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Leadership Truth #1 - Great Leaders Operate from a Set of Values
Values are the underpinning of everything we do. Great leaders have a concrete set of values that they operate from on a daily basis. Where do these values come from?

Leadership Truth #2 - Great Leaders Live Their Vision
Great leaders are congruent. They live their vision all the time. Consistency is a trait most great leaders have in abundance. Why is this trait so important?

Leadership Truth #3 - Great Leaders are Passionate
Not only are great leaders passionate people, but they have an uncanny ability to infect others with their passion. That is how the gusto in their soul gets translated to the rank and file. Let's explore how this is done.

Leadership Truth #4 - Great Leaders Value Transparency
Transparency in an organization means not holding things back from people.In so many organizations people know there is information being denied them that they really ought to know. This is devastating to morale.

Leadership Truth #5 - Great Leaders Have High Emotional Intelligence
Simply stated, Emotional Intelligence is the ability to work with people at all levels. The degree of success of an individual in this world is much more closely aligned with the level of Emotional Intelligence than IQ.

Leadership Truth #8 - Great Leaders Do Not Overly Worry about Popularity
While everybody likes to be popular, great leaders understand their primary goal is to balance the needs of all stakeholders at the same time. This inevitably leads to some stakeholders being unhappy with certain decisions. How do leaders deal with the fact that they are unpopular for some portion of the time?

Leadership Truth #9 - Great Leaders Foster Great Followership
For centuries, most of the focus has been on leaders and leadership. There is a new trend over the past decade to also focus on great followership. We are all leaders and followers for some portion of the time. This article compares and contrasts these two roles.

Deming on Leadership
Here is an interesting personal story of a run-in I had with Deming several years ago that had a profound impact on my understanding of leadership.

Managing Your Style

Many of us have taken the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and also the DiSC Profile. We have sat in seminars or corporate training sessions designed to help us understand our "style" and how our "type" relates to the rest of the world. These insights are helpful at understanding ourselves and how we can improve relations with other people. I believe style needs to be considered more as a dynamic process - not static. For that we should think about the possibility of actively managing our style.

THINK BEYOND WHAT YOU SEE
You need to always dream big and achieve your dreams. This is only possible when you think beyond what you see and try to catch it. Always remember that vision is ageless and timeless so possess it.

Creating a Brilliant Vision
If your organization does not have a compelling Vision, it is going nowhere. A solid vision of the future is the most important ingredient in any strategic process, yet often organizations just throw out a vision statement as a kind of placeholder to guide action. That is a crime. This article contains a solid process for creating an organizational vision that is brilliant.

Do We Really Need a Mission Statement?

Many organizations confuse the concept of a vision statement with a mission statement. They might say, "Our mission is to become the world leader in windows." Well, that is reallly a vision statement, not a mission statement. A vision statement is always about the future, while a mission statement is all about what we are trying to do today. It is very important to know that. This article will clarify a process to obtain a good mission statement.

Documenting Expected Behaviors
In creating a Strategic Framework, many organizations forget to include a documented set of expected behaviors. This is actually a critical step to do well. This article walks through a porcess of documenting behaviors. It is not rocket science, but it must be done.

Developing a Strategic Plan
Developing a specific Strategic Plan is fundamental to organizational progress. Once an organization has a concrete set of values, a vision, a mission, and a set of behaviors, it is time to document the strategic plan with tactics. This article gives a brief outline of the process.

Resolve to Follow the 5 Stages of Planning for a Prosperous 2010

With the challenges and uncertainties facing small business owners in 2010, a well-crafted plan is more important than ever. Many companies with 2009 plans that were “in my head” or “sketched on a napkin” aren’t making plans for 2010; they’re no longer in business. Unless your 2010 plans include becoming a statistic, you must resolve to commit the resources necessary to develop a high quality plan for 2010. Developing an actionable plan that increases your odds of success is as technically demanding as any of the products or services you offer to customers.

6 Ways To Win In the Game of Life

Most winners are built through brokenness. The greatest leaders have failed many times. Before inventing the light bulb, Thomas Edison failed a thousand times. Babe Ruth had 714 home runs and 1,330 strikeouts. Abraham Lincoln was said to have failed so many times, in business, in his love life, in politics but finally became one of the greatest President of the United States. Allow failure to be your friend.

Evaluating Your Vision Planning
So, here are some of the tough questions I’m asking myself. While at this point these are personal questions I am processing, yesterday I shared these with our staff for their input and to spur their thoughts in similar directions. I welcome your input if you have questions or thoughts that would be good for us to consider or if you have insight for a church at our stage of its life-cycle.

What the Vision Does?
Vision is a tool for orienting our energies and effort around which we really are. But, when we obsess about whether or not our vision is being achieved, we confused the animating force behind our being with an idea created by our mind.

5 Incredible Leadership Qualities
Leaders have to possess some inevitable equalities that makes them different from the ordinary folks. Leaders have to nurture certain qualities in order to enhance their leadership abilities.

Vision, Management And Motivation
The job of a leader is to constantly improve standards and levels of productivity. And the only way to achieve that is to motivate people to perform their best at all times. A good leader essentially needs to be a motivator. He should be able to consistently inspire his team to strive for quality and excellence in their work.

