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Candid Conversations: How to Drive the Political Correctness “Elephant” Out of Your Workplace

Individuals who are faced with difficult issues frequently choose to ignore them entirely or discuss them only indirectly. While most people would concur that issues such as disagreements over a course of action or poor performance should be addressed clearly and directly, the reality is that many are not comfortable doing so. It's so much easier at those moments to revert to the "politically correct" indirect methods that are the norm in many organizations. The failure to honestly and directly confront poor performance or unwise courses of action, for example, becomes the proverbial elephant in the living room – or in this case, the workplace.

Google For Fun - And Profit!

There’s no denying that Google is a lot of fun. You can use it to find out anything about everything. Elephant polo (a personal hobby)? It’s on there. The Baja 1000 off-road race? Also a hobby, and also on there. Like I said, anything about everything.

Lesson #2: Promotion is Your Company’s Best Punch

“Without promotion something terrible happens,” Barnum once said, “nothing!” A master promoter himself, Barnum understood the importance of making a splash and just how to do it. He first started his circus at a time when every Tom, Dick and Jane had their own traveling road show. Thus, he knew he had to make his just a little bit different than the rest in order to stand out. Indeed, it was by using showmanship and promoting himself to no end that Barnum succeeded where the others failed.

Todd McFarlane Quotes

Todd McFarlane Quotes

Frame or Be Framed

George Lakoff is a professor at U.C. Berkeley Linguistics Department. He’s written a book called Don’t Think of an Elephant His message in this interview concerns how Republicans appear to be good “framers” and Democrats are lousy ones. Here are two questions from the interview:

Elephant Math

Darwin pointed out that if you take one pair of breeding elephants and make some conservative estimates about their fertility, you would have more than 15 million elephants in less than 500 years (if none of them died an early death.)

User Friendly Award! (Where You'd Least Expect It)

At 6 p.m. Monday, I was out brushcutting. I apparently woke up a yellowjacket neighborhood buried in the mud. In short order, I was stung perhaps a dozen times—one YJ got stuck under my shirt. Luckily, I didn't go into anaphylactic shock. But, in a few hours the reaction was body-wide. I went to an ER the next morning after a truly crappy night. The doc said I should have come at the time—because I had some wheezing, which meant I'd moved in the direction of impeded breathing.

Make Money with Feel the Fear & Do It Anyway¡K¡K..by Susan Jeffers, Ph.D.

Tips on How to Build a Successful Business Online Even If You are New.

Top Tips for Beating Procrastination when You have ADHD

Procrastination is one of the biggest complaints people with ADHD experience. There are many reasons why people procrastinate and sometimes procrastination can even be useful. However, usually procrastination doesn’t make you feel good. You feel lazy, unproductive and the thought of the unfinished task looms heavily on your mind, spoiling any enjoyment doing other activities.

The Secret of Making People Like You Just a Little Better.

Anybody that was or is somebody that people look up to or envy in some way, started as just somebody with a dream. They step beyond their walls and challenges. Changing your mental mindset is a challenge but far less of a challenge than most think. Three quick and easy tips to making people like you just a little better.

Rethinking Cognitive Skills Testing for New Hires and Promotions

Hiring managers need to make accurate assessments about the cognitive capabilities of potential new hires and those up for promotion (e.g. handling complex information, identifying priorities, and making effective decisions). A hundred years of IQ testing has, however, distorted the image of cognitive assessment to the point where it has largely gone out of favor. No single score can reflect the complex interaction of cognitive, motivational, psychological and contextual factors that impact on thinking.

5 Steps to Coaching Your Salespeople Beyond Happy Ears

Following are my thoughts about how you, the leader of your salespeople, can help them overcome Happy Ears. Slip into these five roles to help them be more realistic about and more comprehensive with their opportunities.

What to expect in your first month of business as a beginner network-marketer

The prospect of beginning business is an exciting experience but what are your expectations in the beginning stages and what decisions and actions should you be adopting in the early stages of your business? This article gives a brief overview of important points to consider.

How To Separate Yourself From The Masses By Perfecting This Million Dollar Skill

Why did you click on this article? The easy answer is because you wanted to know what it was about, which of course is true. However, the deeper reason why you clicked on this article speaks to the very content that I'm going to talk about today. Words in print have tremendous power and if you can learn this one powerful skill, you can literally make money anywhere and at anytime. That skill is copywriting.

Internet Marketing Optimization Factors; Turn Your Blues Into Gold!

Launching a new online business is exciting. You have an opportunity to live the life of your dreams, be your own boss, have more time to spend with your family, travel. The dream becomes a nightmare, however, for a lot of us who invest our time and money into a new home based business, only to learn we have to be experts at online marketing.

Ma$$ive Prosperity

What's the best way to attract massive prosperity? If you knew, you'd already be doing it right? I'm going to suggest that most people have the formula right under their nose and don't even know it.

How Sales Managers Can Make Meetings & Sales Teams Far More Productive with this One Strategy

Would you like your sales meetings to be far more productive? Then read about this simple strategy that can quickly double your results.

What Successful People Do That You Are Missing

Find out the traits of some of the most successful sports stars and those who have conquered the the business world. Learn the secrets that have made them successful

Increase Sales By Being One of the Few and Not One of the Many

Do you truly want to increase sales? Many say they want to achieve their sales targets, but the evidence is contrary to their actual behaviors. Learn how a recent challenge demonstrates how few truly want sales success.

Overcoming the Fear of Change

Change is inevitable – everybody knows that. Still, most people seem to resist change even if it’s positive. In today’s business environment, nothing stays the same for very long, so those who are unable to effectively “ride the waves” will likely find themselves drowning. Here are ten tips to help you navigate in a changing world.

