The Middle Manager

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So, You Want to be a Speaker – Getting Started

So today will start my series on speaking in public.  My goal is to 1) help people get past their initial fear, and 2) then offer some things that anyone who speaks should focus on to become a better speaker.  I don’t know how many blogs will be in this series, just depends on how […]

Trust & Respect

It’s been a while – a long while – since I regularly updated this blog.  I’m going to try and pick up where I left off and start posting every couple of weeks again.  Today, I’d like to have a discussion on trust. How important is trust?  In my lengthy tenure at my current company, […]

Work-Life Balance

How many vacation days did you use last year?  If you’re a typical employee in the USA, it’s likely you ended the year with more than half of your time unused.  Studies show that 91% of companies provide their employees with vacation time, but nearly 60% of the time more than half of the vacation […]

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