by Leslie Phillips, Chief Executive Officer | Jan 3, 2018
The busyness of the fall is swiftly followed by the buzz of the holidays. But take a moment to reflect on how you and your team are functioning. Is your team running on all cylinders? Are you operating with minimal chaos (and drama)? How is everyone’s attitude?...
by Leslie Phillips, Chief Executive Officer | Nov 28, 2017
Humans are (still) social creatures wired to connect. It’s true. And since in addition to loving food, we love people and serving others, we will always keep the conversation going about how to have a better conversation: one that leaves you and the other person...
by Leslie Phillips, Chief Executive Officer | Oct 23, 2017
Both are gifts you can get and give; but our presence is available at no charge to us and at great benefit to those around us. Human beings cannot multitask. What we are capable of is handling a number of serial tasks in rapid succession, or mixing automatic tasks...
by Leslie Phillips, Chief Executive Officer | Sep 22, 2017
We recently heard Simon Sinek’s messages about empathy. He suggests that to practice empathy in the workplace we must — daily — make the well-being of others (our teammates, our customers, our health inspector, etc.) a conscious, visible, intentional...
by Leslie Phillips, Chief Executive Officer | Aug 29, 2017
When we see or experience two people or two concepts that are silky smooth, fine tuned, natural, beautiful….we may say (or hear), “you know…they’re like Fred and Ginger.” Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers knew how to dance. In Culture...
