by Patti Blackstaffe | Dec 30, 2010 | Leadership, Management, Training
Year in Review & Global Evolution – 2010 brought with it a strong awareness in global online communities and two words truly stood out for us. Engagement and Authenticity. Some of what we observed: Social media transformed from geek-fun to mainstream as...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Dec 20, 2010 | Business, Leadership
Have you ever worked for a really fantastic leader within a company that did not celebrate collaboration or leadership? How about a company who cared less about their culture than they did a spreadsheet? I have. One of those great leaders was a PM I worked for...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Dec 8, 2010 | Leadership, Management
Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked. ~Gary Ryan Blair Advancement, if this is one of your personal values for your career, your job is to understand how you are evaluated, then exceed it. The criteria on which you are evaluated are the...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Dec 2, 2010 | Customer Service, Leadership
If you don’t use Facebook Business Pages, you may still find the lessons helpful. Strategic Sense has a division called Small Biz Creative we help start-ups and small businesses with the nuts and bolts of getting online by building Webpages, Facebook Landing...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Oct 24, 2010 | Business, Customer Service, Leadership, Management
This evening I had the pleasure of celebrating my birthday a little early by attending KOOZA by Cirque du Soleil, a gift from my kids (thanks kids). What a show – between the antics, the acrobatics and the feats of amazement, I could not help thinking about how all...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Oct 22, 2010 | Leadership, Management, Training
Have you ever noticed that after you buy a new car, every time you turn around you are seeing the same kind of car everywhere when they were never noticed before? This is what brain awareness does. There are so many images and things to see, our brains filter them...