Buying a Business Non-Financial Strategies
There are three non-financial keys to buying a business because buying a business is not just about "the numbers." Buying a business will only be a job if you are buying it to be a job. You need to decide if you live to work or work to live.

Nonprofit Vision Statements, Core Values & Mission Statements

In the nonprofit field, reference is often made to an organization's core values, mission statement, and vision statement. I have found that there is some confusion regarding the difference between a mission and vision statement, and that some organizations have never identified their core values. This article will help you to understand these three items, and how important they are to your organization's overall operation, funding, and future.

A Leader is Born Every Minute...?
Are leaders born or developed? Leadership is not for the lazy. It comes from having a want and a deep desire to excel and bring others along with them.

10 Simple People Skills To Successful Management
Getting the best from your people is vital if you are to make the best progress in your business or organisation. Much comes from the way you interact personally and there are just ten key actions to take to build great, fulfilling and productive relationships...

10 Steps When You Need Help in Your Business
You start off alone. Be it as a solo business owner or a manager looking after a part of a larger business. It gets busier, you get distracted from what you want to do, because there's only one of you and you've only got one pair of hands.

Master Your Game: Introduction
Welcome to the first edition of Master Your Game, a monthly newsletter distributed by Catalyst Business Coaching. The objective of Master Your Game is to assist you in being the best you can be in whatever game you choose to play. When you master your game you will feel a greater sense of joy and success.

Master Your Game: Leveraging "Who" and "How"

As a leader, you will turbo charge your organization when you shift from a narrow focus on processes and results (what you are doing and the results you need to achieve) to transforming the players in your team (who you need to execute these processes). Leaders with great communication skills have the power to shift people's self-perception and improve their potential. When you understand who your people are and are able to assist them to be brilliant in how they undertake the business processes, success will follow.

Master Your Game: Meeting Effectiveness

Excellent meetings are productive, engaging, and synergistic; participants emerge from these sessions filled with great enthusiasm, energy, and a greater clarity of purpose. Effective meetings facilitate collective decisions that people will actively support by following through and taking action. Unfortunately, not all meetings are effective. Meetings can be energy-draining, time-wasting and costly.

Master Your Game: Meeting Process Design

After establishing and communicating the agenda to participants (see previous issues), the second step to conducting an effective meeting is designing the meeting process.* Designing the process means considering the meeting objectives, the scope of the topic, the discussion stage for each topic and the available time. Specifically, this article discusses strategies for managing the group size, thinking activities and discussion time.

Master Your Game: Reaching Greater Success

I hope you had as great a summer as I did. I have been busy finalizing five years of research for this next series of articles. But no need to feel sorry for me, this research was done during leisurely strolls on the golf course. The next four articles are focused on reaching greater success in our lives. I would like to share a personal experience and use my golf game as an analogy for the principles. We will explore: • Establishing your target - what do you really want to achieve? • Your technical game - what do you need to do to get to the target? • Your mental game - how important is who you are on the results you generate? • A consistent swing - what habits will assist you to achieve success?

Master Your Game: Taking Aim Pays Off

What if you hired a personal golf coach and started going to the driving range regularly to hone your swing? Your goal will be to consistently hit the green in regulation to lower your handicap. With sufficient practice, and by taking consistent action toward this goal, I bet you will accelerate your learning in perfecting your game. It works in golf, you say, but will hiring a coach help me in other aspects of my game?

Master Your Game: High Performance Teams
Many organizations talk about teams and teamwork but few really know how nor take the time to build teams. This article is the first in a series about teamwork. It explains the difference between a group and a team and outlines how dynamic teams lead to future success and growth.

Play Catch with Communication

An associate and I facilitated a dialogue session for the Delta Chamber of Commerce on the attraction and retention of employees in the workplace. The dialogue session uncovered five areas that influence employees in the workplace. They are: • Communication • Attitude • Flexibility • Opportunity to Learn • Fun This series of five articles will focus on each of the five areas from the dialogue session. Let’s begin with communication. Communication, in particular interpersonal communication, is the foundation for creating excellent organizations and great places to work.

Visions: A Success Story
Are you feeling overwhelmed or confused about what to do next? No time for yourself, let alone take a course and then have to implement the learning. You and Paul have a lot in common, here is how Paul used his vision to get unstuck and playing a new game.

Visions: Aiming for Your Company's Success
Great, after reading my previous newsletter - Visions: An Aerial View of Your Ideal Golf Course - you now have a personal vision. Let's move on to creating a compelling vision for your business.

Visions: An Arial View of Your Ideal Golf Course
Are your goals taking you where you want to go? How do you know? Read your vision! Don’t have a vision? Write one now and you will have one to read next year.

FUN in the workplace...

Is FUN as waste of time or is it a necessity to increase productivity? If you and your employees are not having fun it is costing you money in all sorts of ways that you would likely prefer not to think about. Having fun is a necessity. Fun creates a good feeling inside of us a sense of euphoria. When we smile and laugh our brains produce a chemical serotonin that gives us this feeling of well being. Exuding this kind of energy is highly attractive for others; they may want to start hanging out with you.

