As summer unfolds we are typically rewarded with better movies. Three of the 26 reviews below earn my top score, a "high-5", a 5-finger rating. Sprinkled in are a few duds that feature worse storytelling than Ryan Lochte's fable to the Brazilian … [Read more...]
Ocean Palmer Sales Excellence: A Quick Whiteboard Explainer
Sales Excellence: The Core of My Work I despise the term "sales training" as a descriptor for what I do because my work is unique, people-centric, and research-based. I frequently opine to those who call it 'training' that I am not a … [Read more...]
College Program: How to Manage Stress & an Overly Crowded Head
Note to Self: Your Head is Not an Open Bar! We begin with the Minions, famous truth-seekers and walkers of the sort of straight and sometimes narrow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqWO8C396ME With more portals into the mind than ever before, … [Read more...]
Managing the Worry Circle: Seminars & Consulting
Based on Ocean Palmer's internationally popular life skills book "Managing the Worry Circle" (How to Improve Your Life by Worrying Less), Worry Circle seminars are available for corporate and institutional scheduling. A national TV … [Read more...]
Simplified Strategic Planning: Work Smarter, Not Harder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMIWFamW1Ug The American Management Association says 80 percent of strategic plans are never executed. This, of course, translates to a colossal waste of time. Our one-day workshops teach the world's best process … [Read more...]
The Impact of Technology on Behavior & Happiness
The Impact of Technology on Behavior & Happiness Two-minute Whiteboard Explainer My new book by the same name (released by Crossroad Press in all formats under my "Ocean Palmer" pen name) has fed the creation of a new learning seminar that has … [Read more...]
One-Day Coaching Seminars & Various Certification Continuums
My consulting work frequently involves one day "specialty topic" seminars and more in-depth multi-day subject matter certifications. The link to seven different one-day events (with dates to be determined by the … [Read more...]
Life, Love, and Dogs Helping Others
Every once in a while, sunshine arrives in the inbox. Today is one of those days. A little less than two years ago, Santa Rosa-based Canine Companions for Independence named a newborn pup after me ("Theo"). I knew nothing about it until they told me. … [Read more...]
The BREXIT Vote & U.S. Election: The Juggling of Human Emotions
An interesting web article by Diane Raymond caught my eye and I thought her topic—human emotions—was worth sharing and building upon. In view of yesterday's stunning BREXIT exodus decision by the United Kingdom, it seems worth noting what emotions … [Read more...]
The Impact of Technology on Behavior & Happiness
The scientific evidence connected to technology’s relentless encroachment into daily life is irrefutable. It is not particularly encouraging. With more portals into the mind than ever before—computers, tablets, phones, apps, texts, emails, … [Read more...]