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5 Caveats to the "Open Door" Policy
Most organizations have an "Open Door" policy to protect employees from bully supervisors. The idea is to make it safe to bring a problem to a higher level of management. The method can be helpful, but I have found it to be fraught with problems. This paper describes five of the most significant problems with the "Open Door" Policy and suggests a simple antidote.

Do You Play the Executive Whack-a-Mole Game?

Are you so busy solving problems and reacting to crises that you do not have time to develop the culture in your organization? If so, you are trapped in a whack-a-mole game. To get out, you need to carve out time to work with your group on improving the environment. Benefits - (1) reduce interpersonal conflicts - fewer problems for you to solve, (2) create more empowered employees - more willing hands to resolve issues, (3) lower stress and burn out.

9 Tips to Improve Trust in Virtual Teams
We work in virtual teams more now than ever before. Many people spend most of the career working with people in high pressure situations, yet they have not ever physically met. Here are 9 tips that can improve the effectiveness of virtual teams.

Avoiding Playing Favorites

We all know the issue of playing favorites is one of the most deadly trust busters in an organization. The conundrum is that every leader really does have favorites and uses these people more than the not-so-favored people for certain tasks. If you are a leader and deny this, check your reality meter – you may be out of gas. Given this problem, how can a leader go about running the most efficient organization and still beat the debilitating stigma of playing favorites? The answer lies in doing 4 things that are outlined in this article.

Reducing Conflict between Peers is an Art
Conflict within organizations is a constant problem. It deflects energy away from the vision and causes wasted energy. Conflict between peers is particularly hard to eliminate because the individuals see the world from different perspectives. This article offers several tips to reduce conflict between peers.

Leadership Assessment #6 – Builds an Inclusive Culture

There are hundreds of assessments for leaders. The content and quality of these assessments vary greatly. You can spend a lot of time and money taking surveys to tell you the quality of your leadership. There are a few leading indicators that can be used to give a pretty good picture of the overall quality of your leadership. These are not good for diagnosing problems or specifying corrective action, but they can tell you where you stand quickly. Here is one of my favorite measures. The leader always works to build an inclusive culture.

Leadership Assessment #20 – Lowers Credibility Gap

There are hundreds of assessments for leaders. The content and quality of these assessments vary greatly. You can spend a lot of time and money taking surveys to tell you the quality of your leadership. There are a few leading indicators that can be used to give a pretty good picture of the overall quality of your leadership. These are not good for diagnosing problems or specifying corrective action, but they can tell you where you stand quickly. Here is one of my favorite measures. It is the ability to lower the credibility gap between organizational levels.

Organization Structure
Here is a lecture I wrote for a graduate class on Management. It discusses some interesting points about organization structure and how it can impact performance.

Identifying a Better State for Your Organization
In this article I identify the start of the strategic process. The first element is to realize there is a better existence for your organization. Ultimately this leads to a vision of the future, but I will save that process for another article.

Why Bother With Distributed Leadership?
There are many ways to measure alignment. But you can only achieve alignment across the board through distributed leadership. Implementing such strategies develops leadership in each unit of your operation and at different levels of your organization. You actually end up empowering employees to act and give them the knowledge about what must be done.

Topgrading
How do I chose the best employees?

Blitz Those Tolerations !
In order to untap your brilliance and allow your full potential to shine, it's important that you first realize what things in your life you are tolerating and then start to get rid of them.

Working Between Layers
I view an organization as a stack of overlapping layers. Good leaders instinctively know how to work effectively in between the layers so they are credible in both directions. That takes a special skill. This article outlines some of the leadership dynamics between organizational layers.

Designing the Organization
Often how an organization is set up determines its effectiveness. When leaders do a reorganization, sometimes they are not thoughtful enough about what they are trying to accomplish. The result is a mess. This article discusses some aspects of organizational design.

