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How To Create and Maintain A Toxic Organizational Culture

Michele Aikens

Feb 4
3 min

How To Create and Maintain A Toxic Organizational Culture

If you want to insure a toxic culture in your organization, here are four behaviors that will help you accomplish it:

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How To Find A Coach...Without Getting Hustled

Michele Aikens

Jan 11
2 min

How To Find A Coach...Without Getting Hustled

"Anyone can have an opinion about your issues or next step, however all are not trained in coaching protocols that protect you."

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Add Authenticity To Your List of Resolutions for 2020

Michele Aikens

Dec 3, 2019
2 min

Add Authenticity To Your List of Resolutions for 2020

This is naturally the busiest time of year for our clients, and by extension, for us. There are the checklists: goals, actuals, variance...

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Michele Aikens

Oct 31, 2019
2 min

What To Do In The Midst of Change

I recently observed some machiavellian style maneuvers by an organization undergoing a change in leadership. The new leader, responsible...

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Differentiating Your Sales Pitch From The Rest

Michele Aikens

Sep 27, 2019
2 min

Differentiating Your Sales Pitch From The Rest

I know; it's the fourth quarter and we are all trying to make our numbers for the year. The marketing messages are flying around like ra...

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Michele Aikens

Jun 23, 2019
3 min

Get Ready. Be Ready. Stay Ready.

I talk with a lot of people who have big plans to accomplish even bigger things. Often when the thing they are hoping for gets delayed, ...

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Michele Aikens

Jun 7, 2019
2 min

The Power of the Right Question

Often the questions in our heart provoke a search that when pursued, will lead to the solution to an issue or problem we are facing. Don&#3

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Michele Aikens

Mar 8, 2019
4 min

Components of Successful Teams

Are the different personality styles of your team grating against your own? Here's why the "irritant" may be just what your t

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