If you want great leadership, you must be investing in them both personally and professionally. Work goes home, and home comes to work. This simply truth has been ignored for way too long, and I am hopeful we are finally learning the importance of work/life balance! I have been an advocate for work/life balance […]
Concept One is All About the F.I.T.
Yes, I am a fitness guru and certified personal trainer who is all about helping others get fit, but I am also a professional business consultant and recruiter who helps businesses be F.I.T. At Concept One, we are all about Function, Integration, and Training or F.I.T when it comes to hiring and on boarding. […]
September 2023
YOUR HEALTH We all know how yoga can help us stretch, strengthen, and stabilize, but did you know the practice of meditation can also dislodge deeply buried feelings? If you have ever stuffed your feelings, they embed within your body. Over time without knowing it, these unresolved emotions can turn dark, ugly, angry, […]
The Struggle is Real
The insanity continues in our job market where millions of people who want to work can’t get hired, and companies continue to complain they can’t find workers. It is as if we are living out an episode of the Twilight Zone! Meanwhile, we are all suffering the consequences: Restrooms go uncleaned, pharmacies close because they […]
How to Receive Constructive Feedback
None of us is perfect, and we all could improve. At our best, we are open to honest, constructive feedback. Unfortunately, our egos and insecurities can get in the way, preventing us from a growth opportunity. We each have different temperaments, and receiving feedback can be difficult for some, especially when unsolicited. The older I […]
Observe, Modify, and Act
For my husband’s birthday, we went and saw the new movie, Air, starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Affleck plays Phil Knight, founder and CEO of Nike, and Damon is Sonny Vaccaro, hired to spot and recruit up and coming athletic talent. I’m actually not a Nike fan since they have gone completely wonky socially […]
Quit Wishing and Start Doing
My husband and I were recently at a store. We were talking to the associate, and the subject of dogs came up. Of course we had to share about Kuma, and the man wanted to see a picture. He had heard of the Shiba Inu, but he never saw a Black and Tan one. I […]
Looking Back to Move Forward
Happy 2023! I hope you had a most wonderful holiday season. If you haven’t put your goals together yet, I encourage you to do so this week. You can’t reach the destination without a map, and your goals will help you make the right choices and steps toward reaching the place you want to […]
Self-Compassion is Vital
This is the last week of 2022, and as you look back on what you didn’t do and didn’t get done, you might be hard on yourself. Certainly, we must admit failures in order to make corrections for the next year. Each mistake can grow us if we let it. However, beating one’s self […]
Take Responsibility
As a human behaviorist, communication trainer, and co-author of Leveraging Your Communication Style who helps people build bridges and reduce conflict, I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt how you word things matter, especially when you have goofed up. Taking responsibility for our own actions is one of the biggest steps […]
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