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Raise The Bar
John Wooden, former coach of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Bruins, probably represents the greatest level of consistent success in sports history.The man with the most wins in college basketball history never talked about winning to his players: he inspired them to improve their performance every day.You can’t focus on winning without focusing on what it’s going to take to get you there. The key is to commit yourself to excellence in everything you do.In this article Billy Cox gives you the steps it takes to Raise your bar and achieve excellence at everything you do.

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Consistency – the Key to Success
Author Rob Rush discusses how sometimes the consistent delivery of customer service or customer experience trumps the ability to deliver a "Wow." Before you can occasionally launch the long-ball with some regularity, you need to become a consistent singles hitter first.
The Art of Attraction Marketing: What Persists, They Can't Resist
What persists, they can’t resist! How to market your business with consistent marketing messages. This isn’t anything new for you hear -- I’m sure. The bigger question is… why? Why aren’t your marketing messages with consistent?
The Service Factor during Economic Turbulence
Improving and maintaining good customer service is not an exciting endeavor. It involves detailed study and steadfast execution rather than temporary brilliance or inspiration. Therefore, customer service improvement is fundamentally an effort of continuous improvement. You must develop a basic competency in process improvement to attain and sustain high levels of customer service. This means that it is absolutely critical during tough economic times that you don’t make the mistake of cutting resources that support service excellence in your attempt to control operational costs.
Create a Prospecting Tracking Process
Executive Summary: Adhering to processes creates consistent results. Sales leaders who regularly track the prospecting efforts of their sales reps see better, more consistent results. Making prospecting a company objective, and rewarding the efforts of sales reps who prospect effectively on a consistent basis, will embed prospecting into the culture of the sales organization.
How to Make “Time” for Timely Sales Meetings
The benefits of sales meetings and consistent and timely connections outside the front line include improvement in readiness, recharging, repeatability and retention. If these benefits are important, then how do you ensure your meetings are timely? Here are several ways.

Get Consistent Results with Consistent Action
There are three things you can do to get consistent results in your business, if you want consistent results you need to take consistent action. Implement these easy action steps and get consistency working for your business.
Continuous Improvement
Firstly, this article asks the question ... "Is Continuous Improvement possible?" With a slight caveat ,the answer is 'yes'. It then sets out how you can achieve continuous improvement - without adopting any of the commercial 'methodologies, without using expensive consultants. You will , of course, have to put in some effort ... mainly thought! But it is possible - for any busines.
Change Management Can Lead to Rigidity and Resistance to Change
Beware of formal organization improvement or "change management" (an oxymoron) plans. Like strategic plans, organization improvement or change management plans can reduce an organization's effectiveness. They can lead to rigidity, bureaucracy, and resistance to change. This sounds like an argument against planning. It's not. We have found that constant and ongoing personal, team, and organization improvement planning is vital. But too many "change management" and improvement plans are built on the same faulty premise as strategic planning - that there is a right path, which can be determined in advance and then implemented. We often hear managers declare that they have the right strategic or improvement plan, but the reason things aren't going according to plan is because of "execution problems." This is a deadly assumption.
Process Management Pathways and Pitfalls (Part Two)
Make sure all your process improvement activities are clearly and tightly linked to your strategic imperatives. Each effort should also have highly focused and specific improvement goals (that are an aggressive, major stretch) and measurements. Establish feedback and follow-up steps for each process management and improvement team.

Why Most Change Programs and Improvement Initiatives Fail
Many team and organization change and improvement efforts are lost or badly bewildered. Decades of studies have consistently shown that 50-70 percent are failing. There are as many reasons that improvement endeavors lose their way, as there are people, teams, and organizations trying to improve.
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