Monthly Archives: June 2017
How to Unlock your Mental Side of Success
Comments Off on How to Unlock your Mental Side of SuccessAs a Canadian, it’s hard not to compare (to some degree) success in hockey, with success in business and life, even though it’s different. So, let’s look at what so many said about “Sid the Kid Crosby”, after he won the Conn Smythe award for being the best player in the recent playoffs. His teammates are just in awe of number 87’s determination to win again ...
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The Truth About External Reliability Honesty Always Is The Best Policy! (Honestly.)
Comments Off on The Truth About External Reliability Honesty Always Is The Best Policy! (Honestly.)What exactly is External Reliability? In contrast to a leader with Internal Reliability (someone who is consistently true to thine own principles and beliefs; true to “Thine own self”), leaders with External Reliability are honest and trustworthy to others. While it’s important to hold firmly to personal values, leaders are less likely to accomplish goals without the trust of those ...
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Appreciation and Recognition: The Dos and the Don’ts
Comments Off on Appreciation and Recognition: The Dos and the Don’tsNot all employee recognition programs are created equal. So when you’re trying to develop the most effective program for your company, here are some important things to consider: Be inclusive. Too often employee recognition is geared toward the direct revenue producers within the organization, specifically the top sales executives. But what about the sales support staff that is ...
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Leaders with Internal Reliability: Trusted Mentors = Monkey See; Monkey Do!
Comments Off on Leaders with Internal Reliability: Trusted Mentors = Monkey See; Monkey Do!Leaders with Internal Reliability are ideally suited for the multi-faceted role of mentor, trusted adviser, and coach. Because they are consistently true to their ethically sound beliefs and principles, they make exemplary role models in the workplace. Interestingly, in research conducted by Dale Carnegie Training Japan, it was determined that the biggest emotional trigger for employee ...
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Here are the Eight Most Important Entrepreneurial Skills
Comments Off on Here are the Eight Most Important Entrepreneurial SkillsWhether you’re a business owner, a future one, or work for one, what are the skills you need to constantly develop to succeed? I mean constantly succeed, because for some reason, we tend to stop growing at the things that got us there. Our motives change (usually money or ego), we get satisfied, or just get lazy. I don’t know why it continually happens but it does. These skills apply ...
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Your Customers Voice is Where you Test your Direction
Comments Off on Your Customers Voice is Where you Test your DirectionFor many years, I conducted listening meetings at a terrific organization that wanted to grow despite their changing and competitive marketplace. Who did we listen to? First, it was the executive team who had to see the reality about what was going on. As I found out years ago in doing this work, reality is an acquired taste. They listened to each other, examined some research, and, in the end, ...
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Are You Going to Keep Up?
Comments Off on Are You Going to Keep Up?Political turmoil in the world? Yup. Brexit, Trump, Le Pen…. Where did all that come from? What pushed people to go for dramatic change? Business turmoil? Yup. Globalization , acceleration in technology and its addition to practically every product, the innovation and dominance of data management which is driving marketing and business decisions. And, if you think machines are smart, just ...
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