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“The Impact of Technology” … and A Most Intriguing Interview Queston

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The Single Incident   I was asked recently during lunch with a meeting planner what single incident inspired me to research and write The Impact of Technology on Behavior & Happiness. Since that was a new one — I had never been asked that one before — I had to think about the answer. A vivid, colorful slide show flashed […]

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College Program: How to Manage Stress & an Overly Crowded Head

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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: With more portals into the mind than ever before, and digital permeation creating cranial confusion with record with seeming 24/7 relentless frequency — campus stress is up, unhappiness […]

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The Impact of Technology on Behavior & Happiness

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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 proved popular in American and the United Kingdom. A short overview movie of the […]

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One-Day Coaching Seminars & Various Certification Continuums

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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 client) is here: Seminar-List-per-person-dates tbd Certification programs are available in five specialty areas, the top four of which are on the second brochure page below.  These continuums are: Behavioral […]

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The BREXIT Vote & U.S. Election: The Juggling of Human Emotions

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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 are and how the world suddenly finds itself percolating in them. All of us experience an […]

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Ocean Palmer’s Unique Sales Talent Development Approach

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Sales Talent Development Sales is: Fair. Great beats good, good beats mediocre, mediocre beats incompetent, and incompentents beat each other. Each of those results is fair. Objective. Sales keeps score. There are winners and losers, but sales is a profession with no shiny participation medals. You win, you lose. Results are measurable. Improvable. Development programs must be relevant […]

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Question from MIT: “How do you handle worrying about past decisions?”

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I recently spoke at MIT in Cambridge and was asked a simple but important question that required a more complex answer than time allowed. MIT is a high-performance, high-pressure environment where the pace of life is relentless for those lucky enough to be accepted. Stiff competition and lofty expectations test character, stamina, and strength of will. […]

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Can Empathy Be Learned?

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Sympathy and empathy are different emotional tracks. Sympathy involves expressing sorrow over someone’s plight, while empathy is being able to relate to their situation. I read an article this morning from BBC Magazine authored by empathy specialist Roman Krznaric that is so outstanding I thought I’d simply post the link. Here it is:  http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33287727. As […]

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