The Art of Giving Feedback One of the things we try to do is to always give positive feedback and yet correct what we need to have corrected. There are a whole lot of psychological theories out there about putting the wrong thing in someone’s mind. Norman Vincent Peal made affirmative reminders famous in some …
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The Lost Art of Thank You Notes The lost are of sending thank you notes. Does it even happen anymore? Well it does with me and it does with a lot of people I know. Here’s what we’ve fallen prey to we’ve fallen prey to that wonderful thing called email. “Hey Bob thanks for buying …
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Self Educate Self educate don’t self medicate. The musician, Frank Zappa, said, “Forget about the senior prom, go to the library and educate yourself if you’ve got any guts.” Autodidactism means self education or self directed learning. An autodidactic also known as an auto math is mostly a self taught person. One of the most …
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Parking Lot To manage the flow of your conversation; put it in the parking lot. Years ago when I was the manager of a division, I had an employee in my office and I was talking to them about their continual tardiness coming to work. It had become a real problem and I really needed …
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Keep Your Eye on the Goal Individual and organizations share 2 common hurdles. The first is to have a goal everyone understands the second is to keep your eye on that goal. Sounds simple enough, it rarely is. In my case the goal is to build a log home. In my daughter’s case the goal …
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MBWA Several years agoI had dinner at the famous rib restaurant, Rendezvous in Memphis, Tennessee owned and operated by the Virgo family. Rendezvous is visited by just about everyone that comes to Memphis. The Virgo children now run the restaurant started by their father in 1948. Being a junkie for barbeque of all kinds I …
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IPOD When my daughter was about 14 years old she had been saving her money for an IPOD. About that time she noticed that I had an IPOD speaker but no IPOD and wanted to know why. I explained that I play music as a part of my training program to enhance the learning. I …
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Invite Them In Don’t just make a place, invite them in. I was recently working with a group and conducting a workshop which I call Crash The Barrier, Build The Team. In one of the exercises we have everybody get in a circle. Then rather rudely I’ll have one of the members step out of …
