by Carrie Koens | Sep 17, 2019 | Inspiration
“Employees don’t grow as a result of an annual conversation. Growth happens a little bit, every day, over time, through ongoing dialogue.” – Julie Winkle Guilioni, Co-author, Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go This summer, my kids wanted to plant a garden. They...
by Carrie Koens | Aug 6, 2019 | Inspiration
We hear a lot about core values, but have you ever stopped to consider why they actually matter for any given context? Core values are not just a list of words or series of phrases that we consider worthwhile: they are the very foundation of how we choose to live our...
by Carrie Koens | Jul 16, 2019 | Inspiration
When I first started working with Weaving Influence, I brought the team count up to six. Five of us were married, three had children, and all of us were fairly new to the work-from-home world. Becky’s youngest child was starting kindergarten that first year, and I...
by Carrie Koens | May 21, 2019 | Book Launch
Ten years ago, it was a whole lot easier to pick out the self-published books and authors. The covers often looked unprofessional—like they’d been designed using word processing clip art—and the only format on offer was paperback. My, how times have changed! These...
by Carrie Koens | Apr 12, 2019 | Book Launch
In 2010, two years before I joined Becky at Weaving Influence, my husband and I finalized the production and publication of a short, illustrated children’s storybook about a boy named “Little Brother.” Even though I told myself that we weren’t going to get rich off of...
