January 20, 2012 by Bill Bradley
As the week winds down, we wind down with some tidbits for your information, education, health, and enjoyment. Quote of the Week: “Sunday morning my head is bad, but it’s worth it for the time that I had. But I got to get my rest … ‘Cause Monday’s a mess,” Fats Domino Humor Break: Bev: [...]
January 15, 2012 by Ken Nowack
“I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It’s like having a mental workshop” Jack Youngblood As a kid, I played baseball and probably made over 1,000 double plays successfully–at least in my mind. I used to visualize every moment of receiving the ball from the shortstop to avoiding the slide [...]
January 13, 2012 by Bill Bradley
As the week winds down, we wind down with some tidbits for your information, education, health, and enjoyment. Quote of the Week: “Face it, you’re screwed. Today is Friday the 13th — the unluckiest day on the calendar — so try not to crash your car, fall down a flight of stairs, set yourself on [...]
January 11, 2012 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Make Time for Time Competency: time management Who benefits: all of us Consultant Usage: good check-up for clients of executive coaches, good review for time management and productivity trainers, probably also good for career counselors What’s it about? Well here we are in the second week of the new [...]
January 6, 2012 by Bill Bradley
As the week winds down, we wind down with some tidbits for your information, education, health, and enjoyment. Quotes of the Week: Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they’re looking for ideas. Paula Poundstone If you don’t like your job you don’t strike. You just [...]
January 4, 2012 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Getting Your Act Together Competency: self-management, self-development, achievement orientation, stress management, resiliency Who benefits: all employees Consultant Usage: first heal yourself, then help others, EAP counselors What’s it about? Ah, the new year is upon us. Today being the fourth day of said new year, it is time to review [...]
January 1, 2012 by Ken Nowack
“People don’t resist change, they resist being changed.” Peter Scholtes Did you make a New Year’s resolution? Nearly four out of 10 adults will make one or more resolutions for the new year, according to a study done by the University of Scranton1. After the first week of carrying out the goal, about 75 percent of [...]
December 30, 2011 by Bill Bradley
As the week winds down, we wind down with some tidbits for your information, education, health, and enjoyment. Quote of the Week: An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves. Bill Vaughan Humor Break: Bev was taking an afternoon nap on New Year’s [...]
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December 25, 2011 by Ken Nowack
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. Aaron Levenstein Another edition of leadership and talent management “facts” from all over the world. Some intuitive and some not….what do you think? 1. According to a late 2010 survey by CareerBuilder.com (2,482 U.S. managers and 3,910 full-time employees in [...]
December 23, 2011 by Bill Bradley
As the week winds down, we wind down with some tidbits for your information, education, health, and enjoyment. Quote of the Week: “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” –George Lorimer Humor Break: From our favorite married couple: Bev: “What are you going to [...]
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December 21, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Building good relationships with yourself and others Competencies: self-development, managing self, oral and written communications, listening Who benefits: everyone Consultant Usage: communication trainers and consultants looking for interesting background material What’s it about? As the year stumbles to a close, many of us look back and reflect on what [...]
December 18, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“You can observe a lot by watching.” Yogi Berra What factors are most important to an individual’s career success and how do they contribute to it? A recent study tried to answer this question in an unusual way — by analyzing the speeches of baseball stars when they are inducted into the National Baseball Hall [...]
December 11, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“Too bad you can’t buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin real fast and freak everybody out.” Jack Handy Sometimes we just have to blow off steam to deal with work and life challenges. Surprisingly, only about 30 percent of individuals experiencing severe life trauma and pain experience post traumatic [...]
November 30, 2011 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Management? It’s Not What You Think! Competency: leadership, visionary leadership Who benefits: anyone in management or aspiring to management Consultant Usage: organizational consultants, executive coaches What’s it about? Are you up for a most unconventional book about management? Professor and Organizational Development Swami Henry Mitzeberg and colleagues have put [...]
November 27, 2011 by Ken Nowack
“Gratitude is fertilizer for well-being.” Kenneth Nowack If you want to change the world, have a lasting impact on your community, create a meaningful and psychological healthy workplace, develop a safe community, loving family or meaningful partnership–it all starts with you. Several recent research studies have focused on the power of gratitude giving as a [...]