Are you listening?

I should also ask are you aware?  Last blog I talked about Peter Shankman’s book Zombie Loyalists and he talked about listening to your employees and your clients. www.shankman.com By the way, listening to your employees helps keep them engaged if you empower them and...

Are you asking the right questions?

With the elections looming ever so close we are bombarded with sound bytes and fact checkers.  We all sit around and debate the merits of the candidates and those confusing measures.   Are we taking the time to ask the right questions about all of it?  Who is backing...

Are they Rude or Ignorant?

I know I recently wrote about common courtesy but I have to bring it up again.  Maybe it’s the way I was raised both personally and in business and maybe it’s my values: but I just don’t get some behaviors. A colleague of mine saw a request for assistance in a very...

Another 4 letter word…

Risk!   Send shock waves to new business owners or worse yet companies that are ready to grow to the next level and discuss taking a risk. Let’s add a new staff member. Let’s raise prices.  Let’s open a new store. Immediately the “what if” questions swirl!  What if we...

Anger and Change

A recent experience reminded me of the behavior we often see in others when change occurs.   When I first learned of the change that was necessary I told myself no biggie it is what it is deal with it and move on. However, as time passed and I saw inconvenience and...

Am I speaking a new language?

Does this sound familiar? You told an employee, associate, significant other what you wanted and how you wanted it done and they did it some other way.  When you asked about it they either get defensive or say that’s what you said. Next you have an argument or worse...