Over 18 years, I've worked with more than 1,000 individuals, executives, business owners, and high-potential professionals to help them significantly increase their productivity, profitability, and life balance.
I can help you do the same.
A “no” uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a “yes” merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. – Mahatma Gandhi One of the biggest reasons why people don’t like to say no is because they don’t want to damage a relationship. There’s a great book called The Power [...]
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“When patterns are broken, new worlds will emerge.” – Tuli Kupferberg For me, this quote demonstrates why coaching works and why it’s such a powerful force in our world today. This quote also works in reverse: by identifying new worlds we want to pursue, we find the capacity to break old patterns. As a coach, [...]
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In every career, you’ll experience moments of stress in the workplace. In order to help reduce this, I recommend trying one or more of the following stress management techniques: #1: Conduct “standing meetings”. When someone enters your office, stand up to talk to them. This will let them know that you have very limited time. [...]
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I was the guest on the inaugural podcast of Solo Smarts, with Kelly McCausey. In the podcast, I go through the 24 Best Practices of Successful People (one of my guest posts, on the FeelGooder blog). During the introduction, I explain how I got started in coaching eighteen years ago, and why I’m affiliated with [...]
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Do you have questions about your job search? Do you feel like you’re going about it the right way? Do you feel like you could do better at planning and managing your time? Come to the Career Path Network event on Tuesday, July 19 to get some of your questions answered and revitalize your job [...]
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Barry Demp Guest Blog Post Recently, coach Barry Demp was featured on a motivation and self-improvement website as a guest blogger called Pick The Brain. The post focuses on 6 Expert Ways to Maximize Your Social Capital and includes suggested techniques for: Listening Using open-ended questions Layering The Sound of Silence How to Ask Powerful [...]
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When people visit me in my office they see pictures of my family and pictures of beautiful golf courses on my walls. During their visit they will most likely see a large bookcase filled with many of my favorite books. As an educator and self professed life-long learner, I believe that books are one of [...]
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In our increasingly competitive world, very rarely does and individual professional service provider, coach, or consultant truly have a significant advantage over others. The ability to create trust is often the single biggest factor that differentiates these close competitors to secure a client assignment. The Trust-O-Meter assessment below that has been adapted from the [...]
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No matter what sporting event you enjoy, a scoreboard is often used to determine if the contestants are making progress towards their goal and to eventually identify the winner of the contest. In sales the winning results that we desire are sometimes far in the future. With this in mind, my suggestion is to create [...]
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2011 is going to be a year of tremendous focus in my business. I have decided to put the old 80/20 rule on steroids by focusing 99% of my efforts on the top 1% of my professional relationships to take things to a new level. In the book the Tipping Point, Macomb Gladwell introduces us [...]
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