Top Five Responsibilities of Nonprofit Board Members
I have seen effective and ineffective boards of directors. Good boards of directors are clear about their roles and responsibilities versus those of the Executive Director, and they don't overstep their boundaries. This article highlights what I consider are the five most important responsibilities of board members.

Vocation, Destiniy and Work
In this article we will explore the concepts of vocation, destiny and work. We'll redefine them and talk about how confusion regarding these three very separate ideas can cause stress and confusion on our journey towards a happy fulfilling career.

The Priorities Game

Each one of us is a valuable resource and we all have gifts we are meant to use in service to others. There are demands on our time constantly. How do we pick and choose where we will use our time and energy? It’s tough! The Priorities Game can help. I use it with many of my clients. Just apply these few simple questions to any demand on your time before you make a decision. You will be more intentional about your choices. Follow through based on your answers and you’ll experience more focused energy and peace.

3 Important Marketing Strategies for a Successful MLM business
With the help of attraction marketing, MLM business has found a new success plan and most are still unaware of this. The old method of building your network by bringing in your family members and close friends are now a thing of the past.

Improve Your Email Marketing with these Non-Technical Changes
It's true that email marketing can get pretty technical. We've got HTML coding, and multi-part MIME messages, and cross browser compatibility, and designing for preview panes, and blacklists and blocklists and SPF records… It's enough to make non-techie marketers throw up their hands and give up on the thought of ever improving their email performance.

New School Year: Lessons from a Middle Schooler

Today is the first day of school in Michigan and I am the new mom to a Middle Schooler!. Time has flown so quickly. It seems like just yesterday that I was holding him in the rocking chair in his room. I remember looking at his little legs and thinking to myself, “some day his legs will hang over mine when he sits on my lap. I can’t even imagine it.” And now here we are, it’s been years since he’s spent any time on my lap. His legs would almost hit the ground, all in the blink of an eye. Where has the time gone? I watch with amazement as he heads off to Middle School with nothing more than anticipation. Hallways to maneuver, new school, way more kids, lockers and classes to find. His elementary school is nothing more than a fond memory and he is ready to move on. I am so proud of him today!

How to Write Short Articles Fast - The Right Way
Write short, yet powerful, high-value, informational articles that will entice readers to want more information from you...

Golf and Sales
People see the world as they need to, not as it is....

Your Home Based Business Is Not Your Life
Your dream of working from home has finally come through. Before reality sets in and you find yourself facing endless hours, set guidelines in place so everyone understands that your home based business is not your life. These boundaries are designed to create balance between a successful business and an active social life.

7 Ways to Respond To a Controlling Person
One way people respond to feeling out of control is by becoming controlling. Here are some helpful reminders when dealing with a controlling person

Don’t just build a team; build a world class team

The new generation entering the workforce is more attuned to teamwork, and more likely to prefer group projects over individual projects than any generation to come. Leaders all across the nation have noticed, and some aren’t sure if it’s a good thing or a bad thing. My answer? It depends. There’s nothing so powerful as an effective team, and nothing quite so destructive as a dysfunctional one.

It's a Done Deal - Why your mindset is so critical to your sucess
Your mind will guide you on a journey to create the reality that you envision for yourself. Be careful how you program it, because you'll get what you ask for.

Real Estate Marketing Strategies: 7 Steps to Make It Easier for You to Be Resilient
Have you ever had trouble keeping it professional and not taking things personally? This article gives you some great tips on how to maintain your resilience.

Create your own opportunities
Just one idea can positively transform your life, career, income and wealth. As I have written before, in uncertain times, we can let the negativity of current events and others consume us or we can continue to look for opportunity. Excessive worry, however, can often cause us to lose sight of our goals and can limit our creativity and problems solving capabilities just when we really need them.

The Magic of Authenticity
Loving who you are, expressing who you are, showing up naturally wherever you are - in other words, simply being yourself - feels good. This place comes from an inner confidence.

