Monthly Archives: January 2015
What does Success look like to you?
0 comentsI bet it’s different than mine. Imagine me with an entire Management Team, from the CEO to the latest new supervisor – in one room. There were about 150 of them and just me. To engage this group, I thought I’d survey them with a question, “Please raise your hand if someone over the last year has asked you (in a genuine way): What does Success look like to you this ...
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Who Is Influencing You?
0 comentsWhen I was 28 years old, Dale Carnegie and Associates, especially the General Manager, big John Cooper, approved my purchase of the Ontario franchise. I was excited and within a couple of weeks, I attended my first owners meeting in Chicago. There was plenty on the agenda but I was more interested in seeking out the top four franchisees in the world and asking for, and receiving, mentoring on ...
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Examine the truth, and reset your goals for 2015
0 comentsYou wonder where the time went. Life just goes by doesn’t it? Who would think that you are where you are in life? The great, the good, the bad, and the ugly. You and I forget about the choices we made along the way and it wasn’t all circumstances. Somehow we give too much credibility to the past and circumstances. Yesterday is gone. The past can do nothing but teach us what’s ...
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The Only Question You Should Be Asking To Encourage Innovation.
0 comentsI’ve been wondering why there seems to be such an epidemic of lack of creativity or innovation in the workplace. I do have a theory I call the “Show Me What To Do” affliction. It goes like this… You’re in a company that has been fairly good to you over the years, and it (the leadership) has decided to make a few changes that are very new to the culture and the way things have always ...
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Six Steps to Success in 2015
0 comentsFor many of us, now is the time of year when we renew ourselves. The key to renewal is “new”. The route to change needs new: thinking, disciplines, levels of collaboration and ventures or products. During 2014, at Dale Carnegie we’ve dug deeper and worked harder to find the best route to success – the top “ingredients” that shape the new equation of success. ...
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The Unrecognized Reason Why Executing a Strategy is Stopped Cold
0 comentsShe was sitting in a cowered position hoping I wouldn’t ask her a question, let alone demonstrate the behaviours we were working on. I thought “How does she do the job now or what we (the client) are asking her to do in the future?” This is a common occurrence in a training or business meeting for anyone trying to get employees to adapt to what’s required in their ...
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It’s legal to be a professional positive thinker in Canada
0 coments30 years in business! …Thirty. …THIRTY. Last summer when I was arranging financing for my wonderful dream home on the shores of Lake Ontario, the loans officer asked me my employment status. “Self employed,” I stated dutifully, knowing full well these are the very last two words any bank wants to hear, ever, from anyone. “For how long?” she sighed. “In 2015, thirty ...
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“The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be” – Yogi Berra
0 comentsWhat’s the future for you and your business? The basic goal for most businesses is to make fundamental changes in how they conduct their business so as to cope with new, more challenging market environments. By definition, change requires creating new systems… and that always demands leadership and an out-of-the-box way of thinking, because management’s usual mandate is ...
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