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ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE THROUGH TOTAL COMMITMENT
Excellence is an excellent word and excellent companies strive for achieving it. Many factors contribute to the excellence of companies chief among them is employeeâ€™s commitment. Without commitment no company can think of achieving excellence. Commitment is rather a key ingredient for improving quality and productivity, reducing defects, increasing profitability and decreasing costs.

Personal Philosophy
Find the key to having your very own solid personal philosophy and be able to correctly define it.

Leadership Truth #10 - Great Leaders Make Large Trust Deposits
The level of trust between any two individuals is like a bank account. There is a balance, and we make continual deposits and withdrawals. Great leaders look for the opportunities to make large deposits in the trust account with people.

Successful People Never Stop Learning

Successful people are outstanding performers. Outstanding performers remain outstanding performers by becoming lifelong learners. They continually expand their knowledge in order to get out in front of the pack and stay there. Begin your lifelong learning journey by focusing on your strengths and working to improve them every day. Building on your strengths is easier that overcoming your weaknesses. When you build on your strengths you can make incremental improvements. However, if you have a glaring gap in your skills, address it now. Don't wait to take necessary quantum leaps.

Clarity of Purpose and Direction -- the First Step Toward Success

Successful people clarify their purpose and direction in life. They have a clear understanding of what success means to them and an image of themselves as a success. Everything they do is consistent with their clarity of purpose. They look forward and decide where they want to be. Their day to day actions all help move them closer to their vision of success, and are consistent with their clarity of purpose. When you clarify your purpose and live it, you will hardly ever procrastinate or find yourself going off on tangents. You'll be laser focused on living the life that is important to you.

Persistence and Success

Successful people commit to taking personal responsibility for their lives and career. Only you can make you a success. You have to take personal responsibility for creating the successful life and career you want and deserve. Persistence is the mark of people who are committed to taking personal responsibility for their lives and careers. Persistent people keep going; even in -- no especially in -- the face of difficulties and problems. Promise yourself that you will commit to taking personal responsibility for your life and career in 2010. Be persistent. Keep at it, and you will reach your goals

The Essential Ingredient in Achieving Your Goals
An article of 924 words describing how to achieve your goals through commitment

4 Cs for Success

Successful people do four things really well. 1) They are clear about what they want out of life and how they are going to achieve it. 2) They are committed to taking personal responsibility for their lives and careers. 3) They actively build their self confidence. 4) They are competent in four areas: creating positive personal impact, their technical specialty, communication, and building relationships. If you can master these Four Cs of Success – clarity, commitment, confidence and competence, you'll be on your way to creating the successful life and career you want and deserve.

Building Trust between Management and Employees
Employees are the ones that can in fact have a positive or negative effect not only on your company’s reputation but the success of your company as well. Those managers that are able to maintain and develop trust among their employees are the ones that have longer employee retention.

Ready Or Not - Time Will Tell?
Network marketing is all about building relationships of trust followed by timing. People will follow someone they trust when they are ready to be led. Timing is the key.

The Watermelon Credo, Self Confidence and Success

Self confidence is a key to career and life success. Successful people are self confident. Optimism is the foundation of self confidence. Wally Amos, founder of Famous Amos Cookies and Uncle Wally's Muffin Company, says it well in his Watermelon Credo. "Whatever you believe creates your reality. Believe that life is a positive experience and it will be." Optimists believe that life is a positive experience. I believe that life is a positive experience. Of course, I'm a relentless optimist. How about you?

Successful People Stick With It

Successful people commit to taking personal responsibility for their lives and careers. You take personal responsibility for your life and career when you do three things: Doing whatever it takes to succeed -- including sticking with it and dealing with pressure; Setting high goals and then doing whatever it takes to achieve them; Responding positively to the negative people and events in your life.

Be Direct!
Sometime in sales, getting what you want is simply a matter of asking for it.

Naming and Claiming Your True Niche
In overcoming many challenges in finding my true niche, I am now focused on helping others do the same. Throughout these many years, I’ve observed what it takes shine in your chosen area – how to be one of the best in your selected niche, and be confident enough to market yourself powerfully and rise above the competition.

Using Common Sense to Create Your Success
Successful people have mastered four C's -- clarity, commitment, confidence and competence. You can and will succeed if you do four things. 1) Clarify your purpose and direction in life. 2) Commit to taking personal responsibility for your own success. 3) Become a dynamic communicator. 4) Get competent.

Convenient Commitments
Remember when our word was our bond, and a handshake sealed a deal?

