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"Leaders in learning organizations are responsible for building organizations where people are continually expanding their capabilities to shape their future — that is — leaders are responsible for learning ." (his emphasis) — Peter Senge, The Leaders New Work: Building Learning ... Views: 1167
Developing a Positive Workplace Culture
Wisdom represents the accumulated knowledge from life’s lessons, when we choose to see, hear and remember everything which impacts positively upon us in every aspect of our lives
How amazing would it be if every place you worked had a positive ... Views: 1167
A partner portal is common these days especially since majority of modern companies have to deal with a great deal of channel partners. It has been proven that utilizing channel management strategies and making the most out of business partnerships and selling products and services through ... Views: 1166
When I first started my business, I had a business mentor who told me the following quote. I’ve never forgotten it because it’s so true for many, many business owners. He said:
“Show me an entrepreneur and I’ll show you a manic-depressant.”
How true is that? One moment as a business owner, ... Views: 1166
During election season here in the U.S., one of my clients, the CEO of a nonprofit organization, was invited to film an endorsement for a candidate's television commercial. Her role was to introduce herself and her organization and explain why she supports the candidate. She was happy to ... Views: 1165
With a title like that you might think I bit off a little more than I can chew. You might be right, but because there are literally thousands of articles, blogs and websites dedicated to discussions of leadership, I wanted to offer a logical definition of it in a thousand words or less. Here ... Views: 1165
Teams and organizations are constantly plagued by project execution errors and failures. These failures create an execution gap -- a gap between what an individual and/or team plans to do and what they actually do instead. Just as retention rapidly degrades after learning, so does project ... Views: 1165
Meetings get a bad rap in the workplace these days, and rightfully so. Too often, meetings are unproductive, boring and a general waste of time.
What’s the problem?
The biggest issue is time. With executives and managers being so overbooked, meetings get cut short when they rush in from ... Views: 1163
Performance appraisals, as you may know, can be very stressful for both the employee and the manager. I’d like to share some of my tips in making the appraisals less nerve-wracking and more productive.
Tips for Employees
For the employees, performance appraisals are inherently difficult ... Views: 1163
With protect profits always top of mind, small business owners are advised to be vigilant against possible threats and adversity. Adversity is a potential problem for a small business. You’re not sure where it came from, how much it will cost, and when it will end. Left unchecked it can ... Views: 1161
Now may be the time, in the midst of an economic recovery, that companies stop to take a good hard look at their ethics initiatives. Many companies have started to notice that being ethical and acting ethical is a vital and integral component to business success, especially in this economic ... Views: 1161
Probably the hardest part of setting goals is the first step of actually deciding to take action! The main hurdle that most people face is the incorrect assumption that goals are only for business or sales-minded people. The reality is everyone subconsciously sets goals throughout their day. ... Views: 1161
Does a leader need to be the smartest person in the company to achieve growth and customer satisfaction? No.
In fact, being the smartest person in the company can actually impede growth. Some leaders just can't get over "themselves." Yet unfortunately when you suggest that they could be the ... Views: 1160
In general, a Virtual Assistant (VA) is someone who performs administrative tasks away from the office of their clients. A VA is the modern day version of the executive assistant or personal assistant.
A VA is usually not an employee, which comes in very handy for many home business owners. If ... Views: 1160
As the name implies, effects-based thinking (EBT) is an approach to strategic planning and decision making where the effects of specific actions are assessed, not in a narrowly defined and time-limited way, but through a perspective that is sensitive to broad-ranging and lasting impacts. ... Views: 1160
You are responsible for the day-to-day operations of the department and are knowledgeable around the business functions. What about the people tasks? Managing people starts with recruiting…finding the right talent. I’ve created a simple step-by-step guide to help you through ... Views: 1159
We use two prepositions with the verb ‘communicate’ - ‘with’ and ‘to’.
‘With’ implies dialogue and involvement between communicator and recipient.
