by Shelley Row | Feb 15, 2016 | Leadership
Valentine’s Day is not a huge event in our household. With 16 years of marriage, we’re past the point of grand gestures, dozens of roses or big gifts…and I like it this way. I like it because it’s the small things that matter. Valentine’s...
by Shelley Row | Feb 7, 2016 | Leadership
It was evening at the Wild Horse Pass Hotel and Casino. I checked in after a long flight to Phoenix and, like always, I scouted out the facility for the next day. I don’t think you’d be surprised to learn that the thing that grabbed my attention first was...
by Shelley Row | Jan 31, 2016 | Leadership
It was an important hiring decision – a senior manager with a healthy budget and high-level staff. Most hiring processes will consist of an interview panel, checking references, conducting several rounds of interviews, and even potentially a police clearance to ensure...
by Shelley Row | Jan 24, 2016 | Leadership
By Saturday afternoon there was already 18 inches of snow. Tree limbs sagged with the weight and narrow, shoveled paths wiggled toward the garage. And, it was still snowing. The boxwood hedges, that I have nurtured since they were tiny, splayed apart from mounds of...
by Shelley Row | Jan 17, 2016 | Leadership
Last week, I participated in my first speaker showcase. More than 20 speakers provided ten minutes of their program to a room full of 200 meeting planners. Hearing different a motivational christian speaker throughout the day it brought nerves on. It was like speed...
by Shelley Row | Jan 11, 2016 | Leadership
It starts the instant the alarm on the phone sounds. There’s that jarring moment even if you set the phone for a soft harp, quiet ring, or the chirp of crickets. It’s off to the races. We struggle to pack more and more in and feel bad when we’re not...