State your goals the SMART WAY

The first step in successfully executing a goal is to state it properly. You know your goal is well stated when anyone who reads it knows exactly what you are trying to accomplish and in what time frame. The better a person states the goal, the easier it is to create the action plan. An acronym commonly used for stating a goal properly is SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistically high, and Time-based).

4 Steps to Make the Big One Happen
We all have those things we've always wanted to do, but for whatever reasons just haven't accomplished. Learn how to keep yourself focused and clear on the overall goal and objective as you move along towards achieving your dreams with these four simple steps.

What to Do When Your Team Gets “Stuck”: 7 Ways to Get It Moving Again
When a team becomes "stuck" it saps energy, costs money, and hurts results. How do you know when your team is, in fact, stuck? And what can you do to turn it around? Here are seven most common pitfalls teams and working groups encounter and a practical strategy to overcome each one.

Overcoming Objections 101
Every top sales person knows they will face objections. The most successful sales people aggressively prepare for the objections beforehand and address them directly, in order to win the sale. You can too. Here’s what it takes.

Key Management Insights - Get Your New Hires Fully Engaged
You find them; you carefully select them; you sell you and your organization to them. Making that investment count is for nothing when you fall short on the first day...

Commitment, Your Word is Your Bond
There are very few things a person has control over. We attempt to live our lives righteously, use our time wisely, improve our health and hold our tongue, but circumstances often change our intentions. We plan to accomplish tasks, which are good, and honorable yet they are often hindered.

Best Action Commitment
Sales reps must strive for the best action commitment from their potential buyers when developing a sale. Agreeing to commitment requests from a sales rep proves a buyer’s engagement in the sales process. Agreeing to the rep’s best action commitment demonstrates engagement at an even higher level, potentially reducing the number of steps required to close in the multi-step sales process.

Want High Performance? Look In a Mirror!
The days of do what I say, not what I do, are dead. You and I better be walking our talk! This article was first published in Food & Drink Magazine in 2009.

Managing Perpetual Workplace Changes

It doesn't matter whether you are an old timer or an amateur in what you do. All that matters in our jungle is to apply the lion-gazelle concept of survival. "Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion, or it will die. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle; when the sun comes up, you'd better be running."

Are You Sabotaging Your Success?
Many people know what they want to achieve in life but they feel there are more stumbling blocks than steppingstones on their way. They find themselves not doing the things that must be done to get them ahead. Many people, in most cases, sabotage their own dreams with what they are doing or not doing-they can be self-made victims.

Balancing Work and Life

A major explanation for stress has been uncertainty in the workplace as a result of increased competition, changing local and international trade regulations, merging of corporations and technological advances. These changes have been experienced nationally and locally, Idaho included. For example, Micron's production and profits are directly affected by business practices and turmoil in East Asia. Zilog, Hewlett-Packard, Ore-Ida Inc. and other corporations constantly make major business adjustments to be profitable in an emerging and unpredictable environment.

Beware of The Barrier of Busyness
Busyness mistaken for productivity saps our energy and means we achieve less than we are capable of. Here are 10 tips to ensure you are not bound by the barrier of busyness.

Accountability for your Career
Being accountable to someone else is constraining. You can't just do anything you want. You must do it the manager's way and in the manager's time frame. After you’ve left a job being accountable to only yourself does feel freeing. But eventually reality sets in and you will need to figure out how to motivate yourself to take some steps forward.

Welcome In Failure!
What if I told you that only you have the power to decide whether or not something is indeed, a failure? In fact, there are some individual's highly successful people who believe the very word failure has no place in our vocabulary.

Achieving Goals: A Process Approach
If you find yourself continually struggling to reach your goals, it may be time to look at the process you use. Whether you are working in your own business or in someone else's, Leslie Allan has cemented together five key steps for successfully achieving your objectives.

4 Fantastic Ways to Spark Romance and Intimacy in Your Relationship
There are many fantastic ways to spark romance and intimacy in your relationship that are simple, inexpensive and virtually guaranteed to bring back that lovin’ feeling. Here are four of my favorites. The most important thing is to take a chance to re-ignite the flames of passion and love in your relationship.

Obtaining Peak Performance

First Generation Leaders and Second Generation Leaders have a strong need to be in control. They see their role as that of making and implementing decisions. These men and women show conditional respect – in other words, obtain the results I need in the way that specify, and I will respect you – and they tend to have a low level of belief in the ability of people to manage themselves and to obtain desired results unless they are closely supervised. The result is that, far too often, managers interfere and actually hinder peak performance because of this need to control.

