Empowerment Pointers

2006-09-06T20:47:00.000-05:00

Join Colleen Hickmann from inUnison in a unique and interactive approach to the newest innovation in online communication. She is inviting and answering specific problematic questions regarding your career and workplace. The focus is to help develop and integrate self-empowering approaches for growth. Be pro-active in creating positive momentum for yourself and our world. Step up and into the 21st century, our world is changing. Each week she will answer your recorded questions in her podcast.

To record your question call our audio line at 206-202-4968 or feel free to contact Colleen at chickmann@getinunison.com with your question.

Empowerment Pointers #11 This week's episode - The Top 5 Points of Self-Empowerment.

The music provided tonight from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at music.podshow.com. Always Wanna Be On Top is performed by John Zielman and the Selves. You can hear the whole song at www.getinunison.com

Empowerment Pointers

2006-08-29T22:27:00.000-05:00

Join Colleen Hickmann from inUnison in a unique and interactive approach to the newest innovation in online communication. She is inviting and answering specific problematic questions regarding your career and workplace. The focus is to help develop and integrate self-empowering approaches for growth. Be pro-active in creating positive momentum for yourself and our world. Step up and into the 21st century, our world is changing. Each week she will answer your recorded questions in her podcast.

To record your question call our audio line at 206-202-4968 or feel free to contact Colleen at chickmann@getinunison.com with your question.

Empowerment Pointers #10 This week's episode - How to empower yourself for recognition in your workplace.

The music provided tonight from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at music.podshow.com. Always Wanna Be On Top is performed by John Zielman and the Selves. You can hear the whole song at www.getinunison.com

Empowerment Pointers

2006-08-24T19:58:00.000-05:00

Join Colleen Hickmann from inUnison in a unique and interactive approach to the newest innovation in online communication. She is inviting and answering specific problematic questions regarding your career and workplace. The focus is to help develop and integrate self-empowering approaches for growth. Be pro-active in creating positive momentum for yourself and our world. Step up and into the 21st century, our world is changing. Each week she will answer your recorded questions in her podcast.

To record your question call our audio line at 206-202-4968 or feel free to contact Colleen at chickmann@getinunison.com with your question.

Empowerment Pointers #9 This week's episode - Listeners - I need your feedback.

The music provided tonight from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at music.podshow.com. Always Wanna Be On Top is performed by John Zielman and the Selves. You can hear the whole song at www.getinunison.com

What's New at inUnison

2006-08-22T19:25:00.000-05:00

inUnison featured in The Small Business Times special edition insert, What’s New in Techology. The article, entitled Ahead of the Curve, focused on companies that are tapping into new technical formats. inUnison’s, Podcast Program, Empowerment Pointers, was recognized and the President, Colleen Hickmann, interviewed. You can read the article here.

Empowerment Pointers

2006-08-04T20:42:00.000-05:00

Join Colleen Hickmann from inUnison in a unique and interactive approach to the newest innovation in online communication. She is inviting and answering specific problematic questions regarding your career and workplace. The focus is to help develop and integrate self-empowering approaches for growth. Be pro-active in creating positive momentum for yourself and our world. Step up and into the 21st century, our world is changing. Each week she will answer your recorded questions in her podcast.

To record your question call our audio line at 206-202-4968 or feel free to contact Colleen at chickmann@getinunison.com with your question.

Empowerment Pointers #8 This week's episode - What should you do for your employees to get them to become empowered.

The music provided tonight from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at music.podshow.com. Always Wanna Be On Top is performed by John Zielman and the Selves. You can hear the whole song at getinunison.com

Empowerment Pointers

2006-07-25T19:43:00.000-05:00

Join Colleen Hickmann from inUnison in a unique and interactive approach to the newest innovation in online communication. She is inviting and answering specific problematic questions regarding your career and workplace. The focus is to help develop and integrate self-empowering approaches for growth. Be pro-active in creating positive momentum for yourself and our world. Step up and into the 21st century, our world is changing. Each week she will answer your recorded questions in her podcast.

To record your question call our audio line at 206-202-4968 or feel free to contact Colleen at chickmann@getinunison.com with your question.

Empowerment Pointers #7 This week's episode - How to how to handle directives from the home office.

The music provided tonight from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at music.podshow.com. Always Wanna Be On Top is performed by John Zielman and the Selves. You can hear the whole song at getinunison.com

Empowerment Pointers

2006-07-18T19:47:00.000-05:00

Join inUnison’s, Colleen Hickmann, in a unique and interactive approach to the newest innovation in online communication. She is inviting and answering specific problematic questions regarding your career and workplace. The focus is to help develop and integrate self-empowering approaches for growth. Be pro-active in creating positive momentum for yourself and our world. Step up and into the 21st century, our world is changing. Each week she will answer your recorded questions in her podcast.

