I finally finished Deep Work, by Cal Newport, and immediately started reading it again. I started it as soon as I finished because it was so chock full of amazing recommendations for how to employ deep work that I needed to read it again to make sure I absorbed everything. While I’ll give you an… Continue reading Wildly Important
Category: Books!
Podcast #11 – Winning with Twin Farms
On a car ride home, Patti and John reminisce about one of their top vacations of all time, an all-inclusive resort called Twin Farms. Click here to listen or subscribe from your favorite podcast app!
Podcast #10 – Building Trust
Some Salesforce studying, iPhone 8 reboot instructions, and education on gender judo round out our random learnings for the week. The theme for the week is Building Trust. We talk about the different components for building trust and two books about trust - Tribes, by Seth Godin and The Speed of Trust, by Stephen MR… Continue reading Podcast #10 – Building Trust
Advocate Fiercely – Advocate for Your Tribe
Back in February, I gave a talk to the Athena WE group out at UCF. If you’d like to learn more about Athena Leadership, check out my old posts here and here. The topic I was given was on the Pillar of Advocate Fiercely. Here are some of the things I talked about! “Athena leaders… Continue reading Advocate Fiercely – Advocate for Your Tribe
Maintaining Credibility and Trust
In the Results section of the book, The Speed of Trust, there was some parallelism between what I’ve been learning with Leadership IQ in regards to having employees who get results and live the values of the organization and those that do not. In Leadership IQ, the “live the values” spectrum is based on good… Continue reading Maintaining Credibility and Trust
Influence and Trust
Following along with my theme of trust for the second half of the year, I watched the Leadership IQ class on Influence and Communication. There was a lot of overlap between this class and the Third Core of Credibility – Capabilities, in The Speed of Trust, by Franklin MR Covey, which also ties into a… Continue reading Influence and Trust
Trust
I'm finding that a theme for the second half of this year is centering around Building Trusting Relationships. Like how Compassion was a theme in the first half of this year (didn't actually write about it, but it's true), I'm finding learning about Trust is coming at me from all angles. It just struck me… Continue reading Trust
My Big Leap with No Regrets
I recently listened to two books that have changed my personal perspective on living and my professional perspective on doing. I have pretty much told everyone who is in front of me how I'm going to implement both in order to help create lasting change in my life, and so I thought it best to… Continue reading My Big Leap with No Regrets
On Confidence, Part One of Confidence Talk
March's theme turned out to be Confidence, so I decided to write a new mini-series called Confidence Talk. I read the book called "Confidence Code" by Kathy Kay and Claire Shipman. After finishing it, I decided to talk about it at the Femcity March Local Social and then got called out almost immediately on my… Continue reading On Confidence, Part One of Confidence Talk
Features & Benefits
The past few weeks have had the the subject of features and benefits pop up a lot. For the non-marketing people out there, let me explain the difference. The Feature: What makes a product or service that product or service. It's the steak. It's the drill. The Benefit: What the customer gets out of buying that… Continue reading Features & Benefits
Patti is still learning 