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Articles
Cultivating Exceptional Employees
by Sherry Buffington, Ph.D.
Succeeding at Selling in the Real World
by Sherry Buffington, Ph.D.
Confidence: Your Key to Certain Success
by Sherry Buffington, Ph.D.
The Formula for Success
by Sherry Buffington, Ph.D.
Ten Most Common Hiring Mistakes
(and How to Avoid Them)
Adapted from Ask The Headhunter®.com
Our Core Values and Guiding Principles
We closely adhere to a set of core values that represents our company and defines the way we conduct business.
- Service – We put people first
- Excellence – Quality is paramount
- Respect – We hold high regard for the worth and privacy of each individual
- Diversity – We value and believe great benefit is derived from individual differences
- Integrity – We are consistent, honest, ethical and forthright in our communications
- Passion – We support work that fuels the mind, fills the heart and feeds the soul
- Fun – We strive to keep joy in our work, our relationships and our personal lives
- Community – We are dedicated to positively impacting those around us
A Sampling of Our Clients:
- Adecco
- American Airlines
- Arlington Chamber of Commerce
- Bank of America
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Belo
- Burger King
- Charles River Laboratories
- Citizen’s Communications
- City of Topeka, KS
- Club Corp of America
- Cornerstone Mortgage
- D/FW Suburban News
- Dallas Chamber of Commerce
- Dallas ISD
- Deloitte Consulting
- Diet Centers, Inc.
- Duncanville Chamber of Commerce
- EDS
- Ericsson
- Exxon Mobil
- Ford Motor Company
- Frank Parra Chevrolet
- Texas Instruments
- Homesafe
- Hospital Corporation of America
- J.C. Penney
- Johnson & Johnson
- Koch Foundation
- Marriott Corporation
- Merck
- Abbott Labs
- Motorola
- National Builders Assn.
- National Chamber of Commerce
- NEC America
- Northeast National Bank
- Novartis
- Perot Systems
- Price Waterhouse Coopers
- Principle Financial Group
- Sabre
- Sachse Chamber of Commerce
- Senco Products, Inc.
- Southern Methodist University
- Sterling Capital Mortgage
- Texas Women’s University
- The City of Houston
- The City of Topeka
- The Coleman Company
- Washburn University
- Western Paper Company
TEAM BUILDING AND EMPLOYEE RELATIONS
TAKING THE "WORK" OUT OF TEAMWORK
Effective teamleaders understand the need for diversity within their team, but with diversity can also come conflict. This workshop provides the tools that managers and team members need to reduce conflict and ensure overall success for the team.
Participants will first learn to understand each team member; their wants, needs, motivations, and what they bring to the team. They then learn how to pull the team together, create cohesiveness, build trust, respect and credibility within the team, empower others, and communicate and persuade without seeming "pushy".
Then, through a series of experiential activities, they actually experience the concepts they have learned in action. Key skills are put into practice and internalized for fuller understanding. A clear understanding of the need for diversity within the team emerges during these exercises and becomes a permanent benefit.
Participants experience, first hand, what they must do to manage moods and resolve differences in order to build and maintain team spirit and mutual cooperation. They learn ways to communicate and cooperate, even with those they perceive as "difficult".
This fun and insightful workshop teaches skills that not only foster positive outcomes in teams, but in every relationship, personal and professional.
This program incorporates both classroom and experiential learning. Extended programs are available which include experiential activities that can be held both indoors and out.
FROM SURVIVAL TO SUCCESS
This program is a step-by-step employee guide to handling co-workers, vendors, and other day-to-day interactions effectively.
Customers, vendors, financial backers and even prospective employees determine the strength and value of a company by the attitudes and actions of the employees with whom they come in contact.
By giving every employee the tools needed to build and maintain the relational skills which are vital to making the best possible impressions, you can keep customers smiling, attract the right employees, keep vendors and lenders interested in doing business with you and keep that bottom line growing in the right direction.







