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Help! My Team is Broken... You are not alone
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| What does communication, or lack there-of, cost your company each year? How many people on your team, at the moment you are reading this email, are doing a task that in some way will have to be reworked or redone? Funny, we always seem to have time to do things "right" the second time around. |
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Resolve to stop making resolutions!
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| Did you know the average New Year’s resolution lasts 72 hours or less? -about the same length a diet lasts. That means that on or about January 3, most people who made resolutions have forgotten or abandoned their plans for change. It’s well documented that successful people make goals and stick to them, they don’t bother with resolutions. Perhaps the best resolution is to never make resolutions again. |
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Why You Need a Board of Advisors/Mastermind Group
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| This week I’ve had a lot of discussions with people about Mastermind Groups. All large corporations have a Board of Directors to be sure the company stays true to their mission, hit their numbers and fulfill their responsibility to stockholders. Small businesses (even sole-proprietorships) need them too. But usually, only those small businesses who accept private funding (from banks, angel investors, venture capitalists) have outsiders on their Board of Directors. A professional Board of Directors may not always create a happy, supportive, safe environment for business owners to turn to for problem solving, brainstorming, or even feedback. |
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The Best New Years Resolution is to never make them again!
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| The Best New Years Resolution is to never make them again.
Do you know long does the average New Year’s resolution lasts? 72 hours-about the same period a diet lasts. That means that on or about January 3, most people who made resolutions have forgotten or abandoned their plans for change. It’s well documented that successful people make goals and stick to them, they don’t bother with resolutions. Perhaps the best resolution is to never make resolutions again. Make goals instead.
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Employee Relationships - What is Responsibility
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| Responsibility is fast becoming a lost art in the business worlds in which we exist today. When managers take responsibility for creating valuable relationships with their people, there are many opportunities to be had. But what is responsibility? |
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Effective Workplace Relationships - External Influences
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| There is value in ensuring that the interaction between a manager or supervisor is effective. Both sides have much to gain. Although this would seem to be a relationship between two individuals, who else might be involved? |
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The Best Workplace Relationships - Who Is Responsible?
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| There are poor workplace relationships. There are good workplace relationships. Sometimes they are even great. But where does the responsibility lie for creating the best environment for the best work to be done... |
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Sick and Tired of the Sky Falling!
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| It's not what is happening -it's how you are responding. The work world is changing. Our Economy is changing. Find seeds of opportunity in the field of uncertainty! |
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Workplace Relationships - What Does Responsibility Mean?
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| Managers and employees have shared responsibilities for ensuring that they have a relationship between them that is strong. Let's get clear about what this actually means in practice... |
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The Philosophy of Responsibilities in Workplace Relationship Building
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| Relationship building is a vital core activity of anyone who manages or leads others, yet those being managed also have a responsibility to make the interactions work. So, why is understanding about responsibilities so important? |
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Building Workplace Relationships By Overcoming Prejudices
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| We need to create effective relationships in our organizations to make sure we get the best from all of our people. Managers will always have the opportunity to interact with their people, yet sometimes, there are times to step back and see what might be getting in the way...
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The Art of Accountability
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| Each of us works stronger, steadier and more successfully when we add the Arty of Accountability to the mix of our life. It can be the one piece missing for many Entrepreneurs. Accountability can show up in Coaching and Masterminding with others of a like mindset. It is an art form in that is requires us to open our mind to the possibilities and then get really good at it. To in fact let it flow as easily as breathing some days. |
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Business Survival in 2009
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| While many companies are struggling to reach their goals (many adjusted to reflect the times), there is a subset of organizations that are growing. Three based success factors: Value, Sales and Accountability. |
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Why Shouldn't I Go It Alone?
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| Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his friend. But if alone, who will help you get back up when you fall. In Hebrews 3:13, it states: Encourage one another daily. And which of us does not want/need daily encouragement? |
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WHY WE SHOULD HOLD PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE--AND WHY WE DON’T
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| When we fail to hold others accountable, we reap the consequences-some obvious, some not so obvious. A lack of productivity is one of the more obvious negatives that come to mind. So if accountability is critical to execution and individual and team performance, then why don’t we consistently hold people accountable for results? There are seven assumptions and misunderstanding-let’s call them “Tickets to Slide”-that contribute to this phenomenon. |
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Accountability Boosters: Managing Accountability in Others
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| Maybe one of your top performer’s self-image is threatened when his idea does not produce the intended results and he gets defensive. Or you’ve heard someone complain that because she can’t control all the elements of a project she should not be held responsible if things don’t go right. Or it suddenly becomes clear that the ability to disappear into the group is allowing someone to avoid taking accountability for his lack of individual contribution. The following Accountability Boosters will help you accomplish two important objectives-1) minimize the need for people to make excuses and 2) increase their level of accountability when things go wrong.
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Track, Measure, Learn to Turn Your Prospects Into Customers
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| Accountability is one of the most important terms in sales. Without it, you have no hope of improving your sales progress. Accountability is far less about making sure people do their jobs, it is about helping people do their jobs better. |
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Entrepreneur Job Description
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| An entrepreneur is defined by Wikipedia as: a person who has possession of a new enterprise, venture or idea and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome. That should just about cover it right? Nope, that barely scratches the surface.
The entrepreneur job description goes much deeper than just assuming risks and taking on accountability. The entrepreneur is a rebel by definition as well. They go against the grain and strike out on their own. But they aren't reckless bandits roving the countryside looking to make their next big score. There are a few traits that most entrepreneurs have in common. |
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What does a CEO do What is their job discription
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| When you hear CEO it brings about reactions of envy and awe. But the truth is that most CEO's do not get a very high approval rating as a matter of fact only 1 in 20 CEO's are in the top 5% based on their performance. The Chief Executive Officer has a simple job but by no means a easy one. All accountability falls on the corporate exec. for the company's success or for its failure. The CEO is in charge of leading the company towards profits if you deliver on this you are a good CEO and if you can't then you are not. |
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Put Accountability To Work In Your Organization
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| Accountability begins with engagement: a heightened emotional connection to your company that influences your employees to exert greater effort. |
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Are you contributing to Gen Y Frustrations with Management?
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| This article appeared in The Weekend Australian, Sat August 15th 2009, Australia's leading weekly newspaper.
It addresses,the key frustrations Gen Y new managers have been expressing to Consultant and Executive Coach,Juliette Robertson over the last 2 years and calls on senior managers to take action. |
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Your 7 Step Coaching Plan
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| Here are the 7 steps I use with many of my clients and students to help them set their staff up for coaching success. It's not difficult but it does require self disciplin and a desire to see your staff succeed. |
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Product Launch Formula
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| The actual program was created to provide businesses with everything they could ask for in terms of ongoing marketing support, guidance, accountability and know-how to help them overcome the challenges facing them in launching a product in 2009. |
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Create a ‘No Excuses’ Sales Environment
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| What is your company’s sales culture or environment? Can that question be answered quickly and articulated consistently across your organization? The foundation for creating a clearly defined sales environment begins with the leadership - how they set sales standards and then demonstrate, communicate and inspect accountability to those standards. What sales standards do you set and communicate? Are they extraordinary? If we followed you around for 30 days, what would we observe about your actions and interactions with your team? |
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Choice & Accountability: The Bedrock of Superior Performance
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| Employees who resist taking personal accountability for their work and career success cost organizations a lot. This article speaks to staff members, offering three ways to operate in a fully accountable manner in their own job. |
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How to Build Accountability in Your People
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| Every manager wants his or her employees to take on personal accountability for their work performance. Here are seven concrete actions you can take to foster that sense of responsibility in your staff. The benefits of this include greater productivity, confident, engaged employees who more rapidly reach their full performance potential, and less stress on you because you know you can count on them. The big bonus benefit is that you will have more time to focus on tasks that are strategically critical to the success and growth of the enterprise.
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The Other Way… Beyond Technology to Leverage Your Investment in Your People
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| Proposes a comprehensive learning curriculum to enhance so-called soft skills and attitudes at three distinct leverage points in an organization: managers, teams, and individual contributors. |
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What to Do When Your Team Gets “Stuck”: 7 Ways to Get It Moving Again
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| When a team becomes "stuck" it saps energy, costs money, and hurts results. How do you know when your team is, in fact, stuck? And what can you do to turn it around? Here are seven most common pitfalls teams and working groups encounter and a practical strategy to overcome each one.
