When you have a specific project to complete – do you dive right in and figure out what is needed and start the process – or do you check the deadline first and that drives your answer of when to start? Or, in your own business, you know you need to make some personnel changes, hiring some new people and letting some others go. Do you take action as soon as these decisions are clear or do you wait hoping something will change? These are for example purposes, however, the question about … [Read more...]
Are You Trusted?
“Trust is built with consistency.” ~ Lincoln Chafee The International Rules Of The Road for all waterborne craft at sea are followed all over the world. When you’re on a ship out at sea at night and you see the red running lights of a ship on your starboard side which is crossing your path – that ship will hold its course and speed – because they trust that your ship will adjust its course or speed to allow their ship to safely cross in front of you. Similarly, your ship would trust that … [Read more...]
What Are The Tools of Your Trade?
Yesterday I was able to be in the room while true professionals at their craft went to work. In New York City, at an exclusive studio in midtown Manhattan, Lesley Bohm, photographer, Cristina McLamb, make-up artist and Dr. Patty Ann, relationship, communication and emotional intelligence coach, worked together to choreograph the look and the style to express the authentic personality of a person. As you might expect in NYC, you ride up in a good sized freight elevator. Clearly, that’s the … [Read more...]
Everyone Needs A Breath Of Fresh Air
"Breath of Fresh Air" One of my fellow consultants in the speaking, coaching and training world, and quite successful at it I’ll add, was speaking with me about one of his business clients. Meaning not a one-on-one individual client – rather a company which pays him a monthly retainer to work with them and their business. The CEO of this company said, “You prevent us from breathing our own exhaust. You bring us…It’s Like A Breath Of Fresh Air.” Do you hear this – what the CEO was … [Read more...]
Is Your Career and Business Always Safe and Secure?
You and your career and business are safe and secure right? Are you sitting still in chair? Peace, stillness and quiet for a moment or two. The chair probably has four legs and when you first sat down in the chair, or in any chair for that matter, you know there will be sturdy legs to support you. Have you ever bent over and checked that the legs were there first? Checked to make sure the chair is sturdy? You know to make certain the chair was going to work. It remains in one place. The … [Read more...]
Do You Inspect What You Expect?
If you have ever been part of an early stage start up with a founder or two with a great idea or two – just ask them – revolutionary, a real disrupter. “Don’t worry, the numbers will take care of themselves!” “What we really need now is …..” Inspect what you Expect. The details matter! The voyage heading south along the West Coast of South America, on our ship, had been day after day of smooth seas and sun filled days. As we came closer to going around Cape Horn the seas picked up … [Read more...]