Leadership Transitions
There are some interesting dynamics when leaders transition to new positions. These times are awkward, and often the organization suffers for a while until the new leader is fully up to speed. This article contains some things to think about when moving leaders to new slots.

Organizational Flexibility
Static organizations are not healthy ones. The flip side is that too much turmoil is hard on people. In deciding how much change to introduce, leaders must consider several factors. This article outlines some important ideas on flexibility.

Creating Winners
A key leadership function is to create an organization where people feel like winners. This is not really that difficult to do even in the most oppressive environments. This article outlines some techniques you might find helpful at creating a winning organization.

How To Develop A Great Organization

Going from good to great requires hard work and dedication at all levels within the organization. You simply cannot just show up. You must show up on top and be perceived as the best possible solution to your clients/customers problems. Concentrating on the six elements cited in this article with a true focus for continually improving in these areas is a solid process which can drive your organization in the right direction.

Dealing With Procrastination

Well organized people manage time well. The other day, I came across an interesting quote on time from Luanne Oakes, PhD: "Time is within your control." My first reaction was "maybe in your world, Luanne, but try mine for a while and then we’ll see what you have to say." However, as I thought about it, I realized that Dr. Oakes is right -- time is within my control. I know that we live in a crazy information age where business life and home life are a blur of activity, deadlines, pressures, and projects. In this always available, always on call age, it’s hard to believe that time is within your control. But it is. You can control your time if you work at it.

Overwhelmed and Overcommitted but not Defeated!

I hate the feeling of being overwhelmed with my work. Unfortunately, it has happened all too often. I have to say it is a state of being which I defined for myself as dysfunctional. Literally. I would get to the point where I was almost paralyzed because there seemed to be too much that needed to be done now. I took firefighting to the next level. I remember one day vividly. It was quite a few years ago. I had agreed to so many commitments, projects, and meetings, I thought I might hyperventilate. So I did what any responsible executive would do…I cancelled everything I could for that day. The definition of “everything I could” was anything that was not a meeting with my boss, the President of the company. After I cancelled everything I locked myself in my office. I didn’t tell anyone I would be there. Most of my team was not in the build

Five Leadership How-Tos for Recession Survival

We're in the midst of the worst economic crisis in decades, and many people in leadership positions haven't seen anything like it before. As an executive coach, I know that leaders often make decisions out of fear of what could happen instead of crafting a plan to ensure that everyone stays on track through the bad times. Surviving a recession can feel a bit like sailing without sails, so here are a few tips to help you stop, think and weather the crisis.

What Do We Do Now?: Options for Allocating Scarce Resources When You Haven’t Planned Ahead

Although advance planning for resource allocation is the ideal scenario, many organizations found themselves caught short by the severe constraints imposed by the economic downturn. What are the alternatives when organizations are operating in crisis mode and there is no “Plan A?” Given the need to make decisions about how to curtail their operations immediately, there are two options that can help in the short-run: (1) increase inputs or (2) decrease outputs - each with several alternatives

Warning! Values May Be Detrimental to Your Organization’s Health
What percent of your employees can identify your organization’s values? How many of those individuals can tell you what each value “looks like” in terms of their own performance? Unless you are able to answer nearly 100%, you may want to consider taking these steps to improve the health of your organization!

Guidelines for Allocating Scarce Resources

Scarce resources are a fact of business life. In the wake of devastating budget cuts, furloughs, and/or layoffs, however, “normal” levels of scarcity have been exacerbated. The question for many organizations has become, “How do we move forward from here most effectively?” I recommend to my clients that they begin by identifying some crucial information that will guide their subsequent actions and decisions.

The 5 'Must Haves' for an ADHD Friendly Office
Organizing yourself at work so that you can achieve what you know you are capable of is a challenge for adults with ADHD. However there are five simple techniques that are easy to implement, and the results will leave you feeling productive and proud of yourself.

What are My Business Formation Options?

