Positively Powerful

Once upon a time…for an artist to be successful they needed to suffer for their art or for a person to really make a difference they needed to suffer through their nonprofit organization. I say once upon a time because I believe those perspectives belong in the realm of story-telling.
Here’s more on this point-of-view from [...]

Join Dr. Joel Martin, Director of Education and Training. Access Black America’s best networking tools and resources, including George C. Fraser and the best of the best minds that make up the FraserNet faculty, at the 6th Annual PowerNetworking Conference. Power Speakers include Les Brown, Rev. Dr. Miles Munroe, Dr. Melvin Gravely, Cheryl [...]

At the eWomen Conference and Expo thousands of businesswomen from every U.S. state and Canadian province will be participating at this lavish four-day conference experience. Exclusive “Accelerated Networking™” quickly aligns you with the resources and contacts you need to succeed, and the process assures each attendee markets and promotes what she has to offer. [...]

The Global Consortium LLC is primed to help executives and their firms meet these never ending workplace challenges. We have expertise in three primary areas, which include Transformational Change, Diversity, and Leadership. Our portfolio of clients and engagements extends to a global community of fortune 500 firms. We are scholar-practitioners that work to provide the [...]

While everybody seems to be talking about the “coming of age” of and marketing to Baby Boomers, what could use more attention is the retiring of Boomers in corporate America, small businesses, and every other vestige of our community. I was speaking to members of a major utility and discovered that more than 50% of [...]

I read the article “The 500 Gets Religion” in the 2007 Fortune 500. The gist of the article is that big business is concerned with changing the world. They are finding that “by giving meaning to their (communities’, customer’s, and employee’s) lives” not only are they generating PR value but they are recruiting new employees, [...]

Recently I was at a spectacular Train The Trainer Program given by Peak Potentials. Check it out if you want to take your learning about presenting, marketing, and speaking to the next level. Tell them Joel Martin (395229) sent you. After 15+ years as a trainer traveling around the world facilitiating breakthrough results for groups [...]

You’ve got to establish a context for behaving well.

Be mindful of your language. Misbehaving is different from being rude.
Honor everyone as responsible and committed to learning.
Ask yourself what they “really” are saying by being rude. What’s the message they are sending. Ask yourself, “Am I listening to them, encouraging their point of view, or [...]

This is the the “great hall” of the shopping mall linked to my hotel in Hong Kong. I stayed there only long enough to check in before my trip to Shenzhen a short bus ride away on the mainland.
The open area was about six stories high with flowers and lights on the railings of each [...]

One of the historic sites I toured was the Chiang Kei-shek Memorial. Here are some of my favorite photos of this and other historic sites in Taipei. There is cultural info on Taiwan below but I encourage you to go online and discover for yourself the wealth of information available about the history of this [...]