Vision Board to Faster Results- 5 Steps to Create One that Works for You
Learn how having a vision board can create better and faster results. Bring what you really want into your life sooner than expected. Included are five steps to create a vision board that works for you.

Procrastination- 4 Essentials to Break Through
We have all experienced the great feeling of working through to a goal step by step. We have also experienced those times when we put something off that could make a positive long-term impact in our life. Here are 4 essentials to grab when you feel stuck.

Success and Your Personal Mission and Vision

Successful people define a clarity of purpose and direction for their lives and careers. Your clarity of purpose and direction should include both a personal mission (your purpose) and a personal vision (your direction). Your mission is your reason for living, why you are on this earth. It is unlikely to change over the long run. Your vision is a short or medium term goal that defines the direction you will take over the next three to five years. It will change are you grow and develop in your life and career. Your vision must be consistent with your mission.

Plug Into Your Personal Vision to Pull You Forward
This past week I had some interesting conversations with clients and friends about feeling stuck, uncertain, overwhelmed or frustrated about changes they’re trying to make in their life.

Three Key Elements to Improving Leadership
Great leadership is the key to success. Great communication is the key to great leadership. Think of any great leader in modern time: Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr, and John F. Kennedy come to mind immediately. They were powerful leaders because they could inspire people to follow them. It was their ability to articulate their vision that made them successful in achieving their goals.

Leading Like TIGERS: A Successful Team Building Model
Teamwork thrives in a collaborative culture and tends to have problems in individualistic and internally competitive cultures. This article discusses a collaborative value system that supports an organizations vision, mission and core values through teamwork and the concept, "If we in, I win."

Using Visioning Activities to Lead to Future Success
It's easy to get bogged down in the nitty-gritty of your existence as a manager from day to day. Surviving even in the short-term can become a challenge - and that's on a good day! But what about making it better into the future? What can you see?

5 Activities That Separate Successful People from the Rest
I have been observing the activities that separate top successful people from the rest across different industries, and have noticed that they have common characteristics. Although one can argue the number or variety of traits they share, I’ve noted five traits you can model if you want to join the ranks of the top 10% of successful people.

Summer Small Business Re-evaluation
Whether at the beach or on a mountain, I find the summer is a great time to lift my sights to the broader horizon. It’s a great time to regroup solo, or with your team, on what’s working/not working, what the opportunities are and what it will take to get there in the next 12 – 18 months.

Management and Leadership
James Dicks examines the differences between management and leadership

You Can Be A Leader With A Vision
Leaders need a vision to help them guide their followers. Read this article to find out how you are a leader and get some ideas of why you really need a vision.

Top Tips on How to Jump into Personal & Professional Success
Jumping high and forward is an inborn talent for survival of the African impala. The impala is known to jump about ten feet high. This high jump propels the impala to land about thirty feet from the spot where it starts. With this ability of vertical and horizontal jumping, the impala survives and thrives in the carnivore-infested savannas of Africa.

13 Known Strategies that Stop Employees From Screaming

Have you ever wondered why people thrive in activities not related to their work but fail to have the same enthusiasm and/or output in what they are paid to do? Their morale is low, no personal accountability and their creativity in minimal from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday...Because the workplace has changed, employees need a new leadership approach to overcome their challenges. Unlike the Kamba women who expected their men to rid the community of the attacking forces, today's employees need the tools themselves. The workplace has become an unpredictable jungle and leadership needs to know why people with talents and experiences are dissatisfied and not using their potential-thus damaging the bottom line.

5 Proven Strategies to Grow Your Association's Membership
In many cases, education can be provided without a community setting. You have no control where members get their education, but you can control the dynamics of the community they belong to.

Vision is Vital
Vision is vital for life. People die with out a vision, and vision die with out people.

Business Plans: Uses and Abuses

“Some men see things as they are and say "Why?". I dream of things that never were and say "Why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Do you ever dream about business success and wonder how to make it happen? We all have aspirational dreams and goals but how many of us know how to turn them into reality. Many of you will have thought about writing business plans to make your dreams come true and been put off, thinking them either too hard to write, not necessary, or feeling that they are not really needed as the plans are already in your head. In fact it is important that you create plans, as they provide focus and a pathway for you to follow to achieve your business goals. In principle plans are not that difficult to write, providing some fundamentals are clearly identified and followed before you start the process.

Business Plans: Summary Format

Do you dream about business success and wonder how to make it happen? We all have aspirational dreams and goals but how many of us know how to turn them into reality. Many will have thought about writing business plans to make goals become a reality but been put off, thinking them either too hard to write or not necessary. In fact it is important that you create plans, as they provide focus and a pathway for you to follow to achieve your business goals. In principle plans are not that difficult to write, providing some fundamentals are clearly identified and followed before you start the process. The following main areas should be summarised:

Just Like Magic
The great thing about being in sales is that we all have an opportunity to raise our game, increase our success, and reap the short-term rewards of our efforts. All we have to do to sell more is to work a little harder or think a little smarter, or get a little luckier. Alternatively, try a little magic.

Building Fires - What Leaders Do
Teaching, demonstrating and motivating through positive reinforcement are just a few of the examples of what leaders do to encourage the greatness in those they mentor. When properly done they can build followers into fiery leaders themselves. We can draw many parallels between developing the character of a leader and building a fire.

