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The Key Strategy of Effective Communication

Have you ever walked into a meeting when tensions were high. Each side ready to lambast the other–Members of each side, unwilling to look on another in the eye. Emotions are running high until the words without reason begin to spew out. Blame is cast on the other with corresponding rebuttals echoing the same. Volcanoes of emotion erupting one after the next. Where is the voice of reason?

Interpersonal Communication

How to Know Your Purpose

Ask anyone this question: ” What is your purpose?” I bet you get something something along the lines of ‘I want to help people’. Other’s might say they want to ‘lift their family out of poverty’. Others will say ‘I am not sure’. These are a common responses. Many people do not stop to ask…

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Goal Setting

Performance Victimization

Ever experience counter-productive work behavior that makes you feel as though you are going against the grain? You may feel stuck and this might be why…

Interpersonal Communication

Re-organizing and Empowering Staff for Optimal Results

I have found my self asking myself how can I utilize our resources wisely in my organization. There are a lot of moving points when managing people. Managers are to constantly recruit to replenish supplies, ensure high quality service and manage attrition that occurs within their organizations. Within my own, I have been looking into ways to retain key players and create a pipeline of leadership within.

Team Building

Basic Etiquette for High Achievers in Today’s World

High achievers have a tendency to become absorbed in our own creations and achievements. Even if you are a task minded person, etiquette is still relevant today. Here are a few highlights

Business Etiquette

Letting Go: A Key for Leadership Growth

Earlier this month I made a though decision to resign from a number of organizations of which I was apart. As I wrote in my email to my colleagues, “There is change…positive change… happening, I am trying to make sense of it all and manage it appropriately…before I ruin it. Insert nervous laugh. With all…

Notification Fatigue

I secretly long for simpler times. It seems as though every time I turn around there is a new app, social media site begging for your attention. They are always proclaiming it as the newest best thing. I was in a meeting just the other day, and the question that was posed to the group…

Speed of Implementation: Why you gotta have it to win?

Speed of Implementation- (n) Taking massive action on your goals really fast. Enough said. I am one of those unicorns that get a lot of things done than most people do in a relatively short period of time. One of the thing that has help me realize so many of my goals is my ability…

Career Success

Sunday Routines: Three Ways to Supercharge Your Week

Each Friday we anxiously anticipate the clock to strike 5pm, so we can run out of the building into freedom. Two whole days of it… By the time Sunday is almost spent, we begin side eyeing to the clock’s relentlessly moving second hand. Time flies so fast over the weekend! Before you know it, you…

Developing People

Leading people is a skill. At some point in life, you will find yourself in a leadership role. However, as farfetched as it might sound, even followers are leaders. What connects the two is one important skill: the ability to develop others. Leadership is not simply speaking loquaciously, managing multiple projects like a boss, cutting…

Is Fear Holding You Back from Entrepreneurship?

Have you ever just sat and thought about all of the businesses you could start? One idea comes after another–all of them legitimate. Wishing you could implement them all, you come back to reality realizing you are only human and can not possibly tackle all of these projects. So, you end up playing around with…

Entrepreneur's Corner

Harnessing the Seventh Sense to Drive Success and Achieve Your Dreams

Success. We all want it. Some audition for it. Other’s do whatever it takes to make it happen. But what is this success that people are after. We know that success is subjective. One person may think that success is killing it as an entrepreneur at 25, purchasing a multi million dollar mansion and a…

Career Success

Creating A World-Class Entrepreneurial Side Gig

In business school, I was introduced to one case study after the next. By the end of the two years, the words “case study” made me nauseous. While at the time, it just seemed like busy work, I now, see the value in them. Years later in my work and as I began to build…

Entrepreneur's Corner

Hey, Gig Economist! Here Are Five Websites to Make $100 Per Day.

Are you looking to supplement your 9-5 income? Are you looking to build up a side gig so you can escape it? Hundreds of people are starting side businesses everyday! Approximately 34% of the workforce is made up by the gig economy. This is expected to increase to 43% by 2020. That is right around…

Entrepreneur's Corner

10x Your Credit Game and Travel the World in First Class

If you want to increase your access to capital as an entrepreneur or side gigger, the first think you will need to focus on is financial literacy. If you are just getting started with building your credit or improving your score, it is much like building muscles. It takes time, effort and consistency to increase…

Entrepreneur's Corner