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Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes When I was 13 years old, my teacher gave me an assignment. Write your life story. You probably think I had a big experience to remember it all these years later. Not even close – I saved my life story and came across it about a year ago while cleaning out my personal files. It amazed me. On my front cover, I wrote: This is a story of a person who has happy, funny and tragic disasters happen to her.” My story started at the beginning, the day I was born. While I read ...

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Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes The Pathways to Entrepreneurial Success 2012 conference will be held at Monroe Community College on January 18th, 2012. This event is the creation of Jeffrey Shepard, Bob Spinelli and Sherry Tshibangu and provides information and resources for: starting a business continuing the success of your parents’ businesses expanding new business opportunities outside of Rochester and western New York Energizing the region’s entrepreneurial spirit helps keep our local talent and fuels our economic growth. Attending the conference will spark new ideas for products and services and expand your network of resources, contacts and customers. Why ...

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Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes Every day you face problems. Sometimes the problems are easy to solve and sometimes you face a problem that throws you a curve ball. When you face those situations, what do you do? Bring in an expert? Learn a new problem solving technique? Give up and walk away? Problem solving methodologies define a process for solving a problem. The process may incorporate other skills necessary to problem solve effectively, such as decision making, creativity and teamwork. I’ll work on providing you a list of some of these resources in future blog articles. For now, ...

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Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes The Rochester Professional Consultant’s Network (RPCN) is a progressive networking group in Rochester for consultants or anyone starting a new business. It is the go to place for finding experts and resources to help people and businesses. If you are thinking of starting your own consulting business, RPCN is offering five half-day workshops to help jump-start or restart your consulting business. Read the full details at the RPCN Consulting Bootcamp sign up page. In this workshop series, you will find a unique set of presentations, workshops and panel discussions led by consultants or experts ...

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Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes This is a story of Alice. She is an assistant retail store manager and she has a handicap. Alice has multiple sclerosis (MS). Her disability is not clear even though she has had it for many years. She fights it daily and she tries not to let it show. If you looked at Alice you would see a fit woman in her late 40′s. Staying healthy by working out – this is one of the ways she has kept the disease from progressing more rapidly. She knows that stress is a trigger and her ...

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