The Essential Status Report

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Published: Monday, 02 February 2015 14:15

Written by Gail Vallance Barrington

(The Coffee Shop Chronicles, Part 4)

It has been a month since our new consultants had coffee. Maggie is waiting when I arrive and she looks pretty unhappy.

Gail: Maggie?

Maggie: My project got cancelled!

Gail: What happened?

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My Consulting Wishes and What I Learned Last Year

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Published: Thursday, 08 January 2015 16:44

Written by Gail Vallance Barrington

Judging from the crowd in my gym class on this snowy day and the number of empty spaces I know will be there in February, New Year's resolutions don't work all that well. Resolutions are firm and action-oriented, heroic even. They turn us into success junkies. We get addicted to checking things off our list. Then we tend to lose the list and forget what the resolutions were in the first place. And if we fail, we beat ourselves up and our guilt makes it almost impossible to start over again.

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Who’s Really Listening? One Consultant’s Dilemma

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Published: Thursday, 04 December 2014 05:19

Written by Gail Vallance Barrington

Sure, there are at least ten bad listening habits we should avoid. We all fall into them, probably more often that we want to admit but my listening problem is much more serious than these: 

Listening Habits to Avoid

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