A Daily Moment of Clarity for Your Business & Your Busyness
To help celebrate National Volunteer Week this week, I asked a few of my way-smarter-than-me-volunteery-type-friends to share some advice for volunteer coordinators on how to enrich the experience for volunteers. Yesterday, I asked them to help me help you if you’re new to volunteering or would like to get more out of it. Question: A new volunteer [...]
To help celebrate National Volunteer Week this week, I asked a few of my way-smarter-than-me-volunteery-type-friends to help me help you if you’re new to volunteering or would like to get more out of it. Tomorrow, we’ll flip the coin and share some advice for volunteer coordinators on how to enrich the experience for volunteers. QUESTION: [...]
Do you volunteer? Wait – different question … does posting KONY 2012 on your Facebook wall make you a volunteer? We were talking to our other daughter last night – Nadia – Will’s longtime companion and therapist. She first started volunteering at age 11. Now, she’s getting paid to do what she used to [...]
I field calls and emails from my clients’ media representatives. Most are good folks – just trying to honorably earn a living. Most listen. I just want you to email me your proposal, please. We have a method. We have a process for evaluation. When I ask you to email me your proposal, your next [...]
Snakes. Death. Public Speaking. According to people who measure such things (we’ll get to citing sources soon), people are more afraid of speaking in public than of spiders or dying. Or, as Jerry Seinfeld once put it, a person would rather be in the casket than deliver the eulogy. Wow. Now, I’m deeply introverted and [...]
Did you take a little time off to watch the Men’s NCAA Tournament last Thursday and Friday? Okay … a lot of time? Aside from the soul-crushing, spirit-robbing, collective-knee-to-the-groin we Columbia residents got around 5p CDT on Friday, it was a great couple days. Everyone seemed to be a bit lighter, happier and more energetic. [...]
Lots of people will be calling in sick today across America as day 2 of arguably the greatest competition in sports tips off in the NCAA Men’s College Basketball Tournament. It’s that most wonderful time of the year when we get together and celebrate that most hallowed of virtues: Gambling. If you’ve ever participated actively [...]
I’m not a human resources expert, but I’ve worked with several hundred owner-operated companies in the last 18 years and learned a few things that might save you a little time. Things will come up that require a real designer. Step away from Publisher and ClipArt and invest the money to have a professional do it [...]
On Thursday, May 3rd, I’m going back to Portland to give another lecture as a guest of the Portland Area Radio Council. Our last one sold out in a couple weeks, and this time we’re going to be delivering about 95% different content than the first. Seating is limited to 100. There will be NO [...]
“What kind of iPad should I get?” Being known as 3e geeeky, I get asked that question at least once a week. I know they want an easy answer. Something like, “Black 32gig wifi,” but I always start my advice by answering their question with a question of my own: “How do you plan to [...]
I'm a husband, dad, and I'm the head custodian for The Imagination Advisory Group. All three are pretty good gigs.
I regularly speak to conferences, colleges, and companies about what makes people do the things they do.
In 2005, my worldview shifted when our son was diagnosed with autism. Since then, our family has learned to separate the truly important from the merely urgent.
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