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The Top Persuasive Words to Use During Team Meetings

What are the top persuasive words to use during team meetings? According to a data-driven study there are some good ones. Every day, an estimated 11 million meetings take place in the United States alone. With managers often spending three-quarters of their time in meetings – and 97% of workers reporting that collaboration is essential […]

Kent Evan’s Pie in the Sky for the 4th of July Team Win

Deanna Wharwood gave me the great pleasure to speak on her radio program for Military personnel and their family members who are integrating back into civilian life.  So, when a friend told me about the Massive Care Package for U.S. Troops that has been recognized by Guinness Book of World Records for the largest pizza […]

7 Mistakes Business Consultants Make to Secure Steady Income

You’ve done it… you’re in business for yourself or are at least seriously thinking about taking the plunge. You’ve left the corporate 9:00- 5:00 world (nowadays more like 7:00 – 7:00) and have successfully started your own team building, training, consulting, or coaching business. You now choose your own clients, name your own hours, determine […]

The Power of Service to Bridge Differences for Collaboration

 It seems like yesterday when TIGERS Success Series conducted a training session for Points of Light on building stakeholder collaboration. And now the nation’s largest conference on volunteer service – hosted by Points of Light with generous support from JPMorgan Chase – will bring more than 5,000 people to Washington, D.C., June 19-22, to share […]

5 Pain Points Experienced by Independent Consultants and Trainers

Facilitators, consultants, and business coaches are an entrepreneurial bunch. They are self employed go-getters and internal company trainers that take on the responsibility of rebuilding and strengthening company culture and leadership skills. They often enter a corporate environment where team collaboration, cohesion, and leadership has been replaced by hostility, rumor-mongering, and high turnover. These facilitators […]

What Do the TIGERS® 6 Principles Mean for Work Culture?

The TIGERS® 6 Principles offer a cooperation-based work model founded on six collaborative principles found in every high performance organization. These principles are trust, interdependence, genuineness, empathy, risk and success.  They are measurable within a team and they predict both high team function and problems. The TIGERS 6 Principles  — trust, interdependence, genuineness, empathy, risk […]

Leadership Team Development With A Soft Skill Focus

As baby booms soon begin to retire in masse, it makes sense to pump up soft skills training for leadership team development. Many organizations are already finding themselves short of well-trained and properly polished professionals. However, developing soft skills on teams  made sense to me from my research in team development over 23 years ago.  That is […]

Thriving in the Wake of the Great Recession: Part 3 – What is Possible

This is the 3rd part of a 3 part series blog where I provide insight on how businesses and organizations can move forward quickly after a debilitating recession to regain profitability and retain their top performing employees.  Research collected from the past 3 recessions by the Harvard Business Review showed that only 9% of businesses […]