The Creative Executive
The ability to be creative is one of the most powerful tools a leader can have. How does one develop more creativity on a daily basis. Here are some tips.

Positioning Power

In the game of chess, the queen is the most powerful piece in the game. She can move any number of squares horizontally, vertically, or diagonally as long as her path is unobstructed. However, at the beginning of the game, the influence of the queen is restricted because of the configuration of the pieces. Although the same rules govern the play of the queen, because of where she is positioned at the beginning of the game she is unable to move and cannot attack. Her only role is to provide limited defensive to the surrounding pieces....

How To Deal with People Who Bring Us Down
It takes all kinds of people to make up the world we live in. In life, we have the opportunity to meet many people. Some of them we find are too difficult to deal with. These are the people we end up not liking and we try and avoid them as much as possible. Keeping well away from them might be the right thing to do. But sometimes there are situations where it is impossible to avoid them.

Five Steps Toward Eliminating Overwhelm
An article of 1415 words listing the steps to take in knowing yourself, being aware of your abilities, and creating an environment that nurtures your success which can help to alleviate or minimize overwhelm.

"Bottom-line" Culture vs. a Healthy One?

Since the mid-90's, research has shown that when people love their job and get great value out of the experience, productivity and profits are up, turn-over and burn-out are down. In fact, I recommend organizations consciously use fun as a cultural expectation, because it will increase employee and customer retention/relations, motivate individuals/teams, and ultimately improve overall productivity.

Uh-oh..Are The Vultures Circling Over You?
I can guarantee something. If you're worrying about money and sales right now in any way, shape or form then you start to smell funny. The average person can't smell you but customers can. They smell desperation! And some of them are going to try to take advantage of that.

Searching for Wholeness and Balance As An Entrepreneur
Balance and Wholeness are two sides of a coin for the living entrepreneurs.

Bridges and Boundaries
In every human relationship, there will be either a series of bridges or a series of boundaries. Bridges are the trust emotions that link us to others. Boundaries are the distrust emotions that create barriers of perceived protection around us. Both bridges and boundaries will be tested by those we relate to as soon as they are established.

Reach your Potential – Be yourself and push the boundaries

Do you have the courage to be yourself, or do you find that you are constantly trying to fit in with others’ expectations? There is a real danger in trying to present the ‘right front’ to a group or person. It’s extremely stressful and you risk losing your identity. If, however, you are true to yourself and willing to extend those self-imposed boundaries, you will be surprised at the rewards. This article explains the benefits of being your true self and suggests ways you can achieve it.

Smart Women Know What They Want
This article is about taking the time to decide what you really want to happen in your life. It seems like a simple question but if can be a challenge for women to answer truthfully. Women can have what they dream about but they must be willing to take the time to determine what it really is. Not what feels “safe” and not what others may feel is best for them but what they authentically want.

A Moment to Change

Trees grow up through their branches, down through their roots and grow wider with each passing year. As growth occurs, trees eventually shed their protective bark to make way for growth. Humans are the same way. Just as trees need bark as a protective shield while growth occurs, we as humans need boundaries to defend our vulnerabilities as our potential unfolds… but our ongoing growth depends on our ability to shed this “bark” of protection when it is no longer needed. In some cases, an inability to shed this bark will constrict our ability to realize our full potential.

But They Mean Well
You’re in the middle of a huge project at work, a family dinner, or some much deserved alone time, when the phone rings, a relative barges in, or a co-worker pops in. You’re annoyed, but reluctant to say anything because you like your open-door policy, you don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, or you don’t want anyone upset with you.

Warning: Are You Being Hit With The Outrageous Askers?
Right now, I'd bet that within the past 90 days you've been asked to do some pretty outrageous things. It really could be anything -as in these tough economic times people have to get creative. Some of the requests are an immediate NO (and I don't blame you) however some of them may be worth thinking twice about.

