Articles from the FireStar Newsletters

Denise has written many articles on varying topics.  Here you can search by topic.  Below the search box, you'll find the latest articles that have been published. 

   
Why People Hate Training
Most employees view training as medicine or worse, as punishment. As an outside trainer, I work with hundreds of groups in a wide variety of industries and most people enter the training room as if they are going to the gas chamber.   read article

 
How to Love the Job You're With
We spend 60% of our time at work, driving to work, and thinking about work. Life is too short to spend that much of it in pain.   read article

 
Why Conferences and Annual Meetings are NOT Evil
Thanks to the media vilifying a few apparently out-of-control jaunts by corporations who had to be bailed out, many companies are now reconsidering their own meetings and conventions. Meetings are being portrayed as frivolous expenditures when people are   read article

 
Life is a Trade show
I’ve been to two huge trade shows recently so I have them on the brain. And what works on the trade show floor works in life, like it or not.   read article

 
Technology is My Best Friend and My Worst Enemy
I finally bought a Blackberry. The first few days I had it, I wanted to kill myself.   read article

 
Vampire Slaying
FireStar can do more than just deliver training. Recently we worked with a client to help improve their customer service.    read article

 
You (May) have Less Than Three Years to Live
If you’ve been paying attention to Hollywood and other random sources of information, we’ve only got about three more years to live.    read article

 
The Lost Art of Thinking
Remember the old dark ages when we didn’t have Wii or cell phones or the Internet? When we actually had time when it was quiet? The horror, the horror!   read article

 

 





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