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		<title>New Beginnings&#8211;open your eyes to what is out there!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Am beginning a new assignment this weekend&#8212;yes, a new assignment this weekend.  A wonderful organization, located in Philadelphia focused on community building through greening efforts has asked me to help them reflect, renew and help guide the setting of a new direction.  A new team is in place and we are ready to go!  How exciting it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drpatgillwebber.com/blog/?p=127</link>
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		<title>What has dramatically dropped in price but improved in quality and reach? New ways of coaching!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How could I have saved time and gotten a better result yesterday?  I could have waited till my son in law coached me in how to learn easily when something is a scam and then not sent the email out that was clearly a fraud.  Now, I know&#8212;-it is simple&#8212;google the subject title of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drpatgillwebber.com/blog/?p=108</link>
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		<title>Are we going to become like &#8220;the greatest generation&#8221; forever scared? What&#8217;s a coach to do?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time to focus on the positive and not get frozen in the lack and loss of the great recession.  Read more. .]]></description>
		<link>http://drpatgillwebber.com/blog/?p=110</link>
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		<title>Tips for individuals at work: goals for second half of 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 4th of July weekend is ending and the first half of 2010 has come to a close. Good news for many at work or looking for work: It is over. Bad news from work: Depending on your industry or interests and goals set early things likely did not go as intended. Even more business [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drpatgillwebber.com/blog/?p=98</link>
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		<title>IT/HR/Sales/Marketing/PR/legal&#8212;worse and least effective people to deal with? Petty ones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There have been some situations in the business news, the political news and in my own coaching practice and work this past week that lead me to the conclusion that the worse sin of all in organizations is pettiness.  Petty people are small&#8212;small minded, small thinking, and lack generosity.  They are cheap with compliments and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drpatgillwebber.com/blog/?p=90</link>
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		<title>Lessons of leadership in the toughest of times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He didn&#8217;t respond quickly enough. She&#8217;s having affairs/involved in kickbacks. He is tone deaf to the situation. And on it goes.  Leaders in government, business and communities are besieged by bad news&#8212;people don&#8217;t think well of them.   Perhaps due to over promising, and overly optimistic explanations of what they are doing, leaders have set themselves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drpatgillwebber.com/blog/?p=87</link>
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		<title>Time to Review Workplace Reviews? A response and support for Tara Parker-Pope&#8217;s NY Times piece</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday Tara Parker-Pope&#8217;s Well column for the NYTimes focused on the stresses in the workplace due to performance reviews.  She referenced research studies as well as specific examples of workers who were stressed by and not made more productive by performance reviews.  Likely more money has been spent in HR departments on performance reviews [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drpatgillwebber.com/blog/?p=83</link>
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		<title>Performance improvement is as easy as giving people what they want&#8212;tough if you don&#8217;t pay attention!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It dawned on me after talking with a staff member  today that the strategy I have applied recently to making our relationship work better is simple&#8212;I stopped wanting him to be different and trying to get him to see my view, and started really paying attention to what he wants and needs and simply giving it to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drpatgillwebber.com/blog/?p=81</link>
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		<title>I, I, I, I, I, I, doesn&#8217;t solve problems&#8212;WE CAN solve them&#8211;at work, at Times Square, everywhere!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of us who have been preaching the value of continuous training and making people at every level be part of the team to carry out the mission, the news of the vendors on Times Square &#8220;saving the day&#8221; with observation and communication is our ultimate vindication. Organizations continue to struggle with getting people at every [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drpatgillwebber.com/blog/?p=79</link>
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		<title>People don&#8217;t resist change?  What about Greece and your company?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have often written about and supported my research that contends that people do not resist change&#8212;but rather resist the way that change is handled. Greece proves my point.  The Greeks aren&#8217;t big on all types of change&#8212;but likely are as open as the next person to change that makes sense.  So when asked to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drpatgillwebber.com/blog/?p=76</link>
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