Four Must Have Attitudes that Make Your Business Grow
All success comes first and foremost from your mindset. Without attitudes that support and foster your well-being and success you won’t reach the levels of true success you want and deserve.

What Do You Want to Be When You Grow-Up? Really, what do you?
I was recently asked that question by a colleague of mine, and without hesitation, the words just rolled out of my mouth.

Are You Tired of Making Other Peoples' Dreams Come True Instead of Your Own?

Life is not a game of chance, but a game of choice. Winners determine their futures in advance. They project what they want to occur in the future, and hold themselves accountable for that. My mentors often tell me that successful people and winners create their futures, rather than live reactive lives and acting like victims of circumstances. Most people, on the other hand, spend little time creating their dreams, and use most of their waking hours making other people’s dreams a reality.

Leaders and Managers

My HRD students often get into discussions with me about the differences between leaders and managers. How do you like to describe the difference between these two entities?. Usually in books and articles, I see lists of side-by-side comparisons with things like: "Managers do things right" while "Leaders do the right things." There are a dozen or so comparisons like this on these typical lists. Personally, I like to describe the difference from a mind-set point of view. This article describes my thesis on this topic.

5 Marketplace Implementation Lessons from a Corporate Strategy Execution Consultant with 25+ Years of Experience
The best-laid strategic plans often go awry once exposed to the light of day and the rudeness and ruthlessness of reality. These difficult times call for a disciplined, thoughtful approach to execution of strategy in the marketplace.

Leading-edge entrepreneurial trends you should know about
You have created your vision board and now that you have visualized, you want to realize that “larger” life? Is this you? To upgrade your life, from point A to point Z (not just B), you need to be aware of these 3 leading-edge entrepreneurial trends.

Possibilities and Potential
As we close the books on another year, it becomes clear what we achieved and where we hit the target, and also what didn’t get done and where our efforts went way off target. So looking forward, it’s important to look at both the possibilities of all we can do to refine our craft and increase profits, and at the same time not burn out.

Sustainable Management - 10 Steps To Success
Getting the work done and delivering results is challenge enough for most managers. Those with vision see a bigger picture, where their legacy is ongoing success because their people have the skills...

Successful Business Plans
If you are the Chief Executive Officer, what must you have in place for business plans to work?

10 Ideas To Help You Create A Vision Of Your Ideal Work life
If you use these 10 ideas you may find you come out with two visions. One would be a big vision of what you want for the world and one would be a vision of the work you want for yourself. Ideally they fit together. At first they may not. Finding a vision takes a lot of quiet time!

Ten Ways to Make Achievable Goals
Business owner need to have a set of goals that they are working on. Those goals help them to make the business to grow. Ask business owners about their goals and you are likely to find that they are in their heads but not in their heart. Business owners need to be connected in their bodies to the goals they wish to achieve. How is this done?

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

Top 7 Tips for Overcoming Buffaloes With Others
When you or your organization is face-to-face with a fierce buffalo, there is no short cut-just as villagers could not run away or climb trees, neither can you escape from the buffalo trumpeting you your organization. You have a strategy and a team to help overcome the beast.

My Father's Leadership

Today's decline of the social structures in America that hold families, corporations and other institutes together is largely attributed to ineffective leaders. As I reflect on the importance of quality leadership, I think of my father, Johnson Kituku Musoo. My father is a living testimony that what you don't have should not stop you from achieving what you want. His mother died before he turned ten, leaving him with a younger brother and sister to care for. I learned about his struggles from other people. I never heard him complain--although I once saw him cry, wishing that his mother was still alive.

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.

Beyond the Lion's Claws and Teeth of Your Future
Vision overshadows inadequacies related to skills, resources and abilities. It has been said, and proven to be true, that what your mind can conceive, and you believe in your heart, you can achieve. "The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science" (Albert Einstein). Dreams are the seeds of success.

Dealing with the Failure Within an Organization
The best advertisement for any organization is the genuine enthusiasm portrayed by employees. That enthusiasm is a byproduct of how employees feel valued, how they perceive their input is appreciated and how much fun they have doing what they do.

Discover and Use Your Personal Strengths
Once you become consciously aware of your key personal strengths and make it a lifetime goal to use them all the time, you will increase your productivity, be more pleasant to work with and save yourself the pain of trying to improve non strengths. We don't succeed by using our weaknesses. We thrive by using the full potential of our strengths.

Sustainability Driven Innovation

Sustainable innovations are creating new business models, opening up new markets and providing competitive advantages. Sustainable innovation is also improving profitability. Companies around the world are demonstrating how innovative sustainable practices are bettering their bottom line. A focus on sustainability is enabling organisations to innovate, differentiate themselves and succeed. Although sustainable practices were once dismissed for being too costly, increasing numbers of companies are coming to the realization that sustainable innovations are a gateway to growth. Visionary business leaders who anticipate the winds of change and creatively develop sustainable products and processes will thrive in the rapidly changing economic landscape.

Beyond Your Tasks
Ever hear the story of the two masons working side by side at a building site? They're doing the same work under pretty much the same conditions. One day a stranger comes along, approaches one of the men and asks, "What are you doing?"

