Self-Navigation: The N.E.W.S.™ Experience is a workshop that focuses on employing strategic navigation tools useful for individuals who want to apply a structured process for career planning and for those with high potential. Additionally, it can be used very effectively …

Increase Your Motivation, Overcome Obstacles, and Plan and Execute Better Results Read more »

  The Bay Bridge is currently lit up by an $8 million light show, The Bay Lights. Watching it from Coit Tower, one will see a wave of colorful lights, timed to illuminate the bay on different spans of the …

How Strategic Thinking Techniques Could Have Saved the Bay Lights Read more »

Congratulations. Your organization has produced a game-changing innovative product. Customers are buying it in droves; you can hardly keep up with demand – but there are wolves at the door. Competitors might be bigger than you, have more resources, or …

Managing Innovation and the California Poppy Read more »

We at Barnes and Conti had a wonderful time at the ASTD 2013 International Conference and Expo. Read below to see what each of us found especially exciting. Here are some ideas that you can take with you for the …

Reflections from ASTD 2013 Read more »

A Mother’s Day post by B. Kim Barnes There is a lot of discussion in the media these days about values. Because the work we do often involves organizational values and their application to decision-making, I have followed these discussions …

Lorraine’s Laws: Putting Organizational and Personal Values to Work Read more »