7 Ways to Avoid Money Fights in Your Relationship
Money makes the world go round. It’s also is the number one reason why couples fight. Here are 7 ways or guidelines for handling money issues throughout your relationship so you don’t have to end up fighting about money, whether you are dealing with the richer or poorer times in your relationship.

Commitment
You are your word and others pay attention as to how well you keep it. It's all about commitment to being authentic in all your relationships.

Live Happily Ever After with Realistic Expectations

We all think we’re going to fall in love with Prince (or Princess) Charming and live the rest of our days together in a Disney fairytale “happily ever after.” I don’t know anyone who has lived “happily ever after” all day, every day, day in and day out as the Disney fairytale romances suggest. However, you can live happily ever after if your relationship is based upon realistic expectations.

COMMITMENT Leads to SUCCESS

Ask any successful person from any walk of life about the importance of commitment. You will find that anyone that has had or is having success in any area of life is totally committed to do what it takes. Does this mean that individual doesn't have life's challenges that get in the way? Not at all...they have learned to work around the challenges...... Let's break down what this looks like. Here are a couple of scenarios that could come up.... First example - I have decided to do specific things to get the result in my business I am looking for. It could be doing some marketing for my business, or it could be finishing a project for an existing client. Some sort of challenge arises. It could be a number of things. Maybe the phone lines are down so I can't make the calls or the internet is down and I can't do the

Sneaking Up On Commitment

Forever can be a long time. For many of us the idea of committing to something forever can be very intimidating and bring us a lot of fear in recognition of our past failures. This was certainly the case when my wife and I first met. One of my fondest early recollections of Ann was during a workshop on Prosperity Money when we first met. One of our assignments was to list 100 things we wanted to do, be or have. Ann was sharing with one of the participants in the hallway prior to our workshop. I overheard her say that on her list were two items: a committed relationship and a romantic relationship. As a way to enter into the conversation I asked her why those were 2 separate items. Wasn't it possible to have a committed and a romantic relationship as one?

The Difference Between Desire and Commitment
Have you ever wondered why some people seem to be so successful and get what they want so easily? For many of us, bringing our desires into reality is a real struggle and we can easily lose heart and think we'll never succeed. A lot of the difference comes down to have a desire for something versus forming a real commitment to having it in your life.

SCORE Through Goal Setting

It is absolutely essential to become proficient at goal setting and goal achieving if you wish to feel fulfilled and to fulfill your potential as a human being. Goals add excitement and direction in life. Sadly it's said that only 3% of people write their goals down and less than 1% actually review, update and rewrite their goals. The very act of writing down a goal is so powerful. Thinking about a goal isn’t enough; it must be written. Most people don't set goals because they are afraid they might fail. Goal setting gives you a target to aim towards and develops self-discipline. Let me share with you five keys that will help you do that. Each of these keys starts with one of the letters in the word "SCORE". You will come across obstacles in the pursuit of your goal. These are bigger opportunities to grow.

Are you committed to creating a successful home-based business?
Home business expert, Andrea Scott shares how total commitment to creating a successful home business will motivate you to take the action needed to create success.

Against All Odds
The paths to our goals and dreams are inevitably filled with challenges and obstacles which at times seem overwhelming, even insurmountable. It is important to always remember that success is ultimately achievable despite the odds.

What is holding you back?
Do you remember the grand dreams you had as a child? Whatever happened to your ambitions to be the next great doctor, teacher, or entrepreneur? Weren’t you making plans to write the next great novel, record the next big hit or make an important scientific breakthrough? Many of us still harbor those dreams but have succumbed to the many barriers standing in our way.

Successful Goal Setting

Setting goals puts you in the driver’s seat, giving you the power to transform your life or take a company to another level. Successfully setting and executing goals is not rocket science but there is a tried and true way that works for my clients and me. Sticking to this program guarantee’s success. It doesn’t matter whether your goals are personal or they are used to direct a large enterprise, the steps and the pitfalls are identical. I’ll take you through a quick tour. If you like, you can identify a goal of yours and do a test run of the system. The steps to executing goals are simple, unambiguous and easy to follow and should be practiced every day. Skipping one step increases the odds that you wion’t realize your goal.

Are You Careful or Careless
The average adult typically utters 40,000 words each day, according to a study performed by Professor Robin Dunbar of Liverpool University. A substantial amount, but have you actually considered how valuable words are? What about how powerful they are? Words have the power to heal, lighten, comfort, and encourage, on the flip side they can wither, hurt, anger and discourage. What a gamut!

