by Kahle Wisdom | Dec 26, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-Business, Leadership-General
Create a Precise Prescription — Lead a Precise Prescription Exercise As an individual using MENTA-MORPHOSIS, you create a Precise Prescription. As a MENTA-MORPHOSIS Facilitator, you lead a Precise Prescripon Exercise. One of the most...
by Kahle Wisdom | Dec 26, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-Business, Leadership-General
Mine Information – Lead a Mining Information Session As an individual using MENTA-MORPHOSIS, you mine information. As a MENTA-MORPHOSIS Faciltator, you lead a Mining Information session. As you recall in the “Mine Information” competency, you engage with some...
by Kahle Wisdom | Dec 26, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-Business, Leadership-General
Precisely Prescribe — Lead a prioritization session As an individual using MENTA-MORPHOSIS, you Precisely Prescribe. As a MENTA-MORPHOSIS Facilitator, you lead a Prioritization session. Remember, to prioritize means to select, from a longer list, those items...
by Kahle Wisdom | Dec 11, 2025 | Thinking Better, Leadership-Business, Leadership-General, Miscellaneous
Nurture a comfortable atmosphere. The atmosphere refers to the emotional climate that exists in the meetings. Are members comfortable and willing to share, or are they guarded and hesitant? Is the focus on the issue at hand, or is the meeting a fortress of personal...
by Kahle Wisdom | Nov 6, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-General, Christian-Leadership
Inject yourself into a Learning Event — Select the Content In the Menta-Morphosis® Learning System, the learner injects himself/herself into a learning event. As a Menta-Morphosis® Facilitator, you select the content. When you are facilitating a...
by Kahle Wisdom | Nov 6, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-General
As I was just beginning to build my consulting practice, I learned a lesson that has stuck with me ever since, and shaped much of the training programs, videos and articles that I have produced. It may make a difference in the trajectory of your personal growth and...
by Kahle Wisdom | Nov 6, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-Business, Leadership-General
Introduction As an individual, we use the Start Right competency. As a facilitator, we “Set the Stage.” When you are facilitating, you are responsible for the quality of the meeting as well as the process and results. That calls for some preparation. The preparation...
by Dave Kahle | Oct 2, 2025 | Thinking Better, Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-General, Leadership-Sales Force
by Dave Kahle Whenwe are confronted with a problem, our knee-jerk reaction is to fix it. I’m not talking about common day-to-day problems – a faucet begins to leak, we run out of milk, etc.—but rather significant business and career issues. These are problems...
by Kahle Wisdom | Sep 26, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-General
Magnifier #3: More There is always greater value to be wrung out of a situation, question, decision, or problem. We often don’t see that because we don’t look for it. A powerful step in achieving superior results is to continuously look for ways to do so. Look for...
by Kahle Wisdom | Aug 26, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Miscellaneous, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-General, Leadership-Sales Management
Introduction Your role as a facilitator is to bring out the best in the group and arrive at the best solutions possible, given the variables. The one thing you can’t do is act for them. You’ve brought them to the spot where you’ve made...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 22, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-General
Introduction: To Prioritize means to select, from a longer list, those items that are more important, more desirable, or more worthy of our attention than others. In other words, we turn a long list into a short list. Used for Whenever we want to...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 22, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-General
Competency: Mine InformationIntroduction:In almost every thinking project, we’ll need to engage with some information and identify important elements contained within it. We call this ‘mining information’, and use a mining metaphor to help understand it.There are...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jul 22, 2025 | Thinking Better, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-General
Introduction It was Plato who said, “The beginning is the most important part of any work.” And the famous 20th Century educator, John Dewey, said, “The nature of the problem fixes the end of thought, and the end controls the process of thinking.” Truly, how we start...
by Dave Kahle | Jul 4, 2024 | Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-Business, Leadership-General
by Dave Kahle Listen to this post's Podcast Recently, one of the members of my CBIG groups suggested I make a list of the 20 most important things I’ve learned in my 30 years of experience working with B2B sales organizations. So, I created a list and...
by Dave Kahle | Feb 22, 2024 | Leadership-General, Miscellaneous
by Dave Kahle In this rapidly changing economy, everyone is looking for a simple fix to dealing with the uncertainty of our economic environment. It seems like few are happy with their situations. And all but a few point their fingers at the changing economy and...
by Dave Kahle | Dec 30, 2023 | Leadership-General
by Dave Kahle Are You Ready for The Age of Turmoil?The biggest challenge for the rest of your career Do you have a sense that the world is changing around you at a pace that is upsetting and in ways that are uncomfortable? If so, then you are not alone. And...
by Dave Kahle | Nov 27, 2023 | Leadership-General
Create a set of committed relationships to help navigate yourway through complexity in a rapidly changing, information-saturated world We all know that we find ourselves in an incredibly turbulent, complex, rapidly changing and information-saturated world....
by Dave Kahle | Sep 1, 2022 | Growth-Miscellaneous, Growth-Personal Development, Leadership-General
“My whole life, I was told that we were one of the richest nations on earth, but now I see that we are one of the poorest. It’s like my whole life has been wasted.” That comment marked one of the saddest and most poignant moments of my life. Here’s the...
by Dave Kahle | Jun 22, 2021 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-General, Leadership-Sales Management
Q. We are intent on revising our decades-old sales force compensation plan. Management is divided. One half favors straight commission, and the other doesn’t. What are your thoughts? A. In my work as a sales consultant, I am routinely involved in helping my clients...
by Dave Kahle | Jun 3, 2021 | Leadership-General
Why is it so difficult for us to do what we want to do? I believe there are two primary forces: Habit and Self-Image. Q. My salespeople all acknowledge the wisdom of spending more time in their high potential accounts, but they don’t do it. How can I get them to...
by Kahle Wisdom | Nov 20, 2018 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-General, Leadership-Sales Force, Leadership-Sales Management, Leadership-Sales Systems
Sales productivity may be a new concept for many sales executives. “Sales” is easy to understand, and “productivity” is pretty clear, but when those two words are combined the combination becomes a bit vague. What exactly is sales productivity, and why should you be...
by Kahle Wisdom | Oct 17, 2018 | Leadership-Entrepreneurs & Executives, Leadership-General, Leadership-Sales Force, Leadership-Sales Management
Question: How can I help an experienced sales person regain his interest in the job? Answer: It sounds like you have someone who is just going through the motions. That can be deadly for the career of a sales person, as well as detrimental to the company. One of the...
by Kahle Wisdom | Jun 15, 2017 | Leadership-General, Leadership-Sales Force, Leadership-Sales Management
Question: I am currently working in a family business. For about ten years, sales have been decreasing. I was just appointed as the head of sales. I have several sales people who have been with the company for 30-40 years. They simply refuse any system or training...
by Kahle Wisdom | May 13, 2016 | Leadership-General, Leadership-Sales Force, Leadership-Sales Management
The following scenario plays over and over again in every one of your sales territories every day. And it costs you hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. I was working with one of my client’s salespeople. The client was an HVAC commercial contractor. The...
by Kahle Wisdom | Apr 2, 2016 | Leadership-General, Leadership-Sales Management
Humility? Wouldn’t it be great if we could get through life – or at least our work day – without any unpleasantries? Alas, we all know that won’t happen. Not only do we have to deal with difficult situations and trying people, but even our language contains words...