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I’m truly humbled by CEO Lauren Dixon’s generous recognition of GrowthFuel in the Rochester Business Journal. As someone who typically operates behind the curtain through confidential coaching and consulting, it’s a powerful affirmation to see this work acknowledged so publicly. “At DS+CO, we use brain-based conversation skills and techniques taught to us by Samantha Tassone. […]

Vital Business Practice: Closed-Loop Communication Have you heard of two-way radio communication protocol in the military where certain etiquette must be followed in the dialogue exchange? Team members follow tight closed-loop communications to ensure messages are receieved when stakes are high and stress is heavy, just like on the battlefield. Utilizing this protocol improves the

Six Steps to Designing Thriving Relationship Connections in a Digital Social Exchange Did you know that 95% of your purchase decision-making takes place in the subconscious mind? Harvard professor Gerald Zaltman’s research indicates that we humans enter every buying decision from a personally perceived frame of reference. From my research, this frame of reference is

14 Key Steps to Become a Better Team Player at Work As a member of a team, you have a responsibility to help your co-workers, just as you’d expect them to offer assistance when you need it. However, when we’re all busy with our own responsibilities, we may not always be mindful of the challenges

Opening Locked Doors: Social Isolation in the Conversational Space Have you ever felt less than your best at the end of a conversation? Frustrated because you could not fully communicate the genius of your ideas or concern? Perhaps you had no opportunity to participate as someone else’s competitive power in the conversation space created dominance.

Command-and-Control Leadership Can Feed Your Ego; Instead, Aim for Cocreation Peter Drucker once said, “The leader of the past knew how to tell. The leader of the future will know how to ask.” As leaders, it’s time to slow down and deeply examine how you converse with others and influence them. Leadership happens in the conversational space first

Why Are Women Absent From So Many Strategic Conversations? Did you know that both males and females speak, on average, 16,000 words per day? Most of us believe that words are just words, so we tend to use them without much regard for the dynamics at play in the conversational space. We, humans, have an unconscious

Are You Just Temporarily Exhausting Your Potential or Stifling It Long Term? Are you exhausting your potential with an upper limit problem? Have you ever thought, “I have more to give?” Do you know deeply that you are capable of giving greater contribution levels? Have you ever thought, “I want or need to show up