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October 20, 2019

Mastery Monday – Stolen Valor and Wearing the Military Uniform

              I severed in the Air Force for 23 years and as a retiree, I am authorized by regulations to wear my uniform in […]
September 16, 2019

Mastery Monday – Exposure – Don’t Get Overexposed

Verify the Facts – Exposure – Don’t Get Overexposed Verify the facts is a foundation Think Like A Negotiator principle.  You have to verify the facts on anything you are […]
July 24, 2019

Use Your Leverage to Get to the Know, Like and Trust Factor

When Thinking Like A Negotiator, there are 3 types of leverage, Personal, Positional and Relational. In this blog post, you will learn about relational leverage and some examples both in […]
July 15, 2019

Verify the Facts – What Seems Factual Is Not Always Truth

This was posted several years ago but the relevance is still current. Verify the facts, sounds simple enough. However there are those who take things they find online as the […]
July 1, 2019

Teamwork makes the Dreamwork

Mastery Monday – Teamwork Makes the Dreamwork That’s a buzz phrase we hear often but in order to get a win win result, you need to have a great team. […]
April 23, 2019

Mastery Monday – Listen to the Whisper

The whisper. It’s that little voice inside that tells you things that many times we ignore. I relate it to being God’s voice telling me things I should do to […]
April 8, 2019

Asking is NOT Shameful

Mastery Monday – Asking is NOT shameful. Ask for exactly what I want is a key Think Like A Negotiator strategy. People are oftentimes afraid to ask because they fear […]
January 21, 2019

Ask for Consideration

Consideration is a promise for a promise. When the promise is broken it is fair and reasonable to receive some consideration to make up for the promise being broken. For […]
December 10, 2018

Mastery Monday – Team Building Tips

In a recent class on Team Building that I taught to Army supervisors, this is one of the concepts we discussed. People will fill in the blanks with absence if […]