Come Visit Me at My New Blog!

This will be my last post at this blog. Come visit me at my new blog: http://JackBergstrom.com.


Blogger was a great place to start and I will continue to grow my knowledge of blogging on that platform, but for me, WordPress and hosting my own blog on my own domain was the way to go.

All 4 of the Blogs that I formerly updated on Blogger will be represented on my own site now, as well as lots of new information on new topics.

What a hoot! Come visit me!

See you there,

Jack

http://JackBergstrom.com/blog

Effective Networking

I am reviewing my seminar that I will be giving next week at the Boulder Chamber of Commerce. The topic is "Effective Networking". This is what effective networking means to me:

• Networking is an integral and predictable part of your plans to grow your business.
• Networking is easy and natural for you...it is easy to get yourself to go, heck it might even be fun!
• Networking is a skill that you have mastered...you know what to say, when to say it and why to say it.
• Networking is a process that you have learned so that it takes the minimum amount of time to achieve the maximum amount of results for you.

I will talk about all of these in more detail.

Bye for now...Jack

Finally Back to the Blog

Wow! Was it ever easy to get behind on blogging! I got so busy with new clients that I just let this slide. Sorry about that! I think I am back in the swing now.

For those of you in the Colorado Front Range, I am giving a seminar next week at the Boulder Chamber of Commerce on "Effective Networking". Should be a good one. Wednesday, June 27th at 11am. Free to Chamber members and I believe $15 for nonmembers. Hope to see you there.

Bye for now....Jack

Delight and Surprise for Your Employees

I prided myself on taking extraordinary care of my employees. I knew that our relationship would be one of the most significant that they ever experienced and I also knew that my business goals would be achieved thru the efforts of my employees, not thru my direct efforts. I did many unexpected and fun things over the years to nurture and delight the people that worked for me and here is the question that I asked myself each and every month.

What can I do this month to delight and surprise my employees...to make them feel nurtured and cared for...to make them feel appreciated...to make them feel heard...to make them truly empowered to achieve their best while they work for me and have a blast along the way?

I love that question still and as I am growing my Internet based coaching and consulting company it will be my pleasure to ask it many more times.

Bye for now...Jack

You Can't Please Everyone

I just got back from a weekend in Kansas visiting with an 8th generation relative of Benjamin Franklin. Lee "Doc" Franklin is a great friend and he has made a study of relative Benjamin. I decided to do some reading while I was at Doc's ranch and choose a biography about BF that I had never seen before. It was a good choice.

I did not realize just how many people did not like Benjamin during his lifetime. Many of his highpowered peers disliked him for a variety of reasons, and yet the past 2 centuries of people generally look back at him with great respect and wonder. This is particularly interesting since BF went out of his way to be likeable. What is the lesson from this?

This was the lesson that I choose to remember. "Do your best. Follow your ethics. Work always for the greater good while working for your own good and never be surprised if people do not like you. The more successful you become, the more people will find a way or a reason to not like you." I don't like this lesson, but I am sure that it has value.

Till next time...Jack

Graduation and Lessons

My 2 daughters. Erika the graduate holding Mary Esther.

My elder daughter graduated from college last weekend. It was a very emotional event for me and I am very proud of her. She got out of college quicker than I did and with a higher GPA and I am considered to be pretty bright.

There were lots of lessons from the weekend of graduation for me. Lots of memories and amazement. I kept thinking of my daughter's birth and wondering just how it was that she was already a grown woman and getting her college diploma. Where did the time go? I have heard that phrase my entire life, but this was the first time I said it myself. Where did the time go?



Here is a lesson that I decided to keep around: "There is all the time you need accomplish your most heartfelt goals, but there is never time to waste."



Till next time...Jack

Questions to Grow Your Business

I love questions. I use them all of the time...for myself...for my business...for my clients.

Here are two that I just love and I use them to bookend my days. In my journal, and I hope you are journaling, I write these questions and the answers to them...each and every day:

Start of the day question: What will I commit to doing today that will advance my most important business projects and how will I ensure that I have fun in the process?

End of the day question: How good of a job did I do today of really making the best use of my day and really having a blast...a great time while I worked?

Now I use many more questions than these, but just starting here will do great job of keeping you focused and having fun and if you are focused, working and having fun...you will achieve!

Bye for now...Jack