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With March Madness in the air now, Dave and a couple
of our clients enjoyed watching a basketball game at the Air Force
Academy last week, where his son is an officer representative
for the team.
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Dave
continues to get requests to speak on his favorite topic—his
Up-Side-Down Networking approach. Last week, he spoke to three
groups on how to grow and maintain membership for leads groups
and how to think of networking as an opportunity to give gifts
away. This is truly his passion!
 Discovering
and following your passion is beautifully illustrated in a book
Victoria has been reading, Make the Impossible Possible
by Bill Strickland is a powerful story of how one man’s
passion inspired others to achieve seemingly impossible dreams.
However, before we seek to find and follow our passion, it’s
a good idea to uncover and eliminate any limiting
beliefs that may hold us back.
Our very best regards,
Dave and Victoria
P.S. Watch for Make-it-Fly’s
new Quick Biz Tips next week!
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Ener-Cast Human Resource Strategies
Like a lot of Make-it-Flyers,
Barbara Brannen is a serial entrepreneur. Her
original company, Playmore, was started in 1999 and is now a publishing
house for her books and home to her keynote speaking. Playmore
originally had a human resources consulting component that grew
so large that Barbara had to give it its own name: Ener-Cast.
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“Ener-Cast is a Human Resources Strategy
Company,” Barbara says. “Our work is devoted to putting
the energy into the cast of people a company has so carefully
chosen.” Ener-Cast’s work focuses on better morale,
reduction in turnover and the creation of a process to implement
changes requested in employee surveys. “We help companies
create a more collaborative culture or help to get everyone on
board for what is planned in the coming year,” she says.
“All of this is about making
your company an ‘employer of choice.’
In addition we do leadership development, meeting and retreat
facilitation, and human resource audits, create spectacular reward
and recognition programs, and in
general make your workplace a great place.”
Q: What do you find most fulfilling
about running your business?
BB: I have been
in Human Resources for over 30 years and I KNOW that people make
a difference in the success of an organization in so many ways.
Helping an organization make their workplace into something that
is bringing out the best in everyone is not only fulfilling, but
something I love to do. I know it makes life better for everyone
involved.
Q: What motivated you to start
this business? What is your background experience in this area?
BB: My motivation
was fairly simple, I saw the difference in the financial success
of organizations that cared about their people and invested in
them. Having been a senior Human Resources professional for over
30 years, I have had the opportunity to be on the senior teams
of four great companies and consult with over 50. I have also
published in this area.
Q: What book has been most helpful
to you in your business?
BB: This is a hard question
since there are so many good books. I love to read! A favorite
is Wooden on Leadership by John Wooden. The one I go
back to every day is A Deep Breath of Life by Alan Cohen,
as he gives me a practical look at life combined with great spiritual
guidance.
Q: Who has influenced you most
in your life?
BB: At the top of the list
would be my husband, closely followed by my dad. Both these people
are sensible and have an attitude about life that is uplifting
and just plain fun.
Q: What has proved to be your most
successful marketing strategy?
BB: Speaking at conferences,
meetings and conventions without a doubt. When people hear the
stories of how successful human capital strategies made money
for organizations they want some of that!
Q: What have been the greatest
challenges you have had to overcome, or are currently facing,
in your business?
BB: My greatest challenge
has always been that I love the work that I do, so I tend to immerse
myself in client work and forget to market!
Q: How did you benefit/are you
benefiting from participating in a Make-it-Fly®
board?
BB: I love
my board. We are wonderful about speaking freely, offering assistance
and being there each month for accountability. I also learn SO
much when they are talking about their businesses that help me
in mine.
Q: What would you say to other
business owners who are contemplating getting involved in a Make-it-Fly®
board?
BB: I
believe if you are open, want to and are willing to share your
stories, pains and challenges to get help, and likewise willing
to help others with theirs, this is for you.
Barbara Brannen can be reached
by phone at: 303-984-9271. Or visit her website at: www.barbarabrannen.com.
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Networking Tip:
When
talking with someone at an event, focus
on that person—allow him or her to bask in the spotlight.
Listen to what they say. Ask questions about their passions,
what their ideal client looks like, who would make good
power partners for them, what challenges they face as
they grow their business. The answers to these questions
will give insight into this person and better equip you
to help him or her.
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Could Be Holding You Back
Part One of a Two-Part Series
By Victoria Munro
Subtle yet deeply held limiting beliefs could be preventing you
from achieving your goals. What we truly believe—those often-unconscious
assumptions about who we are and what we’re capable of—can
propel us to greatness and enable us to achieve audacious dreams,
or they can sabotage our efforts.
Negative beliefs that hold us back
are rarely based on fact. They may have come from
parents, early caregivers, teachers or society. We may have been
told, “You can’t do …” “You’ll
never…” and at some level have assumed it to be true.
Because we’re seldom aware of these ways of thinking, we
rarely question them. Worse still, we may reinforce them with
negative self-talk.
The good news is that we can choose
what we believe.
What Do You Really Believe?
It’s a good exercise and can be revealing
to find out what you truly believe. Take a minute and write down
what you believe about money, yourself and your capabilities,
success, your business, your market and/or your competition.
Change Limiting Beliefs:
In order to develop new thought patterns we must
take a look at what we really believe in the objective light of
day. Write down and think about each potentially limiting belief.
Then, after each old limiting belief, write down a new, more appropriate
belief. Repeat your new belief out loud. How does it feel?
Ask yourself the following questions:
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Uncover any negative self-talk that supports this belief. Write
a new positive self-talk statement.
To cultivate and keep a positive mindset, determine to change
your “I can’t"s to “I can"s.
What You Believe Can Determine
Your Destiny
Our beliefs are a powerful force within us. They can keep us trapped
in the status quo, or free us to become who we were born to be
and achieve the dreams we set out to reach. Henry Ford understood
this when he said, “Whether you think you can or whether
you think you can’t, you’re right.”
Choose to change your old limiting beliefs now. This
can alter the direction of your life and your business,
and enable you to achieve extraordinary dreams.
Part Two of this two-part series, Release the Power of the
Real You, will be published in the next edition of In-Flight
Refueling—Secrets to Small Biz Success.
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here for the printable version.
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here to read more articles like this one.
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Victoria’s
Marketing Advice
Keep In Touch with Prospects
Who Say, “No Thanks”
If a qualified prospect has expressed
interest in your services or products, but doesn’t
buy right then, don’t give up and walk away. Keep
in touch. Think about their possible needs, and from time
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