A friend of mine a few years back made a wonderful recommendation to me that I have instituted and plan on keeping in place for many years to come. With the amount that I travel annually (125,000 plus miles) and the time I spend away from my kids, I was convinced to do one trip […]
People avoid confrontation like the plague. Some would rather ignore and hope it goes away but this might be the absolutely worse approach possible. Case in point – I have been working on finding a coach to take over my son’s second grade basketball team. We met this nice young man through a camp Caleb […]
I have had this argument on many occasions as to which is more important when developing employees – the material or the trainer? Or, in other words, the message or the actual delivery of the message? One side of this dilemma is focused on the training material. Many of the large professional development […]
Last Saturday, I had a very interesting experience. I was coaching my daughter’s kindergarten soccer team and I had the great pleasure of a senior referee sitting on the sidelines in addition to the league commissioner in the stands and even taking pictures of my every move. Obviously, I was taken aback at the attention […]