Today there are so many different options when it comes to choosing a business formation. In order to know which best suits your business needs, you need to talk to your lawyer. Here is a general description of some of your options. Reading this before talking to your lawyer will allow to have a more informed discussion when the time comes for you to choose the right form for your business entity:

10 Tips to Get Organized & Energized- Organize Life & Feel Great
Change life by taking action to get organized and energized! Inaction leads to anxiety. Action gets things done. The sooner you take action, the faster you feel great. Overwhelm is common. It is how you deal with it that counts. Follow these 10 tips to get organized and energized, then begin!

The One Item Every Adult with ADHD Needs to Dramatically Increase Productivity
Very often it's the simplest things that make the biggest different in our lives. The same is true with increasing your productivity when you have ADHD. All you need is an kitchen timer! When you start to use a timer you will find it is a powerful weapon to beat procrastination and overwhelm.

Managed Chaos
Could be an oxymoron couldn't it? Chaos is disorder, confusion, commotion, disarray and turmoil. When a leader manages something, it's an effort to handle, cope, control, or direct it. For absolute clarity in this situation, here are two practical tips

Time Management Tips that really work!
Why are Time Management Tips important? If done effectively they should give you more unscheduled time. Time to relax, reflect and reconnect with friends, family and your authentic self. Sometimes we are so used to doing things the same way that we miss the opportunity to streamline processes that can make us more efficient! The following Time Management Tips are meant to help!

How to Make Your Customers Feel Welcome

In this excellent article the author shows you and your employees how to create the kind of atmoshphere that makes your clients and customers prefer to do business with you over the rest of your competition. Too often small business owners blame the economy and the government for their slumping business. If they would only look a little further they would identify a major cause of their business decline-their own attitude towards their clients and customers.

What does that word motivation mean?
Merydith Willoughby hears the word motivation bandied far too often. It concerns her on many fronts because people get the wrong idea about what it is. It is clear to her after having worked with many people that being motivated is a small component of success. This article details what else is required.

Common Business Challenges: You're Not Alone
If you're in business, you've got challenges. Some are priority; some can be deferred. Some will take time; others can be handled quickly and easily. Some will require a financial investment; some will not. They are all challenges because they are holding you back in some way.

Three tips on how to manage your time & attention and increase productivity
Busy professionals can all relate to feeling like there is just not enough time in the day. The world is out for our attention and workplace reactive behaviour is on the rise. Multitasking, once considered an attribute, has now come to light as having some pretty serious consequences. Your attention is your most valuable asset, take some time to find out where it is being spent.

Creating a Strategic Vision - Are You Making These 3 Mistakes Most Organizations Unknowingly Make?
Lack of a commonly understood strategic direction leads to misaligned efforts and poor decisions - and this can end up fatal to your business.

Organize Your Stress Away
In this article we'll explore how getting organized and dealing with your clutter can reuce your stress levels and increase your energy.

How to Upgrade to the Next Version of Yourself
ULTIMATELY: Upgrading yourself benefits everybody. Here's how.

How Organized Are Your Marketing Plans?
A road map (marketing plan) will help you to see how overlapping plans and campaigns affect each other. More importantly, use your marketing plan and marketing calendar to track your results. This will allow you to see clearly which efforts were profitable and which should be discontinued.

10 Ways to Cut Your Training Budget
Training managers are often asked to slice their training budget during tough times. Leslie Allan suggests 10 ways of meeting this challenge that will see the training function strengthen its place.

Process Mapping: Ten Tips for Success
Mapping your organization’s processes makes good business sense as well as lays the foundation for a motivated and productive workforce. Leslie Allan shows you how you can use process mapping to engage your employees and why it works so effectively.

Improve Your Training Sessions with the Five Rights of Training
All trainers need to take stock occasionally of how they are going. Are your training sessions as effective as they could be? Use these Five Rights of training to help you review where your training programs could be missing the mark.

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.