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What Basics?
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| The cyclical and now ubiquitously appearing phrase, back to basics, ignites supporters. The reasonableness of returning to previously successful principles, ethics, systems, accountability, approaches, or you-name-it, appears a tantalizing remedy for our individual or collective woes.
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Success is Unattainable Without Documented Goals
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| Past studies indicate that the top three percent of successful companies all have written goals. Most companies have an idea of what they are trying to accomplish but the question becomes how many of these objectives are actually documented in detail. I mean documented beyond the typical objective of growing sales by X percent. In other words, every goal should have an attendant action plan with the desired results listed for each task, a time line for completion and assigned individual accountability for completing each task. |
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Goal Achieving Process Parts 4 & 5 - Implementation and Accountability / Repeat Process
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| I’m now completing my series on the Goal Achieving Process with parts 4 & 5 here. There are two major reasons why people don’t reach they’re goals – they lack action (implementation) and follow-through (accountability). You may have the biggest dreams, and create S.M.A.R.T. goals, but without taking any action and following through your goals, then it’s worth nothing at all. You need to have a means and method to implement goals, and then follow-up. This all comes as a result of accountability. |
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"What Happens in Vegas..." is No Way to Run a Business! Employment References are Essential.
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| Employers who refuse to seek or provide employment references are creating an injustice to their workplace and the workforce as a whole. Accountability and motivation are sacrificed for no good reason. Legal compliance is essential but does not point to secrecy. "What happens in Vegas..." is no way to run a business! |
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If You Want to Succeed … Have a Plan!
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| Ok well this isn't a trip journal, so I'll get to my point and how this all relates to what I have been writing about on this 30 day experiment.
I have already written about accountability, having a positive attitude, and setting goals to help improve your chances of success. Well, just like my trip out west, if you set a goal that you truly want to achieve, it would be silly to believe you can just do whatever you want to achieve that goal.
Sure you could just set the goal, think about it all the time, and do little tasks here and there that will help you advance towards the realization of that goal, but it would take you much longer to get there ... if you ever did. |
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Action Focused Goal Setting is The Way to Go!
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| I'm finally back from my family vacation to Colorado and have somewhat recovered from all our activity. While making the 19 and 1/2 hour drive home I had quite a bit of time to think about this experiment and the posts I've written over the past week. I tried to look at the success forumula I've laid out and identify any elements that might prohibit someone from following it, and acheiving the success they want.
The forumula is as follows ...
Goals + Positive Attitude + a Plan + Belief + Action + Accountability = SUCCESS
The following was my thought process as I worked through the formula on my drive home ... |
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Accountability - The Secret Ingredients for Execution
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| We all "Talk the Talk". We understand that we must introduce accountability into the organization if we have any hope of achieving our objectives. Yet, many companies struggle, some unknowingly, with this concept for many different reasons. Long term employees can become complacent, competencies can be limited, a free pass is sometimes given for a variety of reasons and the "Peter Principle" is still alive and in existence today; Promoting people beyond their ability to perform. That's not to say that many employees, often the majority, understand the concept and want to be held accountable. But, what about those that don't?
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Accountability and Trust
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| Managers need to hold employees accountable for meeting commitments. This sounds simple, but in the messy world it can be a conundrum. Reason: People have a tendency to justify their actions based on their personal rationalization. To the manager it may seem a lame excuse, but to the employee, there was no way the commitment could have been made.
The technology for holding people accountable begins with the notion that it is expected behavior. Still, the manager needs to do this in a way that follows the Golden Rule. There is a fine art to holding people accountable and still maintaining trust with not only the employees in question but also their peers.
What techniques do you use to manage accountability without trashing trust?
My opinions on this subject are contained in the attached article. |
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Marketing Dashboard Best Practices
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| Over the past 10 years there has been a distinctive shift in Marketing activities; budgets are only being allocated to investments that can produce measurable returns, such as sales support and lead generation. In a time of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, repeatable controls, processes, and policy & procedures, have been implemented to ensure accountability. |
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The SECRET Truth Accountability Plays in Success
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| It is evident everywhere that the vast majority of the human population needs structured assistance with hitting the goals that are most important. For executives and entrepreneurs, there are always key activities that MUST be completed, and tasks that are of necessary (or vital) importance to the success of the company. Knowing that these important responsibilities must be addressed and resolved on a regular basis, the misconception is that we don’t need anyone to hold us accountable for these actions. |
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5 Temptations of a Leader
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| Leadership can be simple and also highly complex. Whilst it can be learnt it develops over time with application and making mistakes! |
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Want High Performance? Look In a Mirror!
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| The days of do what I say, not what I do, are dead. You and I better be walking our talk! This article was first published in Food & Drink Magazine in 2009. |
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The Impact of Culture by Choice, Not Chance!
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| You have a business culture. It simply exists. The question is, are you happy with the results your culture's achieving? If the answer's no, you have an opportunity! You can CREATE Culture actively and choicefully. Read more to find out how. This article was first published in 2009 in Food & Drink Magazine. |
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Leading Amateurs to Success: What Leaders Can Learn from Mt. Borah
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| If, as a leader, you have said, "I wish I heard more talented people our production would increase" or "The reason we fail is because we don't have experienced people" think twice.
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Make Your Story Add Value to Your Clients Bottom Line
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| The purpose of your story for a workplace audience is to improve the bottom line. Even in those employee appreciation programs where entertainment may seem the focus, there is an undeniable expectation of increased productivity after your story is heard. The question to ask yourself when using your story is: What is the point of the story and how does the story improve a client's bottom line? |
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Lesson #3: Build a Company of Owners
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| “It’s one thing to create a culture that works,” says Dell. “It’s another to use that culture to create a measurable strategic advantage. You need to engender a sense of personal investment in all your employees, which comes down to three things: responsibility, accountability, and shared success.” |
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Lesson #4: Develop a Strong Sense of Leadership
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| “The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun,” said Rockefeller. |
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Lesson #1: Psych Yourself Up Not Out
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| “I was raised with the notion that you can do pretty much anything you want,” says Omidyar. “I always kind of just went ahead and tried things.” |
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Lesson #4: Work Together
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| “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success,” said Ford. “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” |
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Transform Your Career With Peer Support
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| Peer support should be institutionalized in every company, but you don't need a corporate mandate to get started. Today, I want you to reach out and find one friend at work. |
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When You Say The Wrong Thing
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| Recently I hosted a dinner with a great group of friends and people I wanted to meet. One of my guests was a particularly good friend, a guy I care about and respect deeply. Until recently, this guy was a high profile CEO. But due to politics, he was let go - despite the fact that everyone knows he's a total superstar, both in his performance at that company and in every position prior. |
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Zip it!
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| Admit it: You like to gossip. Who doesn't? Gossip is popular for the same reason that shows like Desperate Housewives are hits. It's cheap entertainment that lets us escape into someone else's problems rather than confront our own. Gossip is often a form of schadenfreude - delighting in someone else's misfortune. |
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No One Is a Lost Cause
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| As you try to build stronger, more intimate relationships in your professional and personal life, you may come across some people who have a hard time trusting others. You may start to think they're "lost causes" - guarded, shut down, and not worthy of your efforts. |
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The 19Es of Excellence
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| Today's joyous commemoration of the birth of Dr Martin Luther King Jr and tomorrow's unique show of peaceful American renewal and celebration of limitless American possibility got me thinking about Excellence—no surprise. Out of which came these "19 Es of Excellence." |
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Give Your VCs Assignments
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| Over the weekend, Mark Suster wrote a great post titled How To Communicate with your Investors between Board Meetings. Mark continues to just tear it up with great advice for entrepreneurs. However, he left out one thing from the post – which is one of my favorite pieces of advice for entrepreneurs.
