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Coachability: Looking at Coaches and Coachees

If you object to sports analogies being used in a business context, please forgive this blatant attempt to draw yet another parallel. Athletes at the peak of their game and at the pinnacle of their career have one thing in common: they all have a coach. Part of the maturation process of a child moving into adulthood involves learning when to give up a piece of ego in order to learn how to improve their… Read More »Coachability: Looking at Coaches and Coachees

Leading With Your Lizard Brain

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I have always been fascinated by the human brain. There is so much pop psychology floated around by amateurs that we rarely get an honest glimpse into how it works. We hear so much about how our brains are wired, but that is gross oversimplification. If the truth were known, even the experts have difficulty exploring and understanding this organ. Functionally, parts of our brain have remained prehistoric. An excellent article by Christine Comaford in… Read More »Leading With Your Lizard Brain

Labor Day is a Holiday That Means Nothing … or Everything

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I never knew my grandfather. I wish I could have learned about courage from him as he died while trying to save another man’s life. As a proxy my father was not too shabby in passing on that message. As a boy suddenly thrust into the unimaginable situation where he and three siblings were left to be raised by a widowed mother, they clung together as a family and worked ceaselessly to endure the hard… Read More »Labor Day is a Holiday That Means Nothing … or Everything

Beyond Recruiter Excellence – Part 1: Professional Add-ons

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The definition of good recruiting is to be able to successfully fill requisitions or job orders in a cost effective and timely manner. This measure of excellence is really not based on the years of experience of the recruiter, although that sometimes helps, but rather some intelligence-based gene that makes it effortless. The recruiters who wake up in the morning and are in top notch recruiting mode before that first cup of coffee will hit… Read More »Beyond Recruiter Excellence – Part 1: Professional Add-ons

Managing Time As A Precious Resource

The new definition of irony is someone who has taught a time management course but has trouble maintaining their own calendar. Look that up in your dictionary and you will see a picture of me! I was guilty of no original thinking in conducting this training as it was a canned course my company purchased with the rights to reproduce the workbooks, slides and videos. It was actually a pretty good revelation of time wasters… Read More »Managing Time As A Precious Resource