Change Leadership: The Keys to Success

Responding to and initiating change in today’s organization is a prerequisite to maintaining or gaining competitive advantage. Yet many organizations fail in bringing about worthwhile change. If you are tasked with leading a change initiative in your organization, then this article is essential reading. Leslie Allan provides a starkly honest and compelling overview of what it takes to be a change champion in today’s business environment.

Workplace Change in Six Steps
Managing change in today’s organizations is not easy. Those companies that get it right win a significant strategic advantage over their struggling competitors. Leslie Allan shows how you can apply a practical change management process that will help you gain success on your next change initiative.

Profitable Non-Profits
Randy Seitz is taking the traditional approaches of 'non-profits' and turning them on their ear - challenging status quo in every aspect of his operations. I'm inspired by Randy's innovative thoughts on turning a non-profit into a self-sustaining entity. This is a fabulous example of defying Gravity for all of us.

Merger Miseries Three - Clone Yourself
Part three of the Merger Miseries has to do with what happens to employees when they are asked to assume two jobs after one person is let go following a merger. It is not a pretty sight.

A Recipe for Gravity Suck and Staying Stuck
You hear a lot of advice from the so called experts. Defy Gravity! Be forward thinking! Be innovative! But what if you don’t want to? What if you like things just the way they are right now, and have no desire to make stratospheric leaps in your business or increase your results?

Merger Miseries Four Do Do Diligence

Due diligence is a process used in mergers and acquisitions to reduce the potential for surprises or miscalculations in purchase price. The process is more of an art than a science. One observation I have made is that there is heavy emphasis on the tangible assets like buildings and inventory. Less emphasis is typically placed on the critical human resources assets. I believe that is a mistake. This article explains why and suggests an alternative.

The Workplace 2020
I cannot believe that I am writing anything about the year 2020. It almost sounds like a science fiction movie title and yet it is only ten short years away. I say "short" because this past decade flew by at an inconceivable pace in my own mind. The reality of the present is that 2020 is just around the corner and the corner is getting closer as we speak.

Merger Miseries 5 Mini Mergers
Every day we read and hear about the mergers or acquisitions going on between the behemoth companies. They show up on the international radar due to their size and impact. Less visible, but equally impactful in the aggregate, are the hundreds of thousands of small restructurings that go on within organizations every day. This article discusses the smaller mergers and their impact.

Who is On The Bus After a Merger
If you have ever been through a merger, acquisition, or even just an internal restructuring, you know it is a tense time for most people. One topic that fills the airwaves is who is going to survive and who will be let go. This article gives three tips for how managers can keep the right talent in the organization.

Stressing Over QuickBooks? 10 Steps to Better Manage Your Bookkeeping Records
10 steps to alleviate the stress and burden of bookkeeping by organizing and simplifying the processes involved.

Five Reasons Why Nothing Has Changed in Your Organization
Here are five reasons why nothing seems to have changed in your organizations, despite your best efforts to make things happen.

Top 10 Tips for Managing Down
Your words and actions have a direct impact on how others perceive you here are ten tips to help you become the type of manager that everyone wants to work with...

Inspiring Local Success - March 2011

It’s already March… are you on track for making this year your best year yet? If not, it’s not too late! But, do you know what your best year yet would look like? Imagine it – what does your business look like on December 31, 2011, in your best year yet? Who are your clients, customers, or patients? Imagine how pleased they are with your services and products. Imagine their many referrals and testimonials. Who are your employees? No employees? Do you have virtual assistants, accountants, interns, freelancers, etc. – people you can count on, so you can focus on the core of your business? What are your new levels of revenue and profit? How are networking or marketing your business?

THE FORCES THAT INFLUENCE ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR IN THE MODERN ORGANIZATIONS

Modern organizations evolve as the marketplace and societies evolve around them. Political, environmental, and economic factors drive these changes in certain directions. Typically, organizations not only adapt to these changes but initiate them too. Adaptation can be achieved “passively” by merely reacting to external stimulus or “actively” by truly embracing changing circumstances to maximum benefit. Historically, we are aware of many of these changes, the industrial age, the innovation age, the age of the knowledge worker, or the creative age. The future requires us to work smarter, to be open and flexible. This will be flat from a point of view of opportunity for all or spiky when it comes to valleys and mountains of creativity.

