Beth Terry | July 31, 2007
My dad used to say, “Work with people where they are, not where you think they should be.”
Great advice for coaches, bosses, parents, teachers, and for how we treat ourselves.
I’m in the midst of a reinvention of sorts. I’ve always been practical in the way I coach and train people. It’s all that Midwestern […]
Beth Terry | July 30, 2007
I used to joke that I could probably make a million bucks if I put an ad in the paper reading: “Guaranteed method for beating all speeding tickets. Send $5.†I was married to a cop, so people were constantly asking me how to do that.
The answer? Well, you’re reading this, so that’s worth […]
Beth Terry | July 29, 2007
I thought I was doing a good thing. My mom always talks about her bird feeders and how amazing and delightful her little hummingbirds are. They are so darn cute and teensy! How do they do that: all that hovering and flying backwards? They zoom around my back yard now. High speed aerial drag races. […]
Beth Terry | July 28, 2007
I was teaching a course on Effective Management and was frustrated to notice one of my students had written “Pollyanna” all over the handout. I was challenging these managers to believe in their staff and had asked them, “If you can’t believe in your employees, why are they working for you? Let them find a […]
Beth Terry | July 27, 2007
Quality Circles, Total Quality Management (TQM), Management by Objective (MBO), Management by Wandering Around (MBWA), Six Sigma, Empowerment Training… Sound familiar? Then you’ve been around as long as I have.
Notice one thing about the trends? The pendulum swings from right brain to left brain to right brain to left brain. Or, if you are a […]
Beth Terry | July 26, 2007
The story about Southwest Airlines saving Banner’s life just keeps getting better. Numerous blogs have picked up the story, email forwards continue to send it around, and members of the National Speakers Association are just getting back from vacation and hearing about it for the first time - so it has picked up speed […]
Beth Terry | July 23, 2007
Would love some feedback here. I’ve been talking about Midwestern values for years without realizing it. I just figured everyone operated with the same ideas and people across the US were raised the same way.
But then Enron happened. And then WorldCom. Then we heard about Tyco and some of the other messes in the Big […]
Beth Terry | July 21, 2007
Some thoughts for people who speak, write, or market for a living:
At last count, the Banner and Larry story has been shown on TV in 4 major markets. Numerous people have sent it to a laundry list of media outlets, including People and Oprah. It has been viral marketing at its very best. At last […]
Beth Terry | July 17, 2007
Hi All - thanks for the notes on this blog and to my other email addresses. This just goes to show that people really do want to hear good news!
Larry and Banner were on TV in Phoenix last night, and will be again tonight. Channel 5 - KPHO, at 10pm.
He and Banner are doing great. […]
Beth Terry | July 16, 2007
Banner is an extraordinary Yellow Lab. Not only is he Professional Speaker Larry Colbert’s guide dog, he is a hero to the entire National Speakers Association (NSA). When he was injured accidentally in a taxicab this past Friday, he kept doing his job, pushing though the pain and taking care of his beloved master. We […]
The way I see it, Cactus is the most resilient plant in the desert. If you find yourself stuck out on the desert and you can get past the thorns, its fruit will save your life. The same goes for us human critters. If we can get past the thorns of our own life, what we find in our core will save us and sustain us.