Planning for Breakthrough Results - Getting out of Your Comfort Zone
The author shares her insight and personal learnings on how to step out of your comfort zone for breakthrough results.

Human 2.0

How are all the shifts in our world shaping our global society? Are we evolving in the right direction? Do we spend as much time upgrading and redefining our humanity and examining whether our thinking is keeping us stuck or moving us forward? Is the way we connect the dots about politics, relationships, business, culture, religion, diversity, etc. still relevant? We hear a lot about Web 2.0 but what about Human 2.0?

Marketing to Wealthy Consumers - 3 Marketing Strategies That Work
Marketing your products and services to wealthy consumers doesn't have to be a mystery. Do you have a service that attracts these wealthy buyers? Does your product have the built-in quality factor that this demographic desires? Will your service make them look good?

What Great Questions Can You Ask?
Ingenuity and thinking are driven by questions. The better the questions you ask the more insight and ideas you get. Here are just a few of the over 150 questions I like to ask.

Make Sure Your Company is Not a Rehab Facility
Often when entrepreneurs have a strong desire to help others grow and change workplace conflict is like being in a battle zone. There are no b boundaries and anything goes. Here you need to take the RULE OF THREE to heart. If by the time you need to go over the same retread territory and there is no viable change, then next level action is required. Don't wait.

Yearn, Learn and Earn Through the Art of Pretending
Yearning is the catalyst to learning what you yearn to do, be and have and then earning an income from what you yearn. There are so many professionals in careers where they choose to learn based on the income potential rather than looking at a career more in alignment with what they really wanted to do. Unfortunately, this brings more suffering and stress in spite of the financial rewards.

Life Balance: Take Back Your Time Today

This article shares 5 solid strategies to help you take back your time. Do you feel over-scheduled, over-worked, and overwhelmed? Does your daily life feel like a car race? Do you feel like you hardly ever have family dinner or any face time with your family? You are not alone. Americans are putting longer hours on the job every year. In fact, we're working more than medieval peasants did, and more than the citizens of any other industrial country. On average, Americans work nearly nine full weeks (350 hours) LONGER per year than our peers in Western Europe do. Many of us (including 37% of women earning less than $40,000 per year) get NO paid vacation at all. Is it any wonder that so many people are SO stressed out?

WHAT AM I TOLERATING - Zapping your energy drains
Humans are great at tolerating! We put up with, accept, take on and are dragged down by people’s (other’s and our own!) behavior, situations, unmet needs, crossed boundaries, incompletions, frustrations and problems. You are likely tolerating more than you think.

The Power of Thought to Make it All Happen
Use the power of your thoughts to create and fulfill all your outrageous possibilities.

HAVE HIGH STANDARDS FOR YOURSELF
Standards are the behaviors you hold yourself to (as opposed to boundaries which are the behaviors you hold others to. Standards aren't what you think you "should" do or what you think other people want or expect you to do. Rather, standards are behaviors that you commit to because they will help you be your best.

Insights Journalling: How (and Why) to Write a Journal

Journalling is one of the most valuable tools for gaining insight into who you truly are at your core and growing confidence. Whatever major change you seek – whether it’s in your career, relationships, athletic performance or any other area that matters to you – you simply can not move forward with purpose and intention unless (and until) you begin to understand the inner workings of your own personality.

Getting Excited About Sales Metrics

I get a lot of push back from clients when it's time to implement the daily huddles. They don't think it's necessary. It will take too much time. It's too much of a burden. It's redundant. Yeah, right. It only takes about two weeks until even the most resistant clients figure out that they not only have more control over their future revenue than ever before, but their salespeople are more productive than ever before too.

Tips for Relighting After Burnout:
Eileen discusses our current stressful political and economic situations, provides a list of burnout symptoms and then offers help on how you can regain control. A must read for those who are overwhelmed.

Is Your Leadership Characteristics Limiting Your Business Success?

