It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

-Charles Darwin

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Joy Huber, Owner of Joy Huber Presentations, Inc. (JHPI) contacted us to let you know about her new CD’s, which are specifically geared towards women in business.

Joy provides an enthusiastic and supportive set of tools to remind you of your own skills, attitude, and knowledge when thriving in challenging situations.

Joy has two CD’s available:

The first CD is entitled ‘Talk to the Hand: A Woman’s Guide to Truly Thriving Amongst Difficult People.’ Topics include: why are people difficult, how you choose your response to the events in life, how to communicate more effectively and listen differently to different types of people, how to effectively deal with the emotions that inevitably arise in most women (tears & crying, anger) as a very natural reaction to conflict, and how to manage the stress that comes about by being around or confronting difficult people around us. The CD is jam-packed with valuable information for women in business and it’s $15/CD.

The second CD is ‘An Interview with Joy Huber, business communications expert.’ This resource addresses other crucial business topics including managing different personality types, using feedback models in effective communication (Hint: Most people say “You” with a bad news message and this puts someone on the defensive automatically!). Joy talks very specifically about scripting and role-playing crucial conversations before you have them and how that helps women build confidence and anticipate the direction for the conversation.

To purchase, e-mail Joy Huber directly at joy (at) joyhuber.com or call her at 402-560-1861. Joy’s web site is www.joyhuber.com

Joy Huber helps companies & individuals achieve an even greater level of professional & personal success through customized interactive training events. She has nationwide presentation experience facilitating seminars for nationally-known seminar companies. She also develops and delivers unique workshops for clients including Wal-Mart, Hilton Hotel’s Doubletree Hotel, and Konica Minolta Business Solutions. She blends her diversified industry experiences in the non-profit & profit sectors with her undergraduate degree in education to deliver an exceptional value for customers. Joy is professionally trained in personal and corporate coaching by Coach U so she works with clients one-on-one to catapult them to achieving amazing results in their lives. http://www.joyhuber.com.

With the recent upsurge in many credit card annual percentage rates, I wanted to direct your attention to a new resource called “Credit Card Specialist.”

This site is a finance-related website that focuses mainly on credit cards. They do reviews and specials and show you how to sort through the many types of offers that are available.

If you need assistance in finding a credit card that suits your needs (and you even have a chance to apply online), visit the site to learn about low percentage rate and even 0% Credit Card Deals as well as best ways to do Balance Transfers.

I recently opened a new credit card through Amex and transferred some high interest balances over to them for a low rate over the lifetime of the balance. If you’re carrying a balance for your personal or business use, or if you’re looking for a better deal, this site may be for you.

Halee Fischer-Wright is a management consultant who recently came out with a book called “Tribal Leadership,” which shows leaders how to assess their organization’s tribal culture on a scale from one to five and then implement specific tools to elevate the organizational stage to the next level. Based on a ten-year study of approximately 24,000 people in more than two dozen corporations, Fischer-Wright and her co-authors Dave Logan and John King discuss practical strategies for success.

We took a moment to review Fischer-Wright’s ideas and how they relate to successful women:

1) Why is it important for women striving for success in their workplace to care about their “tribe?”
A way for women to be successful is to be the leader of their tribe. What remains a secret is that women are naturally better leaders for the tribe than men. Men are driven by ego to be leaders, while women are driven by the needs of the tribe. The tribe is the basic building block of society. Composed of 20-150 people in a naturally occurring group, its the tribe who decides who the leader is.

What determines the success of a group is the culture, not the leader. In fact, its the culture who determines the leader- and often its not the person who carries the senior title. How do women rise to the position of leader within their tribes?

2) What are your top three suggestions on how women in the workplace may form their own “tribes”?
The top three actions are:

* Help others build their careers- especially women.

* Find out the interest and values of the members of the tribes.

* Create triads within the tribe, where you introduce a member of the tribe to another member of the tribe based on values, and create values based relationships.

3) What was your reason for writing the book?
The reason we wrote the book was that we kept reading the latest bestselling leadership books, and despite their glossy promises nothing inside the book was engineered to get you any closer to an understanding of what leadership actually is, and how to lead other people. When my co-authors figured out that it was the culture of an organization that determined its success, that opened the door to the study we did of over 24,000 people. We wrote the book to share our insights.

4) What is the main message you’d like to give to women in business or in leadership at their company, organization, or group?
As women, we are our own worst enemies. We sabotage other women to make ourselves successful. The road to your success is to build the success and career of other people, and especially women. If you build the careers of the people around you, you are a true Tribal Leader.

http://www.triballeadership.net/order_book.php

My takeaway:
We always have an opportunity to learn from other researchers, scientists, and people who study human nature so we gain a better understanding of what works and how we may succeed in our business and personal lives. Fischer-Wright’s book has some concrete examples of how we may use our positions of leadership to help one another and contribute to the success of our organizations and companies. Thanks Halee for your responses!

Halee Fischer-Wright (Youtube video) is a partner of CultureSync who began her career in pediatrics and has since become a leading expert in not only healthcare but also general business and management circles. Prior to joining in 2005—where she heads up projects related to financial services, education, high-technology, healthcare, and entrepreneurial ventures—Halee spent the previous 10 years wearing multiple hats as an owner, manager, and physician at Foothills Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine in Denver, Colorado. She has served on several executive hospital boards and is currently President of a 400-physician group in Denver.

With a focus on balancing quality with profitability, Halee initiates programs that build values-based partnerships in client organizations. She also helps businesses create high-performance teams with energy, purpose, and motivation. She holds an M.D. from the University of Colorado, a Masters of Medical Management from USC, and a Certificate in Executive Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University. Dedicated to her passions in both medicine and business, she continues to serve on faculty at the University of Colorado as an Assistant Clinical Professor, as well as teach executive programs at USC.

Today’s guest post is by Liz Agnew, whose guest blog posts to A Successful Woman provide all of us coaching and insight into our own development.

On to the post….

We’ve all heard how negative thoughts can really mess you up. Well, similarly, positive thoughts can really raise you up. However, this only works if you believe the positive thoughts.

Discover positive statements that are true for you. Positivity and truth packaged neatly together in one statement is a recipe for success.

I discovered the idea for this exercise while on a run. I really didn’t want to go on the run, but I dragged myself out of the house. Just 60 feet out my door and I was already glad I had gone. And that’s when it hit me: Running makes me feel good about myself and my life. Repeating that a few times over gave it force, “yeah!” It was something I could not deny, whether or not I “felt” like running.

Running makes me feel good about myself and my life.

The statement is true, and it gets me out of the house. It is easy to remember because it is rooted in truth and goodness.

The first part of the statement says an action or fact about you, and the second part explains its positive impact.

Some other great truths for me are:
· Making my bed in the morning means I have my life in order.
· Silence allows me to feel at ease.
· Good food and good friends bring me joy.

What are your great truths?

Think about an area of your life that is important to you: health, relationships, entertainment, family, career, or sleep, for example. Now think about what makes that area positive in your life. Link the two statements in one powerful, simple sentence.

See if you can find three great truths for yourself.

- Elizabeth J. Agnew, M.S.

Liz is a professional life coach and owner of Vision, Goal, Action. Coaching, based in Silicon Valley. She works primarily with engineers who want more. As a professional coach, she is able to guide her clients in clarifying their vision who they are and what they want, weeding out external pressures and clearing obstacles to personal and professional growth.

Contact her at liz (at) vgacoaching (dot) com or visit her website at www.vgacoaching.com.