At a networking skills CPE class that I facilitated a few years ago, an accountant asked me a very insightful question: How do you turn a new contact into a meaningful connection? That got me thinking more deeply about what’s involved in actually forming relationships – the kind that can really help you advance your [read more]
Legend has it that the idea for Southwest Airlines was created on the back of a napkin. That’s right, founder Herb Kelleher sketched out his big idea to his client, Rollin King, using a cocktail napkin. He drew a rudimentary triangle and wrote the words SAN ANTONIO, HOUSTON AND DALLAS on each of the [read more]
Over the weekend, my husband and I marched in the Walk Against Hunger event, organized by Foodshare of Hartford, CT. It was the 31st annual walk and more than 4,000 people turned out to raise money and to raise awareness of the hunger in our own community. I was honored to walk on the team [read more]
Today is Equal Pay Day. Sadly it’s not the day where women will make the same amount of money for the same job done by her male counterpart. No; it’s just a day of awareness that this issue remains unchanged, despite huge efforts by many people. As a nation, we’ve been working on this issue [read more]
I had the pleasure of meeting Jacky Wright, Vice President of IT Strategic Services with Microsoft this past weekend at the Women In Business Summit, hosted at the Travelers Claim University in Windsor, CT. The conference’s theme was Lead with Confidence, and Jacky’s message certainly put the audience in the right frame of mind to [read more]
Much has been written about the topic of stress and its link to heart disease and other illnesses. Classes have been taught, books have been written, and advice has been dispensed. Still the solution to the problem of managing stress effectively in our daily lives continues to evade most people. Last week, I had two [read more]
I just returned from a very long weekend in sunny Tampa, Florida (a welcome respite from frigid Connecticut). I attended the Stagecraft Secrets Lab of the National Speakers Association, a content rich and motivating conference. I had the opportunity to learn from gifted speaking professionals such as Mikki Williams, comedian Tim Gard, director/actor Michael Alloso, [read more]
Compliments. Criticism. Praise. Insults. Flattery. Put-downs. Kudos. Blame. Applause. Boos. What do all of these things have in common? They are other people’s opinions of you at a moment in time. They are fiction, not facts. They hold no absolute truth. They are simply opinion. In fact, they have nothing to do with you, and [read more]
I’m in the process of consolidating all five of my current web sites into one new master site under the URL www.AmericasMarketingMotivator.com This massive undertaking has forced me to re-examine my content and my imagery. Rather than just put all the old stuff on the new site (you know, the sin of copy/paste), I hired [read more]
