Author Archives: Abbie Fink
#BookClub – Alignment for Success: Bringing Out the Best in Yourself, Your Teams, and Your Company , Part 4 – Attitude and Gratitude
Abbie Fink | July 20, 2016
When we find ourselves in conflict with another person, it becomes especially important to maintain a sense of gratitude about them and their contributions. When you find yourself facing unexpected distractions and challenges, remain grateful for them. That’s the advice from Katherine Halpin in her book Alignment for Success.
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#BookClub – Alignment for Success: Bringing Out the Best in Yourself, Your Teams, and Your Company , Part 3 – Make the most of meeting time
Abbie Fink | July 13, 2016
My series of posts from the Alignment for Success book continues today with [inlinetweet prefix=”” tweeter=”” suffix=””]some ideas about making the most of meetings[/inlinetweet]. Other posts have included creating alignment for your business and making time to just think. [inlinetweet prefix=”” tweeter=”” suffix=””]There is nothing worse than being in a meeting with no clear purpose […]
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#BookClub – Alignment for Success: Bringing Out the Best in Yourself, Your Teams, and Your Company , Part 2 –Driving Force
Abbie Fink | July 6, 2016
There were so many great nuggets of information in this book, that I decided to write a series of posts. Last week, I talked about alignment in our organizations; this post will deal with a leader’s overwhelming desire to be the driving force in the business. Author Katherine Halpin believes we suffer from “drive-focused […]
READ MORE#BookClub – Alignment for Success: Bringing Out the Best in Yourself, Your Teams, and Your Company, Part 1 – Alignment
Abbie Fink | June 29, 2016
A colleague recommended this book by Katharine Halpin, it sounded interesting so I downloaded it. I didn’t realize that Katharine was here in Phoenix and provides coaching and consulting services to a wide variety of clients. It’s a quick and easy read, but chockful of great ideas to help leaders at all levels in an organization align goals and expectations to ensure success. So many ideas that I’m going to have a few posts so that this one doesn’t get too long. [Click below for more]
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A Seniors’ View of the Newsroom
Abbie Fink | June 15, 2016
I was having dinner with my folks over the weekend and casually asked them what they had planned for the week. I was fully expecting the answer to be “going to BINGO or playing Mah Jong,” which has become the norm of late. They are very involved at their senior center so the weeks are filled with lots of activities. But I didn’t expect them to say “going on a tour at Channel 12.” What!?! I’ve been to the station dozens of times, but I’ve never had a tour. So what else could I do but ask my dad to a pen a blog post on the experience. So here’s Larry’s view of the newsroom.
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#MediaMonday – Kerry Fehr-Snyder
Abbie Fink | Mar 7, 2016
I have known Kerry Fehr-Snyder for a long time. Our paths have crossed personally and professionally many times over the years. She was a long-time print journalist at the Arizona Republic, moved into communications for a state agency and most recently announced that she was moving to KJZZ, Phoenix’s NPR affiliate. You know sometimes the […]
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#MediaMonday – Christina Estes
Abbie Fink | Feb 29, 2016
Regular readers of this column may think they’ve read about Christina Estes before. And you’d be right. We featured her here back in 2011 when she was just starting at KFYI. But as does happen in the media marketplace, talented people get new opportunities, so we’re giving Christina a chance to update us on her […]
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#BookClub – Manipurated
Abbie Fink | Feb 9, 2016
The foreword to this book was written by Jay Baer. In it he quotes Nielsen research that claims that 91 percent of Americans trust recommendations from their friends. The fact that I bought the book in the first place proves that…Jay recommended it so I bought. The book, Manipurated by Daniel Lemin, sheds light on […]
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Brand Loyalty – And They Call It #PuppyLove
Abbie Fink | Jan 14, 2016
I can go on and on for days about my complete and total love of all things Donny Osmond. For those of you who know me that wouldn’t come as a surprise. After all, this has been going on since the days when he graced the covers of Tiger Beat magazine. My first opportunity to […]
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10 Management Tips for Great Leaders
Abbie Fink | Dec 23, 2015
I was scrolling through my LinkedIn feed this week and someone had posted this great infographic. I wanted to share it but forgot to note the name of the person that posted it. I did a quick Google search and it seems that dozens of people have posted it, some as far back as 2014. […]
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#MediaMonday – Courtland Jeffrey
Abbie Fink | Dec 14, 2015
Today’s #MediaMonday comes to us from Courtland Jeffrey at ABC15 in Phoenix. I met Courtland a couple weeks ago when we both served on a panel at Cronkite Days, the J-School’s homecoming event. Our topic was about how the Cronkite School prepared us for our careers and some of the changes that have occurred over […]
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What Makes a Good Employee?
Abbie Fink | Nov 4, 2015
I was one of the speakers at the North Carolina PRSA seminar a couple weeks ago. I talked about building an authentic workplace. It was a great session and I enjoyed pulling the information together to present. Following me on the agenda was Tom Hoog. Tom’s kind of a big deal. He’s had a much-storied […]
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