No matter what their size, many businesses use most of their available energy just keeping things running on a day-to-day basis.
Unfortunately, there seldom seems to be much time for those tasks that can have a profound effect on a company's future, such as communicating the company's message and projecting its image.

HEY BOSS, DID YOU EVER CONSIDER BECOMING A COACH? by Frank Herberg Boss, manager, supervisor. We've all had great ones, and some less than great. Some, especially the newly elevated...

RECRUITING EMPLOYEES THE CUTTING-EDGE PERSONNEL ISSUE by Roger Herman, CMC, CSP Insurance agencies must have good people on their team in order to function. Without competent employees who know...

RECRUITING EMPLOYEES: A CUTTING-EDGE PERSONNEL ISSUE by Roger Herman, CMC, CSP Insurance agencies must have good people on t...

THE LU AND THE TORPEDO: A TALE OF TWO PRODUCERS by Chris Burand To paraphrase Robert Louis Stevenson, 'All men are salesmen, selling themselves, its just that not all men kn...

TRAINING FOR SUCCESS by Joel Linchitz It never ceases to amaze me. Companies will invest considerable sums of money in a state-of-the-art telemarketing operation, spend the time and...

According to popular mythology, most Americans would rather die than give a speech. Whatever the actual statistics, the idea of standing in front of an audience is avoided at all cost.
Since the fear of speaking in public is so deep, most of us should be understanding of those who put themselves to the test and make presentations. Actually, just the opposite prevails: While we'll do just about anything to avoid a podium, we're more than willing to criticize those who don't.