Personal Growth – Page 4

Work-Life Balance versus Work-Life Flow

April 20, 2012

I was listening to a interview about Work-Life balance on CBC Radio this week. The conversation spawned from Sheryl Sandberg's (COO of FaceBook) comments that she believes there is no such thing as work-life balance. In a recent interview, Sandberg shared that she leaves the office at 5:30 every day to be at home for dinner ...

Self Awareness

April 7, 2012

In my coaching business, I often have discussions regarding the personal leadership skills and styles of the executives with whom I work. There is a plethora of low cost tools and services available such as Myers-Briggs, Kolbe, DISC, and 360o Benchmarks to help executives or a management team understand their leadership style; both strengths and ...

Using labeling to productize; Then merchandise your services.

April 1, 2012

A few months ago,I wrote about a client who I helped to create a sales methodology to speed up their sales cycle by developing and selling front end services that substitute consulting revenue for free pilots. Their product was too complex for a simple download and free trial so they were being forced to offer ...

Labeling a service business

March 10, 2012

My last blog was a cautionary tale warning senior people not to become their own worst enemy when looking for their next job. Many describe themselves by the emphasizing the breadth of their experience and their flexible qualifications across many roles, company types and industries in order not to miss out on an opportunity. My ...

Labels

March 6, 2012

Why do so many companies make it so hard for their customers to buy? They try to be all things to all people and end up confusing the hell out of everyone as to what they are, what they do, why they are good at it and what is their value. Sound familiar? I have ...

The Case of Beer Time Management Rule

November 22, 2011

I was leaving a client's at 6:30 one evening and stopped to chat with one of the folks still at work. She was completing a monthly reporting task that is analytic in nature but somewhat subjective in how you chose to report the data. It is one of those administrative tasks that needs to be ...

Leading in tough times, Managing tough messages

November 9, 2011

Your company is in the crapper. Its stock value has dropped by over half. You have just gone though the company's first ever lay-off. Good employees are resigning because they have lost faith. There is a daily onslaught of stories in the media predicting your company's demise. Employee morale is terrible. Critics say that your products have lost relevance. As a team leader or manager, your job is to maintain positive morale, keep productivity high, and retain and recruit talent. Your task seems impossible.

What happens when “It Happened Again” happens to you

April 17, 2011

In my last blog, I talked about a Business Analyst who had accepted a job and then resigned before starting to accept another job. I received a lot of feedback regarding that post, including a question on what to do if caught in a similar situation. Would I recommend that the person take the job ...

More on Networking

January 30, 2011

I took a break from writing during December and January. It was a combination of being busy with too many other activities and a bit of writer's block. I decided that with ten hours on a plane last week, it is time to get back at it. For those of you that use LinkedIn, you ...

Business Ethics and the Bottomline

November 24, 2010

Steve Tennant posted an interesting tweet yesterday, "SAP must pay $1.3B in TomorrowNow damages. Add $160M legal costs, that's a -14,700% ROI on your $10M acquisition.http://bit.ly/fjtF6p" His tweet got me thinking. For those of you who don't know the TomorrowNow story, they were founded by ex- PeopleSoft employees who left the organization to start a ...

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