Monthly Archives: March 2014
Your Purpose
0 comentsI was cleaning up my desk area over the weekend, tossing things that have been laying around for years. I came across a birthday card I had received a long time ago that I saved and put in the middle of my Dr. Seuss, “Oh The Places You’ll Go”, book. As I read the words on the card, it stimulated me all over again, but this time I didn’t put it back in the book, I kept it out where I ...
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Training Doesn’t Work (Most of the time)
0 comentsAs a matter of fact, 87% of content is forgotten within 30 days. That is why, when in school, we studied and crammed for exams. This helps to explain why change doesn’t work very well either. There is too much input and not a lot of real time output. Helping build the business, helping the company reach its strategic objectives. Helping an employee with personal development for their career ...
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Accelerated Talent Development #2: How Critical is Your Employer Brand?
0 comentsThe short answer is: employer branding could be a key factor in building your company culture and achieving great employee engagement. Companies with highly engaged employees increase performance by an estimated 202% and create greater loyalty with their customers. This results in 19% higher shareholder return. True employee branding goes beyond marketing and really lives in the culture and ...
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Essentials for Leaders to Succeed
0 comentsCorporate culture: Leaders develop in a helpful culture that encourages growth and provides care and attention through challenging experiences. Mentors: The best leaders seek out mentors who present an achievable picture of success. Mentors provide relevant insights to guide leaders to make informed decisions. Networks: With organizational budget restraints, leaders need to ...
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The Choices We Make
0 comentsWorking in a company boardroom recently I was struck by the incredible distance there was between the two groups I was working with. One was a group of guys who had been around for years, and the other one was made up of younger employees. We were working on building teams through offering positive recognition, and what has proven to be a very effective exercise in hundreds of other applications ...
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What is Missing to Advance Your Career
0 comentsYou are normal if you are standing up for your success and happiness more than anyone else’s, even your organization’s. As a matter of fact, research says only 35% of Canadians are engaged in their company. Their hearts and minds aren’t in it. The opportunity, then, to getting ahead is to become more engaged and valuable to your company and the marketplace. If you do, you will ...
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On Being An Awesome Leader
0 comentsYou don’t need any fancy training to be an awesome leader. You don’t need to be on a budget and you don’t need to make any treks to some guru in the heart of India. Actually, all you need is a desire to lead and a heart for the goals and emotions of your team. Here are a few ideas that will propel you to the “leader” board: Make people feel important, and do it sincerely. Don’t ...
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What Are the 3 Things Missing to Ignite Ontario Businesses and their Teams?
0 comentsFrom over two years of research, we conclude that 54% of Ontario businesses are struggling to wake up their business to: find bigger sales get their offering and the story to the market right so it matches customer motivations get their sales and marketing right to find more customers get their team engaged in what has to be done to make changes and improve their productivity build leaders to ...
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Fix Your Questions
0 comentsI get a lot of emails from people trying to sell me something. Heck, I send a lot of those same kind of emails as well. But what really makes me want to delete the incoming ones is when they are so blatant in their desire to sell me on buying what it is that they are selling that they tell me all about who they are and how great they are and what their customers are saying, and not giving any ...
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Accelerated Talent Development Newsletter
0 comentsAchieving Rapid Growth in a Stalled Economy Today organizations and leaders are facing unprecedented business complexity combined with thinly stretched resources and hyper-competitive environments. More than ever we need to do the impossible even as our teams at all levels are “fatigued”, under resourced, and suffering from staggeringly low employee engagement levels. The Bottom Line ...
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The Price You Pay… is way too large if you don’t face up to your biggest challenge.
0 comentsI talked to my buddy who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico last weekend. Lee is the best leader of people I have ever met. He is like John Wayne’s character. He talks with simple, clear insights and backs it up with his behaviour. I want to be just like him when I grow up! We were talking about how so many in our business society are bluffed out into thinking they have to look and ...
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Part III: Where Have All the Big Customers Gone?
0 comentsThe successful, big-sale achiever who dominates the production reports has a new style that makes customers/prospects learn something they didn’t know about their business before. The smart salesperson actually coaches a client, versus trying to immediately sell them. He/she customizes coaching messages to the customer’s wants, motives, issues, priorities and goals. In other words, ...
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