I have worked with stacks of businesses over the years. Often I am asked to name the most important indicator of whether or not a business will succeed or fail – my answer is always “Look at the CEO”. CEO’s and their personal leadership characteristics can make or break a business. A good CEO sets clear direction and boundaries, provides assistance and support to the team and then gets out of the way to let them accomplish what needs to be done. They help unblock roads if needed and provide guideposts along the way – but their management style is such that they do it in a way that creates independence of action rather than dependence.

Boundaries and standards: why you need both in your business and how to set them
Why is it that some teenagers are good academically and never get into trouble whereas others are the opposite? Similarly, why is it that some employees go the extra mile and are worth their weight in gold, whereas others turn up late and perform poorly? It’s no coincidence that work performance goes hand in hand with conduct and I’ll explain why.

Ten Tips for Selling in a Down Economy
Whether we are really in a bad economy or just think we are in a bad economy, companies are cutting their budgets. Often times, marketing budgets are the first to be cut, which can spell doom to people who sell advertising, media and sponsorships. No matter what you sell, the following ten tips can help you overcome the challenges of today's economy.

The Power of No!
No is a very powerful word! In fact, most of us don’t say it frequently enough, and/or with enough conviction.

Leadership Characteristics - Taking Responsibility

Let’s talk about individual responsibility. There are three types of people – those whom nothing is ever their fault and it is always the fault of someone else (their mother, the government, computers, management etc). Then there are those for whom everything is their responsibility. You can recognise these people by the harried looks on their faces and the need to please and ensure that everyone is happy. Then you have the middle group – those people who know their boundaries, own what is theirs and let the rest go.

Belief Goes a Long Way for a Writer
We choose our success; it doesn't choose us. And we all have different definitions of what success is. In order to b successful at anything, we need one vital ingredient: BELIEF.

Codes Of Conduct – How To Make Them Worth More Than The Paper They Are Written On

When businesses grow enough to hire employees, they often don't have a Code of Conduct in place – they hire someone on a “handshake” type arrangement, without having thought through fully all of the implications of the deal. This person is going to be representing you and your company to your clients, will be in your premises and gain access to all of your knowledge and resources. How can you make sure that what starts out with great promise will continue to grow in a positive way and not shrivel and die?

Are You Being Mean?
When you are mean to yourself, you disconnect from your power. Being kind to yourself is not just about pumping up your self confidence. It’s about having a no tolerance rule regarding harsh judgments, setting boundaries around your time and making decisions based on what will give you joy.

What Does it Really Mean "Work on Your Business?"

How often have you heard people say "Work on your business, not just in your business?" Do you know what this means, why it's important, and are you doing it? If you're like most people, there's a good chance you are working on your business. But perhaps you are like I was, having only a general, but vague, understanding about what it means. I've heard people talk about it so much lately that I decided to pull out my copy of The E Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber and review the chapter on this topic. I'm glad I did. Reading it 2 years later I see things a lot differently.

Money Is Your Servant
Money issues seem to be an ongoing challenge for many of us. We tend to try to control it, as if it were a beast. We put boundaries, rules, limitations, and goals in place to make us feel like we're being "good" and doing it "right."

Reframing - Objections
A frame provides a context or focus for your thoughts and actions. Changing the frame of an experience can have a major influence on how you perceive, interpret and react to that experience. Reframing is going on all around us

Building Your Client Relationships
Am I building relationships or just executing a transaction?

International Franchise Expansion

Once you start offering franchises, it may not be long before you begin receiving inquiries from individuals and firms interested in being part of your franchise program, or in opening franchised outlets, in other countries. While this may sound very interesting, the matter of international expansion should be undertaken carefully and deliberately. Most inquiries may be legitimate, but some could be looking to simply steal your ideas, brand, and concept, or take advantage of a new franchisor.