Give your venture capitalists (and board members) assignments
Mark alludes to this in many of his suggestions but he never comes out and says it. And, amazingly to me, many entrepreneurs either don’t ever think of this or don’t feel comfortable doing it. They should. |
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Start Your Own Guilt-Free Revolution
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| Did you set any New Year's resolutions? Did you spend January beating yourself up because they were the same resolutions / goals that were set last year or the year before, or the year before that? If you’ve broken your New Year’s resolution already, or forgotten about the goals you set, you’re not alone! Learn how to throw out the resolutions and forget about pie in the sky and start a Guilt-Free Goals Revolution. |
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Third Generation Leadership and Accountability
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| The bottom line in any organisation is performance. And performance demands accountability. The issue as we move from First Generation Leadership or Second Generation Leadership approaches to a Third Generation Leadership approach is not one of being accountable versus being unaccountable. This article looks at how it is possible to maintain personal accountability in a Third Generation Leadership organisation |
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Form A Personal Advisory Roundtable
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| Are you tired of trying to do life and work on your own? Are you looking for a way to gain a broad perspective about resolving sticky personal and business issues as well as to better capitalize on opportunities in your personal and work life? Read on and you'll gain some tips on how you can form a stellar personal advisory roundtable group that will help you avoid costly mistakes and make better decisions.
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Accountability for your Career
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| Being accountable to someone else is constraining. You can't just do anything you want. You must do it the manager's way and in the manager's time frame. After you’ve left a job being accountable to only yourself does feel freeing. But eventually reality sets in and you will need to figure out how to motivate yourself to take some steps forward.
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The Obama Grassroots Campaign - 7 Reasons Why Your Organization Can't Duplicate It
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| Seven reasons why your organization can't duplicate the fervor of Obama's grassroots campaign... |
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7 Tips for a Business Partnership That Works
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| The secrets to a successful and productive partnership are revealed in these 7 tips. A must read for new or existing partners. |
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Is Accountability Reluctance Hurting Your Solo Business?
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| Accountability is a concept with several meanings. It is often used synonymously with responsibility, answerability, blameworthiness, liability, and other terms associated with the expectation of account-giving. |
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Be Accountable When Managing Your Home Based Business
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| Being accountable in your home based business is a push in the right direction from someone who knows when you need it the most. Accountability is a necessity as is your ability to kick-start your business. |
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Multi-Rater 360-Degree Feedback - Employee Assessment & Performance Improvement
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| An exceedingly popular and powerful means for managers and employees to get information on their performance is the multi-rater 360-degree feedback instrument. Used independently, or as part of a management development program, multi-rater 360-degree feedback can enhance self-awareness by highlighting what supervisors, peers, subordinates, and customers see as an individual's strengths and development needs.
It is an exceptionally effective tool for change. No other organizational action strategy has more power for motivating employee behavior change than candid feedback from work associates. Multi-source assessment creates accountability and service to all stakeholders: supervisor, external and internal customers, including coworkers and direct reports. |
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Inspire, Lead, and Succeed with ACCOUNTABILITY - A Hidden Myth?
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| Accountability is a concept in ethics and governance with several meanings. It is not about blaming people, it is about teaching them and yourself to take on full responsibility for your actions to get the desired results. Being held accountable will help you not only to become a better leader but also a better person. |
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I Swear by Apollo: Being Accountable to Yourself in Leadership
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| One of the key leadership competencies is holding others accountable. But a leader cannot expect to hold others accountable successfully if he is not holding himself accountable first. |
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Being Accountable to Yourself in Leadership (Part II)
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| 8 tips for practicing accountability in leadership. |
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5 Steps to Creating a Successful Workplace
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| A successful workplace that fosters productivity and the growth of its employees is accomplished by implementing five fundamental elements: goal setting, rewards, balance, accountability and feedback. While each element can be implemented on its own, administering all elements as a complete program or initiative in the workplace will work towards producing the desired results that are sought after by managers and executives. |
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9 Steps to Get Managers to Think Like Owners
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| Management coaching, management training, team alignment, thinking like owners, facing reality, define vision, accountability, delegation, systems, financial stewards, focus |
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Next Steps In Your Accountability Partnership
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| After you've successfully worked with a partner for a while, you may be wondering what options you have for furthering your relationship. I've created this list of some of my favorite next steps.
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Accountability Partnerships Series Conclusion
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| Creating an accountability partnership not only gives you the opportunity to get help in the areas you need support, it also lets you apply your knowledge and wisdom to someone else's business, helping them reach new levels of success. You may find you like coaching others and may therefore add this skill as a revenue stream in your business. Many an online coach started by helping just one other person, and then leveraged that experience into a profitable income stream. Don't be surprised if that happens to you!
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The Value of an Accountability Coach
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| It is estimated that up to ninety percent of our behavior is habitual. That means that up to ninety percent of what you do, you do the same day in and day out - often without conscious thought. This may not seem like a concern, until you consider what percentage of your behavior is sabotaging your success. While you may be aware of some of your bad habits, it takes the guidance of an accountability coach to identify and bring awareness to all of the habits that are confining you to your current reality. Wouldn't it be great if our 'good intentions' worked the way that we think they should? There's often a wide gap between our intentions and our actions. Poor follow through is a fact of life for many of us. It not only threatens our health, but it also prevents us from achieving personal and career goals that are well within our reach. |
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Leadership in Business and Personal Growth
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| With leadership in business and n life comes accountability and the need for integrity. Leadership is more a way of life than a title. With accepting the resonsibility of leadership comes the positive impact [ot otherwise] that your decisions will have upon your people |
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Values
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| Values and Lack of Accountability |
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An Accountability Secret Proven to Produce RESULTS
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| Today, I have a terrific accountability practice to share: The Daily Huddle. |
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How to transform performance
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| Can the performance of any individual or person be transformed? In almost every case: “yes”. But it requires a different type of leadership from that which we normally encounter. |
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How Can Anyone Spend That Much Time on Sales Coaching?
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| If you aren't the low price leader or one of the two or three best-known brands in your industry, and if buying from you does NOT represent the safe choice for your customers, then you are an underdog. And if you are an underdog, you had better be providing comprehensive sales and sales management training and coaching because you can't compete on price or reputation. |
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The Power of Support
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| It may sound like a paradox - being ‘in need’ of support to claim your own life or ‘leaning on’ others in order to stand on one’s own - and life is about paradoxes. What I observe and have experienced is that opening to the support that is there for us allows us to move forward with an ease and grace that might not have been present otherwise. The foundation of life is all about love. |
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How to Achieve Consistency on the Sales Force
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| I have always believed that in sales, the three most important attributes (not skills) are the willingness to do what it takes to succeed (commitment) the passion for being the best (desire), and the discipline to repeat the required behaviors and activities (consistency). |
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Taking a “Processing” Break
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| What do I mean by processing? Evaluating, judging, blaming, comparing, worrying, 'trying hard' to think one's way out of a problem, analyzing, getting caught up in the why’s - all are ways that, as humans, we can process with our minds. |
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Sales Leadership - A Balancing Act Between Compliance and Quotas
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| We'll discuss the balance sales leaders must have between sharing, mandating and asking. Sounds simple. |
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18 Business Trends for Your Sales Force
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| My guests were Mark Berezow, Gary Harvey and Rocky LaGrone. Before they handled one caller's sales force challenges (excellent stuff) , they commented on the state of business out there right now.
They see:
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Your Salespeople Can't Even Do That?
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| Salespeople, struggling with sales 101 type issues, don't let anyone know for fear that they would be perceived as inept, which, it turns out they are. |
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Controlling Chaos During Expansion
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| Chaos, confusion and catastrophe are what Michael Gerber of Entrepreneur Magazine calls “The Three C’s of Business Failure.” It is not uncommon for a small business to be plagued with chaos. The best advice is to take control before chaos becomes habit. “Most small businesses are a hopeless mess,” Gerber says. Disorganization and confusion are irritating, but worst of all, they cost your business money. Chaos eats away at productivity and, ultimately, profits. How can you steer your business clear of chaos? |
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Premier Internet Marketing Education - 10 Tips On How To Find The Best Internet Education
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| Where do you go to get the internet marketing education that will truly make the difference in how you approach the marketing of your business, or perhaps your job (if you're responsible for directing the marketing tactics for a brand)? Learning how to leverage the internet, is the most prized skill set you can capture in today's job environment. But, where do you go to get the education you want? What should you be asking before you decide if this is the place where you can really learn to become an Internet Marketer (or for some, A Master Internet Millionaire Marketer)?
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Accountability Factor for Clients and others
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| Have clients be accountable would be a heven sent for many salespeople, here is how you can make it happen for you. |
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2nd of the Top 10 Kurlan Sales Management Functions
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| This is the 2nd in the series of the 10 Kurlan Sales Management Functions.
