Giving up “Because”, Keeping the F-Bomb
Mar 18 Carolann Jacobs on March 18th, 2010
Many of you may know that I am on the path to earn my Master Trainer’s Certification in Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP). For those of you who are unfamiliar with NLP, it is model which explains how we process information that comes to us from the outside (and our internal Negative Nelly). As both an ever [...]
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100% Accountability, Take Two
Mar 16 Carolann Jacobs on March 16th, 2010
Living the Success Principles #2
I’m in the second or perhaps third week of working Principle 1 – Take 100% Responsibility for Your Life, and I admit, I am still stuck on the No Complaints rule. This is somewhat embarrassing since I harp on this one with my clients.
What I’ve noticed is that I’ve stopped complaining [...]
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How Inimitable Leadership Can Save the Day
Mar 9 Carolann Jacobs on March 9th, 2010
Last week, I was reading an article on Gallup about how President and CEO Douglas R. Conant’s plan to revitalize Campbell’s Soup included a decade-long effort to improve employee engagement. To give you some background, Conent took over at Cambell’s about 9 years ago. Things weren’t going well. Campbell’s had one of the lowest [...]
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Take 100% Responsibility for Your Life (Part 1)
Mar 5 Carolann Jacobs on March 5th, 2010
This is the first installment of my effort to integrate the 64 Success Principles from Jack Canfield’s book of the same name.
Last week, I went to a one day live workshop with Jack Canfield, and was considering, along with the accountability partner he recommended and the mastermind group that frankly I’m not in the mood [...]
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Not Buying the Solution, Not Participating in the Game
Mar 3 Carolann Jacobs on March 3rd, 2010
We’ve become a society of consumers, people who participate little, if at all, in the creation of what we use. There is a someone else who does almost everything for us, and that’s become a habit for us. Think that impacts engagement at work? I do.
Think about it. Who changes their oil anymore? If I [...]
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