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  • Situational Influence

    Direction of Influence© V. A. Brown Consulting   Understanding  the role influence plays in your decision making is key whether you’re leading a small team or a large corporation. As a new manager it may be difficult trying to figure out when to lead and when to follow but one thing is sure.  Gone are the…

  • Meeting Basics

      Ever find yourself in the endless meeting?  You know the one I mean – you have no idea why you’re there and nothing is getting accomplished.  You’re there simply for the sake of checking off the weekly to-do list. The truth is that you can have a productive meeting  if you know what to do.  If you…

  • Go Out and Play

    “Jack and Elise jumping off swings” by wsilver © What exactly is play?  Play, according to Dutch  Historian and cultural theorist, Johan Huizing is a ” A free activity standing quite consciously outside ‘ordinary’ life as being ‘not serious’, but at the same time absorbing the player intensively and utterly”.  OK it’s a mouthful but what Huizinga…