#1 - ACCOUNTABILITY
In its simplest form, sales accountability consists of the following:
* Holding salespeople accountable to something measurable - metrics - on a daily basis
* Being more demanding - being firmer and tougher
* Eliminating Excuse Making - people take responsibility for their results
More... |
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5th of the Top 10 Kurlan Sales Management Functions
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| This is the 5th in my series of the 10 Kurlan Sales Management Functions.
#5 - DEVELOPMENT
Development is the ongoing development of your salespeople. It includes - and goes beyond: |
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What Are The Career Opportunities In The NGO Sector?
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| Forget those age old days where people were neither serious nor willing to peruse a career in an NGO (non-governmental organization) sector. They planned to work with an NGO only after their retirement and hence it never became a good career ground for them. However, with increased professionalism, ample growth opportunities, and a challenging career ahead, there has been a quantum change in the thought process of young aspirants who today foresees the NGO sector as a great hotspot for future career aspirations. Moreover, with so much industrialization and developments happening everyday, this sector also needs future leaders who have a vision and a mission to serve the society and fight for its justice. |
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Relationship Selling, So What Is A Relationship
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| Six key points to create strong bsiness relationships that drive sales and business. |
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Is Your Virtual Assistant Letting You Down: Sound Business Advice for Women Entrepreneurs
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| Hiring a virtual assistant or VA is like any relationship and nobody likes to be disappointed, especially when you’re investing in someone who is supposed to make your life easier. Don’t be afraid to expect the best. Here are three respectful, yet powerful tips on how you can nip an assistant problem in the bud, without losing sleep or feeling like you’ve suddenly turned into a raging diva. |
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Bench Strength and a Hard Driving Sales Force
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| He also spoke at length about the right way for companies to use value to decommoditize their products and services. Bill elaborated about the difference between real selling and demonstrating and presenting.
His 5 tips for owners, presidents, and CEO's? He said that things really aren't terribly different other than money being tighter. So he said: |
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Your Truth and Accountability is Helping Our Planet!
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| Everything we do either has a positive or negative effect on our world. And, now even more, our world needs our help! It’s time to really step it up. It’s encouraging to know that my own daily actions can help our world. Taking accountability is a representation of “truth” and “right action” which impacts the frequency of the collective consciousness and our own personal empowerment.
Everyday occurrences, even being aware and accountable for the small occurrences makes a difference. There have been times that we may have made excuses in our mind, told small white lies or pretended we were not responsible for something by making someone else accountable.
The planet is correcting itself now, and needs our help. As you have noticed, anything that is not set with a foundation of truth, honesty, kindness and oneness is coming up to the s |
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Crank it Up With Performance Evaluations
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| People need feedback! You hurt your people and yourself with inconsistent or non existent performance evaluations, they are worthy of the effort! Learn why performance evaluations are necessary and how to leverage them to improve overall results! Learn more, read on... |
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Golf and Sales
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| People see the world as they need to, not as it is.... |
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Managing Unrealistic Employee Expectations for Rapid Promotion
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| Some employees are "home run hitters"—hell-bent on getting to the top as quickly as possible. They want to knock the ball out of the park even before they’ve mastered base hits. To preserve their commitment and motivation these employees need a clearly defined development plan! |
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Leadership Accountability
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| When a person is hired or promoted to a management position, where people are required to report directly to them, inherent in that action is accountability for those employee's performance and productivity. This often comes as a surprise or shock to a manager when they receive their first performance review and it is less than satisfactory. A sales person is solely responsible for himself or herself and the work they perform. Once promoted to management this accountability for what others may or may not accomplish is new territory for them.
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The Characteristics Of High Performing Teams
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| I’d like to share my views on how teams succeed…
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Overcoming the Dysfunction in Sales Organizations
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| These days, many companies have questions about compensation for salespeople and sales leaders and as a result they make a lot of mistakes too. Why would a company want to squash a top producer because he/she is making a lot of money? It happened to Rocky once and he weighed in - with a strong opinion - on the subject. |
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Internet Marketing Specialist Can Help Your Business Grow
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| Whether you're just getting started or you're already extremely successful, you can always be MORE successful with an Internet marketing specialist to guide you. That's why Tamin Web Host have specialist to help you with your business needs.
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5 Key Things To Look For In A Sponsor
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| Ok, so you did massive research about the company you currently partnered up with - right? How much of a research did you do? So often when new recruits join up with a company, they are not at all too sure what the company is all about, what the products are and what it is they should be doing to promote the company / resources or services. They merely see dollar signs in front of them. Take time out to look at the person who you are signing up with. How competent are they as a mentor and upline sponsor. |
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Discipline, Opportunity Management & Value Propositions
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| Time again to take a look in the mirror and pick a few items to get really good at executing over the next twelve months. (Seems like maybe I've seen a few of these before!) |
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BEING THE BEST MEANS CREATING A SELF MANAGING CULTURE
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| Self Management is the #1 Competency of Successful cultures and of successful people. Take a look at any top performers or top companies and the clues to their success are evident.
They make and keep commitments, are self driven, and focus on the value the bring to those they serve and those they work with. Managers coach through meaningful conversations and walk their talk.
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Recession Proofing Your Sales Force
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| As the leader of your organization, the next 6 months will prove to be more pressure-filled then you may have experienced in years. With decreasing prospects and the cost of doing business increasing, a squeeze on profits is inevitable.
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Leadership Tips for the Manager Who is Too Tough
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| Hard-nosed, high achieving managers tend to work long hours, do the work his or her team is supposed to do, be overly critical of others and not keep everyone informed. Despite this and perhaps to some degree because of it, they get great results in the short term. Unfortunately, this type of manager is often disappointed when the team is unable to achieve the desired results. The organization loses because talented subordinates may get burned out and leave or never get the development they need to become future leaders in their own right.
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Leadership Tips to Create Greater Accountability in Your Organization
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| Accountability becomes mission-critical in challenging times. We need everyone in our organization to take ownership of results and make things happen. Creating an environment of accountability rests with management. Based on our 22 years of experience in organizational development and leadership training, we have discovered that managers systematically remove accountability. As a result the manager themselves ends up shouldering all the responsibility and stress. Here are some practical ideas to create greater accountability in your organization. |
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A Mentor Is Important, But A Coach Is Invaluable
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| Both terms, mentor and coach, are used interchangeably, designating leadership in guiding others to excellence. But there is an important distinction between the two terms. A mentor lays the foundation for success to their student or client. A mentor gives advice and answers questions but rarely, if ever, follows up to check on the progress of their client. A mentor sees the people they help as clients, while a coach sees them as students with the goal of turning them into either partners or coaches themselves. While mentors have helped millions of entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground, coaches inject themselves into the process and guide the entrepreneur from business start-up to profit. Mentors generally take a hands-off approach while coaches are definitely hands-on. |
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How Just One AMP Can Increase Sales
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| Sales! Must have more sales! Sales! Where can I find new customers? Sales! I am just one person! If you have had any of these thoughts, you may find this article of interest |
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Why Most Sales Training Doesn't Work
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| If you invest in sales training, especially now, you also need it to work now, not in 12 months. Why does it take so long for most sales training to make a difference and why does most sales training fail to make the difference you expect? There are a lot of possible reasons and I'll attempt to explain them here. |
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Refill and Have Fun
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| It is a little known fact that fun is one of the secrets to sustainable success! The ability to have fun in every situation enables you to be more successful and more relaxed whether it is at home or at work. Oh sure, I can hear what you’re thinking. It’s the same words that come out of the mouths of my clients. Things like, “I couldn’t have fun at work, it would be unprofessional”, or “If I’m having fun I’m not being the best _____ (fill in the blank: spouse / executive / business owner / mother) I should be and I feel guilty about that”, and my favorite “I’m so busy, I don’t have TIME for fun”.
