How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence

In my recent LinkedIn article Emotional Intelligence – Imperative to Success.  I go in depth about the topic. For more information about EQ, I suggest you read it. Here I’m going to focus on ways to raise your emotional intelligence (EQ). The simple techniques I am about to offer will help anyone easily and quickly […]

Assess to be Your Best

How to Use Assessments for Individual and Organizational Development Let’s face it continuous improvement is a winning strategy for anyone with the CEO mindset. It’s an asset for professionals and entrepreneurs alike. Regardless of where you are in your career or your business there are always opportunities to grow. Throughout my life I’ve seen many […]

How to Get the Money You Need to Grow Your Business

When we think about women owned businesses, we automatically think small. This is an issue for us. When we think small we stay small. However, what happens when women think big? Usually we are told that we are, “out of line, unrealistic or crazy.” It’s difficult to hear this from men, especially those we love, […]

The Professional Edge – What is it and how do we get it?

  Many of us go through our entire lives in business never really considering if we have The Professional Edge or not. We work hard at our jobs, we take additional trainings and we have mastered our work tasks like a pro, yet we still aren’t climbing the corporate ladder as we expected. We’re doing […]

Do you ever play hooky from work?

  This week the weather has been simply amazing here in MN. Since winter comes early and stays late in my neck of the woods, I decided to take a vacation from blogging this week so I could hustle earlier in the week to get client work completed and then take a few unplanned days off at the end […]