In a conversation with a fellow business owner who leads a recruiting agency, she mentioned that many of her clients are running around in many directions and that if they took time out to focus on their business rather in their business, they would often see the solutions to their most pressing problems.
It reminded me of one of my quotes, "When you stop to take a break, watch as you attract new things into your life. The new thing was just waiting for you to stop long enough to
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When Creating Systems, Training is Not a One and Done
If you want to take your company or a project to the next level, but it feels like the only way to expand is by working more and longer hours, you might need a system. Mentioning the word systems might evoke an instant reaction.
When I spoke to a group of CEO’s who own their own companies, I asked them what comes to mind when I say the word systems. I received a range of looks, reactions, and thoughts. Some of the CEO’s looked like they just ate a lemon and some responded with:
-Systems
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The Psychology in Creating a Highly-Productive Work Environment
There’s a meme going around social media that has a crayon looking at the pencil and says to itself, “I’m not sharp enough.” The pencil looks at the crayon and says to itself, “I’m not colorful enough.”
I often wonder what the world would look like if, instead of comparing, we focused on our own super powers. This meme reminded me of a training session on human wiring that I led many years ago for one of my corporate clients.
There was a women who worked in Accounting who was drained at
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Human Wiring Lesson: What’s Underneath Feeling Burned Out?
It’s not a secret that the pandemic played into a global feeling of burn out. Collectively, our brains had to make a lot of brand new decisions for the last two years.
The pandemic has left many people in a state of stagnation. One of my clients who is naturally wired as an External Thinker wondered why she felt de-energized. She described how, for the last 24 months and with few exceptions, she worked from home…alone. Her only connection was online.
As an External or Verbal Thinker as her
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Transform Your Client Interactions With These Human Wiring Insights
Many of the core issues that face business professionals today have to do with people. In particular, how do you effectively communicate with your clients or customers and give them what they innately need?
Human Wiring tells us how people are best engaged in decision making, why some people want lots of information to make an effective decision and others want critical points of information. None of this wiring is good or bad or right or wrong, it just is. When you notice communication
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