Money and Vision
If you are overwhelmed in your business and feel like you are always dealing with crisis, it may be that you need to stand back and look at your vision.

My 3 Personal Success Strategies That Never Fail

When I arrived into the second half of my life, I realized that the years were drifting by and I began to wonder why my life hadn't completely turned out the way I had wished. Certainly I had racked up many successes but there were also still unfulfilled dreams, places I wanted to go, books to write and things to learn. Self- doubt slowly crept in and I wondered whether I would ever manifest all of my ambitions.

A Dozen Ways Leaders Create Meaning
The reason that most workers are not engaged in the business is that they see no real meaning in their work. This article addresses how leaders can change all that.

When the Cat’s Away
Getting better front-line decisions - without you

A Vision Energizes and Motivates
A vision guides you in your career. It gives your life and work meaning. If you are working 8+ hours a day and feel stuck, thinking about your dream may be just the catalyst you need to feel inspired to move forward or to make a career change.

Be Prepared For A Job Change
My client, John, had recently lost his job. What was most puzzling to him was that up until he got his notice his manager had given him very positive feedback about his performance. The truth was the company had eliminated the budget for his job function. His work was good but they decided they did not need that work done any more.

Creating Your Vision
As a youngster I often pretended I was the teacher and my friends were students in my class. When my friends didn't want to play I just used my dolls and stuffed animals. In later years I would daydream in class about how I could make the topic easier to understand or the class more fun than the teacher up front. I didn’t know it then but I was creating a vision.

Expect to Win - How To Use A Strong Vision to Win Business

Running your own business is a great laboratory for self discovery. I told many people when I first started my practice that I learned more about myself in 2 years of running the practice than I did in the preceding 50+ years. Many people say that to be successful in business you need lots and lots of training and knowledge. Others will tell you need to be really gifted. Do you ever look around and see “less qualified” people who are very successful? How does that happen? What are they doing that you are missing?

Finding Your Voice
Finding your voice" means finding a way to express your ideas with passion so that you connect with others. We all have ideas and thoughts that we feel strongly about. Learn how important finding your voice is and how it relates to career and job fulfillment.

Living With Fear

“I’ve never been afraid to ask for money before, why am I so worried now?” Kate asked me. Kate and Mary were writing a business plan for a new elegant furniture store they planned to open. They had had a failed attempt to run a similar store in another state with several other partners. They told me they had learned a great deal from their failure. (“We got an MBA in retail in 6 months!”)

The Push and Pull of a Vision
As a child I had this wonderful vision of myself standing in front of a class teaching. I even remember “seeing” myself surrounded by young students eagerly asking questions and then being energized by my answers -the students were so excited in fact that they went on to become great scientists, writers and statesmen or women. Yes, I dream in Technicolor!!

How to Attract and Keep Productive Employees
It's been shown time after time that there is a high positive correlation between employee commitment/productivity and reduced turnover. A stable, low turnover work force produces significantly more. All the secrets are revealed here.

Are you “what” you know?
Consistently being who you are solidifies relationships in all areas of your personal and professional life, and the opposite is true if you want to scare folks off. They would leave skid marks and run the other way.

What stage of growth is your business in?
learn how to care for your business and give it the boost it needs

A Strategic Vision Exercise
Hereâ€™s an exercise that Iâ€™ve found helps people think about vision.

Clarifying the Strategic Focus
Effective leaders who want to generate lasting, sustained success in their organizations need to spend a considerable amount of time and energy clarifying and communicating the strategic focus.

Trust Keeps Leaders off the Slippery Slope

There are numerous advantages when leaders can build an environment of high trust. One important one is that the employees in the organization become helpful watchdogs to help prevent ethical dilemmas, but that is only one advantage. Here are 10 key benefits of building a high trust organization: 1. Lower risk of ethical debacles 2. Higher productivity 3. Lower costs 4. Less conflict 5. Focus on the vision 6. Trust is evident to customers 7. Focus on development 8. Improved communications 9. Better reinforcement 10. More efficient problem solving

Get People Involved in Creating the Vision
When creating a vision, leaders are much better off if they include all levels in the organization in the brainstorming and shaping process. Many leaders do not fully understand the power of commitment to a vision. This article gives the rationale for why including shop floor people in the vision process improves the chances of its success

Build Your Own Strategic Plan
Creating a strategic plan for your life can literally change your whole experience in whatever you want to do. Wouldn't you like to be in better control of your destiny from year to year? You can, just read and follow the advice in this article.

A U-TURN in Perception
How to step out of the box by stepping out of time. Gaining new perceptions by adjusting your ways of doing.

Join forces to expand your vision
Some useful tips of how setting up on your own can be easier and more successful by engaging the help of others and thinking BIG.

Why Vision matters!
During a discussion with friends I claim that our life is mostly the result of our visions. Our visions are shaped by our beliefs, concepts and ideas about who we are and what is possible. So what about aiming for the (in our mind) impossible?

Discover Your Reason to Excel Beyond the Norm
What goal have you set for yourself? How big is your vision? Do you daydream, seeing yourself having successfully reached your goal?

