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Do Your Advisors Have Swiss Cheese Consciences?

When you are working with a financial advisor or other fiduciary, you expect them to keep their focus on your company’s needs and your personal and professional goals. But gaps in morality and conflicting interests can cause some advisors to have Swiss cheese...

Who Can Excel at Resolving Conflict? 

Knowing the skills and strategies for healthy disagreement can help you excel at resolving conflict, no matter what your job title is.

Combating Hopelessness in the Workplace

When it comes to hopelessness in the workplace, negative feelings can lead to more than just a bad mood. If you are a manager, here is what you can do to put hope and purpose back in your employees’ work.

10 Steps to Succession Planning for Retiring Professionals

If you are a business professional of a certain age, you probably have at least one eye on retirement. Your primary concerns may be financial, but if you want your business to carry on while you are enjoying your free time, you may need to take a more active role in...

The Major Emotions that You Must Manage in Business

Here are some of the major emotions that you must manage in business, and how you can use emotional intelligence to address the issue and get everyone back to work.

Managing Optimism and Pessimism in Business

If you are managing a professional team, the people working for you will likely represent a range of optimism and pessimism. You may be worried that these differences will create conflict and interfere with the team’s work. But the truth is, effectively managing...

How to Communicate Company Goals to Get the Most from Your Financial Advisors

When business owners begin working with financial advisors, especially in a personal capacity, their company values can sometimes get lost in translation. Here are some best practices for how to communicate company goals to get the most from your financial advisors...

The Fantasy of Working Without Conflict

Working without conflict may be the dream for many employees, especially those stuck in a toxic work environment. But this fantasy is based on a very narrow view of what conflict is. Conflict affects and sometimes even improves productivity, collaboration, and even...

What You’re Not Getting from Your Wealth Manager That You Should Be

Be sure you understand what you should be getting from your wealth manager, and your role in getting the best recommendations for your financial future.

Are Generational Differences Hurting Your Family Business?

When the next generation begins to take on an active role in the family business it can create conflict between owners and operators, not to mention parents and their children and other relatives. If you are worried about generational differences hurting your...
Electronic Communications are Easily Misunderstood

Electronic Communications are Easily Misunderstood

In today’s world, we often use text and e-mail to communicate electronically. It’s a quick and easy way to get your message across. So, if it’s quick and easy, what’s the problem? Well, often the actual message isn’t communicated, it gets misunderstood. Emotion,...

A smaller operation, a new vision for leaving a legacy

A smaller operation, a new vision for leaving a legacy

When I started growing my consulting practice seven years ago (Stanislaw Consulting), I wanted to leave a legacy. I still do, but I’ve learned a lot about what that legacy can be. My original thought was that I would build a sustainable practice that would outlast me,...

Emotional Intelligence – Can it be Taught?

Emotional Intelligence – Can it be Taught?

Emotional Intelligence defined: The ability to know one’s emotional state, manage it, read the emotion in others, and use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions. The author of the article reference below is an international authority in personality...

Do Your Employees Have Leadership Potential?

Do Your Employees Have Leadership Potential?

Effective future leaders within organizations are sometimes hard to assess at first glance. This article by Rick Lash, the director of the Leadership and Talent practice at Hay Group, highlights our view of the ingredients of effective leadership. Effective future...