Monthly Archive: August 2009

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Articles, Make Your Best Impression Blog, News & Testimonials, Press Room / Media   ·   August 31, 2009

Business etiquette is a skill that everyone needs regardless of age or educational level.  In today’s market we cannot leave any stone unturned when it comes to making a first impression and creating our own personal charisma factor.  When people like us, they don’t know why, they just do. What we don’t know about cultivating relationships can [...]

Surviving a Bipolar Parent-The Power to Say Yes

Articles, Make Your Best Impression Blog, News & Testimonials, Press Room / Media   ·   August 21, 2009

Finally, my life’s purpose to help others reach beyond their limiting beliefs to have the life God intended. The Power to Say Yes is both a book about my personal story and how I found a way to overcome the emotional and verbal abuse of the one that was suppose to love me the most. [...]

We Always Want What WE Don’t Have…

Articles, Make Your Best Impression Blog   ·   August 16, 2009

Regardless of our unique gifts and strengths, it seems we are always focused on what we don’t have. Perhaps we are gifted in singing, yet public speaking brings us to our knees. If we are short, we want to be tall. If we are tall, we want to be short. There are so many ways we [...]

Dallas quoted as expert in Human Resource Executive Online

Make Your Best Impression Blog, News & Testimonials, Press Room / Media   ·   August 14, 2009

A new study by two management professors shows that rude behavior on the job can negatively affect people who are not even the target of the abuse. Lower productivity and less creativity were some of the problems resulting from rudeness, the study found. What, if anything, can HR do to stop the epidemic? By Michael [...]

Slow Down- Speed Bump Ahead

Make Your Best Impression Blog   ·   August 13, 2009

I was surprised to discover that simplifying my life didn’t automatically mean that I’d slowed down, too. The speed of life on the fast track permeates every area of our lives. Hurrying becomes a habit. Even after we’ve simplified many of our daily routines, if we’re still surrounded by fast-moving people and phones that never [...]

Enter the State of Flow

Make Your Best Impression Blog   ·   August 11, 2009

We have had all days where everything just seems to go right. We hit the traffic at the opportune moment, and drive straight to the office without delays. We pull into the parking lot just as a convenient parking space opens up for us. The people we’ve been trying to reach all week suddenly call [...]

Find Your Creative Voice

Make Your Best Impression Blog   ·   August 9, 2009

We are all born with a deep core of creativity. Some fortunate few are able to connect with that core at an early age. Others of us spend years longing, oftentimes unconsciously, to tap into it. Many of us go through life denying that it exists. We live with the belief that we are not [...]

Let’s Bring Back the Quality Time

Make Your Best Impression Blog   ·   August 8, 2009

When was the last time you had a meal with your family with no distractions? As a personal or family ritual, have a meal in silence from time to time. Often the pressures of daily life can make meals a stressful routine. Or we can get so caught up in all the events of the [...]

Rudeness in the Workplace- It Really Does Affect the Bottom Line

Articles, Make Your Best Impression Blog   ·   August 7, 2009

This week I was asked to offer some expert advice for a Human Resource Executive on-line column. We all know that when we witness someone being rude to another person or to group of people, it doesn’t evoke a warm and fuzzy feeling. In fact, often one bad apple can poison an entire group of [...]

Dallas quoted as expert in the New York Times

Make Your Best Impression Blog, News & Testimonials, Press Room / Media   ·   August 1, 2009

August 2, 2009 Career Couch Are Three Martinis Three Too Many? By EILENE ZIMMERMAN Q. You are new to the corporate world and not sure what to do at business functions or after-hour gatherings where alcohol is present. If everyone else is drinking — including your boss — should you drink, too? A. For those [...]