Tom Pierce, FY12 chair of ASAE’s Consultants Section Council, recommended deep-sixing all the Council’s standing Committees. Tom floated the idea of forming one-year Task Forces to tackle specific projects.
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California gets Emotional Intelligence
08-29-11Managers have a choice. They can create a healthy work environment where motivation is cradled, or they can create a toxic work environment where motivation is crushed. How does a manager’s emotional intelligence relate to motivation? How do leaders create a workplace culture where motivation thrives?
St. Louis gets Emotional Intelligence
07-22-118/7 3:15p #ASAE11 Annual Meeting: Emotional Intelligence – The Leadership Spark that Ignites Association Excellence. Tom Pierce’s learning lab in St. Louis is a requested repeat of his highly rated ASAE 2010 Los Angeles session.
Emotionally Intelligent Lobbying – Relationship Building at its Best
05-31-11If you’re a Government Relations professional, check out the Thursday, June 23, 9 a.m. Opening General Session of ASAE’s 2011 Government Relations School in Washington, DC. Tom Pierce will collaborate with advocate Kevin Kraushaar to explore the how improving your emotional intelligence can improve the impact of your lobbying efforts.
The Blind Not Leading the Blind
09-02-10I first noticed the matching yellow shirts. Three early-twenty-somethings were chattering non-stop on the Aero Train platform at Dulles Airport. Perfect skin. Perfect teeth. The perfect time of life. I figured the eternally happy trio must be on their way to one of those summer religious pilgrimages. Until I saw their three matching “May I help you?” buttons.
An Attitude of Seismic Proportion
07-15-10“So, has it started to heat up out there?”
I’d been looking for limes in all the wrong places, focused on future gin and tonics, not on Saturday morning small-talk with strangers.
A Website is Not a Necktie
05-19-10“Love your new tie!” “Love your new website!”
Those two reactions look alike. I was thinking this morning how vastly different they are. Today, we launched the new Pierce Management Development site at www.coachpierce.com . Reflecting on the past six months, I realized that a website is not a necktie. It’s not one “thing” that you either like or you dislike. Well, if a website is not a necktie, then what is it?
The Myth of the Sole Proprietor
05-18-10A sole proprietor is not a hermit.
In a bloodless coup and welcome change, my business partner Lu Ann Dillon recently became the chief executive officer of our company, Pierce Management Development. I remain president, happily focused on executive coaching, leadership and management training, and facilitating critical-issue meetings.
