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Sep 24, 2020
“That’s Not My Problem” & Other Customer Service Missteps
Should you be having a birthday, and be anywhere in my vicinity, I will happily be in charge of getting you a cake. (I am all about birthday cake. It…
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Sep 10, 2020
“Thank You for Correcting Me”
As I mentioned a few Wow’s ago, I’m in the midst of an online education course. This morning our teacher corrected a student’s Sanskrit pronunciation and she responded, “Thank you…
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Aug 20, 2020
What Tomatoes Can Teach Us About Trust—and Asking Effective Questions
The last few weeks I have been making an enormous amount of tomato sauce and enrolled in an online course with 60 other students. What do these two things have…
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Aug 6, 2020
Strike While the Iron is Cold: Using Nonviolent Communication to Change Your Life
First, let me say that I know “strike while the iron is hot,” is a blacksmithing term, not an ironing term. As I had no blacksmithing equipment in my home,…
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Jul 30, 2020
Serving Those Who Have Served—and How it Can Serve You
Some weeks ago I appeared on a podcast that helps JMO’s (Junior Military Officers) transition from their branch of service to the corporate world. Why was this particularly fun for…
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Jul 23, 2020
Take Out the Trash – Say Goodbye to Garbage-Speak
This past week an intersectionality of coincidences took up my bandwidth, providing me with key learnings… What the cuss does that mean? A friend sent me an article on how…
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Jun 25, 2020
Gratitude = Grease
Hello Wow-types, I received lots of feedback on last week’s post. Many of you loved the idea of not having to educate others about how they could be less hideous.…
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Jun 18, 2020
Use Your Temper as a Tool
This past week, the Director of an organization with which I am involved in a volunteer capacity sent me an email so riddled with condescension and contempt it took my…
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May 7, 2020
Distance Selling? Zoom In and Close the Deal
For many people, the best and easiest part of selling their product or service used to be when they would hand it to the potential retailer/buyer and say, “Here, touch…
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Apr 30, 2020
These 4 Words = Quarantine Chaos (Guaranteed)
Hello and how’s everybody doing? While some of you may be finding the “new normal” is starting to feel, well, normal, others of you may be contemplating space travel. In…
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