You may have noticed that the face of this blog and my entire website has changed. Kim Woodbridge played a huge role in making it happen! I determined that I wanted to move the site to Headway, after seeing the blogs of people like Jim Connolly, Danny Brown, John Haydon, and hearing them explain how…
Category Archives: Business
Hammocks? Ingenuity and Determination Create a Unique Business Strategy
Wausau Whitewater introduced me to many people who I would never have met otherwise. One of those people is Shawn Feddema from the Hammock Shop in Langlade, Wisconsin. I met Shawn on the Wausau Whitewater course in 2000-something. He donated some hammocks to be used as prizes for one of the freestyle rodeos. He gave…
Confessing to Twitter (well TweetDeck) Withdrawal
Creature of habit that I am, I wake up and head to the computer. This morning, Twitter locked me out. Checking my e-mail, I found instruction to change my password, which I did, not once but twice since TweetDeck didn’t want to let me change my password on it. Using Twitter just from the Twitter…
Nutritional Chaos
Job Stickiness #4 a series to help you keep jobs or tips to make you sticky in the next one. I couldn’t even write this post until I ate. I was looking for a food photo and could feel the hypoglycemic response building in me. Irritability, anger… crabbiness, wow, is that all food-related? For me, it…
Changing your Focus
Job Stickiness #3 a series to help you keep jobs or tips to make you sticky in the next one. For anyone who really pays attention, there was a different blog post here this morning. But after reflection, I decided I didn’t like the post enough to keep it. I’ve never done that before, annihilated a…
Organization & Job Stickiness: The Colored Pen To-Do List
Job Stickiness – #2 - a series that can help us keep jobs or tips to make us stick in the next one. What do colored pens have to do with Job Stickiness? The previous Job Stickiness post talked about Maximizing Your Energy Levels, how finding what your best times to work (and sleep) can make…
Maximizing Your Energy Levels
Job Stickiness: Post 1 – a series that can help us keep jobs or tips to make us stick in the next one We all have times that we are most effective. Some of us are morning people, some of us are night owls, some of us will suffer if we drink too much caffeine…
If we all worked together, what would happen?
Last week I met (and met with) Shawn Blackwell from Wausau To Go for the first time. We had chatted on LinkedIn and he had called previously to schedule an appointment to chat about social media, marketing, and to learn how I work as a career professional. As we talked about Facebook, he said he…
I'm on hold
Hang in there… I didn’t forget you… I will write again soon. We are in transition time and there are piles of files all over my office as I start the hand-off to Ashley, my summer intern who will be Wausau Whitewater’s new Operations Manager… I’m excited to be in charge of me soon again….
Job Seeker or Job Keeper?
Choices? You face them everyday! Sometimes we think about customer service as it relates to Breaking All the Records. Jim Connolly wrote about customer service in What’s your Experience, asking you to analyze what makes you choose one service or business over another and what makes a wonderful buying experience. Jim’s post inspired Robin Dickinson…
