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Super Worker to Team Leader

A friend and colleague of mine, Tammy Kohl, who is president of Resource Associates Corp. in Reading, PA, spoke recently at a gathering of business coaches in San Antonio on the subject of new team leaders. These are people who often have been the "super...

Finding Beauty

A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands of people went through the station,...

Prospecting: A Key To Sales Success

There is an old axiom: "you have to hunt where the ducks are." This is especially true in selling. If you do not have a pipeline filled with prospects, you are not putting yourself in a position to sell very high volume. The Champion Salesperson recognizes...

Reasons To Love a Recession

Nobody wants a recession, but to help make the best of what we’ve got, let’s toast these 10 good things about bad times.   1. Family dinners. Want to start a revolution? Try eating dinner together as a family. 2. Shorter lines at the pump. Especially...

New Year, New You

Welcome to a brand new year! Today we have a chance for a new beginning. Today we can discard all of those destructive, negative habits and replace them with healthy, positive ones.    We also have a leg up on anyone who set a New Year’s Resolution...

Achieving Better Work-Life Balance

First, define the term balance. So often, people seeking "balance" end up with a life something like both sides of a scale dragging the ground behind them. I suggest thinking of work-life balance as a Teeter-Totter, which is certainly possible to balance but...

People’s Inability To Cope

A recent health study determined that there are 3 primary reasons people can’t cope in life:  They have low self-esteem    They live in the past    The don’t laugh enough    In fact, the same study concluded that we need...