Team Building with DISC

My Aha moment came in about 1995-96. Our 6 person management team sequestered ourselves for a day of "team building" after we took a Myers-Briggs assessment. As we went around the group, many of us were similar "personality types," but one person stood out as...

Hiring and Assessments

If you are like many hiring managers, you feel that hiring is a gamble. You don't really know what you've got until the employee has been in the job for 6 months. I know of a company that hired a COO through a headhunter, and they had to let him go after just 9...

Emotional Quotient Assessment

You may have heard of the emotional quotient from Daniel Goleman in his book, Emotional Intelligence. Through his research, Goleman has concluded that the key differentiator, 90% of the difference, between star and average performance is EQ, emotional quotient. The...

Marketing Lite

Do you think of marketing as a huge task with expensive branding and strategy? You need graphic design, brochures and folders with multiple pieces of literature, ads in magazines, newspapers and yellow pages, etc, etc, etc. I’d like to dispel the myth that this is all...