The # 1 timewaster for many businesses is meetings. Not too many people walk around with signs saying they want more meetings. Meetings can be pretty expensive. During your next meeting, add up the hourly cost of every person in that room. Then imagine if you owned your own business and are writing a check for that meeting. If the money came out of your pocket, would you even have the meeting at all? Recently, I held a best practice on meeting management with a professional a

Remember as a youngster, sitting at the dinner table, being asked, “What did you learn today?” That question was often asked by a parent...

Sadly, Colin Powell, a former Joint Chiefs of Staff, secretary of state, and national security adviser, passed away earlier in October....

Recently, I completed an emergency coaching session with a leader from Montana. They needed help in how to hold a team member...

Leaders, life is full of choices. You make choices to do things and you make choices not to do things. In addition to keynote speaking and training, I often coach leaders who need improvement in specific areas or just need their tires inflated. Last week, I asked a leader to pay a compliment to a team member and then be ready to discuss; what the team member did to be worthy of recognition, any reactions or responses they received, and if they would have done anything differe

At social parties, people often ask me what I do for a living? I typically respond, “I teach people to be nice. I teach people to use...

Last year, I was invited to be an on-air guest for a local radio show in Los Angeles, CA. The program host wanted to take 5 minutes and...

A question I like to pose to leaders when teaching empowerment during webinars or in-person training is, “Would you ever impose your...