If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or register to receive blog updates via email so you don’t miss anything. Thanks for visiting!In honor of Father’s Day and fathers everywhere www.becomeabetterfather.com is sponsoring a Father’s Day writing contest. We want to know our readers opinions of what it [...]
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Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Scott Hammond
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For Immediate Release
New Website Become a Better Father.com announces its podcast, blog, and online videos just in time for Father’s Day
McKinleyville, California. June 2, 2008. Scott Hammond, author, speaker, and parenting expert, releases, just in time for Father’s Day, exciting new resources for parents via his Web site: Become a [...]
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Posted on June 5th, 2008 by Scott Hammond
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Good Dad/ Bad Dad -The 7 Secrets of Effective Fathering
Can you name the three great examples of fathers in current culture?
You can’t say Bill Cosby or the guy on “Father Knows Best”!
Go ahead; we’re waiting….
Can’t seem to find just three?
How come?
Where have all the good dads gone?
Good fathers are an endangered species!
What is it [...]
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Posted on May 28th, 2008 by Scott Hammond
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THE UPS OF DOWNS
1.RING……… HOSPITAL…ULTRASOUND STORY…PREGNANT WIFE
(THE $1M QUESTION WAS IN OUR MINDS…MR TM, FELOW TM & GUESTS)
2. INTRODUCTION…What would be our LESSONS WITH GABE?
3. RING…JONI’S WATER BROKE/BIRTH…Recovery and I went home
4. RING…JONI FROM SACRAMENTO…JONI IS CALLING ME TO SAC
· Joni is SUPERWOMAN
5. MEETING WITH STERILE DOCTOR /NEXT DAY
· DOWN YES…MARRIAGES FAIL WITHIN 1 [...]
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Posted on May 7th, 2008 by Scott Hammond
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How Sales Parallels Parenting
Everything we do from our communication style, our dress, to our understanding of the customers wants and needs can affect our success or failure in closing sales. The way you close a sale depends as much on the product/service you’re selling as it does the [...]
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Posted on May 5th, 2008 by Scott Hammond
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Challenges Faced by Sales Management
Measurement & Reporting
1. Salespeople drop a prospect right after the forecast comes out, we don’t know about it until
the next forecast
2. Can’t tell if we will meet our sales goals during the period
3. Don’t know the true [...]
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Posted on May 4th, 2008 by Scott Hammond
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Gabriel’s Story
This is a true story of our beloved son, Gabriel.
It all started with the ultrasound at Mad River Community Hospital. The ultrasound revealed the possibility of Down syndrome. Gabe had a 1 in 3 chance of having Down .
That question haunted us until Gabe’s birth.
My wife Joni was assigned a month’s bed [...]
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Posted on April 26th, 2008 by Scott Hammond
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The following is an outline of my award-winning Toastmasters International Speech Contest presentation.
It is an outline showing the process of what I work from as I develop a contest speech.
These are only highlight points and I color in the rest with the pertinent stories.
I Hope this might help someone developing a speech and or [...]
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Posted on April 26th, 2008 by Scott Hammond
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This is new and guaranteed to make you laugh a bit.
Thanks to my friends Tim and Art I now have my 1st video!
Thanks for taking a quick minute and giving me some valuable feedback on my Become a Better Father Video on You Tube….
Your opinion in valuable to me so be [...]
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Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by Scott Hammond
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What will they say about you when you are gone?
Good? Bad? Nothing? Angry? Sad? Fun? In the moment? Disengaged?…What will it be?
How about you making that decision now and be intentional about how you are living/parenting?
YOU can decide how you will be, react, respond, live, speak think, and act.
This will certainly gage how others (esp. [...]
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Posted on April 12th, 2008 by Scott Hammond
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