Well, here are three reasons why I believe you must make time for fun and why it’s NOT a luxury item:
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Real Estate Marketing Strategies - How You Can End The Habit Of Procrastination For Good
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| Have you been struggling with getting more clients, but have trouble picking up the phone? This article gives you tools to set manageable goals. |
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Real Estate Marketing Strategies - Seven Simple Steps to More Clients in 90 Days
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| Are you letting your dislike of marketing get in the way of your business? Focus on your goal! Here are some tips to empower you and help you attract more clients. |
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How To Set Goals
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| 10 Tips On How To Set Goals & How To Achieve Goals. |
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Self Esteem Manager
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| Managing by setting setting standards for activity and productivity is great. Managing by creating an environment that supports growth in self-esteem is better. Holding people accountable, catching people right away doing things right, telling them how great they are until they believe it, and making fewer promises and keeping all them is all it takes. Simple, and certainly not easy. |
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The Key to Extraordinary Leadership
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| What makes an extraordinary leader? What qualities do powerful leaders have that inspire others and help them achieve a new level of excellence? Anthony Robbins: "Leaders are those individuals who live by empowering beliefs and teach others to tap into their full capabilities by shifting the beliefs that have been limiting them." The most significant obstacle to tapping into your own authentic leadership abilites is what you believe about yourself and everyone around you culminating in an on-going story about how things are and how you are.Extraordinary levels of leadership are only made possible by understanding the true power of belief. |
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Business Coaching: 3 Key Questions To Enhance Accountability
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| It is essential that when setting up accountability you cover these 3 simple, yet powerful questions:
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Differences Between Psychotherapy and Professional Coaching
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| Coaching: Views both parties as naturally creative, resourceful and whole. Does not diagnose or treat.
Therapy: More apt to view the clients from a medical model. Diagnoses and treats. |
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My Sales Force Needs a Make Over
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| One reader emailed that he just inherited a radio station in Honduras, has never sold before, and he and his salespeople aren't able to book appointments.
Another reader is the Sales Director for several well-known magazines and said that her top producing team is down 50% from last year.
Yet another reader wrote and wanted to know how to chop her 2-3 year sales cycle down to 2-3 months.
And one President fired all of his salespeople, is back on the road selling and wonders what he can do to thrive.
What do all four of these scenarios have in common? |
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Successful Goal Setting
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| Setting goals puts you in the driver’s seat, giving you the power to transform your life or take a company to another level. Successfully setting and executing goals is not rocket science but there is a tried and true way that works for my clients and me. Sticking to this program guarantee’s success. It doesn’t matter whether your goals are personal or they are used to direct a large enterprise, the steps and the pitfalls are identical. I’ll take you through a quick tour. If you like, you can identify a goal of yours and do a test run of the system. The steps to executing goals are simple, unambiguous and easy to follow and should be practiced every day. Skipping one step increases the odds that you wion’t realize your goal. |
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What Are You For?
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| Resist. Resist. Resist. That seems to be the congressional model these days. Whatever one party is for, the other is against. Before an idea makes it to the blogosphere, opposing party political pundits are railing against whatever approach or bill or stance was taken.
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Spending Training Dollars Wisely - Management Leadership Training
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| How to spending your training dollars wisely. Management Leadership Training. |
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Who Cares?
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| People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. This applies to employees, children, students, a volunteer committee – whoever sees you as a leader. Caring meets one of six fundamental human needs, that when fulfilled, are teams can achieve Passionate Performance.
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Coaching: 6 Steps to Amazing Success
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| Coaching is a brain thing. Once you master how to talk with others you can master getting them to take action. This gives you mega tons of power. So, use the following advice carefully; you can use to manipulate or you can use to help others become the best they can be.
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Why an Integrated Financial Accounts?
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| I've often heard that retailers want different system for inventory control and financial accounts.
They always says that it confuses our accountants and pos operators. Secondly, people who are not designated to view such data can access because it is integrated. |
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How to Shift From Fat & Nice to Lean & Mean to Increase Sales
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| Have you ever considered that maybe one of the reasons for your less that stellar sales is because you are just too fat and nice? Read how by being lazy to not having enforced accountability, you may be your own worst enemy. |
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How to Explain your Accountabilities in your Resume
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| It's not what you say, it's how you say it that matters. Many outstanding candidates fail to get interviews because they are unable to articulate their accountabilities clearly in a way that engages the reader. This article provides some guidelines and hints to help you express your accountabilities in the various jobs you have had in a way that grabs attention and convinces recruiters and hiring managers of the value you can add. |
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Experts Provide Sales Management Help for 2009
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| A number of experts including, Jill Konrath, Leslie Buterin, Joanne Black, Andy Miller, Danita Bye, Glen Ebersole, Bill Guertin, Alan Rigg, Gregory Stebbins, Jonathan Farrington, and I helped Lee Salz complete his article, Sales Management Speaks Out on Sales Focus Strategy.
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Making the Case for Change
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| People are often afraid of change and shifting the status quo. This article covers why you may be afraid of change and what you can do about it |
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Real Estate Marketing Strategies: What is the Difference between Accountability Coaching and Mindset Coaching?
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| Have you tried business coaching and found it ineffective? Maybe you need to consider the different types of coaching and find the right type for you. |
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Selling in the Recession
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| It's been advertised. It's all the media wants to talk about. It's had an impact on the company you run or work for. Your customers and clients have been affected. Your home and investments have lost value. The recession is here, in full force, and there isn't a single sign that it's going to improve soon. So what must you do to not only survive this down-turn, but thrive in it as well? Here are my top 10: |
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Self Managing Teams: what do they want if they don't want managing?
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| If a team is meant to be managing itself, what is there left for the leadership to do? |
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Build Your Home Business With The Right Paperwork
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| It is important to build your home business with the right paperwork. This includes both a business license and insurance paperwork. In order for a business to operate, a business license should be incorporated into the organization. |
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Ultimatums for the Sales Force - Do They Work?
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| Suppose you deliver an ultimatum to a salesperson...
Suppose you deliver it to the entire sales force...
How would you expect them to react?
One more thing about ultimatums - they don't work. UNLESS:
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Responsibility
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| Responsibility Yields Success! |
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So You Were Wrong
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| I once worked for a boss who was never wrong, never made a mistake or a bad decision. All you had to do was ask him. To his staff he was Teflon-man. Nothing stuck to him and everything came sliding toward us.
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An Easy Way To Get A Job Payrise…
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| LSC's previous survey has shown that employees can increase their salary by $4,000 to $6,000 per year by getting the right training. |
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Your Invitation to Greatness: The Top 10 Traits of a Leader that Instills Trust and Accountability
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| Are great leaders born or made?
That is a question that has been plaguing people from the beginning of time. It is the issue discussed in books such as “From Good to Great” and “Winning.”
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Feet in the Fire or Feet on Fire?
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| The missing secrets to making your corporate culture come alive! |
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Which are you, the Ant or the Grasshopper?
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| Do you live with the Pain of Regret or the Pain of Discipline? |
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Can a garden produce top fruit if it is never weeded?
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| There is an eerie phenomenon going on in our society. It is starting at a tender age and creeping into the business world as well. If left alone, it will eventually lead us to mediocrity. |
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Can you have high accountability if you don't have consequences?
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| "What should I do if the leaders in the company whom I need to make the decision come in late to the meeting?" |
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Government Could Use Some Sales Training
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| Government officials need to spend some time in the profession of sales and learn basic Sales 101 skills when it comes to satisfying the customer. Here are 5 sales lessons the government would benefit from in this difficult time.
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Hiring New Team Members
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| Quick hiring, convenient hiring or insider hiring rarely works. There is reverse proportion between the timing of the hire and the quality of the hire. The quicker the hiring decision, the more likely the decision will be a poor decision. The more convenient the candidate (i.e. Bob in accountings’ sister in law) the more likely it will haunt you for a long period of time.
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Connect the Dots
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| 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. |
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The overuse of "people" as competitive advantage
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| A short piece focusing on having the right systems in place to effectively manage your talent, and thereby provide competitive advantage, rather than constantly focusing solely on the recruitment of individual talent alone. |
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Is your Organization Healthy
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| A healthy organization is highly functional and programmed for growth; recognized by its’ ability to quickly translate important strategic and operational decisions into action.
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CANADA IS A COUNTRY OF MEDIOCRITY
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| Having been closely watching the American presidential race with a great deal of interest, and have to say being fascinated even enthralled by a number of the speeches, I recalled having read an article in the newspaper last year quoting a study or report that concluded Canada was a “country of mediocrity.” It stated that we are not particularly innovative, creative or willing to step up and take risks to move our society forward and become more of a leader in the world.
Just what is really being talked about here? |
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The Question of Accountability
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| Human Capital is the only asset that has the potential to appreciate in value whereas most assets depreciate over time. There two key groups that impact the value of your people and both must be business savvy in order to understand how to leverage this asset for the best results possible. They are Managers and Human Resource Professionals. |
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How Does Fitness Impacts My Business?
