“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky * This post also appeared on Positively Positive I recently was on the East Coast presenting to over 400 people at three companies in industries ranging from real estate to a Fortune 500 healthcare company to an investment management firm about the idea […]
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Living in YOUR Top 1% – It’s Possible
Living in Your Top 1% is about potential and possibility. It’s about taking the words can’t, should and impossible out of your vocabulary and shifting your mindset to say “I can.” Yes, sounds easy enough. I live in Santa Monica, CA and was in NYC giving a seminar to an investment management company on Living […]
Alissa Finerman’s Living in YOUR Top 1% Action Plan Podcast
I created this special Living in YOUR Top 1% action plan podcast because I know how difficult it can be to get started. I have also learned that we all need some support regardless of our previous achievements. The perfect place to start is right where you are regardless of how imperfect it may seem […]
Success Magazine Interview with Alissa Finerman
Success Magazine interviews Alissa Finerman about her book, Living in YOUR Top 1%, and aligning goals with your values for greater success. Enjoy and feel free to share! Success Magazine interview http://www.success.com/podcast/alissa-finerman-on-how-to-align-your-choices-with-your-goals About Alissa Alissa Finerman is an Executive Coach and Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, speaker and author of Living in YOUR Top 1%. She […]
Building a Strengths Based Leadership Brand
What Does Your Brand of Leadership? this article was featured on the Virgin entrepreneur blog Leaders can be effective with a variety of styles. There is no one size fits all model for success. While some study the styles of others, it’s even more important to develop your natural style that plays to your strengths. […]
Strengths Partnering for Greater Success
If you had to list 3 things that annoy and frustrate you about people you work with or 3 strengths and ways the people you work with add value and contribute to the team, which would be easier for you? When I ask this question in my Leveraging Strengths for Success Team Seminar, the answer […]
The Strengths Spectrum: Where Do You Stand?
We all have strengths — defined by Gallup as the ability to consistently provide near perfect performance (ie, the customer service rep who can consistently turn an angry customer into a happy customer). Strengths are not just something you are good at — they need to give you energy. Sometimes we use our strengths effectively […]
Is An Instant Gratification Mindset Serving You?
I want it and I want it now. That’s basically how our society is growing up. What happened to working for things and waiting for the Heinz ketchup to slowly ooooze from the bottle and smother onto your French fries? As a consumer nation, we are conditioned for instant gratification and that unrealistic mindset carries […]