How do you communicate with your employees, peers, bosses, and customers? What words, expressions, and nonverbal cues do you use? How do they communicate in return? Low-Context and High Context communication is widely used to explain cultural differences when conducting international business. Carol Goman explains in detail How Culture Controls Communication differs among countries. I …
The New Year is always a good time to reflect on the past before charging into the future. In business, anytime that you start feeling yourself getting stuck in the day to day crisis, week after week, then it’s time to step aside, reevaluate, and adjust for a successful overall strategy. As a leader in …
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I sit in my living room with coffee in hand to reflect on 2018. It was a year of transition in which I uprooted the whole family from our home in Roswell to Nashville. The time was right as a new job opportunity with great promise in a city filled with family and friends presented …
With 90 days into a new job, I realized that I took for granted a crucial aspect of what I had established in my prior role. I had planned for the need to learn new terminology, different technical knowledge, and overall, cultural shift. What I had not planned for was the intangible element of what …
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Cooking in our household has gone through the gamut of homemade bread baking, garden fresh vegetables to hurried nights of take-out. For the kids’ first birthdays, I created homemade cakes with fancy decorations. As we’ve entered into their tween years, pizza and store bought birthday cupcakes bought the day of the party became the norm …
A change process is guaranteed to have varying levels of resistance. To break up the routine, reduce fear, and challenge the status quo, a leader is most successful when focusing on transforming the employee’s change experience. Many organizations approach to change result in negative experiences and slow implementation. Business changes faster than ever before. The …
I like creating vision boards. This is my third in the last five years. The last two were in presentation form with music and neat segues in and out of each picture, motivational quote or affirmation that helped me envision what I wanted to achieve over the course of one to three years. My current …
As part of continuing education credits, I studied wellness coaching back in 2010 and it was one of the best investments in my personal training experiences. I am able to apply the principles of positivity, curious questioning (open-ended questions that drive deeper thinking), and support/celebration of successes. In the Webster Dictionary, Wellness is defined as …
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What happens when you face a crossroads that impacts the whole family? Many sleepless nights and concern for the family well-being come crashing down. I’m a worrier by nature. Toss in the complete shuffling of the family universe and you have one crazy mom juggling a million questions with doubt. Here are just a few of …
Shaking up the Family in a Move is a Daunting Responsibility Read More »
Life is hectic. There are a million things to do and time keeps slipping away. For some people, it’s very natural and part of their daily regiment to carve out time that is purely for themselves. If you’re anything like me, then most of us are running around working to make ends meet. It seems impossible …
