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Enhancing Leadership Skills
Some people look over the screen at their boss and think there but the grace go I. After all being the boss, the leader has to be about the easiest job in the world. What's to do? Sit around ...give orders...check the work...take the credit for succcesses, blame others for failures. Problem is it just doesn't work that way and even the best leader needs to brush up on, improve, hone his/her skills. Here are some ideas and thoughts that may help you become an even better leader than you already are.
Lesson #4: “We focus a lot on culture”
“Watching Ev really sink his teeth into the role of CEO, take it very seriously,” says Stone. “He very genuinely wants to innovate – not just from a product or technology standpoint, but from a company standpoint. For me, I’ve learned about what it means to focus on a culture, to build social responsibility and the idea of a company as a super-organism.”
Franchises - Emotional Fulfillment - The Challenge
If you have trouble shifting your seat to the upright position for take off every morning, you should probably see if there's a better flight crew to help get you where you really want to go. Perhaps a Franchise is the answer, and perhaps it's not. However, until you ask these tough questions, and answer them with conviction, you won't know whether you have the possibility of leaping out of that rut, and over the Chrysler building in a single bound.
How to Stop Your Overheads Killing Your Profits
Many business owners falsely believe that the more work they have, the more money they make. Because they are ‘busy’ and get more help to manage the workload they think they must be making more money which is not necessarily true.
Experience is not a substitute for the pre-call plan
Every now and then it's a good idea to re-visit one of those "everybody knows that" concepts and do a hard-nosed self-assessment regarding our personal sales performance. Always, always pre-plan every sales call, right?
Coaching: Rules of Engagement
This article takes a strong view on coaching and the steps to effectively engage.
Sales Training - How is Your Cold Calling Attitude?
Do you make cold calls for business? Do you set up appointments? The single biggest thing holding you back may be yourself. Read this fantastic article to find out why.
Are your Customers Crazy?
Do your sales people sit back at drink o’clock on a Friday afternoon and share war stories of prospects and customers doing strange and unpredictable things? Are your sales people, more times than your Sales Mangers cares to admit, left scratching their heads as prospects seemingly operate by their own sets of rules, making it up as they go, with a complete disregard for the sales person’s best interests and good intentions? That being the case this next section is written for you, in an attempt to help you or your sales people demystify your customers and indeed potential buyers.
The False Economy of “In-House”
The False Economy of "In-House" - Small businesses need to watch every dollar. Unfortunately, some expenditures seem reasonable but are, in reality, quite costly. These are called "false economies" and they can drive down your revenue even while you think you are saving money! In this article, learn about one classic false economy and discover how you can eliminate the problem and save money in your business with a solution that seems more expensive!

How to Make Your Entrepreneurial Dream a Reality
How to make your entrepreneurial dream a reality - Many people desire to become entrepreneurs. Some are bold enough to make the leap on their own. Others are "forced" to do so because of circumstances (such as job layoffs). But starting and running a business isn't easy, primarily because we may possess some of the skills necessary to create a productive and profitable enterprise but we probably lack all of the skills necessary. And, we probably lack the time, too. In this article, you'll read about one way you can improve your entrepreneurial efforts – whether you're just starting out or you're looking to grow.
Know yourself before you decide to buy someone else
According to a survey conducted by the Hay group and published in 2007, 91% of all M&A efforts fail to meet their pre-transaction goals. How many activities can a business undertake that fail 91% of the time, yet keep doing them over and over again? That is what happens with mergers and acquisitions. The sad truth is making these growth strategies work is not hard - it is complicated, but not hard. If you do your due diligence, and pay close attention to all the myriad of details, you will succeed. This article talks about what you need to know about your business before you try to buy someone else’s!
Creating an Extraordinary Organization
If everyone would like to work in a thriving, enlivening and nurturing environment, why is it that almost no one loves being at work? Why is it that most of us simply acquiesce when confronted by the drudgery and suffering that, according to seemingly every statistical measure, characterizes life within many companies? Is this condition inevitable? Are we destined to an environment where the most we have to look forward to is Friday afternoon? Not at all. There are specific steps that can be taken to begin to reclaim some of the enthusiasm, some of the air of celebration and some of the fundamental respect for individual human dignity that is apparent within flourishing business organizations or on championship teams.

Avoiding Pitfalls in Mentoring Relationships, Part I of III
Creating a mentoring relationship
The 3 - 4 Letter Dirty Words That Keep You From Your Goal to Increase Sales
In life there are numerous 4 letter dirty words. Have you ever considered that in sales there exists specific words that you avoid and probably affect your ability to increase sales?
Two Underused Secrets in Motivating Others
In this article you can read about the simplest, cheapest and often most gratifying and effective way of motivating others.

