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Employee Motivation - 5 Steps to Apply When Mistakes Occur

CEOs and other leaders continue to recycle employees who failed to make perfect decisions and act properly every time. On the surface you might be thinking, how big was the mistake? Many of these executives also use the cliché, “We pay them the big bucks NOT to make mistakes.” Blame is typically being placed on the wrong people. Worse yet, the leaders who don’t tolerate errors typically hold people to standards higher than those that they themselves achieve and attainable by less than 1% of the population, if that much. These are the very same leaders who cannot understand why their employees are not motivated, the same leaders who typically offer better-than-average compensation to keep people, yet still find it difficult to retain or attract top talent.

Playing to Win
Anything can happen - and it often does! One of the old clichés in professional athletics is that on any given day in any given city, one professional athletic team can beat another team. Their standings in the won-loss record at that moment don’t really matter. That’s equally true in individual competition when you have players who are skilled and determined to do their best.

The Simplest Secret To Business Growth

Everyone wants to know the one thing they can do to get things going, the magic pill they can take, the one bit or advice from a guru that will turn the ship around. (Howfs that for some clichés?) Truth is, business is mostly a bunch of hard work, done consistently. However, there is one thing that every business can do that works in every instance – the one simple secret to guaranteed business growth. Want to know what that is?

10 simple rules to empower your writing
10 ideas to improve the quality of your writing.

“Success & Sanity” It All Comes Down to Planning
We have all heard the cliché “if you fail to plan you plan to fail”. Well guess what, it’s true. If your planning session is good, you will have a great week/month following. If it is not, well, this is where the insanity comes in. Before we talk about planning, let’s look at the basics.

The C Factor!

Assembling a 'dream team' sales force is not as difficult as you may first think. I've known of businesses reaching great heights through the salesmanship of only a few sales-guns! Before creating a 'dream team' you need to have at least one exceptional salesperson you can model. Someone has to go there first! Whether this person is the company founder, (if sales savvy,) or a senior leader, there must be a working best-practice sales-process you can model and replicate. Once you have a high performing salesperson to model; their core characteristics, behaviours, and activities, then form the blueprint (DNA) of your 'dream team'. Keeping in-mind, that it's ok to have varying personalities in the same team, this enables your team to demonstrate versatility and engage a diverse customer base. You don't need to 'literally' clone sales

Punching Yourself Until They Give Up
The midlife transition is all about transforming your life from the externally-motivated value system of the adult to the internally- (that means spiritually-) motivated life that characterizes the mature individual. One key factor in this transformation — a factor that is way too often neglected — is doing a moral housecleaning.

How Much Can Your Staff Handle?...The Limiting Factor Behind Sustainable Productivity Gains

Most companies are now trying to boost flagging profits with a smaller workforce. What that means is that each member of your staff will be required to work with greater speed , efficiency and productivity than ever before. But what if your remaining staff can't physically, mentally or emotionally handle this increased workload? What will it cost your company in terms of absenteeism, workers compensation and skyrocketing health premiums if your company just wears out your employees to the point of illness, injury or burn out? What can you do to prevent employee burnout?

The Essence of Beauty and Brains in Self-marketing Through Websites
Find out how to get the most of self-marketing through effectively maintaining a website.

How big should your business be?
Many independent entrepreneurs are content to be one-person companies. These people, called the "spare room tycoons," feel that it is more important to be ourselves than to be big, as long as our business is successful and we are prosperous. After all, history has shown repeatedly that one person can change the world.

How Big Do You Need To Be?
Should entrepreneurs aspire to creating another Amazon, Dell, Google, or Microsoft? Or, should we be content as a one-person company?

The Four Agreements at Work: An Inside Job

In his book The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz distills the essence of Toltec wisdom into four principles for living a life of value: 1. Be impeccable with your word. 2. Don’t take anything personally. 3. Don’t make assumptions. 4. Always do your best. How elegantly simple and, as some might say, a “no brainer!” But simple wisdom isn’t common practice. While most of us believe we are impeccable with our word, we know others who are not. And most likely, others, from time to time, consider us far less than impeccable.

Where You Look Is Where You Go! True or False?
Why do so many people blame their circumstances for their unhappiness or lack of success. The truth lies between their ears. This article highlights the incredible power of recognition and appreciation as tools for changing the circumstances of our lives.