X-Teams and Team Building to Improve Organizational Performance

X-Teams is a concept that strongly supports the idea that a team needs to look OUTSIDE the team in order to optimize its performance for long term impact. In this article, some common links to issues of collaboration and improvement are linked to a specific team building exercise, The Search for The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine and ideas for connecting play in a game to behavior in the workplace are discussed.

Just Say No and See Your Business Grow
I guess it's just human nature to want others to like us and think well of us. We are brought up to conform, be polite and meet the expectations of the important or powerful people in our lives. We women are especially indoctrinated with these expectations and sometimes we feel we're letting people down if we say NO.

Clear Expectations Lead to Great Partnerships
Create great relationships by starting with clear expectations. In any partnership the expected outcome must be clear to everyone. Settling disputes arising from unclear expectations help attorneys thrive. Misunderstandings cause arguments, and blame abounds. This can be devasting to your business. So, get the expectations clear up front!

BEING IN INTEGRITY

"The Forming – Storming – Norming – Performing model of group development was first proposed by Bruce Tuckman in 1965, who maintained that these phases are all necessary and inevitable in order for the team to grow, to face up to challenges, to tackle problems, to find solutions, to plan work, and to deliver results. This model has become the basis for subsequent models of group development and team dynamics and a management theory frequently used to describe the behavior of existing teams". ..... Wikipedia

The Energy of Tolerations!

The benefits we gain from removing tolerations in our life are enormous. We will stop wasting time, trying to manage situations that shouldn't be there in the first place. We find that we have more energy to devote to our quality of life. There is a greater opportunity for growth because we are not distracted or weighed down with tolerations. Our community will be upgraded and we will have more energy to spend with fulfilling people. We will also model for our family and friends what is possible for them.

Too Busy
Is there some aspect of your life or your practice that’s busy because busy looks good? Would you prefer something different? Or do you feel trapped, unhappy with the schedule you have but unable to see any way to change it? Though it may not be easy to see, choice is always present. Spend some time in possibility and ask, if you could make one change in your time, what would it be?

How to Deal with Difficult clients
Dealing with difficult clients is a lot like dealing with an in-law you don’t like. They drive you crazy, but you know you have to be nice to them. When they do call, it’s always at the most inconvenient times. You then feel you can’t get off of the phone fast enough because they usually go on forever. They also both seem to take great pleasure in making your life hard.

Celebrating 10 Years in Business Lessons Learned
As a coach and professional communications consultant, I've experienced a lot in my first 10 years in business. This article shares some of the top lessons learned. From balance, to personal marketing and hard work...some tips to help folks just starting out get on the right track.

Why I Love Negative Feedback

We've all heard about feedback and why we need it. We've also heard that positive feedback is much better than negative feedback. In other words, if you want to achieve your goals and get others to work with you in achieving them, you must be positive. Unfortunately, this kind of new age mush obscures the real reasons for feedback. Even more important is the fact that negative feedback is infinitely better than positive feedback.

TRUTH TALKING – HOW TO SPEAK YOUR TRUTH
Do you struggle to say what you mean? Do people get upset and angry when you've said something - that you thought was the right thing to say? Truth Talking is a powerful tool that teaches you how to communicate with grace and ease so your message is heard.

BOUNDARIES – THE GRACEFUL ART OF SAYING 'NO'

When I first came across the concept of boundaries, it dramatically changed the way I related to people and how I stood up for myself. Dealing with boundaries comes up in coaching all the time. I think this is because whilst everyone has their own boundaries, they are usually invisible to the person themselves. Learning about them is like opening your eyes to a universal truth: and it hits home powerfully. Let me tell you more so you can make your boundaries stronger which will help you grow in your personal development.

Anger Solutions™ at Work: Dealing with Difficult People

Let’s face it – if you’re not somebody’s difficult person today, you will be tomorrow. We all take turns being difficult for other people, just as they can be difficult for us. The difficulty comes from differences in personality, communication styles, personal preferences, and our expectations of how things “should” be. In this column, I offer some practical and simple techniques to de-escalate and win over the difficult people in your life.