BUSINESS SECRET WEAPON THAT ROCKS!
So definitely, planning for your future is important....and creating a written plan which combines both "Personal and Professional/business" goals...it is a definitely "must do".

Is Your Home Tele"Vision" More Important To You Than Your Business vision?
Is watching Tele"Vision" More Important To You Than building your own Business vision? Discover why watching too much television is a bad habit and how it can steal your dreams and visions, while the media continues to make millions by selling you on their visions.

Create The Greatest Version Of What You Can Be
Writing a mission statement for your business is often seen as a chore that managers have to do. Change your view of what a mission statement really is and it can become the most important thing you have to do. Let this article show you.

The Tremendous Life-Shaping Power of Vision

Vision is an integral part of a Life on Purpose. Without vision we can wither on the vine. What is vision? In working as a coach with thousands of people, I've found that vision is a key ingredient of our life purpose. It's what we see to be possible-not only for ourselves, but also for our families, our communities, and indeed for the world. Without it we perish. I've found that helping people reawaken their sense of what's possible is a key component of preparing for your journey to living your life according to your own personal life purpose. This is because the more someone taps into this realm of possibility, the more inspired they will be to take the actions necessary to make it their reality.

Attracting Ideal Clients/Customers
This article focuses on one important aspect of your business –who you serve. Here’s an exercise I did when I first got started and if I find myself attracting people who are not ideal for me to serve, I revisit my vision to get clear again.

Living In The Gap Of Possibility And Purpose: Part 3

Perhaps the Bible says it best -- "Without vision the people perish." But what is vision? In working with thousands of people over the last 16 years as a coach, I've found that vision is a key ingredient of our life purpose. It's what we see to be possible, not only for ourselves, but for our families, our communities, indeed for the world. Without it we perish. I've found helping people reawaken their sense of what's possible so important that it's a key component of preparing for the journey along the Purposeful Path because the more someone taps into this realm of possibility the more inspired they will be to take the actions necessary to make it their current reality.

Renewal

Every New Year's Eve, I go through a kind of renewal ritual. It is my gift to myself for having done my best for the past year, and it allows me to look forward to an even better year to come. I have recommended some form of this for all people who take my leadership classes. It does not need to be done on the New Year; some people like to do this on their birthday or some other specific day of the year. The point is to designate one day to reflect on what you have done, where you are, and what you intend to do in the coming year and beyond.

PRECISION-Guided Leadership
How to Move Your Team With Purpose…On Purpose.

Is Your Management Causing Employee Issues and Slow Business Growth?
Employee issues are most often symptoms of inconsistent or failing management; deal with supervisor/manager competency and impact and you not only have engaged employees but also an effective, productive and efficient organization.

8 Ways Leaders Build Culture
The culture of an organization is something that is highly impacted by the actions and words of leaders. This article describes what makes up the culture and 8 things leaders can do to improve it.

Smart Women Dream Big
This article is about the power of dreams and how they can become a reality if you take the steps necessary to write them down, create a plan and follow the plan through.

Could a Coach Get You There?

You know what coaches do for athletes. You've heard what they've done for the rich and the famous. What about you? Have you ever thought about partnering with a coach? Barbara Garro spent the time to graduate from both Corporate Coach University and Coach Training Institute. Why? Corporate/entreprenerial coaching entails complexities personal/life coaching does not. Why else? Business people have personal lives and I wanted to combine my skills so my coaching clients get Work-Life Coaching or Life-Work Coaching. Garro coaching is all about getting you where you want to be when you want to get yourself there.

Tips to Find a Job and Career That You Love
What is interesting is to take a close look at people who love their work, feel challenged in a good way, and experience great prosperity and abundance. Does it ever feel like that type of career is just a dream? What is the difference between those who take this route and those who stay stuck?

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?

Create the Memory of Your Future
A vision is something that pulls us forward - through action, intention and heart. It's in creating a vision, and using our strengths that we create the memories of our future. This is the place in which inspiration, contribution and engagement live. This articles provides 3 steps to utilize your Strengths in designing a future vision in which you achieve the results you desire.

Upbeat thinking in a Downturn Economy
History tells us great companies are made during recessions. But where do you start? How do you lead your battered troops on a new ambitious campaign?

5 Rules for Student Leaders
The rules of leadership have changes. These 5 Rules will allow you to create relationships, trust and change on campus. Put these into practice and allow your vision to shine.

You Can Only Start from Where You Are
Every process of change begins by determining exactly where we are, then deciding where we want to go and then creating an action plan for moving forward with confidence.

Dust off Your Goals, Air Your Dreams
Recently I was going through some old boxes in my garage and came across one of my first courses that I did in psychology, which was the one that turned a corner in my life. As you can imagine that was a few (well ok many) years ago. As I sat on the floor with papers and bits all around me, I started reading what I had written about my dreams, hopes, worries and life at the time.

Simpllicity: The Neglected Value
6 practical pointers to bring simplicity into your personal and work life.

What Is The Foundation for Your Vision?
Who we are often manipulates what we do. The values we hold dear should represent the way we conduct business. But do they? Learn more about the foundation or your vision...

