JasonKiesau's Blog (7)

With all the perceived freedoms we have, I feel our greatest freedom . . . and the one people seem to give up the most is our freedom of choice. - I know pessimist, glass half empty people, and random pointless hecklers will disagree and argue with me, but regardless of our environments or situations we find ourselves in we have the ability to choose how we will internally and externally react at that time. We can get mad and stressed or we can remain calm. We can make assumptions or we can ask… Continue

Two weeks ago I did a lunch presentation for our local chamber on Junior Leadership and Attracting Young Workers. Why? At the beginning of my presentation I threw out the question: Why is this such a big deal today? We briefly talked about two issues: 1. Boomers retiring and leaving the workforce. 2. Personality challenges and differences between older workers and younger workers. Older workers don’t know why Gen Y does the things they do and Gen Y doesn’t understand their superiors very we… Continue

Recently I read a book by Marshall Goldsmith titled - “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There! The book is about 20 habits that can lead to great success, but in the end can prevent us from ultimate success and fulfillment. When I first read the book I believe I was just relating the information to business. After reviewing the list again, these are great principals for life. Enjoy! 20. An Excessive need to be yourself. 19. Passing the Buck 18. Punishing the Messenger 17. Failure to Express… Continue

There are a large number of people “out there” who are looking for a job! Whether they have a job or not, millions of people are doing the same thing everyone else is doing; going on the internet, posting their resume on the job sites, and applying for jobs. If they’re lucky their resume will WOW who ever is reviewing them and they will get moved on to the next round in the process, typically a phone or face to face interview. If you are doing things like everyone else, what are you doing to b… Continue

As it is extremely important to pay attention to all the great things small business owners do that lead them to success, I feel it can be equally beneficial to understand the reasons businesses fail. I came across a piece by Patricia Schaefer on the website BusinessKnowHow.com that gives 7 reasons businesses fail. 1. You Start Your Business for the Wrong Reasons 2. Poor Management 3. Insufficient Capital 4. Location, Location, Location 5. Lack of Planning 6. Over Expansion 7. No Website In a… Continue

I just got out of a great meeting with two coaches and HR professionals; Tim Bianchi with Trilogy Solutions and Jean Baker with Red Lantern Group, LLC. We talked about a number of things, but one area that each of us are passionate about is human resources. When I think of a human resource department within a company I think of: * Hiring * Benefits * Rules and Laws We continued to talk about different types of human resource departments. Big companies have HR departments with specialist in ea… Continue

Where do you live? We live in such a fast paced world where information is coming at us none stop. We as a society are arguably out of control. We are struggling in each major area of life. (Health, Finances, Relationship, & Careers). What are you doing to gain control? * Mentally * Emotionally * Physically Control just doesn’t happen. It’s something that each of have the ability to create for ourselves, but very few people know how . . . because we haven’t been taught. We’ve always been… Continue