Current Articles

Shari’s articles [available for download below] have been published in over 40 publications including Projects @Work, Exchange Magazine, Advance for Audiologists, PCT Newsletter, Law Office Administrators Magazine, Investors Business Daily.

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Powerful Communications for Powerful Leaders

How To Solve Your Workplace Communication Problems

The Office Salad Dressing: Steps to Resolve Workplace Conflict

Interviews

Managing For Success: Interview with IBD
by Morey Stettner

Its Not What You Said, Its What They Heard That Matters
published in the International MBA – January 31, 2009

Business Check-Up Articles

Your Mid-Year Business Check-Up Rx-Eight Strategies to Assess Your Financial Goals

Your Mid-Year Business Check-Up Rx-Five Strategies to Assess Your Staffing Goal

Your Mid-Year Business Check-Up Rx-Five Strategies To Assess Your Marketing Goals

Your Mid-Year Business Check-Up Rx-Four Strategies To Assess Your Trade Show Game Plan

Personalities In The Cockpit

Quickly Gaining Rapport

Quickly Gaining Rapport: Asking Questions
published in the CorporateFAInsider.com – June 2008

Accomplished People Skills Are Required To Be A Successful Leader: Gaining Rapport
published in the CorporateFAInsider.com – April 2008

Articles for Non-Profits

Organizational Leadership and Teamwork at the Board Level
published in the Non Profit Gazette

Booklets

So What? And Who Cares?

Fail: Not a Four Letter Word

Relevant Articles from Mountain State University’s Organizational Leadership Undergraduate Degree

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Skillful_Discussion_Worksheet

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Newsletters

P2P Stepping Out Into the Unknown P2P What Size is your Comfort Arena P2P What People Remember P2P Top 5 2009 Quicklist P2P Gratitudes and Thanksgiving P2P Rewarding Unemployment II P2P Rewarding Unemployment I P2P Nah! They are not my customers P2P Add Excercise for Your Brain P2P This One Skill Can Increase Productivitiy P2P Effective Ways to Deal with Overwhelm P2P Deflecting Executive Mishaps P2P The First 2.5 Steps P2P Rx for Anxiety P2P Harvard Business Review on Emotional Obliviousness P2P Indecision in Strategy is Pain in Execution P2P Fightin' Words Part 2 P2P Shari is Certified in Emotional Intelligence P2P Is Your Brain Working For or Against You P2P Breaking Bottlenecks P2P Fighting Words P2P Confusion Vs Clarity P2P Pondering Perceptions P2P Clinging to the Past P2P Raising the Bar P2P Your New Year 2009 P2P Responding to Thank You P2P Reliable Distractions P2P Saying Thank You P2P Listening to the Candidates DiSC Newsletter October 2008 DiSC Newsletter September 2008 DiSC Newsletter August 2008 DiSC Newsletter July 2008 DiSC Newsletter June 2008

 

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Blog Posts

11
Mar

HR vs. CEO: 'People' vs. 'Bottom Line'


Speaking of natural behavioral styles, the Washington Business Journal had an article about this very topic … why are more HR executives not at the executive table? There are a variety of reasons; however one of the top set is because of the communication style of HR Executives. They are more ‘people people’ than CEO’s, ...
 
10
Mar

The Kid Behind Me Kicking The Seat


When I fly, usually on Southwest Airlines, I know the seat I want … usually I am not a creature of habit, in this case I am.  Recently I flew back to Houston from Orlando and was sandwiched in between two monster children … you know the type: the ones where the parents are oblivious to their ...
 
5
Mar

Peyton Manning, QB Indy Colts


“I admire you in the way you’ve handled yourself on and off the field.   Best of luck in your post-NFL career” These are on some of the handwritten notes that Peyton Manning sends other NFL players on their retirement …. players that have NOT played with him, they have played AGAINST him.  He has sent ...
 
4
Mar

Bailout Dilemma


How often do you make a decision based on an assumption?  You “paint with a broad stroke” instead of taking the time to investigate with an open mind? If you were the recipient of an unfair decision, how would you feel?  Too often we are immersed in our own world and not realizing that the “...
 

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