Removing Obstacles to Success
July 21, 1:01 pm
I have to hand it to Matt Bacak, a.k.a. “The Powerful Promoter.” He IS persistent. And boy, does he promote! And promote! And promote! Even when you ask him to stop.
Mr. Bacak promotes himself as someone who can show you how to promote your business. And since I’m launching several niche business efforts, I signed […]
July 16, 2:24 pm
This week the Center for Workplace Excellence was featured on the Zion’s Bank radio spot, Speaking on Business. You can hear it using the mp3 player at the bottom of this post.
For those outside of the Intermountain West who may be unfamiliar with the spot, Fred Ball, retired executive, former president of the Salt Lake City […]
Fred Ball's Speaking on Business: The Center for Workplace Excellence : Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadJuly 8, 5:32 am
This week’s ASTD’s Buzz newsletter tells us that the average worker received 35.06 hours of training in 2006. (see ASTD State of the Industry Report)
Okay, 35 hours is the average.
What’s interesting is that companies demonstrating enterprise-wide success as a result of well planned training and development are delivering an average of 44.34 hours of training […]
June 30, 1:53 pm
by Dan Bobinski
Just my humble opinion here - a statistical sample of one. But I’d like to think that coaching and training in management and leadership development for 20 years gives me a platform with a at least a modicum of experience to talk about.
At issue? I just rec’d my weekly ASTD Buzz, and one […]
June 26, 6:09 am
A while back I was hired to deliver a keynote speech for a national organization’s annual meeting. My philosophy is that if you’re going to hire a speaker on a particular topic, let that person speak on the topic — don’t try to write his speech for him.
But that didn’t happen this time. One of […]
June 25, 6:55 am
Recently I came across a great quote from John F. Kennedy:
“Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.”
Wow. Guilty. And so is everyone else! It’s easy to take a position on something when we hear it from someone else and it makes sense (on the surface) … or if it’s coming […]
June 24, 12:02 pm
I sometimes find myself dragging through the afternoon, my body unable to drive forward other than through sheer will on my part. People call this the “afternoon slump,” and if you’re a normal human being, it probably affects you, too.
With all the projects on my plate and others fighting to wedge themselves in, I got […]
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