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| If you're not fit, neither is your business! Business owners tend to become all-consumed in their business, allowing their physical fitness fall to the bottom of their priority list. While a common occurrence, this habit may sabotage the success of your business - and your health. Being an entrepreneur takes lots of energy, more than many other careers, and being healthy and physically fit is vital to maintaining the valuable source of energy you need to keep up with your business.
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Effective Branding for Increased Success
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| Business branding isn't a complicated process, but the success of your business branding relies on the relevance, quality and consistency of its design.
Most business owners fall short when branding their business because they try to overcomplicate the process. However, if you follow the basics of business branding and resist the temptation to lose the focus of the message, you should be well on your way towards creating an effective brand.
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Create Your Personal Brand with 4 Great Ideas
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| Creating your personal brand will allow you to unearth high revenue opportunities and other professional/social advantages. Fortunately, building a personal brand is easier than ever thanks to all of the valuable resources available. Just follow certain keys to creating a personal brand and you'll set yourself up for success. Let's review 4 Ideas for Creating your Personal Brand.
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4 Important Reasons to Brand Your Business
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| Business branding is an imperative part of creating and growing a successful business. Understanding how to brand your business effectively is just as important as providing top quality client service or pricing your products and services appropriately. Let's review the Top 4 Reasons to Brand Your Business. |
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Write an Effective Business Plan in 3 Easy Steps
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| The key is to create not just another business plan, but an effective business plan that inspires you, and others, to take action. Traditional business plans can be very dry and uninteresting, so you are about to learn how to create an effective business plan that not only gets you excited, it will inspire you, and others, to take action. |
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Key Business Plan Success Essentials
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| Does your business plan have holes? Many aspects of a business plan are overlooked and that can lead to professional disaster. Let's review the four essentials of successful business planning. |
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Build Business with Accountability
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| Learning how to use accountability to build success for your business is an effective way to build a better business. Regardless of the money invested or personal passion for the business, if you don't hold yourself accountable for the success of your business, there's only a slim chance you will ever reach the level of success you have in mind. How does accountability make a positive impact on the success of your business? Take a look at the four top distinguishing factors of business owners who use accountability to get results.
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What are the Benefits Of Hiring an Accountability Coach?
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| Many entrepreneurs have a difficult time managing their time efficiently, unknowingly sabotaging their own success. They often spend months, even years, struggling to discern between the low-priority and high-impact tasks, and where their efforts drive the biggest results. Unfortunately, this type of unawareness can lead to a failed business. How do you prevent self-sabotage of your business? Hire an accountability coach! |
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If Everyday Women Can Become Empowered Entrepreneurs - So Can You!
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| Here are three stories about everyday women who became empowered entrepreneurs by letting their desires pull them to greater achievements. These women weren't extraordinary in the common definition, but they allowed their desire to pull them into the unknown. They did not let their fear pull them back; they just continued walking their own path - even against the critics.
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4 Reasons Women Entrepreneurs Thrive
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| Ideals surrounding traditional careers are changing, if not completely dissolving. Today, women are taking control of their destiny and financial wealth by becoming entrepreneurs. With the focus shifting from Corporate America to Entrepreneur America, it is projected that small businesses will lift the U.S. out of the current recession into a new economy supported by entrepreneurs - not corporations. Let's talk about 4 Reasons Women Entrepreneurs will Thrive in the New Economy.
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Team Performance and Emotional Intelligence: Emotional Intelligence Training
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| Team Performance and Emotional Intelligence: Emotional Intelligence Training. |
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Wholehearted performance checklist
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| "The antidote to exhaustion is not rest; the antidote to exhaustion is ...
... wholeheartedness"
- David Whyte
We perform at our finest when we are wholly engaged. Whether we are working or playing tennis, we achieve our best (with least effort) when we are fully focused on what we are doing, when we enjoy the task in hand without stress.
Yet this engagement can often be missing. For example, our tendency to constantly evaluate ourselves may get in the way. So does our fear of "getting it wrong". For many successful professionals, boredom can be a big distraction)
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What Can a Trip to Italy Teach You About Managing Your Salespeople?
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| Fun, entertaining story with 21 lessons for managing salespeople. |
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How Corporate Culture Drives Engagement and Accountability
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| Corporate culture is critical to an organization’s success. However, when I ask my clients to describe their culture their description is often very fuzzy. |
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All the Truth about Business Coaching
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| Demand for Business Coaching has been soaring in the last few years. Hundreds of entrepreneurs and executives of large corporations contract business coaches with the objective to reach higher levels of business performance. This article provides details about the Business Coaching methodology, areas of application and guidelines to select the best coach. |
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What Will Ensure That This Year Is Different?
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| Ya know, last year wasn't so bad. But, I'm a girl who has big dreams. Faster than I'm crossing things off the list, I'm adding more desires. I want it all and it's fun to see how things unfold for myself. |
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Coaching Action Plan for Sales Managers
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| Have your people set specific goals and connect with them regularly to maintain accountability.
Always leave people with action steps, goals and deliverables. |
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6 Steps To Ignite Your Money Making
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| Learn how to increase your income and be savvy with managing money! |
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The Letter of Understanding
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| Owners and managers should have your sales people begin using the letter of understanding and you will see how well and deep they are approaching the sales discovery process. It serves as accountability for how well the sales person is discovering needs, offers concrete data to coach with and manages expectations with prospects. |
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Something about Mary…
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| …and the effects of positive leadership |
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Put Your Money Where Your Metrics Are
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| The author discusses how to Link Customer Experience to Employee Evaluation, Rewards & Recognition Within A Culture of Accountability. |
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The Leader As Coach
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| With the changing demographics of the workforce - retirement of the Boomers and entry of Gen Y - as well as the prevalence of distributed work teams, there is a growing trend for managers to take more of a coach-like approach to leading their teams, especially when those teams are made up of knowledge workers. This article looks at how coaching is different from traditional management and identifies three crucial skills for effective coaching in the workplace. |
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Avoid These Two Types of Distractions
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| Distractions impact your success to some degree. If you give your market less attention, then that market will shrivel up. Ignoring the wishes of your clients will definitely affect your profit margins. |
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How Accountability Plays Into Your Success
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| The most successful entrepreneurs and executives have accountability, and it's by no coincidence that accountability leads to success - directly or indirectly! |
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The difference between a "reason" and an "excuse"
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| There's a million and one reasons for failure in the restaurant, or any other, business. I've heard them all, I just don't believe them all. Find out how taking accountability for your role in preventing problems in your restaurant can create the accountability necessary to compete with the chains, or to create a successful franchise of your own, by reading this article. |
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Q: How can I make my employees accountable?
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| Accountability, the "A" word. Many employee issues find their root in accountability, or more specifically, the lack of accountability. Here's an overview on working with your staff to create accountability. |
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Making it Work!
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| What will happen when you start to make things work in your life? Would you like to join me and start “making it work” in 2008? |
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The Value of Feedback
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| What do you think about feedback? Do you recognize your staff and acknowledge others for what they do well on a regular basis? Do you use feedback as a positive tool to grow your business or do you avoid it at all costs? |
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What’s Complaining Really About?
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| What I have noticed is that many of us confuse being responsible with feeling accountable. How do we do that? Let’s begin with clarifying the distinction between both qualities. |
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Accountability, An Essential Element for High Performance
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| I recently learned a new method for making myself and others more accountable. It is called behavioural contracting and was taught to me by Bob Davies, a trainer and coach based in the U.S. I tried his method and found it highly effective. To make this work you need to have someone, a coach or friend to work with you to form a behavioural contract. Take a look at your one key goal you set for yourself this year, or set one now. My experience is that if we set and focus on one wildly important goal and take action towards achieving it, other areas of our lives or business improve as well. |
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Thriving on the challenges of change
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| How to engage and retain your best employees in difficult times
The fallout from the financial crisis has been loss of face, wealth, homes, jobs, and/or businesses for many people.
What disturbs me is that the financial crisis is not the root problem, the attitudes that caused it are. Greed, lack of accountability, stupid business practices, and poor legislation in some countries are no longer acceptable. In my view they never were.