Lessons from Sobibor
I never tire of stories of survival of any kind. I like to learn from them the values, beliefs and actions that supported them to come out of a crisis situation where it seemed the “odds” were against them.

Keeping Your Word
I think most people will agree that keeping your word is a good thing. I know that when someone tells me they are going to do something that will positively impact me in some way, I want them to follow through. Deliver the goods as you have promised.

How to Make Your Business the Best in the Business
Many organisations have got it right - people working together in harmony, passionate, committed, energized, a great culture, strong emotional energies, fantastic popular products. Look at any top orchestra, choir, or rock group. There is much that business managers can learn from them.

Which Is Harder: MAKING a Change or SUSTAINING the Change?
Article of 1014 words explaining why change is so H.A.R.D. and why commitment is key to making and sustaining the change.

3 Options for Managing Change Plus 7 Steps Organizational Leaders Should Take When Facing a Challenge
Here are 7 steps you should take to successfully increase the chance of implementing a change effort...

How to Demonstrate Commitment to Others
Commitment is a core value that is endearing and enduring to others. It reflects other values like trust, honesty and integrity. To do as you say you would, is a demonstration of commitment.

When Lean Thinking Fails

Most of us are familiar with the term "Lean Thinking." The technique for making continuous improvement has been around for nearly 30 years, and it produces remarkable progress in any organization when it is applied correctly. There are numerous examples of how a well-engineered Kaizen event can yield a more than 50% improvement in productivity in a single week. My observation is that there are nearly as many failures of lean programs as successes. This article outlines some reasons why.

Company Retreats: A Move Forward or Backward?
Love it, or hate it – corporate retreats are an intrinsic part of organizations. What are the common objectives of such off-site events?

Leaders Are Fairly Outnumbered!
There are more managers and supervisors out there than leaders. And, there are even less practising leaders out of this smaller group. A formal title of ‘Team Leader’ or ‘Manager’ needs to be backed up by behaviors that demonstrate your competency, clarity, confidence, credibility and commitment as a leader (the 5 ‘C’s). It takes a lot to live up to the ‘L’ word.

A Powerful Sales Technique Courtesy of Honest Abe
One of the most important skills in sales is the ability to overcome objections. If you get an objection, tell a story to keep the deal alive.Stories reassure people and disarm them...

Leadership Insight: Skin in the Game; Are You Interested or Invested

Most often attributed to the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffet, the phrase “skin in the game” probably originated in a California newspaper in the summer of 1912. Regardless of origin, the phase has been quoted millions of times in baseball dugouts, football huddles, board rooms and corporate meeting rooms. One of the more famous recent uses of the phrase came from Barrack Obama prior to his being sworn in as president of the United States. The president-elect was describing the shared sacrifice needed by all Americans to resurrect the economy.

The Difference Between Sales Commitment and Work Ethic
Work ethic and sales commitment are not necessarily the same thing.

"Try" is a Weasel Word
As a manager demand clear unambiguous commitment to targets and goals.

It's Time to Stop Procrastinating
Reasons why we procrastinate and tips to assist in overcoming those obstacles

The Difference between Motivation and Commitment
Motivation and commitment are not the same thing!

Saying No is Not for Wimps
Once I say yes, I don’t like to say no. But, the act of saying no, can be one of the most strategic, smart, loving, profitable and honoring things you can do. You have to give yourself the option of saying no.

I need more money but…………..

Here's a reader question - and a very common one I might add: Dan, like many of your readers/ listeners, I stuck am in a rut. My employer is rearranging schedules and cutting back on pay. I’m earning less than almost anyone I know here and now that's about to be cut back. I know I can do more, but I've been doing the same thing for so long I don't know what my skills are or where to start. I don't even know what my passions are. How can I figure out what is my true calling is?

Closing Practices Engineered to Sell More in Less Time
So much has happened in a short period, such that today is a really exciting time to thrive if you’re prepared to respond to wisely to trends while emulating timeless approaches that work.

The Path to Success: What the Most Effective Leaders Do to Gain Support and Commitment

It is a reality in today’s organizations that in order to be successful, leaders must engage people, build relationships with key stakeholders, and gain their commitment. To find out how the most effective leaders do this, OnPoint Consulting used their Influence With Impact 360° survey to collect data on the influencing skills of 223 leaders (116 men and 107 women) across several organizations and industries.

