Writing a Professional Development Plan can help keep you focused on your goals and give you something to work on in order to move forward. It doesn’t have to take a lot of time if you know what you are…

When companies face hard times the first thing that is reviewed is the budget to see where things can be adjusted, reallocated and cut. At the first signs of serious trouble, expenses and benefits are trimmed back. If the situation…

Dale Carnegie’s Secrets of Success Principle from How to Win Friends and Influence People and the Dale Carnegie Couse: Effective Communication and Human Relations Find out the right way and wrong way to practice the Dale Carnegie principle – Don’t Criticize,…

Often when an appraisal returns for a group of employees and conveys that there could be progression made in their work performance—or simply to improve upon already outstanding operations—businesses will choose to do employee training.  Employee training also occurs as…

What is effective leadership?  That sounds like a question for a philosopher doesn’t it?  The truth is that anyone can be an effective leader. They just need to find the right balance between social, moral and business aspects of leadership….

Dale Carnegie wrote one of his books to show that life is very much what we make of it. It’s all about our choices everyday. Here are some quotes from Carnegie:     1. ” If you have a worry problem,…

Jason Ferrara, SVP, Sales and Marketing, Elixir Interactive, interviews Piera Palazzolo, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc. at SES New York, 2009. Piera talks about the incentive model that Dale Carnegie implemented to get its franchisees to…

Dear Carnegie Coach: I have been working in advertising for the same company for about 20 years. Throughout my time here I have enjoyed the relationships I’ve built with many different kinds of people. Recently my company hired a new…

Dear Carnegie Coach: I am a mid level manager at a large multinational company. I was recently up for a promotion, but in the end I was not selected for it. The feedback I was given was that I need…

Dear Carnegie Coach: My company has recently experienced some downsizing and my workload has increased drastically. When I get into work in the morning I have so many tasks to complete that I do not know where to begin. I…