Peggy Collins
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Peggy Collins Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Self-development, networking and marketing
- Career Focus
- Speaking to women on Help Is Not a Four-Letter Word
- Affiliation
- National Speakers Association, Whitehouse Project
Welcome!
I've been a professional speaker since 1987 and joined NSA in 1993. My past experience in the sales and marketing business world equipped me well to speak on such subjects as The Science of Networking and the Art of Connection; Marketing Yourself, Inside and Out; De-Stress Your Distress, 21 Days to a New You.
As president of a Dallas, TX based relocation company, my staff and I had the pleasure to interact with many major moves into the Metroplex during the boom days. Ericsson, JC Penney and Mervyns were just three of several hundred.
Moving to the banking industry to set up a relocation mortgage for the Bright Holding Company, my staff and I designed the mortgage and marketed it through the 34 bank locations across the US.
Today, I still present the above mentioned workshops but my thrust has definitely shifted with the publication of my book Help Is Not a Four-Letter Word: Why Doing It All Is Doing You In, published last year by McGraw Hill.
I've identified a never-before-discussed self-defeating behavior I call the Self-Sufficiency Syndrome. Many of us can't ask for help, do everything all by ourselves, can't delegate because no one else can do it as well and we're headed to burnout! I know - because it happened to me!
Four years ago, I moved to Hendersonville, NC where I'm enjoying the mountains and all the beautiful nature around me.
I love speaking inside organizations, at conferences and specific women's events of all kinds - to get the word out there - that asking for help is a strength, not a weakness.
Let's work together at this wonderful site to become even more successful!
Peggy
Peggy Collins
www.helpisnotafourletterword.com
828-698-8866
Peggy Collins has revealed a never before discussed self-defeating behavior that keeps us from balance and happiness - The Self-Sufficiency Syndrome.
After a highly successful career in sales in the banking and real estate fields, Peggy launched her own speaking and training company in 1993. Since that time she has spoken to organizations such as Frito Lay, Ericsson, The Girl Scouts of America, The International Association of Administrative Assistants, The US Army Corps of Engineers, Meeting Professionals International, and many, many others.
Today, Peggy's message is the subject of her McGraw Hill published book, Help Is Not a Four-Letter Word: Why Doing It All Is Doing You In.
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Asking for Help at Work and at School
How do I ask? And what do I say if they say “no” or” I don’t have time”? Do I slink into a corner and wish I’d never reached out and taken a risk? Absolutely not! Instead think of me as your coach for the next page or so and let me take you through the ideas and steps behind being successful in ...
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Caregivers and the Challenge: Asking for Help
Caregivers, like many of us, have grown up in this culture that says asking for help is a weakness. Some of us have grown up in chaotic environments where we never learned to trust enough to ever depend on anyone else. If you identify with eiter of these, you may be a Self-Sufficient. That’s ...
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The Hidden Barrier: For The Entrepreneurial Woman
Foe forty plus years, I’ve been an entrepreneur – so I’ve been in your head – I’ve been in your skin – I’ve been in your heart. I want you to know what I never knew. That there was a barrier I was literally carrying around inside that slowed me down, kept me from reaching the total success I ...
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Leaning: The Key Ingredient For Dads To Bond
The other day I was doing an interview with a radio host that specializes in Dads. After we’d talked a while, he made this comment: “I never want my kids to know what I don’t know. They’ll think I’m weak.” That statement is an American as apple pie, isn’t it? Macho man! Never let them see you ...
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Practical Tips for Asking For Help
Evaluate the Payoffs and the Price-Tagsn1.None of us behaves in a certain way (not asking for help) without pay-offs. But when the price-tags become greater than the payoffs, we may decide to change or tweak our behavior. Some of the payoffs for not asking for help are: approval and ...
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Peggy Collins
We have an epidemic in this country where many of us can't ask for help - do everything all by ourselves - can't delegate because no one else can do it as well - help others all the time but can't ask to have the favor returned.
This extreme self-defeating behavior is separating us from each other. Only through our interactions with others, can we truly know ourselves.
In my workshops, I explore all the characteristics of what I call the Self-Sufficiency Syndrome, what influeneced us to adopt these behaviors and many solutions to move more toward balance and life fulfillment.
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How to get started
I would encourage you to go to my website where in addition to my keynotes and workshops on my book, Help Is Not a Four-Letter Word: Why Doing It All Is Doing You In, there are descriptions of the other workshops I do.
In addition there is a sign-up for a weekly Tips - Asking for Help.
In the near future, I'll add other products on my site for sale.
I also do some one-on-one coaching and will start offering retreats in 2009.
Other highlights
In addition to my keynotes and workshops on Help Is Not a Four-Letter Word: Why Doing It All Is Doing You In, I speak on several other subjects:
The Science of Networking and the Art of Connection
De-Stress Your Distress, 21 Days to a New You
Marketing Yourself, Inside and Out
The Keys I Found on the Way to My life