What has Unrealizable Fantasies Got to Do with Being Organized?
None of us like to be "should upon." Operating under our "shoulds' creates unrealizable fantasies that wreck havoc with our ability to achieve our goals. See how.

Your Environment: By Design or Accident?
Managing your self-talk can affect your environment and outcomes in positive ways. Get 5 quick ways to proactively change your environment and reap the benefits.

Want to increase sales? productivity? focus? Stop cluttering your mind with useless information. Einstein, was right all along, take these simple tips and apply them today!
In this world of information overload, memorizing useless information and/or keeping everything in your head is the equivalent a having a really bad hang over, when it comes to productivity and focus. Our brains need a break, just like our computers, we must keep them clean and get rid of junk. It is time to purge, and get focused.

Degrees of Trust
Trust is an interesting word. We tend to think of it as a singular concept, like how much do I trust my boss at the moment. I believe there are numerous different types of trust in our lives, and in any trust situation, there are infinite levels of trust. That complexity is one of the reasons why high trust is hard to find in many organizations.

Is Being a “Mind Reader” Part of Your Organization’s Job Descriptions?
Tired of second guessing and making incorrect assumptions in your organization and then being punished for it?

Routine…Good or Bad?
When does a routine NOT serve you? A routine that keeps you small means it doesn’t actually move you into your power. Your routine needs to serve you physically, emotionally, spiritually and mentally.

Three Steps to Creating Space Financially
An article of 425 words describing the many benefits of organizing your purse/wallet and the steps to take to complete this process.

Having Trouble Paying The Bills
In today’s world with the way the current economic climate is there are so many of us struggling to cope with debt whether it be struggling to pay the phone or electricity bill, getting those frightening letters from creditors or even worst having the debt collector banging at the door and all this leading you to worry whether or not you are going to lose your house or car.

7 ways your business can start saving time and money now
Disorganized employees are costing your business money, find out how to start saving time and money now.

Get In The "Effectiveness" Groove
As a leader, it’s important to have a well-organized and disciplined approach to your work and your personal life. Taking time to organize and prioritize at work and at home will help ensure you have the energy and focus you need to lead effectively.

Use Your Time Effectively and Accomplish More!

We are all one big habit. From the time we get up in the morning to the way we treat people. Each of us has the choice to be one big bad habit or one big effective and thriving habit. If you chose the latter having Time Management skills are a must. Unfortunately Time Management is a skill many of us seem to learn and use only through necessity. When we use Time Management from a reactive standpoint, usually bad habits creep in and we end up not using the skill to its full potential.

6 Critical Organizational Success Factors for Embracing Volatility
Organizations no longer have the luxury of allowing their employees and leaders to sit back and enjoy the tranquility of a stable environment, which required relatively little upkeep to maintain the status quo.

What Is Wrong with Performance Appraisals?
How effective are organizations at driving superior performance from their employees? If we are to believe human resources professionals, the answer is that our performance management systems are failing to make the grade. This is the sobering conclusion from Sibson Consulting\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s worldwide survey.

Performance Appraisals and Compensation: A Deadly Mix
The annual jostling for pay rises based on employee performance is often described as ineffective by HR professionals, largely dreaded by managers and treated with suspicion by employees. So why do organizations still engage in this annual exercise?

Employee Performance Management: Time to Reinvent the Wheel
Performance-management systems are broken at the majority of companies in every corner in the world. By teasing apart results of a recent worldwide survey of HR professionals, we've seen how evaluations are viewed as a joke by employees, a waste of time by many managers and a non-actionable talking point by some senior executives.

How Top Management Views Performance Appraisal Systems
How important is your leadership team's support of the performance management system in your organization? A recent study into the views of HR professionals towards their appraisal system sheds interesting light on the value of top level endorsement.

