Customer Service, Executive Coaching, Tips
When You Feel like Complaining or Blaming…Take Action!
I recently flew on a flight from San Diego to Atlanta. The person sitting next to me spent the first two hours of our flight complaining about his company, his boss, his direct reports, his…
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Building Strong Relationships
When you open your mouth, do you move one step closer to your goal? Recently, I was standing in line at the security checkpoint at the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport when this woman in front…
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10 New Year’s Resolutions to Up Your Leadership Game in 2019
As we embark on a new year, most leaders are busy thinking about organizational goals; but does your list include leadership goals? Our goal at Peter Barron Stark Companies is to help you up your…
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When Your Need For Perfection Takes You Down!
Are you a perfectionist? Most people look at perfection as the height of performance. In sports, we talk about the perfect pass or the perfect shot. In sales, we talk about presenting the perfect proposal…
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Gratitude’s Role in Leadership
Would the people you live and work with describe you as a grateful person? George Burns, who lived to be 100 years old, once said, “The first thing I do each morning is check the…
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Effectively Dealing with a Passive-Aggressive Employee
In our training seminar, Effectively Leading Organizational Change, we talk about the five animals of change. Each of the five animals shows up in one of the four phases of change. The animals are: Phase…
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Six Tips to Build Trust
In a previous video, we talked about why people don’t trust leaders, and why they don’t trust you. In this video, we’re going to give you six great tips to build a relationship built on…
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Can You Handle the Honest Truth?
Do you know what people really think about you as a leader? We are working on several projects right now where leaders have been blindsided and then dumbfounded by how others in the organization see…
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Coaching an Executive…Is it Worth the Investment?
Is coaching an executive worth the investment? This is such a great question and there is only one answer…it all depends. We recently took on a new coaching assignment where the CEO of the company…
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Does Leadership Training Really Help?
On a recent flight from Boston to Minneapolis, my seatmate in 2A asked me a great question. Do you think that if we provided more leadership training earlier in people’s education or career, it would…
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