‘To’ implies the one way process of informing and has no place here.
The involvement of communicating with someone may have an outward or ... Views: 1159
Your Mission Critical Business Growth Plan
There are many roadblocks and obstacles that stand between you and success. Running a business isn’t easy, but one thing that is for certain is that defeating your demons and overcoming those gremlins that stand in your way can be the hardest part of ... Views: 1159
Now that it's a New Year, I've been thinking about how managing partners and leaders of organizations are so busy, busy, busy, doing, doing, doing, they don't take the time to think, plan and then act, which is my mantra for overbooked leaders.
Think, plan and then act is a three-step ... Views: 1158
A common theme from some of the reading and training that I have done over the past few years is that if you think small in your business and life too for that matter, then that will become your reality.
Those thought patterns of "smallness" will be a self-fulfilling prophecy, and you and ... Views: 1158
The chief information officer or CIO is the senior level executive in charge of the firm's technology infrastructure, organization, and planning.
The CIO plays an important function in formulating the best technique to execute alternatives and finding out the technology needs of a company. ... Views: 1157
Here are two simple facts of life:
1. People make mistakes
2. Things go wrong
If you manage a team and you don't think they're making mistakes and you don't think anything is going wrong, you're deluding yourself. They're just not telling you.
In any significant job, project or task, ... Views: 1155
One of the things that you need to think about carefully if you're a small business owner is the amount of money that you are spending on your business. This is not only going to have an impact on your bottom line, it will have an impact on your possibility of success because spending too much ... Views: 1155
Not long after I'd taken over leading a small team in a previous role, I chaired one of our regular briefing meetings.
At one point, I remember sitting there while two members of the team were arguing with each other and another one was having a go at me about something I'd just said which ... Views: 1154
I often hear stories about button pushers. I have them myself. When you have an automatic, negative response to something, this often indicates a hypersensitivity that’s referred to as “getting your buttons pushed.”
Usually these sensitivities have developed due to hurtful childhood ... Views: 1154
It’s often the case that during an initial meeting with an entrepreneurial leader, he or she will proclaim, “I bear the entire burden of the business, the weight on my back is overwhelming!” While employees walk into an organization with a different mindset than employers and high level ... Views: 1154
Leaders are important in all fields of life and they are of significant importance to a business. There are certain characteristics a leader should possess in order to help in the development of a business. I believe that a true leader is not measured by how many people he/she can scare to do ... Views: 1153
Well, the holiday season is upon us. Before you dole out a holiday bonus or send your assistant to fetch more knick-knacks, slogan-wear, or fruit baskets, you might think about what will be more meaningful to your employees. Based on our recent research, we learned that fulfillment was in short ... Views: 1151
Why are you procrastinating? Why are you making excuses? Why are you never completing anything? Why are you putting off until tomorrow what can be done today? Do any of these phrases sound familiar?
We all procrastinate at one time or another. We all are guilty of letting our family and ... Views: 1151
“Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don’t.” - Peter Scotese
Opening up the newspaper or turning on the news can be a really scary act these days, which is why I don’t recommend doing either of these activities on a regular basis. It seems as ... Views: 1149
Making someone happy isn’t really hard to do, and the payoff is that you boost your own mood by spreading happiness all around. You cause a ripple effect that affects the happiness of people you don’t even know and you may even become healthier through your random acts of kindness. So, what is ... Views: 1149
When you’re a small business owner, you have to be the man (or woman) of all hands: you’re usually the one who sells products or provides services, as well as takes care of all the administrative arrangements and financial management. Everything that’s related to the operation of your business ... Views: 1149
Hiring managers are often found analyzing the cause for their teams not being able to meet hiring targets. They rely on reports created by recruiters to know about hiring metrics, which may or may not be accurate.
Many loopholes may exist in your system that might be roadblock for your ... Views: 1149
This is a story, about a business owner who wasn't doing very well in business at all. She had no business plan, no marketing plan written down, but had heard, quite a bit, how creating one would help.
