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The Confidence to Let Go
It’s a challenge to really let go of our own private agendas. In working with clients, I often explore each opposite: “I want it my way” and “I let go”. These two points of view can fight it out within all of us and show up in our relationships with others.
Using Assessments with Coaching
The astute coach helps the person examine gaps between what they believe they do and what they actually do. This is fertile ground for personal growth and development, but is also the area where people become defensive and resistant. Assesments are a great tool to help identify real needs.

Increase Sales By Harvesting Instead of Farming
Are you a sales professional who harvests or one who continues to farm all with the goal to increase sales? What makes more sense?
The Fine Art of Pulling Weeds
Just as in any garden, in life, weeds are inevitable and frankly just evidence of our fallibility as humans. Weeds of fear, poor attitude, bitterness, laziness, indecision, ignorance, clutter, poor time management, failure to set goals, lack of exercise, poor eating habits, and neglected relationships. How often do we allow them to grow unchecked until they choke out our happiness, contentment, and success?

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Survival Tactics
The giraffe is the largest mammal that gives birth while standing up. I don't speak "giraffe," but I can imagine what the baby giraffe must think when he bounces on the ground from that great height. He just left warm, cushioned quarters in which all his needs, comforts and security were provided. Now he finds himself bouncing off (comparatively speaking) hard, cold, unwelcoming ground.
Tips to Succeed at Franchise Expos
Expos can offer fertile hunting grounds for franchisors. But there's a considerable investment required in terms of time, money, and effort. Make sure your investment pays off by checking out this list of tips.
Courage in the face of fear
Great leaders often must stand their ground under fire. So how do you know when you are standing your ground for the right reasons and not just stubbornly waging an ego battle?
International Franchising Checklist
If the growth of U.S. franchising continues at its current rate, domestic sales alone could top the $1 trillion mark by the year 2002, says the International Franchise Association, the world's oldest and largest organization representing the sector. Franchisors are also finding fertile ground for their operations beyond U.S. borders, reports a study by the IFA Educational Foundation.

Using Assessments with Coaching
The astute coach helps the person examine gaps between what they believe they do and what they actually do. This is fertile ground for personal growth and development, but is also the area where people become defensive and resistant. Assesments are a great tool to help identify real needs.

Selling in a Downturn
Seven Solutions - 120 words - 30 seconds: Get proof that your stuff does what you promise. Verifiable evidence convinces ahead of sales skills. Find prospects less affected by the downturn. Some are shrinking less or still growing. Use evidence and proof to develop better messaging and multiple messages. Cast better seeds on more fertile ground. Present better messages to more qualified prospects. Thrive on a small improvements. Vary your approach – phone, voicemail, email, letter, post card, introduction, or fax. Like advertising, effective sales prospecting depends on repetition and persistence. Have the customer quantify the cost of inaction. It is a brave manager who spends money in a downturn without a concrete business case. Training works. Attend or study a top sales course for new ideas. Full article >
Creating a Champions Environment
The most fertile soil and ideal growing environment produces the ultimate crop! Discover why you must play a role in creating a champions environment and how you can accomplish this objective. Read on...
When Did You Last Put Your Ear To The Ground?
Adept trackers, Native Americans used to put their ears to the ground to hear horses' hoofs miles away. The ground carried the sound. Later, the train tracks did the same thing if you put your ear to the track, you could hear the train coming from miles away. When Did You Last Put Your Ear To The Ground? Explore these simple ways to "tighten" your marketing tactics from face-to-face to voice mail. Start measuring how you connect with your prospects and make it matter.
The Outdoor Billboard Business - Common Landlord Mistakes to Avoid
In the outdoor billboard business, there is a certain amount of trust that goes into a billboard ground lease. The landowner doesn't really know you that well, and the amount you are offering is not that huge. In addition, there is the unwritten assumption that you will not do anything to displease them. Since most billboard ground leases have some form of termination provision, and will definitely require negotiating a renewal in the future, you would think that most billboard owners would take a little more effort to protect their interests. Sadly, however, many don't.
Stuck In a Rut? - Action is The Key That Will Set You Free!
Do you feel like you are trapped inside your own personal Ground Hog day movie? In the movie Ground Hog Day, Bill Murray plays a TV reporter that is forced to relive the same day (Ground Hog day) over and over and over again. No matter what happens, every time that he goes to sleep he wakes up and it's Ground Hog day again.

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