Market towards Opportunity

Last week, I discussed My Current 7 Step Marketing Outline which lays out the outline for what I would call The Funnel of Opportunity.  As I said in that post: In most sales and marketing schemes we like to build what we call a Sales Funnel or Marketing Funnel. In the service world, we have Read More …

Your Internal Collaborative Structure

As the pace and complexity of business has grown traditional organization structures have been flattened through near constant reorganizations. The need for specialization within certain functions seems to prevent further reconciliation. Empowerment within business units and departments to make decisions within their scope of activities has increased, however, we often bump into "sub-optimizing the whole" Read More …

Dealing with Negative People at Work

Work Positive! Last Weeks Podcast guest was Dr. Joey Faucette (@drjoey). Dr. Joey is an internationally known author of the #1 Amazon best-seller, Work Positive in a Negative World: Redefine Your Reality and Achieve Your Business Dreams. His career was launched as a 9-year old door to door Christmas card salesman enabling him to purchase Read More …

Working Positive in a less than Perfect World

Dr. Joey Faucette (@drjoey) is the internationally known author of the #1 Amazon best-seller, Work Positive in a Negative World: Redefine Your Reality and Achieve Your Business Dreams. He is the founder of Listen to Life, a business coaching company that helps owners, leaders, sales professionals, managers, and others to achieve their business dreams primarily through Read More …

Address Change from the Positive

When most people think of change, they think of something that directly affects them, or something that affects those around them. In both cases change is perceived as a negative! It turns out that change itself is seldom addressed from a positive or strength based approach. Combining Appreciative Inquiry and Open Space The Strength-Based Organizational Read More …

Combining Appreciative Inquiry and Open Space

John Steinbach has combined the approaches of Appreciative Inquiry and Open Space into his dynamic and positive Opening Appreciative Space process. This process starts with Appreciative Inquiry; a positive approach to change that can be used by individuals, teams, organizations, and communities. Through an interview process that focuses on strengths and high-point experiences, Appreciative Inquiry Read More …