Rebecca Brizi

Rebecca often finds herself confronting very common questions.

When Rebecca first met her husband while living in London, the first of those common questions was easy: “Where do you get your Pizza? “. That is an important piece of information for people from any number of countries, but when two Italians get together, you can expect that question within the first three (3) minutes!

Professionally, these questions can take on a more subjective form: “what is really the difference between a business consultant and a business coach”?  Well, Kim (motion to Kim Green) works on sharpening the Person, Rebecca’s focus is on the measurable aspects of the person’s business. 

While questions may be common, clients never are. Each comes with unique challenges and needs. Perhaps they are looking to improve employee engagement or retention, so “how do we create Happy Employees” may be the question that starts the conversation, but for Rebecca the answers are found in identify the underlying reasons for low employee engagement and (as we will hear about today) setting goals to ensure improvements are not just made, but will continue into the future.

Personally, Rebecca and her husband often ask common questions, things like: “where should we go hiking this weekend (Blood Mountain?)”. Or “how about a quick Tennis match”, but never ever “why is AC Florentina in 10th place while AC Milan sits pretty in 2nd”?

Then there are the times that Rebecca has questions of her own. Rebecca and I attended the same training class recently and with the giddiness of a school girl she asked me “what were those snacks, had you ever had them before?”

As we have seen today, this term’s theme is Baseball and the snack she was referring to was Cracker Jacks. In all of her worldly travels, Rebecca had never experienced the pure joy of caramel popcorn.  Now that you’ve been introduced through Cracker Jacks, here is the true king of Caramel – Werther’s Original. Good luck with the new addiction!