To record your question call our audio line at 206-202-4968 or feel free to contact Colleen at chickmann@getinunison.com with your question.

Empowerment Pointers #6 This week's episode - How to how to handle your fear of losing your job.

The music provided tonight from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at music.podshow.com. Always Wanna Be On Top is performed by John Zielman and the Selves. You can hear the whole song at getinunison.com

Empowerment Pointers

2006-07-07T21:13:00.000-05:00

Join inUnison’s, Colleen Hickmann, in a unique and interactive approach to the newest innovation in online communication. She is inviting and answering specific problematic questions regarding your career and workplace. The focus is to help develop and integrate self-empowering approaches for growth. Be pro-active in creating positive momentum for yourself and our world. Step up and into the 21st century, our world is changing. Each week she will answer your recorded questions in her podcast.

To record your question call our audio line at 206-202-4968 or feel free to contact Colleen at chickmann@getinunison.com with your question.

Empowerment Pointers #5 This week's episode - How to step up and make a difference in your workplace.

The music provided tonight from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at music.podshow.com. Always Wanna Be On Top is performed by John Zielman and the Selves. You can hear the whole song at getinunison.com

Empowerment Pointers

2006-06-30T20:22:00.000-05:00

Join inUnison’s, Colleen Hickmann, in a unique and interactive approach to the newest innovation in online communication. She is inviting and answering specific problematic questions regarding your career and workplace. The focus is to help develop and integrate self-empowering approaches for growth. Be pro-active in creating positive momentum for yourself and our world. Step up and into the 21st century, our world is changing. Each week she will answer your recorded questions in her podcast.

To record your question call our audio line at 206-202-4968 or feel free to contact Colleen at chickmann@getinunison.com with your question.

Empowerment Pointers #4 This week's episode - How to take leadership from seminar training in the workplace.

The music provided tonight from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at music.podshow.com. Always Wanna Be On Top is performed by John Zielman and the Selves. You can hear the whole song at getinunison.com

Empowerment Pointers

2006-06-23T20:44:00.000-05:00

Join inUnison’s, Colleen Hickmann, in a unique and interactive approach to the newest innovation in online communication. She is inviting and answering specific problematic questions regarding your career and workplace. The focus is to help develop and integrate self-empowering approaches for growth. Be pro-active in creating positive momentum for yourself and our world. Step up and into the 21st century, our world is changing. Each week she will answer your recorded questions in her podcast.

To record your question call our audio line at 206-202-4968 or feel free to contact Colleen at chickmann@getinunison.com with your question.

Empowerment Pointers #3 This week's episode - How to overcome your disability at work.

The music provided tonight from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at music.podshow.com. Always Wanna Be On Top is performed by John Zielman and the Selves. You can hear the whole song at getinunison.com

Empowerment Pointers

2006-06-17T13:20:00.000-05:00

Join inUnison’s, Colleen Hickmann, in a unique and interactive approach to the newest innovation in online communication. She is inviting and answering specific problematic questions regarding your career and workplace. The focus is to help develop and integrate self-empowering approaches for growth. Be pro-active in creating positive momentum for yourself and our world. Step up and into the 21st century, our world is changing. Each week she will answer your recorded questions in her podcast.

To record your question call our audio line at 206-202-4968 or feel free to contact Colleen at chickmann@getinunison.com with your question.

Empowerment Pointers #2 This week's episode - How to get credit for your ideas at work.

The music provided tonight from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at music.podshow.com. Always Wanna Be On Top is performed by John Zielman and the Selves. You can hear the whole song at getinunison.com

2006-06-09T20:21:00.000-05:00

Join inUnison’s, Colleen Hickmann, in a unique and interactive approach to the newest innovation in online communication. She is inviting and answering specific problematic questions regarding your career and workplace. The focus is to help develop and integrate self-empowering approaches for growth. Be pro-active in creating positive momentum for yourself and our world. Step up and into the 21st century, our world is changing. Each week she will answer your recorded questions in her podcast.

To record your question call our audio line at 206-202-4968 or feel free to contact Colleen at chickmann@getinunison.com with your question.

Empowerment Pointers #1 This week's episode answers the question of how to talk to your boss about how he treats customers.

