Top Dog 4 Graduation – July 13, 2012!

Posted by Doris on Jul 30, 2012 in Blog, Top Dog | 0 comments

Executive Leadership Top Dog Cxn!

Posted by Doris on Mar 12, 2012 in Blog, Top Dog | 2 comments

Upcoming April 19, 2012, Top Dog Event at Marathon Building Environments. Click here to pre-register for Top Dog. The Top Dog Cxn group is an atmosphere in which approximately 10 Top Dogs from non-competing businesses come together once monthly for 12 months to learn, share, and grow in their Top Dog responsibilities. Congratulations to the following confirmed group members: Nelly Roach (Caledon Virtual), Micki Marrero (NY Deli), Susan Hart (HBI), Jessica Macy (BCCA), Scott Bradley (Carpet One) and Stephanie Rothermich (HighPointe...

Top Dog Selling Selling Selling

Posted by Parker on Mar 8, 2012 in Blog, Top Dog | 0 comments

Hi everyone, my name is Parker Rawdon. I am a senior at Columbia College and have been interning for Bob and Doris the last couple of months. We are successfully more than half way finished with our second Top Dog Cxn! group. Last week I was fortunate enough to be able to attend a great meeting led by Bob and Cathy Atkins, president of Sandler Training Missouri. The topic was Selling! Selling! Selling! Following are some of the bullet points that Bob and Cathy covered: Listen to Consumers! If you are willing to listen to consumers they will...

Executive Leadership Development Opportunity

Posted by Doris on Jan 31, 2012 in Blog, Top Dog | 0 comments

Please note that we are starting a new Top Dog Cxn! group April 19; Marathon Building Environments will be our host.  Thank you, Sean Spence and Parker Rawdon, for assisting with the organization. The Top Dog Cxn program is designed to help position your company for success within the mid-Missouri market through the sharing of ideas, brainstorming and referrals. It is a place where Top Dogs from non-competing businesses can come together once monthly for 12 months to learn, share, and grow in their Top Dog responsibilities. Ideal candidates...

Graduating Top Dog!

Posted by Doris on Jan 23, 2012 in Top Dog | 2 comments

Congratulations to our Top Dog finishers — David Keller (The Bank of Missouri), Chris Watkins (Jones & Watkins), Jennifer Hedrick (SOA), Gene Hinshaw (Trabue, Hansen & Hinshaw, Inc.), Priya Batchu (SciTech/Innovative Designs), Mary Ropp (The Bank of Missouri), Carol Mertensmeyer (ParentLink), Warren Hoover (Dubtizzle) and Deb Harrington (Baer Edington)! Once again, we appreciate The Bank of Missouri for hosting these monthly sessions this past year as well as the program’s co-facilitators who assisted Bob with presenting...

Top Dog Cxn! Updates

Posted by Doris on Aug 29, 2011 in Top Dog | 0 comments

We’re halfway into our first Top Dog Cxn! group, and just finished the second session of  the Summer 2011 Top Dog Cxn! group. Greg Steinhoff of VA Mortgage kicked off our Summer 2011 Top Dog group in July with some excellent comments on leadership.  Paula Hertwig-Hopkins drew the bar even higher with her discussion of how to flesh out vision within an entire organization. Following is Bob’s bullet point synopsis of Greg’s comments on Leadership in 2011: 1.      Don’t let your employees run you. 2.      Hire for...