• The Power of DISC Evaluations in the Hiring Process: Unlocking Employee Potential

    The Power of DISC Evaluations in the Hiring Process: Unlocking Employee Potential

    The process of hiring new talent is a critical aspect of building a successful team. To make informed decisions, employers have turned to various assessment tools, with DISC evaluations emerging as a popular choice. There are many benefits of using DISC assessments in the hiring process including unlocking the potential of candidates. You may be…

  • Balancing Delco Ingenuity With Philly Grit: A Power to Do Good

    Balancing Delco Ingenuity With Philly Grit: A Power to Do Good

    By now, it’s understood that the quick reopening of I-95 can be partially credited to specialized fill used for emergency repairs provided by the Eddystone firm, Aero Aggregates of North America. Eddystone’s in Delaware County. Ingenuity in a pinch. It’s kind of what Delaware County does, writes Stefanie Farr for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Just ask…

  • Break Through the Focus Barriers

    Break Through the Focus Barriers

    The single most important ingredient to a full life and successful business is the ability to focus. Can you concentrate your time, effort, energy, and thought exclusively on your business or any task? The ability to stay in the present moment and focus is the critical success factor in everything you do. Focusing on dreams, goals, and…

  • Are You Spending Too Much Time in Crisis Mode?

    Are You Spending Too Much Time in Crisis Mode?

    E-mail, meetings, due dates, family commitments, financial decisions … is every day an endless cycle of important tasks? A never-ending checklist? Are you exhausted at the end of each day yet feel like nothing was completed? Or worse — do you wake up every morning exhausted and overwhelmed thinking of the day ahead? There must…

  • How Important Is It for You to Get the Next Six Months Right?

    How Important Is It for You to Get the Next Six Months Right?

    Heading into the summer means we are at the midpoint of the year. Hard to believe, right? Have you been successful at the goals you set for yourself and your business way back in January? What are you going to do to ensure that the next six months are successful for you and your business?…

  • Retired Navy Rear Admiral Honored at Freedom Village for Service in Vietnam War

    Retired Navy Rear Admiral Honored at Freedom Village for Service in Vietnam War

    Navy Rear Admiral Larry Chambers, who served during the Vietnam War, was honored recently at Freedom Village at Brandywine, reports ChesCo. Retired Navy Rear Admiral Larry Chambers spoke to residents at Freedom Village about his time in the Navy. His talk was followed by a luncheon on the Freedom Village campus. Afterward, Chambers was honored…

  • Empowerment Summit Speaks to Girls and Lets Them Learn From Each Other

    Empowerment Summit Speaks to Girls and Lets Them Learn From Each Other

    Hundreds of girls attended a recent Girls Spark empowerment summit at Penn State Brandywine in Media, writes Hadas Kuznits for KYW Newsradio. The summit was created five years ago by Julia Kasper, a high school junior at the time. That first year about 100 girls showed up. This year’s summit signed up 135 middle school…

  • Hit Your Target with SAM Goals: 5 Ways to Reach Goals Faster

    Hit Your Target with SAM Goals: 5 Ways to Reach Goals Faster

    As mid-year rapidly approaches, how are you doing on your goals program? Did you stick with them or fall off the wagon in week two? Here is the great news: It’s not too late! You still have six months to hit those New Year Goals whether you fell off or just recently slacked off. Let’s…

  • Grow a Garden of Success

    Grow a Garden of Success

    It’s that time of year when we all feel rejuvenated and ready to get growing new things. That might be a new hobby, a new sport, or a new garden. When planting out your spring garden, you need to consider many things to be successful. An abundant garden requires preparation, seeds, and tending. In your…

  • Struggling to Motivate Your Workforce? Check Out These Best Practices

    Struggling to Motivate Your Workforce? Check Out These Best Practices

    Developing leaders and managers is the most important advantage we will have in the future. The process by which you motivate your workforce, as you develop your managers, and the tools you equip them with will determine your success. Few innovative technologies last long before being replaced, however, intentionally developing a team will pay big…

  • Get Results from Your Team

    Get Results from Your Team

    Is your work style “I’m running a business” or “I’m building an organization”? The way you answer this question will determine the trajectory of your business. Are you creating managers who can problem solve or are you constantly putting out fires yourself? If you are spending more time “doing” and not enough time leading, your…

  • Clarity Is the Antidote to Uncertainty

    Clarity Is the Antidote to Uncertainty

    We are living in crazy times and uncertain times. I was reading recently about John D. Rockefeller in his early business days. The nation was deep in a recession, and yet he took advantage of openings he saw all around him. In fact, he said, “I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”…

  • Are Your Listening Skills Keeping You from the Success You Desire?

    Are Your Listening Skills Keeping You from the Success You Desire?

    Most people are egocentric, which leads to poor listening. How often do you ask people to repeat themselves? The problem is not getting people to talk; it’s getting them to listen. We have all kinds of communication training, yet little on listening well. Poor listening starts from bad habits. You can become a better listener.…

  • Double Your Listening Effectiveness and Increase Your Income

    Double Your Listening Effectiveness and Increase Your Income

    Talk less. Listening more. Learn more. Earn more. Most of us don’t realize we have a problem with listening; we don’t fully realize how listening (or not listening) affects us daily. Most individuals use only 25 percent of their inherent ability to listen. Hearing is a faculty; listening is an art. Listening is a skill…

  • The Greatest Management Secret of the 21st Century

    The Greatest Management Secret of the 21st Century

    Are you ready for it? Today, I want to share with business leaders the greatest management secret of the 21st century! I’ll never forget when I was promoted to Vice President of Sales at the wholesale distribution business where I worked. I was given a short course on managing people by my boss. The essence…

  • Tuesdays With Michael: Win Big with Small Talk

    Tuesdays With Michael: Win Big with Small Talk

    Have you ever found yourself in a one-sided conversation with someone who is talking on and on? You’re nodding your head and looking at them but not hearing a word they’re saying. You might even be thinking to yourself, how much longer will this go on? They believe you’re listening because your eye contact, head-nodding,…

  • As We Near the End of the First Quarter, Pause and Take a Pulse Check

    As We Near the End of the First Quarter, Pause and Take a Pulse Check

    Here we are, nearing the end of the first quarter. How are you doing? Let’s take a first-quarter pulse check! It’s been quite a ride. Are you growing? Is your business thriving? Now is a great time to pause and look at where you are, how you got here, and where the rest of the…

  • Are Your Leadership Habits Bringing You Success?

    Are Your Leadership Habits Bringing You Success?

    All leaders have a natural style — a combination of personality and values. Some are aggressive, some passive. Some are extroverted, some introverted. No matter what your current style, you do not have to change your personality or lower your values to become a top-notch leader with good leadership habits. In one of his best-selling…