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Want better results? Ask better questions

In a world where we are constantly searching for answers, I was reminded last week at a conference I attended that often times the answer is to question.

Stay “New” Forever Renee Dadswell

Do you remember when you first started your job? Or perhaps your new career? If you are anything like me you were excited. You were fired up. You were

Open for Learning

If you are not where you want to be in life, professionally, then you may have to accept the fact that we still have some things to learn.

The pro’s do it, why don’t you?

One of the things that we often forget is the fact that in business we still need to train.  Stephen Covey called it "Sharpening the Saw", Zig Ziglar was

From the mouths of babes

I had a really interesting conversation with my 11 year old daughter and thought it worthy of a share. It was Monday evening and we were on our way to

Emotion: The key to inspiring action

If you want to inspire action, you’ve got to evoke emotion.  This is an important thing to consider when we look to inspire others to action.

Words to Live By: “Responsive”

Quite some time ago I wrote an article entitled "Words to Live By" where I talked about looking at the words with which you think people use to describe you

Happy New Day!!

It is New Years day and as I sit back and reflect on the past year and watch others do the same, I can’t help but think that there has got to be a better way

Brain Food: What do you eat?

2013 was a year in which I really focused on my physical fitness and it certainly paid dividends.  I am in better physical shape then I have ever been in

Goal Setting to Goal Achieving: The ‘not so secret’ ingredients

Inevitably, this time of year, we start reflecting on what we accomplished last year and look forward to what we might like to accomplish in the next.

All I want for Christmas…

Well, it’s that time of year again.  The requests from the family to get your Christmas lists in has begun.  This year all I want for Christmas is:

Words to live by

For our conference in Las Vegas this month I prepared a workshop on effective communication.  Unfortunately (or fortunately) we ended up with far too