by Patti Blackstaffe | Jun 2, 2009 | Uncategorized
Do you ever walk around your neighbourhood and wonder about the people living there? I do. I, like most, will gather a first impression about someone by how they take care of their yard. Some people have immaculate yards, some nicely maintain a yard and others,...
by Patti Blackstaffe | May 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
I was shopping the other day for some bedding-out plants. It’s that time of year when we find ways to beautify our yards and take full advantage of the short growing season in our area. Bedding-out plants have been started in the greenhouse earlier so you have a...
by Patti Blackstaffe | May 3, 2009 | Uncategorized
All of us have a background and history. Many of the lessons I learned about leadership were really common sense child-rearing lessons passed on from one of the most remarkable people I know, my Mother. With Mother’s Day approaching I thought I would share a few...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Apr 24, 2009 | Business, Communication, Conflict, Customer Service, Leadership, Management, Training, Uncategorized
The thing about being an adult in an adult work world is that we’re forced to deal with many things we may find unpleasant or stressful. Communication between people takes many forms and can be interpreted in many ways. Ideally, we would live in a world where...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Apr 14, 2009 | Business, Gratitude, Uncategorized
Of all the things from which we learn the most, experience is our greatest of teachers! There are few times a lesson will make an impression to last a lifetime unless one has experienced that lesson being handed to them on a silver platter. The thing is, what you...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Apr 1, 2009 | Business, Communication, Customer Service, Gratitude, Uncategorized
I was working with a client yesterday who is talented, driven and efficient. This client is one of those people who, if you added them to your team, would make the world a better place and get it done in half the time while managing to do it in a way that serves...
