by Patti Blackstaffe | Feb 15, 2010 | Leadership, Management, Training
Congratulations to all Olympic Athletes – they’ve been training most of their lives, they have competed all over the world with other contenders. The ‘ski industry community’ is very small – each name comes with a story and athletes are very familiar with one...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Feb 12, 2010 | Business, Leadership, Management
Welcome to Erin Schreyer as our guest writer of today’s post. February is Community month at Strategic Sense and last post described an example of a CEO who builds community through his kind actions, this post has a few examples of how community can begin with...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Feb 4, 2010 | Business, Leadership, Management, Training
A small growing child lives a lifetime in a few precious years, they feel like everything takes too darned long. Perhaps it’s because they’re always flitting and dancing and bouncing with all the excitement life has to offer. For them, everything is a new adventure...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Feb 2, 2010 | Business, Communication, Customer Service, Leadership, Management
I love candied ginger; it’s spicy and sweet at the same time. I like to add it to salads and recipes. What makes it different is it doesn’t have the “jelly feel” like other sugared candies. I was thinking about that and how we tend to add sugar to more sugar all the...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Jan 22, 2010 | Business, Communication, Leadership, Management
I just read Gary Vaynerchuk’s book “Crush It” and many of his messages resonated with me in terms of the priorities I live by as well as the priorities I ask my clients to adopt. …”love your family, work hard, live your passion” Using that as a filter for each...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Jan 19, 2010 | Customer Service, Leadership, Management, Training
Last week I was in a local all day breakfast restaurant and was being served by a young woman who was exceptionally efficient. She worked hard, she worked fast and she had a bright smile. When we were seated she offered coffee, put menus down and got on with her...