Setting Your Moral Compass to North. Why talking about ethics is not enough

Just mentioning the word ethics conjures up a number of thoughts on ethical and moral failings. The late 20th century and early 21st century is marked by an increase in discussions and scholarly debate of the subject. At times you cannot even so much as turn on the television or pick up a newspaper without some news on the ethical failings of an individual or organization. Could it be that we are less moral than we once were or do moral failings only appear more prevalent simply because there is an increase in awareness through education, training and discussion? This article discusses the potential reasons for such failings and what can be done to address the matter.

7 Effective Savvy Living Strategies That You Can Start Using Today
There are many ways to live which can hopefully provide for health, wealth and happiness. But one of the best ways to enhance this is through effective savvy living strategies. Let’s discuss seven of them which you can start using today.

Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Author Sarah Ban Breathnach can become your daily coach moving you forward in a most positive way throughout an entire year, at the end of which you will be a happier, more organized, more disciplined person, leading a simpler life.

Top 10 Paper Organizing Tips
Paper over takes our lives, our desks and our homes. Take control with our top 10 paper organization tips!

What’s in Your Files? Putting Good Ideas to Use Can Help Your Creative Juice

Every couple of months I look at my idea and information files because I want to actually use the information I've put aside. I'm almost paperless, so my dual purpose here is to use it or lose it. If I don't at least look at it from time to time, then I won't know whether or not now is the time to be putting some of those great ideas to work. These are the sparks for future action and creativity. I call it ‘information inspiration.' Here are three action steps you can take to put your idea files to good use:

What You Learned in 5th Grade is All You Need to Know to Stay Productive at Work
Here are four simple steps that Heidi uses with her kids, which remind us that being productive at work is something you already learned how to do back in grade school. So get back to basics when you want to get things done and reach your goals.

What NOT To Do: 3 Things You Must Avoid If You Want To Become More Productive and More Successful

Sometimes, I'll hear some fantastic habits and great practices. However, unfortunately, over the years I've heard too many people say a few things to me that are actually bad habits and are not supportive of true organization or productivity. Because I consistently hear these, I thought I would pluck three from the list and expand on why they are NOT the best approach. You may want to avoid these in 2009 (and forevermore) and try a new approach and see what happens to your productivity. You'll likely be pleasantly surprised...

INFORMATION WANTED… DEAD OR ALIVE How to Escape Captivity from Habits That Hurt Your Productivity
Using the suggested practices I've listed below, you can free yourself from the wall of information rising high around you and you won't have to be a victim of a wild office or a wild work day. You can put your useful information to good use and let go of the rest, freeing you to get back to your priorities with a clear mind and a clear desk.

Tired of Meetings? 5 Essential Steps to Make Your Meetings the Most Productive They Can Be
Here are the top 5 things you can do to get better results and outcomes from your meetings and use your meeting time most productively.

Social Distractions: How Wasted Time Costs You Money and Business & How to Get It All Back

Earlier in the year I received an e-mail from a client containing a funny article called "Study Finds that Working at Work Improves Productivity." I found it again on the Internet as well. Not only did I find this article to be refreshingly funny, but no matter how fake and satirical it was, it probably hit the mark on how professionals may be actually spending a lot of their day. I thought this would be a good time to talk about how important it is to actually be working while you're at work.

Too Much or Not Enough: How to Eliminate the 5 Biggest Time Wasters in Your Day
My client's time wasters may not be the same as yours, but here are the top 5 I typically find that must be eliminated before you can get more time in your day.

Rescue Missions for Saving Time from Your Inbox & Other Dangerous Thieves
Don't let time slip away to unsuspecting culprits. They're sneaky and dangerous. And when you start to feel the effects of lost time and you're unhappy, unsettled and unproductive, it's time to try something different. Here are 4 rescue missions to put into operation so you can save more time:

So Now What? Maintaining Work Day Productivity in a Life after Getting Organized
Here are five things to remember to do every day so that your systems stick around and support you for a long time to come.