So she moved 3000 miles from "home" and three months later, came across an all day One Page ... Views: 1149
The skill in being able to manage could be a profitable secondary asset for any qualified employee or staff with any specific training in a certain area. Actually, the duties and responsibilities of the senior management personnel in any organization may vary from one industry to another. For ... Views: 1149
I admit to having had a recent “wake-up” call about awe. I learned that it doesn’t take much to have an experience of “awe,” and the benefits are long-lasting. Admittedly, up until recently, I underestimated the importance of awe in helping me super-charge my focus, creativity and ... Views: 1148
The phone rings. I answer it with trembling hand, because at the time I was an Eastern Regional Customer Service Manager for Matheson Tri-gas. Outside calls usually meant a displeased customer that asked for the manager. I thought "What did one of my customer service representatives do now?" ... Views: 1147
What Is a Flow State?
Flow state is the optimal state of one’s consciousness and is closely linked to high performance. The simplest definition would be that a flow state is the state of mind when the person is so focused on the task that everything else ceases to exist for the moment.
In ... Views: 1145
Remember the time you decided to take a 15 minute coffee break from work and sat down reading a newspaper in the cafeteria? Later on you got up feeling very well informed about current affairs but realized an hour had passed and you had to rush back to your desk to complete the tasks on your ... Views: 1145
We all have employees that are amazing and others, even though you hired them based on the fact that they were amazing, are no longer so. What can you do if you know someone is underachieving either based on their skill set or the length of time they have been working for you? And which ones, if ... Views: 1143
While the economy has rebounded considerably in many areas of the country since it crashed a few years ago, many people continue to struggle. Some of the most common reasons people struggle financially relates to high debt levels, low savings balances and insufficient budgeting efforts. If you ... Views: 1143
When you're holding regular accountability meetings with your people, it's natural for personal issues to come up. If you're still stuck in "leave your personal life at the door," thinking, get over it - that's old school, and will keep you stuck where you are now. If you want better results, ... Views: 1143
By: Paul Cantwell – President of HealthCorp Solutions
Employers have a significant opportunity to impact their bottom line as well as the health of Americans. Studies clearly show that demand is driving health care cost at an upward trend with no end in sight. It is up to employers to drive ... Views: 1142
I’m going to fill you in on something many leaders don’t get: You must fulfill five very basic requirements if you expect people to perform.
You MUST give your people an explicit sense of the overall organization’s mission and values, and why they should care about them.
You MUST develop ... Views: 1142
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***Change is Life - by Jim Clemmer, the Official Guide to Success Principles
"Weep not that the world changes. Did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep." — William Cullen Bryant, 19th century American poet, critic, and editor
"I hate all this change. Why can't things just stay the same?" Dirk shouted angrily at the TV news anchor. He threw ... Views: 1140
Take those steps to successful sales
Imagine you could avoid reluctance and avoid rejection on your sales calls. Now who would not like that? To be a professional sales representative you need to go through a process of steps. In sales training courses it is said that if you do not go ... Views: 1140
Do you want to grow all aspects of your business and life? If so, then get on board with the best way to catapult your success. Regardless of your income and title, you can stimulate the universe to a New Best Level™. Compete for goodness, and profitability will come to you.
How? By giving ... Views: 1140
The need to carefully consider what is available to you when it comes to managing a business cannot be overemphasized. On the average, a good business can be run when there is a great and determined management team, effective strategic planning, great sales teams and personnel, available capital ... Views: 1139
"You can buy a man's time; you can buy his physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of his skilled muscular motions per hour. But you cannot buy enthusiasm...you cannot buy loyalty... you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these." — ... Views: 1138
When I was a little girl, my father used to tell me that winners never quit and quitters never win. It has been something that has stuck with me and that I think about in all that I have set out to do in my life. But never has it been more apparent than in the last few years when I have been out ... Views: 1138