The music provided tonight from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at music.podshow.com. Always Wanna Be On Top is performed by John Zielman and the Selves. You can hear the whole song at getinunison.com

2006-06-02T06:32:00.000-05:00

Taking a Proactive Approach in the 21stCentury

Our learned response to change is to resist and struggle. Notice, learned response. Our survival instinct conditions us to react. We still, in this 21st century, continue to manage our life situations with this prehistoric mindset. Do fire breathing dragons threaten our lives, or is it our reaction to our hot-tempered significant other that if fueling this rage and this intense heart pounding discomfort? Do we still need to fear the wildlife that stalks us as their food supply, or are we just frightened of losing our jobs and wouldn’t dare to suggest a new idea much less our discontentment. Are our lives in danger moment to moment, or have we heard that the company is for sale or our significant other might leave. Now what? We might starve, be homeless or heaven forbid, alone. In this flight for life approach, we utilize only the smallest part of the brain and we live reactively. We prowl through life always on guard, waiting and watching for the next threatening circumstance. Our bodies are tense, our breathing is fast, our hearts are pounding and we survive in the same mode as our cavemen brethren. We live our lives based only on yesterdays learning and our actions become robotic and limited. But, all is not lost. We as human beings are infused with majestic and boundless possibility, we have only forgotten. Are you ready to remember and step into your own creative genius? Would you like to learn how to tap into your birthright of boundless potential? Are you willing to take charge of yourself and experience a different tomorrow? Interested? Come with me. I can show you how to begin the journey that can help you reclaim self- empowerment. Take a proactive approach. Come with me, the 21st century awaits your call.

Coming soon, join inUnison’s, Colleen Hickmann, in a unique and interactive approach to the newest innovation in online communication. She is inviting and answering specific problematic questions regarding your career and workplace. The focus is to help develop and integrate self-empowering approaches for growth. Be pro-active in creating positive momentum for yourself and our world. Step up and into the 21st century, our world is changing. Each week she will answer your recorded questions in her podcast. If your questions are not used in the podcast, she will e-mail you a response, personally. Do you have questions? What is a podcast? How do we submit questions? Feel free to contact chickmann@getinunison.com or go to the website at www.getinunison.com for more information.

Podcasting is the method of distributing multimedia files, such as audio programs or music videos, over the Internet for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. Podcasts are distributed using either the RSS or Atom formats. One can listen to a podcast either on a computer or on a mobile audio device (such as an iPod). Podcasting's essence is about creating content (audio or video) for an audience that wants to listen or watch when they want, where they want, and how they want.
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2006-05-23T18:04:00.000-05:00

Growing Awareness

I challenge you to look, listen and feel what is happening around you. Have you become aware of the days growing longer? Do you hear the birds chirping with more excitement? Have you opened your windows to let fresh air into your space? Have you noticed; any bright green anything, peeking out from the ground? We, like nature, are not static; we are dynamic and ever changing. As a matter of fact every single cell of our body changes in a cycle of one year. Imagine that, we will be completely, 100% transformed, in the next 365 days. If you could recreate yourself, what change would you make? What would transformation look like, what would a whole new you sound like? What would you like to be experiencing 365 days from now? The beauty of reflecting on these questions is the fact that you are the creator of those desires; they are not idle thoughts nor were they placed there by some external element; the truth is you are the artist, the programmer, the master planner of your experience. You have the same innate sense of evolution that nature so beautifully and powerfully expresses. Those longings are your calling, your tools of fulfillment and your responsibility to manifest. How does that start? B becoming aware. Aware of what nature, those around you and you yourself are trying to tell you. Pay attention, look, listen and feel. What could happen? Perhaps your cycle of this year’s transformation could be the most powerful yet. Would you like more information on how to begin this transformational journey? Are you in search of creating a different way? Please visit www.getinunison.com. This is Colleen Hickmann, wishing you well.

Coming soon, join inUnison’s, Colleen Hickmann, in a unique and interactive approach to the newest innovation in online communication. She is inviting and answering specific problematic questions regarding your career and workplace. The focus is to help develop and integrate self-empowering approaches for growth. Be pro-active in creating positive momentum for yourself and our world. Step up and into the 21st century, our world is changing. Each week she will answer your recorded questions in her podcast. If your questions are not used in the podcast, she will e-mail you a response, personally. Do you have questions? What is a podcast? How do we submit questions? Feel free to contact chickmann@getinunison.com or go to the website at www.getinunison.com for more information.