The Song “Finish What Ya Started” Reminds Me to Be a Broken Record: Get Your “Incompletes” Completed Before You Get Pulled Away
I put together a list of 6 sources of to-dos that you can review and consolidate into a single, cohesive Task list, electronically of course. Close the door, turn off your cell, send callers to voice mail, don't look at e-mail and get off of the Internet.

Are you a “Paper Person?” Consider an Electronic To Do List

For those of you who still use paper for a to do list, like pads of paper, a planner, post-it notes, or maybe you use your memory entirely, consider making a change to an electronic to do list. It doesn't have to be in Outlook. It can be in Palm or Entourage or Lotus Notes. Outlook, in my opinion, happens to be the best and most powerful, but a good task management system is workable in other software systems too. Here are the 3 best reasons to start using an electronic to do list:

Are You Holding a Fire Hose Instead of a Golf Club? 4 Starter Steps for Using Outlook Tasks to Give You More Control, More Freedom and Less Stress

Why do I love Outlook so much? Because it's one of the easiest, most familiar and most powerful tools out there. Plus, it's commonly found in the majority of companies and corporations these days, as well as many of the offices of solo-preneurs. This makes it easy for us to work together because clients don't have to run out and get new software. They already have the tools they need. Sadly, they're just not using it to full capacity. Here are my 4 favorite starter steps for how to use Outlook Tasks:

Tried and True: 12 Time-Tested Productivity Tips that Never Go Out of Style
So here are my Top 12 Time-Tested Productivity Tips for you so I can reinforce my message about reaching for and achieving peak productivity. Take a look... Are you practicing all of these? Which ones work best for you? Do you have 3 or 4 favorites? Let me know what you like and be sure send me an e-mail at Leslie@ProductiveDay.com.

Release Your Reading! How to Let It GO and Still Read What You Need

Well, it's true that the information river will not stop flowing, but there IS a way out of the river. In order to avoid getting swept away, you need to either read like mad or let it go and start fresh. Do a combination of these and you may get through it all, depending on how much you have to read. Here are 5 things you can do to FREE yourself from your reading pile and still get what you want and what you nee

Productive Day Proverbs: Little Pearls of Wisdom to Keep You Out of Productivity Peril

I've put together a short list of 6 proverbs that effectively express commonplace truths about your office and your work day productivity. There are actually 5 more proverbs to come later this year. But we'll start with these 6. If you follow the advice in both the proverb and my connection to your productivity, then I know you can stay on top of your game, be in total control and put your work day on cruise control at peak productivity.

Building a sum even greater than its parts: Why it’s essential to create a cohesive sales team.
“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress and working together is success.” Henry Ford, one of the great industrialists of the 20th century, said that about the importance of teamwork and of how it applies to businesses of all sizes.

Back to School, Part 1/3: Working and Learning – Can They Be Balanced?
How can work and school be balanced? Does the organization gain any benefits from employee’s continuing education? Can an organization assist their employees? If so, then how? If you and your organization find yourselves asking these questions, then this article is for you. Just the first part of a three part series regarding going to school while having a career.

Lesson #5: “It's who you are as an organization that makes everything possible.”
If it is who you are as an organization that makes everything possible, then it is who you are as a leader that makes the organization what it is. Wrigley Jr.’s organization was a strong one because he was an even stronger leader. It was several of his key personal characteristics that made the organization reach the heights it did under his leadership.

What Is A Quality Sales Organization?
Are you interested in extracting the optimal results from your sales organization? Then focus on building an organization that has a healthy, high performance culture. A high quality organization will ultimately morph into a world class sales machine.

Aiming at quality improvement with Six Sigma
Six Sigma is a process of quality improvement leading to improved results in an organization by making the employees of an organization learn important skills and concepts which they can apply to the operations in that organization to achieve the desired results.

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