Thursday, December 3, 2009

News From Chad

As we finish 2009, I want to reach out and say thank you to everyone who we have encountered this year. CCG has had its best year to date, and we look forward to even more growth in 2010. We are very thankful! We understand that for many others this year has been a tough one. We encourage everyone to stay strong and believe that brighter days are right around the corner.

We have had the privilege to work with thousands more this year to help them set themselves up for even more success moving forward. We continue to work with some of the most recognized brands such as AT&T, Farmers Insurance, UBS, Redken, Keller Williams Realty, Allergan Pharmaceutical and many more.

We have also worked this year with charities and organizations given back so others might be able to enjoy this year's holiday season.

Finish strong for 2009. If 2009 has been a great year, we congratulate you and wish you all the best moving forward. If 2009 wasn't your best year, then put it behind you and do what it takes to make 2010 a lot better!

If there is anything we can do to help you build a brighter future for your company or yourself please contact us and we will take the necessary steps to move forward!

Again I say thanks and wish everyone the best for their holiday season and the new year!

Monday, October 12, 2009

News and Updates From CCG!

CCG continues to grow as we help many companies, schools, and individuals grow. We have been working with The Next Level Sales Consulting to help organizations improve the performance of their people to ultimately improve bottom line results.

Steve Johnson, President of The Next Level is working with Stephen Covey (Who wrote the best-selling book "7 Habits Of Highly Effective People" along with other fantastic books) and together they are doing a webinar around improving performance. I recommend everyone attend the webinar to capture some keen insights from these two masters of people improvement. For more information please visit www.nextlevelsalesconsulting.com

Also through TNL and Farmers Insurance we have been nominated for an ASTD award, which it is an honor to be part of the development of "Leading The ServicePoint Way", a leadership program we put together for Farmers Insurance. We are excited to hear the results at the next ASTD event in Chicago!

Between now and the end of the year we are working with TNL and AT&T to help them improve performance with many of their centers to better serve their customers. It's an exciting time to be part of CCG!

If we can be of any assistance in helping you or your organization please contact us!

The CCG Team!

Monday, September 14, 2009

Continue Moving Forward

We must work hard everyday to continue moving forward in all aspects of life! CCG is doing just that! We are working hard to meet the needs of our clients, and understand that we must take action and be proactive to take full advantage of every opportunity out there. As you are witnessing we are changing and updating our site on a consistent basis. We continue doing more interviews and will be posting those to the site soon.

Today CCG is working with a variety of different companies, and thousands of individuals are being impacted across the globe. We must work hard to answer all the demands of our clients and know that business is getting more and more complicated on a daily basis.In the past 90 days we have worked with UBS, Allergan, Redken, Missouri Department of Higher Education, AT&T, Sprint, Missouri Baptist University and many more people to help set themselves up for success!

Companies are trusting CCG to help them create future successes for their people and their organizations and they put a lot of trust in us. We take that trust very serious and go to great lengths to make sure we deliver on all expectations and results that are expected!If you want true change in your organization or yourself contact us for a free analysis. email info@chadcarden.com and someone will be in contact with you shortly! We wish you the best for the future and let's continue to talk about success!

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

CCG Is Growing & Changing Everyday!

Change is a must if you want to continue moving forward in any aspect of life, and CCG is doing just that! We are working hard to meet the needs of our clients, and understand that we must take action and be proactive to take full advantage of every opportunity out there. As you are witnessing we are changing and updating our site on a consistent basis. We have added recent interviews, and will soon be adding video and more and more resources for setting yourself up for success!

Today CCG is working with a variety of different companies, and thousands of individuals are being impacted across the globe. We must work hard to answer all the demands of our clients and know that business is getting more and more complicated on a daily basis.


In the past 90 days we have worked with UBS, Allergan, Redken, Missouri Department of Higher Education, Farmers Insurance, Keller Williams, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and many more people to help set themselves up for success!


Companies are trusting CCG to help them create future successes for their people and their organizations and they put a lot of trust in us. We take that trust very serious and go to great lengths to make sure we deliver on all expectations and results that are expected!


If you want true change in your organization contact us for a free analysis. email info@chadcarden.com and someone will be in contact with you shortly! We wish you the best for the future and let's continue to talk about success!

