Business Consulting

Creating Strong Connections for Success with Less Stress

How are your relationships?  Both business and personal connections play a key role in navigating to success with less stress.  I credit my success at moving up the corporate ladder with cultivating strong connections as much or more as my working hard to perform well.  You can be the best at what you do and yet be unsuccessful due to your lack of strong relationships.  Having a healthy social life with strong connections has also been shown to have a direct correlation […]

Five Steps to Balance Patience and Pressure to Navigate to Success

I had the wonderful experience of attending the National Speakers Association (NSA) convention earlier this week.  I met a lot of amazing people; on the very first morning I met Greg Bell.  Greg has a way of conversing that is immediately engaging and made me want to learn more about his business.  His company and book are named Water the Bamboo.  He tells of a species of bamboo that must be watered for five to six years before it […]

5 Strategies for Building a Strength-Based Business & Life for More Success 1

1. Identify Your Strengths There is a reason the books, Now, Discover Your Strengths and Strengths Finder 2.0, have been consistently on the business best seller list; focusing on your strengths is very powerful and the Gallup organization has a lot of research to back this up.  Identify your strengths; don’t assume you already intuitively know.  It is best to use an assessment tool for yourself or a customer/internal survey to understand your team’s and/or customer’s perceptions of your […]

Five Strategies to Drive Past Fear & Navigate to Success 8

1. Silence the Critic Many people have a critical inner voice that plays constantly in their heads. Some very successful people actually credit their success with this inner critic. It clearly can be a strong driving force toward success but it is most likely accompanied by harsh judgment and fear that can have the opposite affect of success or make the success never feel good enough and filled with misery. Unfortunately, I have experienced this first-hand and continue to […]

Cloud Computing Collides with Business Coaching & Consulting 4

Have you heard of cloud computing?  I had heard of it but could not define it before hearing Jaime Casap,  Business Development Manager at Google, speak at last week’s Alliance of Technology and Women (ATW) meeting.   He explained it simply:  Cloud computing is the ability to pull data to any device from any location.  The data is typically held by a third-party supplier.  It is what allowed me to check my Yahoo e-mail account from a hotel computer in […]

How do you navigate to success with Powerful Questions? 7

It is important to me that reading this is a good use of your time and a means to a conversation (via comments).   As I talked with friends, family, and former colleagues, there were more questions than answers about what this BLOG is and/or should be.  So, this first post is about the goals for this blog and the skill of asking powerful questions.  Goals of this BLOG Share useful information for more success with less stress. Spur thinking, mine and yours. Keep […]