Our world is changing and a new generation has arrived in the workforce: Millennials. They represent our future and want to be led not managed. They want to be valued and given a sense of purpose — a sense that they are truly making a difference. They do not want to wait to make a…
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Dale Carnegie Training will soon be releasing research stating that 2016 will be the year of Experience Innovation in the workplace and marketplace. This is exciting to me because it will invigorate leaders who are willing and committed to be focused on others rather than themselves by focusing first on their customers and prospects and…
Four Tips to Revealing Your Best Self This Summer
Most people are in their best physical shape during the summer vs. winter months. Warm, sunny days make it easier to stay active and maintain a positive attitude. Many set a goal of losing weight to look their best in anticipation of attendance at major milestone celebrations like graduations and weddings. Consider working your mental…
Build a Workplace People Love in Three Steps
In Joy, Inc. How We Built a Workplace People Love, author Richard Sheridan reveals his proven formula for cultivating joy in the workplace. He was able to capitalize on his experience at an aggressive, fear-filled corporation by creating his own ‘joy-full’ company, Menlo Innovations, a small software company in Ann Arbor, MI, where he serves as…
3 Questions to Determine if You Are an Enlightened Leader
As a graduate and former instructor of the Dale Carnegie Course, I enjoy comparing and contrasting other human relations and leadership principles, mantras and methods with those of Dale Carnegie. I recently read an article by another best-selling author, Deepak Chopra, and drew some interesting parallels between tenets outlined in his recent article, ‘The #1…
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Can you imagine what it would be like to be personally and professionally ridiculed in public? To be told to your face that you are odd, a little off? To be the laughing stock of your community? Oh, and even if you happened to succeed, your project/invention would have such little value no one would…
Three Ways to Improve Your Level of Employee Engagement
A recent Gallup Business Journal article reveals that employees are responsible for their engagement too. According to the Gallup study, 30% of all U.S. employees, and merely 13% of workers worldwide, are engaged in their jobs. There is abundant research revealing that managers have a key role to play in employee engagement, however the article…
Disagree Agreeably — Three Ways to Say ‘No’ Nicely
Disagreement is a natural dynamic between people—especially when in a meeting where multiple solutions are proposed by your colleagues. Choosing one solution inevitably results in disagreeing with another team member’s proposal. When left unresolved, disagreements can become problematic as the inherent conflict drains employees’ time, energy, confidence and productivity. The last thing you want to…
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A week in Maine…hiking, biking, eating lobster and crab cakes. Life is good! Enjoying friends — six couples in one house and a boathouse. It was quite a 7 Fs week (faith, family, finances, fitness, friends, future, and fun). I think we hit them all. Here are ten tips to think less about work so…
Famous Dale Carnegie Graduates and the Principles They Personify
The world famous Dale Carnegie Course is our flagship program which was developed by our founder, Dale Carnegie. His tried and true human relations principles were first published in his book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, which has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide since its release in 1936. You may be…