Monday, June 15, 2009

Action Is The Key To Making Things Happen

Hopefully by now you have thought about and written down all the things you want to accomplish in 2009 both personally and professionally, and you are moving in the right direction halfway through this year! This is where we have to make it clear that we are not a "motivational speaking" company, The Chad Carden Group is a consulting organization that believes in getting results, and to do that we have to be realist! We tell you like it is, and either you like it or you don't. That being said we are not writing this to make you mad, but to make you think. Most people will never accomplish what they want to accomplish this year because they do not put their plan into action. Having a vision, goals, and a plan on how to achieve these things is important and the first step, but without action it is 100% useless. We believe in writing down goals, visions, plans, and thinking positive, and at CCG we do all these things. But positive thinking alone won't change anything. If you want to get in shape, just having a positive attitude for thirty days won't do it! You have to have a great attitude along with taking action, such as going to the gym, eating healthy, exercising, and doing the things that you probably don't want to always do. You could have the best workout plan, but without actually getting on the machine, lifting weights, doing push ups and set ups, or running the workout plan is 100% useless. Get the point? Now we all have heard or read the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. If you want things to be different you have to change what you do! Simple, period, that is the way that it is! It reminds us of a story we once heard about a bear in a cage. The zoo put this bear in a cage that was ten feet long. They put the bear at one end, and put the food at the other end. Everyday the bear would walk ten feet and eat, then go back over and lay down. Walk ten feet and eat, then go back over and lay down, he did this for ten years in the zoo. Everybody would watch him. They removed the cage one day, ten feet forward the bear would go over and eat, and then go back without bars....ten feet forward the bear would go over and eat, and then go back without bars. Now here is what's scary, they moved the food fifteen feet away from the bear, and the bear went ten feet and stopped! So many people in life get comfortable with what they have, they are ten feet forward and ten feet back. They get up and do the same things over and over, and over again expecting different results. Then when the game of life is over, a lot of them look over their shoulder and say, "what happened?"Now the beautiful thing about living in a free society is that you don't have to change if you don't want to. At CCG we believe that most people are living a life of what is called "quiet desperation." That is where they have enough that it is not worth doing anything about it, but they always ask the question: "Isn't there more to life than this?"So if you are sick and tired of being sick and tired of being sick and tired with some area(s) in your life, then we suggest you change your actions, which will in-turn change your results!What can you do today, that will help you accomplish whatever it is you want to accomplish this year? Maybe you need to change careers, maybe you need to save some money, maybe you need to move a relationship forward (or get out of one). Whatever it is we suggest you do it, and you do it TODAY! Like the Nike slogan: "Just Do It"

Friday, June 12, 2009

Action Is The Key To Making Things Happen

Hopefully by now you have thought about and written down all the things you want to accomplish in 2009 both personally and professionally, and you are moving in the right direction halfway through this year! This is where we have to make it clear that we are not a “motivational speaking” company, The Chad Carden Group is a consulting organization that believes in getting results, and to do that we have to be realist! We tell you like it is, and either you like it or you don’t. That being said we are not writing this to make you mad, but to make you think. Most people will never accomplish what they want to accomplish this year because they do not put their plan into action. Having a vision, goals, and a plan on how to achieve these things is important and the first step, but without action it is 100% useless. We believe in writing down goals, visions, plans, and thinking positive, and at CCG we do all these things. But positive thinking alone won’t change anything. If you want to get in shape, just having a positive attitude for thirty days won’t do it! You have to have a great attitude along with taking action, such as going to the gym, eating healthy, exercising, and doing the things that you probably don’t want to always do. You could have the best workout plan, but without actually getting on the machine, lifting weights, doing push ups and set ups, or running the workout plan is 100% useless. Get the point?

Now we all have heard or read the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. If you want things to be different you have to change what you do! Simple, period, that is the way that it is! It reminds us of a story we once heard about a bear in a cage. The zoo put this bear in a cage that was ten feet long. They put the bear at one end, and put the food at the other end. Everyday the bear would walk ten feet and eat, then go back over and lay down. Walk ten feet and eat, then go back over and lay down, he did this for ten years in the zoo. Everybody would watch him. They removed the cage one day, ten feet forward the bear would go over and eat, and then go back without bars….ten feet forward the bear would go over and eat, and then go back without bars. Now here is what’s scary, they moved the food fifteen feet away from the bear, and the bear went ten feet and stopped! So many people in life get comfortable with what they have, they are ten feet forward and ten feet back. They get up and do the same things over and over, and over again expecting different results. Then when the game of life is over, a lot of them look over their shoulder and say, “what happened?”

Now the beautiful thing about living in a free society is that you don’t have to change if you don’t want to. At CCG we believe that most people are living a life of what is called “quiet desperation.” That is where they have enough that it is not worth doing anything about it, but they always ask the question: “Isn’t there more to life than this?”

So if you are sick and tired of being sick and tired of being sick and tired with some area(s) in your life, then we suggest you change your actions, which will in-turn change your results!

What can you do today, that will help you accomplish whatever it is you want to accomplish this year? Maybe you need to change careers, maybe you need to save some money, maybe you need to move a relationship forward (or get out of one). Whatever it is we suggest you do it, and you do it TODAY! Like the Nike slogan: “Just Do It”

Monday, May 4, 2009

The Next 100 Days!

Last week all I read and heard about was "The President's First 100 Days In Office". As I was listening to everything that happened over the first 100 days, I came to this conclusion. A lot can be accomplished in 100 days. Maybe not the completion of an entire project, but action can be taken to move in the right direction.

Not I am not going to debate about the President's first 100 days, but what I am going to do is challenge you for the next 100 days! There is still a lot of uncertainty in today's World, and the future of this great nation is still very "fuzzy", but I was once told to clearly focus on the task ahead of you. We can't change what is happening with the auto industry, we can't force the stock market to gain 1000 more points (it would be nice if we could, and maybe some reading this can?) but what we can do is focus on our lives, personally and professionally for the next 100 days and be the best we can for that period of time.

I am not asking you to change for the rest of your life, I am only asking that for the next 100 days you focus on doing things that will make you, your family, your friends, your community and your organizations better off than today! That is the challenge!

Let's Continue To Talk About Success!