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You may feel compelled to shy away from who you are as a spiritual being when you are at work. Of course for some of you that might be the equivalent of deciding not to breath. You may not divide yourself into 220;spiritual221; at home and 220;not spiritual at work221;. Others of you may be …

Sorry this is a day late, life happens 211; Well I promised to give some useful tools to put in your training toolbox 211; I had a comment on a past post and the writer suggested that 220;companies are choosing to use additional methods such as corporate videos for training and development opportunities (benefits enrollments …

Thought Leaders in Marketing and Advertising: What are the cornerstone philosophies of the industry’s top executives? At the top of the list is David Ogilvy, the most famous copywriter in the world.

The consumer complaint site, RipOff Report, has been the bane of many companies217; existence and a challenge for crisis managers everywhere. ED Magedson (yes, he capitalizes his first name), Founder of the site, agreed to a lengthy exclusive interview for my ezine, Crisis Manager, that I plan to publish on Thursday, April 29, along with …

Who Owns the Customer Experience in your Organization? Answer: Everyone Should. Who drives the Customer Experience strategy? Answer: The Leader who is responsible for providing customer service. The executive team should be 100% supportive and enabling of the necessary collaboration to establish an effective Customer Experience strategy that is the best in Delivering Service Value. …

(The following post applies as much to for-profit Boards as nonprofit Boards 212; many for-profit Boards, especially in family-owned corporations, operate as working Boards.) A 220;working Board221; is a personality of a governing Board. There is no clear delineation as to what217;s a definitely a working Board or not. However, it217;s commonly viewed as a …

There are awards for everything and you don’t have too look far to find them. Why just this week there were four award-related pieces of business on Media Savant’s radar. The first was a Media Alert drafted for the news about Token Media (http://www.token.com/shortfilms) and its film-making crew (that extends into the greater Twin Cities …

I conducted a workshop two weeks ago in which a participant mentioned that some of the other participants in the room were not from 220;mature organizations.221; He went on to explain that their organizations were still somewhat small. I countered that it217;s often an illusion to assess the maturity of an organization based on it …

I came to the overlapping fields of Leadership Development and Coaching through the stage door. I studied Theatre in college, have a graduate degree in Acting and started my adult life performing in Chicago’s Off-Loop theaters. Like my father in the newspaper business, I’ve grown up right alongside both the coaching profession and the field …