People engagement is one way to create the appropriate attitudes. |
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The Toxic Manager
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| Most managers are not comfortable with a simple truism that the current condition of any organization is direct reflection of leadership. In other words, managers are accountable for the current success or failure of the team. This epiphany is a rude awakening for some and a sad reality for others. The challenge faced by most aspiring leaders is the brutal accountability that accompanies autonomy. In other words, team performance is directly related to "who" is on the team and "how" they are managed. The wrong people certainly influence performance and this quantification of talent is the primary measure of success and failure. |
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5 Reasons Why You Want to Develop an Action Plan
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| An action plan will help you get more done with the resources you have. Here you'll find 5 good reason why you want to one. |
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Aided Accountability
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| Successful entrepreneurs create and invent - and then they fulfill. They fulfill by saying what they are going to do, and then doing it! Making promises to others or yourself, and then keeping them, is what this article is about. Sounds simple. You and I know it isn't! |
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Defining Belief
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| Psychology, as well as other practices relating to human mentality, has long held that belief is the most basic form of conscious thought. The issue of whether belief is actually a mental state remains the subject of debate. Nevertheless, in psychology, before a subject can learn any new information, the belief system must first be addressed. This allows the "proposition", or the object of the belief, to be learned.
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Do You Pass The Leadership Test?
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| The quality of performance in any organization is a direct reflection of the quality of leadership. The quality of morale, loyalty, retention, relationships, and business performance is directly related to how individual team members respond to the following questions: |
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How to Develop a Commitment to Teamwork
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| To be most effective teamwork needs to be embraced in principle and in practice through mutual support, encouragement and accountability, believing that by working together as a team and sharing knowledge, the organization can achieve much greater results than by working as individuals. |
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7 Reasons Why People Procrastinate
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| Learn reasons why procrastination might be a problem for your business and life success. |
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Action and Speed Creates Results
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| Taking action with speed sets successful entrepreneurs apart from those that dawdle, and therefore stay in mediocrity. Small business owners and entrepreneurs have the edge in this regard. They can take action with speed, because they, unlike many larger organisations, can decide quickly and then move forward... |
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Three Habits Of Successful People I Know
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| Lately, I’ve met and heard from a lot of people that are really excited about rebounding their business and personal lives in 2011. I honestly don’t recall seeing this much enthusiasm in awhile. I think I’ve got goose-bumps! |
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More To Walking The Talk
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| 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.” |
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Get In The "Effectiveness" Groove
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| 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.
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Resilience, Resilience, Resilience
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| This article gives an overview of the importance of resilience, and how to develop it. For coaches, it suggests ways to help clients develop resilience. |
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Time For Your Check-Up!
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| If you care about your health, most likely you see your physician for a check-up, at least once per year. As your coach (well, at least through my writings), I’d like to complete a goal check-up with you today. If you are like most business owners, you set some sort of 2011 goals for your business, either in late 2010 or in January of 2011. Unfortunately, if you are like most, you also haven’t paid attention to those goals much. |
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Fire-Up Your Employees
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| Do your employees need a boost of energy? Are they lacking motivation or inspiration? Could they use some fire underneath them? Sometimes motivational words just won’t cut it. Employees are looking for much more. Investing in the good ones can go a long way, today and in the future. If you can truly energize employees, they will drink the company kool-aid and your bottom line will be better off for it.
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Recruit and Hire the Right People for Success
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| Your people are, without a doubt, your greatest asset. As Jim Collins so eloquently put it in his book, titled Good to Great….”To be successful you have to get the right people on the bus with you”….and as I like to say, you need to be the person with the steering wheel in your hands.Most small businesses get in the habit of hiring people when they need them TOMORROW, rather than recruiting people all the time and having a pool of ready to go prospects... |
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What Coaching Is
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| Last week I introduced you to coaching and started to outline for you what coaches do and how coaching works. I explained that coaching is an intangible service, that it’s future driven, how important the relationship is between a coach and client, why passion is required from both of them, and how educational coaching can be. Today, I am going to continue with more of what coaching is: |
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Are You Ready For Coaching
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| If and when you are considering whether or not to hire a coach, you are actually deciding if you are ready to embark on a grand adventure. Coaching is not for everyone and even highly coachable people have times in their lives when coaching may not be what they really want or need. Here are a few important questions I ask prospective clients to ask themselves before making a decision: |
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Get The Most Out Of Coaching
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| The past four weeks, I have outlined for readers what I believe Business & Life Coaching is and isn’t, and also challenged you by asking if you’re ready for coaching. Today, we complete this series by assuming you are ready. So, here we go!
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Three “A’s” to Total Success
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| While personally I don’t see our economy changing much at all this year, any of you who read my column on a regular basis know how I feel about the economy helping us with our business lives.
If you wait for the economy to help your business, chances are your business won’t be around; if and when the economy rebounds. So what can and should you do? Adopting these three habits will get you off to a strong start toward changing your business and your life: |
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Strategic Commitments To Build Trust With Clients According to Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
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| Today many small business owners are accountable only to themselves. And guess what? That means they are really accountable to no one. Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach strongly believes that accountability is a non-negotiable business and personal trait. We look around today at what is happening in the workplace and observe one example after another where no one is stepping up to be accountable and where no one is being held accountable for their actions. Whatever happened to accountability? How can an individual or a business be trusted if there is no accountability? Who will be a leader ad take responsibility when things go awry and corrective actions must be taken? Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach suggests that there are ten (10) strategic commitments to make to build trust with your clients through accountability. |
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Succession Planning - 3 Brilliant Benefits For Managers
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| Succession planning in your business is an easy enough project to start up. It creates excellent employees who are ready for the step up when you need it and not when you get caught short. Which will make a big difference to your business. Here's why... |
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Next Steps to Success
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| What happens when progress slows right down - and nothing happens between you and your team? There is a stifling stench of paralysis. It's time to ensure you have next steps in place. Read on for more... |
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Delegation for Business Leaders - How Letting Go Works
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| # To create the time for the specific role of a leader, as much as possible of the day to day delivery must be handed over. This level of delegation is very important, not only to create the space for the leader to develop visions and longer terms strategic goals, but also in encouragement of key individuals who will both be challenged by new activities, but will also be developed for the future benefit of the organisation. |
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It's Nobody's Fault
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| It's not so much blame as responsibility. Most people are reluctant to step up. Strategy is management's responsibility. |
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How to Deal with Competition in Coaching
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| Competition is everywhere! What are you doing to insure you "stand out" among the vast number of coaches in today's world? Learn how to show potential clients you are unique and the best choice to meet their coaching needs. |
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6 Critical Organizational Success Factors for Embracing Volatility
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| 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. |
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Leadership Insight: A Culture of Tattling
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| When we were all five years old, we couldn’t wait to tell on someone. Our job as little kids was to make sure than someone was held accountable for their buffoonery and with a little luck, it made us look good along the way.
Unfortunately, that same behavior at age five can become pervasive and very destructive in the modern working environment. Team members telling on each other. Supervisors and leaders that validate the behavior. The creation of a culture of tattling.
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Recommendations for future research - Factors Impeding the Poverty Reduction Capacity of Micro-credit: Some Field Observations from Malawi and Ethiopia
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| In light of the conclusions drawn above, there is a need for further policy and action oriented
research and in-depth investigation. First and foremost, there is a need for extensive empirical
evidence to verify and ascertain the capabilities of micro-credit in reducing the depth and scope
of poverty. |
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Creating Effective Capacity Building Relationships
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| MicroStart's use of TSPs is an experiment in creating a new framework for capacity building. The original design sprang from the recognition that the standard CTA model in use throughout UNDP projects was not the best way to support the development of microfinance institutions. |
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IV. Principle II: Prioritize Local Knowledge and Participatory Planning
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| Key Principles for an African Model of Microfinance |
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The F Word: How To Make Facilitation Facile Again for Executives & Their Teams
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| Do we really know how to engage people in a committed way to get results effortlessly? Or do we know more about how to get compliance.
