by Kevin Brimhall | Mar 20, 2013 | Organizational Excellence
If you find yourself on the fast track to a management job, make room for company. Executive coaching or one-on-one business mentoring is no longer reserved for a company’s top officers. Companies are hiring executive coaches who tend to focus on improving...
by Kevin Brimhall | Mar 8, 2013 | Personal Improvement
If You Don’t Check Your Mirrors, You’re Going to Crash! For a driver, a blind spot is an area not easily seen. It may be the area the mirrors miss, either beside or behind the driver … or is simply forgotten by the driver. Accidents occur when the...
by Kevin Brimhall | Feb 27, 2013 | Book Summaries, Personal Improvement
Subtitled “How Successful People Become Even More Successful,” this book focuses on continuous improvement, especially for those people who have already achieved a certain level of success. The issue lies in a belief that “I’m successful”...
by Kevin Brimhall | Feb 25, 2013 | Organizational Excellence
Highly successful companies have the basic components that you would expect: strong financial foundations and the usual sturdy pillars: Effective leaders. Competent managers. A motivated staff. Clear plans and strategies. Concrete goals. Quality control. Attractive,...
by Kevin Brimhall | Feb 14, 2013 | Personal Improvement
Do birds of a feather flock together or do opposites attract? In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, the UK’s Oxford Psychologists Press (OPP) and its U.S. subsidiary the Institute for Personality and Ability Testing (IPAT), looked for an answer in their data....
by Kevin Brimhall | Feb 7, 2013 | Personal Improvement
For many years this slogan has been the banner we have waved at JFD Performance Solutions as we work with teams and individuals as they Strive, Perform, and Achieve. We continue to believe that everyone has the opportunity to maximize their personal and organizational...
by Kevin Brimhall | Jan 30, 2013 | Organizational Excellence
(It’s not too late.) On a scale of 1 to 10, having a good business strategy rates about a 15! No matter what kind of business you have – whether you sell products or a service, as the saying goes, "If you fail to plan, then you’re really...
by Kevin Brimhall | Jan 19, 2013 | Book Summaries, Personal Improvement
Subtitled "Why We Do What We Do In Life and Business," this 2012 book’s author is an investigative reporter for the New York Times. He describes a habit as "a choice that we deliberately make at some point, and then stop thinking about, but...
by Kevin Brimhall | Jan 6, 2013 | Goals / Purpose
I recently had a conversation with a young friend. She has been out of college for a few years now but isn’t satisfied with the direction her career has taken. In fact, she’s not too happy with her personal life either. Her voice developed more than a...
by Kevin Brimhall | Dec 26, 2012 | Motivation / Inspiration
Please enjoy this heart-warming holiday story. Snowflake 1998 Holiday Short Story by RL Williams Ten-year-old Becky stood in front of the pet store, looking through the large window at the puppies and kittens. She smiled and giggled at the well-groomed...