Creating a High Performance Organization
Organizations, just like the teams in the Tour de France, are made up of individuals who perform activities on their own as well as part of a larger whole that we often refer to as a team. Do we realize our own potential to become elite performers? Whether we are the president or the front line staff member, do we understand our own strengths? What do we need to improve in order to deliver the maximum to our organization?
The Secrets To Managing Ineffective Meetings - 9 Proven Tips Which Make You Fail
When you are a manager / leader you will spend a lot of your time in meetings and managing meetings. Your credibility is at stake in both situations. Here are some tips on how to fail!! Just make sure you do the opposite and succeed.
Loyalty Building Strategies for Managers
High turnover is an expensive problem for organizations. This article provides three simple ways managers and supervisors can improve retention on their teams.
Preparation Is The Key
This article talks about how being prepared can help you get through those things in your life that come up unexpectedly.

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What To Do When The Media Come Knocking
It's 5:30 on a Friday afternoon and you're preparing to close up shop for the weekend. Then the telephone rings. It's a local reporter asking for some of your time to conduct an interview. Yikes - what do you do? Panic? Start sweating profusely? Slam down the phone? Or do you take a deep breath and tackle that unexpected interview in a responsive, professional manner?
Just the Facts Ma’am, Just the Facts
There was the classic TV Show and more recently the movie, “Dragnet”. The main character, Sergeant Joe Friday, was known for the quotation, “Just the facts ma’am, just the facts.” He would let a witness to a crime tell their story with all their emotion and commentary on what they believed happened. After a few minutes of listening to this extraneous information, Joe would interject his most famous line of dialogue, “Just the facts ma’am, just the facts.” As with Sergeant Friday, journalists are most interested in the facts you present in your press release.
10 Tips to Prevent The Afternoon Slump
If you’re like two-thirds of the population, you’ve experienced the afternoon slump. You know the feeling…it’s mid-afternoon and you feel tired and drained and want to call it a day. While you still plug away at your work, you often find that you are not as productive as you need to be. You’ve hit the afternoon slump.

This drop in energy is not all in your head. It is a physiological response from your body. Fortunately, you can employ methods to reduce the slump’s frequency and to shorten its duration once it does start. Some of the methods work solely on the individual level, while others require a company-wide initiative. When you utilize these 10 tips and instill them in your office, you will replace the afternoon slump with a time of increased productivity.

Creating an Extraordinary Organization
If everyone would like to work in a thriving, enlivening and nurturing environment, why is it that almost no one loves being at work? Why is it that most of us simply acquiesce when confronted by the drudgery and suffering that, according to seemingly every statistical measure, characterizes life within many companies? Is this condition inevitable? Are we destined to an environment where the most we have to look forward to is Friday afternoon? Not at all. There are specific steps that can be taken to begin to reclaim some of the enthusiasm, some of the air of celebration and some of the fundamental respect for individual human dignity that is apparent within flourishing business organizations or on championship teams.

Are your Customers Crazy?
Do your sales people sit back at drink o’clock on a Friday afternoon and share war stories of prospects and customers doing strange and unpredictable things? Are your sales people, more times than your Sales Mangers cares to admit, left scratching their heads as prospects seemingly operate by their own sets of rules, making it up as they go, with a complete disregard for the sales person’s best interests and good intentions? That being the case this next section is written for you, in an attempt to help you or your sales people demystify your customers and indeed potential buyers.
Black Friday – Shop at Wal-Mart and Best Buy or Invest?
Consumers are out in full force today, on ‘Black Friday', looking for great deals at retail stores. Stores like Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy - all opening at the earliest hours of the morning to get accommodate us eager shoppers. The question for me today was - could the money I might spend today on Black Friday be put to a better use for me and my family's future by investing in something of real intrinsic value, instead of just another consumer item?
How To Create A Team
I recently attended a retreat for a year-long leadership program I'm participating in called Leadership Lorain County. There are 45 people in my class. We walked in Wednesday afternoon as strangers for the most part. We left Friday as a team who knew and respected each other. So if 45 of us could do this over the course of just under 48 hours, why do most business owners we speak with have trouble getting their employees on the same page?
Fishing Lessons
Recently, I had the opportunity to spend an afternoon fishing with my father. This is something I highly recommend. He and I spent a lot of time fishing when I was growing up, but now we seem to get out once or twice a year. I find that the fishing is irrelevant. The key is the outing itself and the time we spend together, as well as the lessons I learn. Fishing is simply an excuse to enjoy an afternoon outdoors with someone you love and respect. Fishing somehow makes it legitimate. If you were to take an afternoon off work, stand at the lakeshore, and talk, you would be considered lazy or unproductive. But if you hold a fishing rod during the process, it makes it all somehow legitimate.

Firing Without the Headache or Heartache
It is Friday afternoon and you call John Thompson in to your office.
Five Minutes on Friday, Six Minutes on Saturday: Listen to Music, Save Japan; Email a Company, Save 200,000 Sharks
It doesn’t take a lot of time, money, or sacrifice to do an incredible amount of good. Hence the name of this post (and potential series): Five Minutes on Friday. Even if it’s not Friday, this post might interest you…
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