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December 11, 2019 2026-06-05 13:21Blog
How to Deal With Difficult People at Work
Shawn Sommerkamp It goes without saying – we all deal with difficult workplace professionals now and then. You may even be in a situation where you constantly work with someone who gets under your skin. This is not uncommon. Whether it’s your boss, your staff or your colleagues, bad relations are a …
Masterfully Managing Scope Creep
Don’t you hate it when your department executive, or perhaps your customer, keeps adding more action items to an existing project while expecting you to complete it in the same time frame? Well, you can take action to not only manage this, but prevent it. In this 13-minute video you’ll …
Prioritization 101
With Much Power Comes Much Responsibility You have a lot on your plate. People are constantly asking for your input or help. You have so many plates spinning it’s hard to imagine how you can get it all done each week. It seems like it has become more of a …
Why You Make What You Make
Have you ever wondered why you work so hard but don’t seem to get paid enough? It might have something to do with the Immutable Law of Labor. Ever hear of it? The simplified premise is as follows: “If a lot of people can do a job, and a lot …
What Do Wonder Woman, Lie Detectors and Personality Assessments Have in Common?
This correlation is one of the more interesting: Wonder Woman, Lie Detectors and Personality Assessments? The connection is not as strange as you might think…okay, it’s sorta strange. They are all contributions of one man, William Moulton Marston. Born in 1893, Marston was an American inventor, psychologist and, oddly enough, …
Planes, Snakes and Microphones
What Really is Our Number One Fear? Jerry Seinfeld once told a very funny and now well-known joke about public speaking: “According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, …
Erastus Recast
God’s Special Purpose for Us In our Christian lives, perhaps from the time we came to know the Lord, when first clothed with Christ, we believed God had a special purpose for us. In some cases that meant working in the full-time ministry as a pastor, evangelist, counselor, youth minister, …
PDF – Principles of Executive Coaching
This 4-page illustrated PDF provides a high-level overview of my executive coaching process. I review the difference between Right-vs-Left-Brained thinking, mindfully observing your own energy levels daily, where Romans 12:2 becomes the cornerstone and several recommended statements to adopt as part of your everyday language. …
The Real Origins of Professional Coaching
Professional Coaching has grown in popularity across America in recent decades. More and more people are training to become interpersonal coaches as institutions like the Coach Training Alliance, International Coach Academy and the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching are sprouting nationwide. The rapid growth of the professional coaching industry …
Waiting is a Killer
What Are You Waiting For? For many years I directed professional services teams in high tech industries. A big part of my responsibility, and therefore my project manager’s (PM) responsibility, was to forecast (predict) how much revenue each PM would bring in each quarter. This was done on a project …