Changing the Path of a Life
This is the story of a friend of mine who had a change of life because of something I said to him a half century ago, and I never realized it till last year.

How to Lead and Influence Change
You know for years we have held the majestic eagle as our sign of a good leader. It soars so high above everyone else, has a beautiful wingspan, eyes that can see its prey from miles away and uncanny accuracy in getting its food.

Putting Your Mind to It Reaps Massive Benefits
Find a quiet spot, close your eyes, and begin to breathe deep even breaths – in and out. Think back to the times when you were “in the zone”, when you achieved everything you put your mind to seemingly simply by giving it your full concentration, your full attention, your full focus. Didn’t it seem almost effortless? As if it just happened exactly as you desired it without serious work?

Connect the Dots
Connect the dots between your BIG inspiring vision, your yearly goals and your daily actions. It takes a considerable amount of focus to live like this if you’re not used to it. Do whatever it takes to continue connecting the dots between your vision, goals and daily actions.

How to set good business goals,
Take the guess work out of setting business goals, this article will give you an outline of how you can get started on setting some good business goals today. What to look at first, and recommendations to help you along the way. Cheers to your success~!

Solving conflicts by changing the game
Usually we perceive conflicts to have two sides. But there is a 3rd side which lives in all of us. The role of that 3rd side is to bring peace to conflict and help others get back on track. To do that we need two main ingredients - Space and Vision!

A Personal 'Mission Statement' Spells Success!

One of the latest "techniques for success" is the personal mission statement. Motivational and management gurus say these can be as effective in our own lives as they are in organizations. The real question is, how well do they really work in organizations? So often, after all the committees have fiddled with these statements, they end up as vague, watered-down platitudes that are quickly forgotten. So does that spell success, for either organizations or for us personally?

Procrastination Why People do it?
Do you find yourself not getting anything accomplished day after day. Is this what your day looks like?

Is Your Thinking Bigger Than This?

What framework are you using for your thinking? How big is your thinking? Whether in business or in life, we will only grow and live an expansive life if we expand the framework of our thinking. Is your thinking in the detail of your business day to day, or do you ‘plug in’ to a bigger vision that inspires and motivates you? Expanding your framework for thinking on a much bigger level is like exercising a muscle. Keep exercising those bigger thoughts and watch your life and business expand.

Taking Time to Think
When was the last time you did that in an atmosphere where you really could think and listen and just see what comes to you? Be honest. When was the last time your mind could be free to open up and see what comes in?

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?

Overcoming Mountains To Reach Your Goal
My goal to hike the Inca Trail turned out to be more than just a physical challenge. Completing the hike taught me valuable lessons about overcoming mountains and reaching goals.

Creating a Culture and Brand That Makes and Actually Keeps Brand Promises
A positive brand and cultural alignment is a powerful competitive strategy! Identify your market and building a strong base your clients and customers will notice and will reward your efforts...

Engage my emotions and I'll follow your lead
Creating engagement and change in people requires the ability to tap into their emotions, rather than presenting facts and figures. This article explains why this is an essential skill for todays leaders and how they can go about it.

More To Walking The Talk

When you and your team are committed to your mission daily through the right activities and you keep your vision in view, “walking the talk” should be a piece of cake, right? It’s really not that easy. Last week, we discussed five characteristics I believe a company must exhibit to follow through on what it says it’s going to do. Today, I’d like to add a few more ways you can ensure you and your company is “walking the talk.”

A new view of strategy
It's critical we scrutinize the way we strategize. It's a new day!

There’s no standing still in business!
Have you ever felt stuck or comfortable with where you are? I know there are times when you just want the world to stand still - just make it stop for a short while, so you can catch your breath and then carry on. Me, too. But not very often!

Vision plus Goals plus action equals Success
Stop hesitating, stop holding back, stop trying to put your life and dreams into a box that fits what others think. Ask yourself and be honest: What is it you really want to accomplish? What is your real vision for your life?

The Business Bill of Rights
As Margaret Thatcher once said “Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy”

Why Intelligent Self Interest is Important to Your Success
Intelligent self-interest is defined as choosing what the most important to you with the intent to take action. Let us explore how this concept applies to business.

Small Business Essentials

In response to a recent e-mail question regarding how to succeed in a small business venture, I began to distill what I’ve learned from over one-thousand business owners of all sizes, categories and ethnicities. They are people whose television stories I’ve presided over as executive producer of the Making It! weekly TV show. Though the end goals are consistently familiar, the pathways to a thriving enterprise are many. Here are several important things they’ve taught me and our viewers.

Beyond Intentions
When you finally get out of your own way with the endless stream of negative intentions (which include reasons why not, self-defeating beliefs, limited thinking, and lame excuses) you can actually get around to marketing your business.

Business Ideas: Your Plan and Business Actions

Begin today, write down your business ideas... Where is this journey taking you? Your business ideas can take you on a fun adventure - when you know where you want to go and know the steps you need to put into place to get there. Having vision and a mission for your business to use in setting your goals and objectives - will help you keep clear and focused. Successful people understand the importance of planning in their lives. If I were driving from Texas to California, I would need to have a strategy - a plan.

