Soft skills

Ditch Your Traditional New Year’s Resolutions

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Typically, right after Jan 1, we start saying resolutions for the New Year,

  • Lose 20 pounds
  • Get promoted by June
  • Find a better, more satisfying jobs
  • Get a 25% raise
  • Buy a house

If these sound like the resolutions you are making this year, I challenge you to throw them out!  Why?  We can be so result oriented that sometimes it keeps us from simply experiencing life.  Is life about results or is life about experiences?  Result-oriented resolutions have three major downsides ...  read more

Which 4 Adjectives Describe You?

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workout

Workout Objective:  Build self-awareness and have fun.
Prerequisite: None
Recommended Frequency: Once

Don’t think about it, just take 10 seconds to see which four words jump out at you from this image.

It’s just a game, but it’s interesting to find out which four words you see.  Perhaps they reflect less about who you are to others, but how you see yourself currently.  Did you see all positive words, or were some of them negative? ...  read more

5 Leadership Lessons from SF Giants

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Congratulations to the San Francisco Giants for winning the World Series 2012!!  Today, 1 million fans get together in our great city of San Francisco to celebrate the Giants momentous win.

My husband is a huge Giants baseball fan for the last 30 + years and by association, our entire family are big fans as well.   The odds were stacked against the Giants throughout the playoffs, but they persevered.  Why?  Great leadership and teamwork!! ...  read more

How to Turn Down a Job Offer – 5 Tips and An Example

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“How to turn down a job offer” may seem like a strange topic to discuss given our current job market.  However, to succeed like an executive means there will be times when you will get more than one job offer at the same time, even in today’s economy.  In that case, it’s important to know how to turn down a job offer gracefully. ...  read more