What’s your first reaction when receiving negative feedback? It could be a bad Yelp review for your newly opened restaurant, a list of things done wrong during your annual review, or a less than satisfied employee on Glassdoor. Regardless of the medium, negative reviews and feedback are a part of a professional career for everyone.… Read More
Tag: Professional development
How the Science of Influence Can Help You Be a More Effective Leader
Now that you are in a position of authority at your job or in your home, your biggest challenge is probably making decisions that everyone can be happy with. While compromise is an important part of leadership, you’ll also need to know how to employ the science of influence in order to get the job… Read More
Purpose and Pleasure should Work Together
Finding purpose in all we do is sometimes difficult so it’s important that we acknowledge our guided values and interests to create purpose while enjoying our livelihood. What we do on a daily basis may not seem that important but in the long run it will be. Whether we see ourselves as someone who leads… Read More
Improve Workplace Communication with an Improv Comedy Technique
As a long-time fan and performer of improvisational comedy, or “improv” for short, I wasn’t surprised to hear that the same communication techniques that I use on stage were also being used in the workplace. For those who don’t know, an improv performance is completely unscripted. A scene begins with a suggestion from the audience,… Read More
The Millennial Myth
I was born into a generation of technology. I am a girl with an Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook and Pinterest. I am a college student trying to pave my path in the world. I am many things, but a stereotypical millennial, I am not. I don’t sit around all day taking selfies and posting them to… Read More
In my last blog article, I recalled a story from the early days of Proforma, and how a client’s request for 12 spiral rings led to earning a million-dollar customer with 50 percent gross profit. Here’s a story of another million dollar win. Back in those early years building Proforma, my practice was to get up… Read More
Years ago when I was growing my small distributorship, I secured an initial sales appointment with the operations manager of a jewelry retailer with about 100 stores. I have little recollection of what we discussed back then during that first sales call. All I remember was that, after a seemingly good conversation, he asked me… Read More
Building Strong Client Relationships
Among many employees, clients or business owners we all interact with on a daily basis, I feel we often forget the importance our current clients hold once we’ve obtained their business relationship. Our efforts and attention to detail are still as important several years into the relationship as they were on the first day they… Read More
Cross Your T’s and Dot Your I’s
In the world we live in – everything is instant. Or at least we expect it to be. We want our food to be fast, the line at the grocery store to be quick, and when we order something – we expect it to arrive in the least amount of time. I believe we are… Read More
Increase Your Early-Morning Office Productivity
If you’re like me, you need about seven alarms and a slap in the face just to get out of bed in the morning. As I sit at my desk for the first hour of work, all I can think about is warm cozy bed and why I ever left it in the first place.… Read More
In my last article, I mentioned that motivation doesn’t work. If it did, you would be halfway toward accomplishing all your New Year’s resolutions, right?! The only thing that really endures is discipline—discipline to do what we know we need to do when we don’t feel like doing it. The challenge is that discipline sounds hard.… Read More
White-Collar Zen: Keeping a Cool Head in the Modern World
What popped into your mind the instant you read the word “Zen” in the title above? Rock gardens and bonsai trees, maybe? Bamboo. Tea. Meditating monks. I’d be willing to bet that at least a few of these mental images leapt into your head. Conversely, I doubt that when “Zen” is mentioned that very many… Read More