5 Steps to Designing a Strategic Brand

When you think about designing – or redesigning – your business’s identity, you think about finding a designer and hiring them to design a logo, right? That’s where many small businesses go wrong. There’s a 5-step process to designing your small business’s brand image. And actually designing it is the very last step. If you want to create a profitable, pretty and powerful brand, then you’ve got to begin at the beginning. If you begin with the first 4 steps here, then you’ll be able to design a brand that’s stronger, has a more solid base and that will be an investment that gets results instead of an expensive, creative guess!

Work Worth Doing Caren Merrick
Today the word "work" has come to mean something to be avoided as much as possible for many people. But there is value in work. Not just for the money you can earn from it, but from the person you get to become. Hard work draws out talents and capacities that may otherwise have laid dormant.

Marketing By Method Versus Vision

The companies that make a real impact in the marketplace are not the ones that produce what people think they want, but rather the ones that produce what people will want but don’t know it. The ability to know what people will want before they know it exists is not a result of intensive market research, focus groups, or telemarketing surveys. Knowing what people want is based on understanding the human condition: the motivating factors that move people from disinterest to action. Steve Jobs was unrelenting in this philosophy and it resulted in changing the computer, music, movie, and telecommunication industries and more significantly how people live, work, communicate, relax, and in some ways, think.

BUILDING A HIGH PERFORMING TEAM
When you see a high performing team, whether in sport or business, they really stand out. So what’s their secret? Are they just a better group of individuals brought together in one team, or is there something more to it? High performing teams don’t just happen by accident and there are always a number of common ingredients that they all share.

Focus on the Horizon
Experiences such as rally car driving can provide pointers that help us in running businesses - especially when we are experiencing difficulties or facing economic uncertainty.

3 Ways to Grow Your Future-Focus
I was mesmerized by Steve Job’s biography. I was fascinated by his focus and passion. Mr. Job’s complex personality motivated him to achieve greatness. Steve Job’s creativity and genius for creating products that invent the future is so inspiring. Oh Wow!

Writing Your Own Script
How does your imagination create your life? How do you make important decisions?

The Charismatic Performance Model™

Over the centuries we have become addicted to growth through struggle. Pain is often perceived as a necessary stimulus to growth where individuals adopt the view “what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” Adversity is worn like a badge of honour because people often call on their inner resources to strengthen their resolve. Resilience is now viewed as an essential component for corporate success. Yet individuals are still resistant to change within a corporate context because they feel in touch with fear. According to Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs first introduced in 1943 our basic needs are for survival closely followed by safety and security.

Being in The Zone, being in The Flow is Being Charismatic

This week I delivered a half-day session on Charismatic Leadership to The Ella Foundation, established by Brian Chernett, created to inspire more leaders in the not for profit sector to be more effective and successful. Nearly 30 leaders from different registered charities participated in a way that was subtly different to leaders within the corporate sector. These men and women showed a real passionate intensity for their cause that was truly inspiring. Their minds were open and receptive to my techniques meaning that the exercises we did regarding energy were really advanced because their attitude to learning was untainted by cynicism.

Personal Leadership and the Inner Work of Success

Personal Leadership takes practice and is vitally important if you are to live a life that is authentically meaningful, contented and expressive of your most natural self. How we assume a leadership role in our lives can take many forms. The one I’m focusing on in this e-zine is what I call the Inner Work of Success. This is the practice of developing a relationship with your inner world, to get to know and understand how your mind works, what your heart is telling you and to really LISTEN to that still small voice that is the truth of who you are.

What Smart Women Can Learn From Einstein About Reaching Goals
My favorite quote by Einstein is "Vision without execution is merely hallucination." Einstein's quote helped me to realize there are two distinct parts to reaching your big ideas, dreams and goals. Below are some tips and solutions that will help you during both the Visioning and Planning phases for your Big Ideas, Dreams and Goals for 2012.

That dog won’t hunt

Here we are at the end of March already. I was talking with a friend the other day about an old farmer’s adage we used to anticipate in March regarding the weather: “In like a lamb, out like a lion.” Or “In like a lion, out like a lamb.” The expectation was that if we had harsh winter weather at the beginning of March we would have mild weather at the end – and vice versa. I have no idea why that is expected but it reminds me of all the little clichés that we accept as reality. As farmers we also used to cite, “Red in the morning, sailors warning; red at night, sailors delight.”

You are! Whether you like it or not.
We are all leaders. We may not be good at it or see ourselves that way but we are. Even if your title or roll professionally doesn’t include a leadership component you are still a leader.

Coach Pete's Tip: Creating Powerful Goals
Having a Personal Vision is the first step in creating a new you. However a vision is just that, an idea or dream. It is important to dream. But dreaming will not make it happen. Only by having powerful action goals can you construct an effective plan and achieve your vision.

Lead With Vision
Leaders have vision and pull others into their vision. They have a clear mental picture of what success looks like. They attract others to their vision with a sense of purpose, belief, passion and enthusiasm.

How a Vision Statement Can Influence Your Business Success
Summary: Many people tend to negate the value of a vision statement for a business. But a vision statement is important for success of a business as it provides a sense of direction on where you want your business to go. Without a vision, you are like a crewless boat; adrift with no destination in sight. Discover the importance of having a concise vision statement.

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