by Kevin Brimhall | May 13, 2014 | Personal Improvement
“Ego is the invisible line item on every company’s profit and loss statement.” – David Marcum and Steven Smith in egonomics: What Makes Ego Our Greatest Asset (or Most Expensive Liability), Fireside, 2007 Fifty-three percent of businesspeople...
by Kevin Brimhall | Apr 28, 2014 | Book Summaries, Personal Improvement
Note: This resource is part of our Moving the Bar in Your Career and Your Life, a unique approach to professional development series: Effective Communication and Constructive Conflict. Click here to see the entire series. After more than a few folks...
by Kevin Brimhall | Apr 18, 2014 | Book Summaries, Personal Improvement
The authors define a Crucial Conversation as a discussion between two or more people where (1) stakes are high, (2) opinions vary, and (3) emotions run high. Examples frequently involve money, relationships, job performance, politics, parenting, health, chores,...
by Kevin Brimhall | Apr 9, 2014 | Organizational Excellence
Congratulations, you’ve made a great hiring decision and your new employee is ready to start work. The next step is probably "orientation," where they will spend the first day or two filling out paperwork and learning about the company – usually...
by Kevin Brimhall | Mar 26, 2014 | Organizational Excellence
Note: This resource is part of our Moving the Bar in Your Career and Your Life, a unique approach to professional development series: Effective Communication and Constructive Conflict. Click here to see the entire series. Conflict in any organization is...
by Kevin Brimhall | Mar 6, 2014 | Personal Improvement
Note: This resource is part of our Moving the Bar in Your Career and Your Life, a unique approach to professional development series: My 3 Ps: Passion, Purpose, Potential. Click here to see the entire series. Many of us will do almost anything to provide the best that...
by Kevin Brimhall | Feb 18, 2014 | Leadership
This article is addressed to everyone who is, or wants to be, an entrepreneur. Chairman of Target Training International and TTI Success Insights, Bill Bonnstetter, has been a business thought-leader for over 25 years. Read on to learn about what sets entrepreneurs...
by Kevin Brimhall | Jan 28, 2014 | Organizational Excellence
We are well into the New Year and we know how fast time flies. Where do you want to be at the end of the year? Where do you want to be three, five, or ten years from now? Do you have a defined Vision? "Would you tell me, please which way I...
by Kevin Brimhall | Jan 15, 2014 | Personal Improvement
(…and I bet that "SEO" is not what you think it is) Note: This resource is part of our Moving the Bar in Your Career and Your Life, a unique approach to professional development series: My 3 Ps: Passion, Purpose, Potential. Click here to see the entire...
by Kevin Brimhall | Jan 6, 2014 | Goals / Purpose
I was thinking about New Year’s resolutions and how few of them we actually keep. Did you know that 50% of resolutions are broken within the first two weeks of the New Year? And that by the end of January a full 95% of resolutions are abandoned? That’s...