A Matter of Perspective

Sometimes a new perspective can hit you on the head a la “I could’ve had a V-8!” For me, it happened recently when I had the good fortune of working with a intern from my children’s school. Her name is Jordan Denniston, and she is a high school junior. Although still young in years, Jordan is quite wise in spirit. As I reflected on the battling perspectives of the recent Presidential campaign and my own, more mundane challenges of perspective, Jordan’s thoughts below helped me relearn an important leadership lesson.

Is Your Weapon of Choice an Elephant Gun or a Fly Swatter to Increase Sales?

Sales professionals are very much like hunters in that they are seeking a quarry (customer). By bringing down their victim, they receive a prize that being a sale. In many cases these salespeople select the wrong weapon because their focus is not prey, but on the prize.

Service Professionals Can Increase Sales By Swapping the Elephant Gun for the Fly Swatter

How many times do salespeople especially those involved in services attempt to sell an elephant gun for a solution with the fly swatter would work perfectly fine? Too often in the quest to increase sales, companies forget about the needs of the customer and focus on their own immediate needs – filling their pocketbooks. What happens is the shotgun or what I prefer to call it the elephant gun to kill the fly approach.

An Elephant Sized Sales Tip You Need Now

Look Down Lady - There's An Elephant On Your Foot! (And this is a pachyderm in dire need of a pedicure.) This is the ELEPHANT that hardly anyone ever asks about with their potential customer: "Who was your previous supplier and why are you unhappy with them?" Don't be sooooooo afraid of mentioning your competition because you're terrified you'll lose the sale too. A BIG, elephant-sized mistake that would be. Pssst. You need to know what your customer's expectations are of you. You need to know what made them so unhappy with their last supplier that they dumped them (or are considering it)

Increase Sales By Just Eating More Frogs

Have you ever considered that you could increase sales by just eating more frogs? Learn how you can do just that.

The Big Disconnect Managing Generations Leadership Training

The Big Disconnect - Managing Generations - Leadership Training.

Are Your Beliefs Holding You Back?

The beliefs I hold underlie everything I do and say and how I perceive the world around us. My beliefs combine to construct a complex web of interconnected concepts that forms my model of the world. It is literally how I see and experience the world. I have “concepts about the world and a concept is merely a belief and a belief is merely an opinion I have a particular loyalty to.*

How to Deal with Skepticism & Get Sales Success

Skeptics are a hard nut to crack. They have strong doubts about what you’re saying, and as long as those doubts exist they won’t buy. Overcoming a potential client’s doubt about whether what you have to offer will work or work for them is a challenge you can win.

Is Brick and Mortar A Passing Fad

During the dot-com boom the mantra was “Brick and mortar is dead!” Then when most of the dot-com’s crashed like an elephant sitting on a wicker chair, the mantra suddenly changed back to “The Internet is dead! Long live brick and mortar!”

Is Brick and Mortar A Passing Fad

During the dot-com boom the mantra was “Brick and mortar is dead!” Then when most of the dot-com’s crashed like an elephant sitting on a wicker chair, the mantra suddenly changed back to “The Internet is dead! Long live brick and mortar!”

Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur

What struck me about Stuart Skorman’s book (subtitled, "Why I Can’t Stop Starting Over") is his creative need to start new businesses and his (growing) wisdom about business. Stuart’s better-known accomplishments are launching Reel.com (sold for $100M) and Elephant Pharmacy.

Is There an Elephant in the Room?

Living with an elephant is difficult and painful. You are not free to use your talents or free to explore new territories of life. You are imprisoned by trying to navigate around the big obstacle in the room and therefore until you remove the obstacle, tackle it head on, you are not free from it and it impacts your life.

Improve Your Communications by Taming those 800-Pound Elephants

With time demands, constant interruptions and continually conflicting priorities, business communications is challenging enough. And when you have an issue or a personality involved that you cannot directly speak to, but can only tiptoe around the "elephant in the room", any attempt at communications may only get you more off track and cause more harm than good. With a few communications tips you can learn how to tame those 800 pound elephants and create more effective communications that improve your work relationships and help you get the job done.

The Importance of Internal Branding to Support Exceptional Customer Service

Derek Stockley identifies the growing importance of internal branding. The brand informs prospective customers and customers of your value proposition and distinguishes you from your competitors. The brand should be consistent with what is delivered. It should be unique, memorable and distinctive.

A Simple Method For Achieving More

Break your previous patterns! Past experiences mould the patterns in our mind, our beliefs, habits and how we behave.

Developing Passive Income

Passive income is crucial to growing your business in a way that is not dependent on your time input. Passive income is income that comes without you directly having to work for it on an ongoing basis.

Business Coach: Do You Employ the Yard by Yard or Inch by Inch Methodology to Master Success

With all the business coaches to executive coaches entering the marketplace, what is the most effective methodology: Inch by Inch or Yard by Yard?

Getting started

Here is a sweet and simple tip for ‘Getting Started’. Have you ever had one of those big projects or goals or perhaps an amazing idea where you really want to do it but just couldn’t seem to get started?

Work-Life Balance should be Life-Work Balance - what do you reckon?

We hear so much these days about the work-life balance, but isn't that bit of jargon putting up a barrier right from the start? Surely life and all that it entails should be the priority, work is merely part of life. A major part of life for many people I know and I don't mean to diminish its value, by the way. Walt Disney kind of summed this up when he said: "We don't make movies to make money. We make money to make movies."

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