Resolve to Commit
Each year starts out with resolutions and plans to change the way we do things. Well it takes more than just hopes and wishes. You have to resolve to commit and then execute with every action.

Five Attributes that Lead to Exceptional Customer Service

As a business owner, I have developed a keen sense of the attributes of people who are highly motivated as well as those qualities that lead to counter productive behavior. Regardless of the industry, customer service is key to the success of your business. Unfortunately, there are many examples of people whose poor customer service has been memorable: people who have left us on hold and forgotten about us, waitresses who never return to our table, the customer service person who leaves us on the phone for several minutes. We all have experienced poor customer service at some level. This article illustrates how Five Attributes Can Lead to Exceptional Customer Service. I refer to them as the PAULA(sm) Customer Service Success Program.

Five Essential Attributes that Create Success in Your Life

We can all be successful if we practice principles of success. To become successful, one has to be committed to personal growth and development, and willing to perfect practices that lead to a successful outcome. Like any other habit, developing traits that lead to success, requires commitment, consistency and persistence. This article illustrates how five attributes can help to create success in your life. I refer to these attributes as the PAULA(sm) Guide to Success.

Running the Sale

I am more than sure that I am not the first to make the linkage between sports and sales and how one is greatly analogous to the other. Like most I tend to relate to it through the sport I know which is running, just like my friend who was a competitive swimmer in his youth, so he draws on that. At my age I do not run competitively, and because of that, as with my selling, it is an endless process of continuous improvement.

How to Discover the Champion in You and Achieve Your Goals
Have you ever felt like your back was against the wall? You didn't know what to do? Everyone goes through periods when they feel pressured. Why do some people succeed when their back is against the wall, while others fold? This article discusses how to use four strategies when your back is against the wall.

Change Your Job Search Strategy If...
You have often heard the saying, “If you always do what you have always done, you will continue getting what you have always gotten”, or something close. If that sounds like you and your job search or your career, then you may want to reconsider your strategy, regardless of your status or what stage of the job search game you are at.

Boldness, Commitment and Success!

What was your last idea that you put aside? Was it something that came to you in the small hours of the morning? Did you write it down, think on it, expand on the possibilities, dream of the results and then lose your nerve? Later did you see that someone had the same idea and acted upon it, and the idea grew into a huge business? How often have you lost your nerve, or after stepping out, lost the commitment to make it work?

Four Tips to Maximize Your Face Time And Succeed

It is important to believe in yourself. Every morning, look in the mirror and Believe in the FACE you see. Know that YOU can accomplish your goals. By utilizing these four tips, which you can easily remember as F.A.C.E., you can enjoy more success in your life. Embrace your F-A-C-E time with yourself to keep you motivated. Use positive affirmations if needed. The more motivated you remain, the more success you will experience.

How to Succeed: Tips for a Pharmaceutical Representative to Maximize FACE Time With a Physician

Physicians, like many others, are extremely busy and they simply do not have time to waste. A pharmaceutical representative must provide valuable information when meeting with a doctor face to face. If a doctor allows you time to meet with him, you need to maximize your face time with him. That means you need to know your material well. Know the facts of new studies about your product, and be able to present a flawless sixty to ninety second presentation of key clinical pearls demonstrating improvements in patient outcomes.

Secrets of Successful Business Partnering
Partnering for business is not unlike partnering for a lasting marriage. Do the partners have to be similar in characteristics? Do they have to know each other for a long a time? Do they need a complicated “prenuptial” agreement? I venture to propose, not at all. The secrets to a lasting business partnership are actually quite simple. Below is a proven recipe.

With IBX Purchasing Isn’t Just A Business, It Is A Way Of Life!
“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.” Mario Andretti, one of the most successful drivers in the history of auto racing

Is lack of commitment sabotaging your ability to attract clients?
Is there an area of your life where commitment makes you feel uneasy, perhaps even relationships with clients? Connecting with prospective and current clients is one thing. Commitment to them is another. Find out what may be lurking behind your potential lack of commitment issues, to help you rejuvenate and solidify your relationships with clients.

Your Positive Thoughts and Acts of Influence How to Maintain Your Commitment
Maintaining your progressive thoughts and noble acts of commitment is very difficult. You must first define what commitment means to you in order to move forward. I will give you two key factors that will greatly help you to maintain your strength of pupose.

Zero Gravity Business Growth: Frito Lay
Frito Lay is a giant in the snack food industry. They're also a Zero Gravity business in their commitment to social responsibility. We can all learn from their actions… and commitment.

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