Check out these insights and you will soon be on your way to understanding the truth of group dynamics |
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Technology Innovations at Grameen Foundation USA
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| How will easy, affordable and reliable access for a person in a remote village be provided? When will this person have the ability to make a simple one-minute call, send a complaint to the local government, or make a loan payment without undo cost or travel difficulty? The microfinance industry is answering these questions with technological innovations. |
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Lessons Learned
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| The privatisation process in Africa is still far from complete
and has led to mixed results. The successful cases of the
Compagnie Ivorienne d’Electricité, Sonatel, and Société
d’Energie et d’Eau du Gabon can not hide the dramatic
failures. |
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Don't Pull the Plug on Your Own Company
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| Entrepreneur and venture capitalist Jack Jia explained that "Competition doesn’t kill companies--most firms actually get in their own way,” He shared a story of how one of his startups faced difficulties that were nearly self-defeating--until all the team members re-committed their individual role to the company's overall plan. |
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Success, by Choice
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| Every month we diligently publish our newsletter presenting ideas, techniques, as a means helping sales professionals sell better. Add ours to the thousands of other fine newsletters appearing each month, hundreds of books published, webinars, blogs and multitudes of other sources of sales advice available. Yet despite this wealth of quality advice and techniques, consistent application and results continues to be an unattainable goal for many. |
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The power of a group
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| January 18th would have been Benjamin Franklin’s birthday. Now there’s a guy who saw opportunities that others did not. Ben invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, the odometer, and the glass armonica. He formed both the first public library and the first fire department in Pennsylvania. |
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Make your mastermind rock
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| In a recent blog – The Power of a Group – I talked about the questions Ben Franklin created for guiding the discussions in his Junto group. Many of you asked to see those, so here they are.
See what you think – can you get a sense of why the Junto accomplished so much in Philadelphia with ripple
effects for the entire country? How would you like to be a part of a group like that? |
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Truly Accomplishing Goals that Matter
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| Examine your goals and implement a plan to accomplish those goals. |
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Is Success your RESPONSIBILITY?
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| So why is success our responsibility?
Just as a watch needs to have all parts within it working properly in order to keep time – people whom we serve – our clients and potential clients also need us to function properly – successfully.
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Leaders: Hold Yourself Accountable
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| A favorite phrase of most leaders these days is that we need to hold our people accountable. It is important to make sure all people are living up to their commitments and responsibilities.
One observation is that not too many leaders have the same zeal when it comes to holding themselves accountable for the performance of the entire enterprise. The culture of the organization is what usually determines level of performance, and the culture is created by the top leaders more than anyone else.
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Being Accountable for Accountability.
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| Everywhere I go in my consulting practice, performance "accountability" is among the top two or three concerns of senior executives.
Accountability has various definitions, but the word is usually used to denote personal responsibility for getting desired results. It's an admirable idea, and all good managers and leaders want their people to be "accountable."
Of course accountability doesn't apply only to rank and file employees. Managers and leaders should be accountable for holding others accountable. After all, isn't getting good results with and through other people the very reason we have managers and leaders? |
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Being Accountable for Accountability.
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| Everywhere I go in my consulting practice, performance "accountability" is among the top two or three concerns of senior executives.
Accountability has various definitions, but the word is usually used to denote personal responsibility for getting desired results. It's an admirable idea, and all good managers and leaders want their people to be "accountable."
Of course accountability doesn't apply only to rank and file employees. Managers and leaders should be accountable for holding others accountable. After all, isn't getting good results with and through other people the very reason we have managers and leaders? |
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Being Accountable for Accountability.
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| Everywhere I go in my consulting practice, performance "accountability" is among the top two or three concerns of senior executives.
Accountability has various definitions, but the word is usually used to denote personal responsibility for getting desired results. It's an admirable idea, and all good managers and leaders want their people to be "accountable."
Of course accountability doesn't apply only to rank and file employees. Managers and leaders should be accountable for holding others accountable. After all, isn't getting good results with and through other people the very reason we have managers and leaders? |
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Quick Tips to Stay on the Cutting Edge In Business
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| Price Pritchett, renowned author on change, says, “Our current work habits produce weaker results as circumstances change. The more rapid the change, and the more radical the shift, the sooner our usual approaches lose their punch. We have to choose between two risks. First, we can gamble on our old habits, and watch our career skills gradually grow obsolete. Or we can accept the risks of the pioneer. The inventor. The explorer. The greater the safety lies in choosing this second risk, even though it feels chancier than the first.” |
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Does Power Corrupt
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| Does power corrupt or is it the lack of accountability. |
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Other accountability Related Articles
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WHERE IS THE YOU (“U”) IN ACCOUNTABILITY IN TODAY’S WORLD?
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| Do you know where the you (“U”) is in accountability in your company or organization? Does your organization struggle with accountability as an issue in the workplace today? Is there a culture at your company that holds everyone accountable? What is accountability? A straightforward definition could be: being responsible for one’s activities, conduct and performance of responsibilities. Based upon my life experiences and my business coaching and consulting work, I can tell you that accountability, and the lack thereof, is one of the major issues in business (and life) today. |
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Strategic Commitments To Build Trust With Clients According to Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
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| Today many small business owners are accountable only to themselves. And guess what? That means they are really accountable to no one. Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach strongly believes that accountability is a non-negotiable business and personal trait. We look around today at what is happening in the workplace and observe one example after another where no one is stepping up to be accountable and where no one is being held accountable for their actions. Whatever happened to accountability? How can an individual or a business be trusted if there is no accountability? Who will be a leader ad take responsibility when things go awry and corrective actions must be taken? Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach suggests that there are ten (10) strategic commitments to make to build trust with your clients through accountability. |
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Q: How can I make my employees accountable?
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| Accountability, the "A" word. Many employee issues find their root in accountability, or more specifically, the lack of accountability. Here's an overview on working with your staff to create accountability. |
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Leadership Tips to Create Greater Accountability in Your Organization
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| Accountability becomes mission-critical in challenging times. We need everyone in our organization to take ownership of results and make things happen. Creating an environment of accountability rests with management. Based on our 22 years of experience in organizational development and leadership training, we have discovered that managers systematically remove accountability. As a result the manager themselves ends up shouldering all the responsibility and stress. Here are some practical ideas to create greater accountability in your organization. |
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Accountability Boosters: Managing Accountability in Others
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| Maybe one of your top performer’s self-image is threatened when his idea does not produce the intended results and he gets defensive. Or you’ve heard someone complain that because she can’t control all the elements of a project she should not be held responsible if things don’t go right. Or it suddenly becomes clear that the ability to disappear into the group is allowing someone to avoid taking accountability for his lack of individual contribution. The following Accountability Boosters will help you accomplish two important objectives-1) minimize the need for people to make excuses and 2) increase their level of accountability when things go wrong.
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Joint ventures make powerful accountability partners: 7 proven practices
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| 'A' is for accountability, 'A' clients, accomplishments and much more. One of the best ways to develop accountability, especially if you are weak on follow through or staying consistently motivated, is to develop joint venture (JV) partnerships. A JV partner who is already strong in staying accountable to his business will most likely apply that same accountability standard to you. You will not be able to ride below the accountability radar with him: a bonus for you if you are wanting to grow a deeply satisfying and highly successful business. |
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Trouble-shooting Your Accountability Partnership
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| Is there a problem with your accountability partnership? Even if you do your best to select a great partner and set specific ground rules, you can still run into issues. Don't feel like you're the only one to ever have problems with your accountability partner! It's actually not at all unusual, particularly when you're working with someone you don't know very well.
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Build Business with Accountability
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| Learning how to use accountability to build success for your business is an effective way to build a better business. Regardless of the money invested or personal passion for the business, if you don't hold yourself accountable for the success of your business, there's only a slim chance you will ever reach the level of success you have in mind. How does accountability make a positive impact on the success of your business? Take a look at the four top distinguishing factors of business owners who use accountability to get results.
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How Accountability Plays Into Your Success
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| The most successful entrepreneurs and executives have accountability, and it's by no coincidence that accountability leads to success - directly or indirectly! |
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Do You Suffer From Not Being Able to Improve Performance at Work?
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| When leaders are looking to improve performance at work amongst their people it is absolutely vital that they focus on one of the most important aspects of leadership which is accountability. A leader has to hold them self accountable when they go wrong but is just as important to hold those that they are leading accountable for their actions. Without accountability, standards will slip and before long the leader would have lost control over their team. A leader must be able to incorporate accountability into their leadership strategy to insure that the highest levels of performance are met by their people. In other words, “Accountability is Key”! From my perspective, there are three key ideas that a leader must do to be successful in this area. They must first realize that nobody wakes up wanting to do a bad job, then distribute both neg |
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