Podcasting is the method of distributing multimedia files, such as audio programs or music videos, over the Internet for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. Podcasts are distributed using either the RSS or Atom formats.
One can listen to a podcast either on a computer or on a mobile audio device (such as an iPod). Podcasting's essence is about creating content (audio or video) for an audience that wants to listen or watch when they want, where they want, and how they want.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2006-05-16T21:06:00.000-05:00

You’re Springtime

Springtime is the first season of the year. Its life “springs forth” from the gray, dark decaying remains of yesterdays’ bitter cold. Springtime transforms brown mud to buds of fresh greenery and flowers of all colors. So it is with our lives. Nature is a wonderful example of how we can blossom and grow from past experiences. She is the living example of how we can cultivate and weed out thoughts that may have kept from accomplishing our goals. Simply yet powerfully, watch as nature shifts with the tide of the seasons and always flourishes in her present environment. Could life be as simple? What is we just changed our minds about the appearance of mud? Perhaps we could view the mud of our own past as the fertile and holy ground of our own blossoming. Find your own mud puddles, perhaps change your perspective and watch the transformation. Interested in learning more?

Coming soon, join inUnison’s, Colleen Hickmann, in a unique and interactive approach to the newest innovation in online communication. She is inviting and answering specific problematic questions regarding your career and workplace. The focus is to help develop and integrate self-empowering approaches for growth. Be pro-active in creating positive momentum for yourself and our world. Step up and into the 21st century, our world is changing. Each week she will answer your recorded questions in her podcast. If your questions are not used in the podcast, she will e-mail you a response, personally. Do you have questions? What is a podcast? How do we submit questions? Feel free to contact chickmann@getinunison.com or go to the website at www.getinunison.com for more information.

2006-03-15T06:19:00.000-06:00

February 17, 2006
In Unison featured in the Small Business Times Life's Balancing Lesson - Self empowerment is a balance of mind and body and a realization that each piece that creates a whole is as equal and as important as the next.

2006-03-12T16:09:00.000-06:00

The Selp-Emplowerment Games Online Ordering Now Available

http://www.getinunison.com/products.htm
A 21st Century tool for training and changing. Have some fun and learn a new approach to the empowerment of Conscious Awareness for the work place and in your life. Includes game board, e-cards, player pieces and dice.

2006-03-12T15:54:00.000-06:00

Wisconsin Public Radio's Ideas Network Guest Appearance

December 21, 2005 5:00pm CST - Ben Merens Show
Employees are not without power in the workplace but often feel that they are. Ben Merens and his guest, Colleen Hickmann, talk about how you can take more control at work and be happier for it.

Listen to the show here
http://www.wpr.org/ideas/programnotes.cfm?dteDate=12/21/2005

2006-03-12T15:33:00.000-06:00

Activities of 2005

July 23, 2005
A most enlightening website for those who share a vision of the workplace as an environmental tool to express connectedness, cultural growth, individual development and spirit. The links are informative and educational. www.spiritatwork.org

September 2005
Servant-Leadership, a phrase coined by Robert Greenleaf. Chapters of study groups as well as The Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership in Indianapolis, IN, is fast growing in business developmental awareness. Servant-Leadership encourages collaboration, trust, foresight, listening and the ethical use of power and empowerment, as taken from the website introduction http://www.greenlealf.org/. This approach shares a similar mindset of Conscious Awareness Training in the Workplace, uniquely created by inUnison.

December 2005
The Networking Community http://www.thenetworkingcommunity.com/
Colleen Hickmann is the new chapter President of the Milwaukee Airport Group called United in Networking. Meetings start January 5th and 19th, the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month, 8:30 AM at the restaurant in Milwaukee Best Western Airport Hotel and Conference Cter. 5105 S Howell Avenue, Milwaukee. Contact Colleen by email or phone at 414-856-0268 for more information.

2006-03-12T15:27:00.000-06:00

Activities of 2004

June 2004
Completed continuing education program with Dr Deepak Chopra at The Chopra Center in Carlsbad, CA. Eastern philosophy joining with our Western approach to our life's work. A book to review for anyone interested in balancing their approach to lifework and purpose, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra.

July 2, 2004
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation. J. Krishnamurti. An interesting quote to begin a discussion of judgment and its impact on our day-to-day interactions. Dialogue, by Ellinor and Gerard, dedicates an entire chapter to the suspension of judgments. I agree with them, ìSuspension of judgment is about developing the ability to observe judgments, your own and those of others, from a neutral position, remaining detached and unreactive. I practice this daily, it is empowering to be proactive, it does, however, take practice. This book was good reading for executives and managers who want to communicate with a 21st century approach.

July 10, 2004
Officially became of member of Tempo International Milwaukee Chapter. TEMPO Milwaukee is the premier organization of professional women. It serves both its diverse membership and the community through educational programs, networking opportunities, relationship building and mentoring, while promoting the goal of empowering women to achieve and sustain leadership roles within the political, educations and corporate arenas. If you are a professional woman, check the website, www.tempointernational.org

August 2004
Attended PGA Championship at Whispering Straits near Sheboygan, WI. I will not be going on tour playing professional golf, did you know they never miss? I don't even count the misses when I play!