The Differences Between Great Marketing and Terrible Marketing
As a marketing consultant and copywriter, I see horrible marketing everyday. The most common mistake I see is are...

Successful Franchising Building Your Own Box
This article discusses how to make sure that any franchise you investigate is first and foremost a strong fit to you and your skills. This is the number one mistake people make when trying to find a franchise on their own.

The Real Reason You Dwell on Your What-Ifs
When you are thinking of taking a step out into your next career move, or leaving a current relationship situation for one that is more right, you may dwell on “but what if ” “What ifs” keep you held back in your comfort zone. You probably experience this as feeling fear, but I think what stops you is not so much fear per se, but what is ‘underneath’ the fear.

Top Salespeople Secret #5 During a Down Economy: Treat Yourself
With so many demands in work and personal life, how is a salesperson to have time to treat themselves? And treat to what? Top salespeople take time off to plan; during down economy talk salespeople who plan from an inspired state have their sales accelerate.

Your Questions Determine Your Success
Allocate resources so your most important projects get your best efforts. Do the most important things when you are awake, rested, focused and eager. Arrange you budget so there is enough money, enough time, and enough "space". First things deserve the very best of your key resources!

How a Low-Risk Entrepreneur Can Start a Work at Home Business

Many of us dream of working from home; however, in the past there were few legitimate work at home business opportunities that allowed you to do so. Entrepreneurs at heart had the option of either joining a multi-level program, holding in-home parties for kitchen ware or cosmetics, or selling restate. Many of these however, required a substantial investment without the guarantee of success. In fact statistics say that four in five businesses fail in the first five years.

Earn Money Working Online: Marketing with Podcasts
Originally derived from a combination of "broadcasting" and "iPod" podcasting, according to the New Oxford American Dictionary, is "a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player." The general accepted definition however, has expanded to include video as well as audio.

What Should I Charge? First Understand What You’re Selling
Designers spend an inordinate and disproportionate amount of time determining pricing and fretting over it. But there is no right or wrong answer when it comes to pricing. This article helps designers figure out a pricing structure that works for them.

Keeping Everyone Happy - A Job To Change Or Quit
Taking on the role of "keeping everyone happy" can be an exhausting and daunting job that can be costlier than you think!

It Takes Money to Make Money - Yes It's True

Too many people are entering into working at home blindly and end up frustrated or throwing in the towel because they didn't plan accordingly. Unless you are extremely creative, with some special connections and a run of good luck, you cannot expect to start a business and not spend any money. I think at times an individual is so excited about the prospect of working at home that they jump in with both feet, but with no plan on what to do after they start their business. This is why I always stress to people who want to work at home to take their time, research the companies or ideas they are thinking about, and make a plan.

Practice Patience – “They” Aren't on Your Time Frame

Patience is a virtue. This cliché is the essence of running a work at home business. Impatience can breed failure if you aren't careful. One of the most important areas in which patience is needed, is realizing that YOUR time schedule and your potential CLIENT's or RECRUIT's time schedule may be totally off synch from each other. Whether you are looking at recruiting someone for your business opportunity or attempting to sell your product/service to someone, you need to realize that these contacts and potentials aren't as anxious about your business as you are. Don't get caught up in your own time table that you disregard and in essence toss out contacts that could very well be the best people for your business.

Sweet Emotion - Brands Look to Send the Consumer on an Emotional Roller Coaster
Rob Rush outlines the importance of creating an emotional connection with your customers and how best to go about "operationalizing" an emotional relationship between a brand/company and a customer.

Don’t Be Fearful, Be Thankful
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday: here’s why...

Leggo My Logo
Since I recently changed my business logo, I wanted to explain my process so you can likewise better develop your own logo. While your logo isn’t the soul of your business, it does give a quick impression about it.

Tips to Differentiation
Doing something much better and valuing your customers are distinct advantages that will lead you to the winners circle in time. This article outlines some tips and hints to reaching your differentiation goals.

Introduction - Microfinance:A Platform for Social Change
The phrase “Customer is King” may be an oversimplified cliché in business, but – stripped of all its bells and whistles – this phrase represents the essence of a consumer business.

Take Care of Yourself - Take Care of Your Business
Everyone knows how important it is to take care of you while building a business. It’s almost become a cliché – the expression coined by financial expert David Bach, “pay yourself first”, has come to represent across all disciplines, the notion of taking care of number one before turning your focus to the rest of a very needing world.


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