Have you ever wondered why some teams complete goals efficiently while others fail? When certain necessary components are missing, a team can end up dragging out a process instead of completing a task. While there is no magic recipe for team success, there are certain values you can ensure are in place to give the...
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If you act “as if” you are interested in your job, that bit of acting will tend to make your interest real. It will also tend to decrease your fatigue, your tensions, and your worries. Dale Carnegie once told the story of Harlan A. Howard, who used this piece of advice to completely alter...
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According to Wikipedia, Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and especially from an online community, rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. In the recent days, after the sadness at the Boston Marathon; Facebook and Twitter in particular have shared...
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In his book, “How to Develop Self Confidence & Influence People by Public Speaking,” Dale Carnegie talks about Socrates, known as the “gadfly of Athens,” and who was one of the greatest philosophers the world has ever known. Socrates did something that only a handful of men in all history have been able to...
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Every organization across North Dakota needs to be successful through growth and opportunity. Economics aside, every single leader, manager, and employee has to improve at the same rate as the business to keep everything in line with both goals and objectives. Open communication and engagement are necessary, but the quality and the focus of...
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When Charlie Chaplin first started making films, the director of the pictures insisted on Chaplin’s imitating a popular German comedian of that day. But Charlie Chaplin got nowhere until he acted himself. Bob Hope had a similar experience. He spent years in a singing-and-dancing act and got nowhere until he began to wisecrack and...
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No two organizations or people are alike here in North Dakota and it the same for leaders here as well. When you mix the two together how do you know that the blend will be efficient and effective? Organizational assessment is a key component to success. Resources, people, processes, and profits all become ingredients...
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Enthusiasm and knowledge are two integral aspects of a successful business presentation; however, a fear of public speaking often plays upon the nerves of many business professionals. What’s interesting, however, is research has shown that most audiences cannot determine whether a speaker is nervous during a business presentation. Use this to your advantage by...
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Dale Carnegie kept a folder in his private filing cabinet marked “FTD”—short for “Fool Things I Have Done.” In that folder he put written records of the foolish things he had been guilty of. Sometimes these memos were so personal and embarrassing that he would refrain from dictating them to his secretary, instead choosing...
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Here in North Dakota we seem to never have enough time. If we are not working, we probably are thinking of work. It indeed pays the bills. And it seems we just never disconnect like in the good old days when all we had was a single line rotary phone and a truly quiet...
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Coach Carolyn Happiness and success are up to you.
