Five Steps to Holding More Effective Meetings
By Katherine Gotthardt, CEO
By Stephen Trask, MT, and Katherine Gotthardt, M.Ed. The assertion is that face- to-face meetings are no longer relevant or needed, given the number of communication technologies available. Email is used to exchange basic ideas, conference calls and Skype are used for audio exchanges and video conference is used to get small and large groups…
Read More To Change the World, Learn from the Latchkey Kids
By Katherine Gotthardt, CEO
By Stephen Trask, MT, and Katherine Gotthardt, M.Ed. It was marked by high divorce rates and video games, this generation of independent kids who learned to care for and entertain themselves while mom or dad worked long hours. Generally thought to be born between 1965 and 1979, the generation, marked X, mashed between Baby Boomers…
Read More Five Ways to Get Educated Outside the Classroom
By Katherine Gotthardt, CEO
The road to becoming educated is often a winding one that can feel more like a lonely path. Along the journey, we get discouraged, feeling like there is only one way to get things done, one way to learn and one way to progress. These are myths. The paths towards learning are varied, and they…
Read More How to Retain Clients…and Be a Better Person
By Katherine Gotthardt, CEO
I love my networking group. I always leave with something to think about and so much to write about, I can’t possibly keep up. But I’ve carved out some time today because the question posed this morning by our leader, Peggie Arvidson, was an important one: how do you retain clients? Now, this networking group…
Read More Pleased to be Part of the Palmer Family’s Celebration
By Katherine Gotthardt, CEO
I was honored to be asked to write about the Palmer’s 50th wedding anniversary celebration. The family held a surprise party on September 6, during which they actually distributed my article. Below is a video of this amazing event which included more than 200 people.
Read More Why I’d Hire Me
By Katherine Gotthardt, CEO
It’s not that I’m vain. It’s that I love my clients and want what’s best for their success. And sometimes that means referring them to other professionals. Case in point. My client wanted to upgrade his website. We had used a WordPress template that looked good and worked efficiently. But to expand the site, I…
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Don’t Use that Tone!
By Katherine Gotthardt, CEO
How did you react to the title of this blog? Did you hear your mother? I did as soon as I read it, and I’m the one that wrote it! That’s what tone in writing can do. We literally “hear” in our minds the way something is said. Here’s what happens in writing. We use…
Read More Go ahead. Raise your voice.
By Katherine Gotthardt, CEO
At a networking meeting this week, I talked a little bit about voice in blogging and how important it is to your business. If you aren’t familiar with the term as it applies to writing, voice refers to an individual style that sets the author apart from other writers. When applied to blogging, voice helps…
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