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Business competition requires team collaboration! The key to collaboration on your team is to talk with each other, not at each other! It’s a choice that takes practice and skill. And It’s essential to bring accumulated knowledge and experienced...

Get ready, because your answer is a defining truth!  What is your most valuable business resource? Is it bottom-line dollars—or office space, equipment, technology or material “things?” Big kudos to you if your team popped into your mind first,...

  As a child, you were taught to be nice, right? As adults, we want to be nice! It makes life more stress free and fun. Being nice invites cooperation, conscious agreements and good working relationships. However, being nice also presses us to...

“Are you staying ahead of the curve in most aspects of your business?” You may have cringed in hearing this question, thinking...Annie, who has time for that? If you are not able to stay ahead, it may be a relief for you to know that the majority of...

My advice? Don’t skip over this topic. Awareness and skills about secure relationships and psychological safety in your company are essential. These top the list for building and mobilizing a high-performing team.  Within every company—whether you...

I recently received a really bad apology by email, and it inspired me to record this short VLOG. Most of us know, to apologize is vital for creating and maintaining strong, trusting relationships, but when the first line of the apology comes out as...

by Barbara Schindler, COO & Executive Coach Apparently a quick fix to the fallout from the COVID-19 health crisis is only in our dreams. The impact it’s having on our lives and the economy is bigger than we first imagined. We need lots of things...

This current world-wide reality is like nothing else we’ve experienced in modern life. Besides connecting and doing critical thinking together, I appreciate that we have many leaders in history to help inspire our own commitment to our vision and our...

I appreciate that you are clicking into my blog to connect with me, especially under these challenging circumstances in our world. Our lives have been turned upside down in ways we never imagined! The pandemic events that began in March, 2020, and...