Digging Deeper: Becoming A Person Of Influence

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Welcome to our digging deeper series. In this series of posts we will dig under the surface and really explore a topic. For our first go round I’ve taken one of my favorite books and dissected it and broke it down into ten conversations. Over the next few weeks, we’ll look at some strategies for [...]

Small Group Resources: Study Cards

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I’ve been involved with small group studies for almost 25 years. They have included church bible studies, Toastmaster groups, and sales organizations. Small groups are a great way to share information and study together. The key to a successful small group is to have from 6 to 16 people and have a comfortable location to [...]

Employee Evangelism

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I am a big fan of “Customer Evangelism,” the word of mouth framework for developing customers that tell others about your company or service. Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba have developed a great blog, written a book and published a manifesto about the subject. The idea is… When customers are truly thrilled about their experience [...]

Find Opportunity in your Community

With the end of the year closing in fast I thought back to some of the highlights from 2005. Almost all of them have something to do with a “community”. A community is described as “A group of people having common interests.” I belong to a number of communities. At home I’m part of my [...]

Success: The Power Politician

For a career minded politician, Washington is the place to be. The job entails long hours, massive travel schedules and almost contstant meetings. For some it’s all about service, for others it’s all about power. The people that do well in this job are team builders that can communicate a message to an audience. Public [...]

Success: Living the Life

As we move along into the I Sought It phase of goals, I would like to post some of the success lifestyles that exist when you take a goal from creation to reality. We’ll show a picture of the “things” and talk about the pros and the cons of livin’ the life. A short story [...]