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Exit Plan or Shot In The Dark?
Have a great job that you love? Have a lousy job that you hate? Before you have no job at all, you need to know where you want to go and plan for it: not later, NOW.

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Can Newbies Avoid the Pitfalls
Newcomers can avoid those pitfalls by grasping early-on The Rosetts Stone of public relations, i.e., a guide to understanding the discipline and its core strength.

Connecting Business - The Growth of Networking
More and more people are leaving corporate life to set up in business on their own. With the growing number of small businesses setting up, networking is becoming more and more vital. Are you grasping the opportunity with both hands?
Are You Using Your Greatest Potential?
Your greatest potential is tied to your greatest talents and desires. Grasping this one concept could be the key to opening a huge door of unlimited possibilities and opportunities for you.

Right Tool for the Right Job Six Different Ways to Get Your Business Known
If you’re like most people, you started out in your business with an idea of creating something, a dream of making lots of moola with it, and a desire to help people with it. You then toil to make this idea a reality by developing it, testing it, making it, and then… it sits. It’s only then do you realize that… your work hasn’t even begun yet. You have to get the word out about your business. Without knowing how, you start grabbing at tactics like straws in great hope of causing a clamor of customers lining up at your door. Taking action is great. BUT do you know what job really needs to be accomplished and the right tool to achieve it?

Bah! Humbug! Here Come the Holidays!
The pressures of celebrating the 'perfect' holidays very often are the straws that break the back of many relationships. Especially at midlife, it's critically important to keep things in perspective.
The Four Faces Of Leadership
Leadership, that is consistently making the numbers, consists of four competencies represented by the acronym VIMP. These competencies are vision, interaction, motivation,and politics. Other aspects of leadership involve grasping the "rhythm and beat" of an organization, learning how to manage by walking or flying around, keeping employees "brains in the game," maintaining consensus in organizational change situations, and always being ready to share financial success.
Scaling Efficiencies and Reducing Redundancy by Connecting People with Products
People often have a hard time grasping the idea that marketing and training are more similar than they are different since historically the two have always operated in silos strictly independent of one another. One department always handles the “people” while another takes care of the “products.” On one level, that’s fine since each involves its own specialization. But at the same time getting the full potential out of employees and products should not entail too divergent an approach.

Infinite Possibilities
Opportuities are in front of us and we are held back from grasping them because we don't see them. When we close our eyes to infinite possibilities others take advantage of them and leave us to wonder why success eludes us. Be aware, look around, dream the impossible and then make it happen.
What is Leadership
What is leadership - Before we start with understanding how closely inter-related leadership and development, it is essential that we answer is leadership. The easy definition of web or a lead, but really understanding and grasping the leadership qualities to look for a dictionary is something that is a slow process, but rewarding. In layman's terms, lead lead to humility, courage and leadership to help others can be summed up as.
The Typical Ways We Often Make Decisions
Decisions, Decisions - Making Them On Purpose Decisions, decisions...choices, choices. Everywhere you turn these days there's another one waiting to be made. But how? In a world of so many options and possibilities, what do we use to help us make the "right" decisions and choices? Do we draw straws? Flip a coin? Throw a dart at a list of choices to be made? Sure, why not? Won't those methods work? Well, actually, yes, any of these 'random ways' of choosing can work IF we add in a couple of other things. Recently in a phone coaching session with two of my clients, we made a list of some of the typical ways people make decisions including...
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