You Are Either Influencing or Being Influenced
In business (and really in life in general), you are either influencing others or being influenced by others.

Making Time for Team Building Relationships
Whatever else you are doing - STOP! - whenever you engage with someone in conversation. Ignore pagers. Put off interruptions. At the very least make sure that you 'honour' the space that you have when you are in any sort of one-to-one with someone else...

Work-Life Balance: Creating Boundaries At Work For Others To Follow
In my related article, Work-Life Balance —Creating Boundaries For You To Follow, I talked about the priorities you have in your career and your personal life and the boundaries that you will follow. Now I’ll discuss the boundaries you can put in place for your fellow workers to follow.

Bullying and Boundaries
If you are the victim of bullying the chances are that you think the opening quote is harsh and unfair and not applicable to you. But I’d like you to think about it a little more…and realize how liberating it is in reality. It means that you can CHOOSE how to react to the actions of a bully.

Developing an Eye for Beauty
This article is about developing strategies for handling issues of respect and treatment of others.

No Trespassing
It’s sometimes funny how everyday experiences can spark off thoughts about deeper things. I recently had an experience with neighbours about an unclear boundary between our adjoining properties that was causing confusion with access, maintenance responsibilities etc. There was no clear dividing line!

Business Management: How Clear Is Your Vision?

Vision, mission and values are supposed to be the beacon by which organizations set their strategic direction but how often do they align with everyday priority setting? Does your team share the same definitions for your organization’s vision? If you operate at a departmental level, does your departmental team share your department’s vision? If the answer is, no, then it’s not going to be easy to achieve the results you expect. Here are some helpful suggestions.

Entrepreneurs Burnout – Bin It
No need to live a reduced lifestyle because you dipped into stress and burnout. With a work life balance attitude you'll gain more and in return give more. Life is a wonderful gift and particularly great when you can share your talents and gifts with others. Entrepreneurs have the spirit of community, go and Live Life by Design.

Is Your Open Door Policy Killing You?
What is your Open Door policy? Does it provide time to think, strategize, design and plan? Thinking requires uninterrupted time. Boundaries must be set to create space for uninterrupted strategy time, while leaving room for Open Door conversations.

Refine Your Work Life Balance by Setting Healthy Boundaries
Do you think of boundaries as ways to keep something or someone out in hope to maintain your work life balance and protect your time, energy, and resources? What do healthy boundaries look like, and how can you know where and how to set them? Let's take a big breath and take another look at this business of setting boundaries.

Personal Boundaries: The Key to Creating Work and Life Your Way
When you think of the word boundary, what images does it conjure up; A fence around a pasture, a concrete barrier between two lanes of highway, how about the Berlin Wall? These are all physical boundaries. What about boundaries in your work and life?

Creating Boundaries or Barriers – Where do You Hang Out?
What I’ve seen as a professional coach is that much of our personal power (‘claiming our life as our own’) relies on setting clear boundaries – listening to our own values, asking for help, and knowing what we want and don’t want. There’s an art to setting boundaries that do not become barriers to love and closeness.

Strong Business Boundaries Set You Up for Success
Are you a coach or a care-taker? Do you find yourself making concessions for your clients that leave you frustrated and frazzled? Then it is time to set strong boundaries. You can do this with the Five Sacred Coaching Boundaries.

EXTEND YOUR BOUNDARIES
Strong boundaries are an essential element in creating your perfect work-life balance because they help you make peace and space for what you really want in your life. Boundaries are the personal rules you have for what other people may and may not do to or around you.

How to Confidently Express Your Boundaries and GET What You Want
Do you have trouble speaking up or expressing yourself? Do you let other people impose their beliefs on you? If you're feeling uncertain about yourself, you could be suffering from boundary issues. Strong boundaries are essential for business and life success. Find out how to strengthen your boundaries.

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