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A Recipe for Building Leaders
If you were making a pizza for dinner, but left off the sauce and cheese, you’d serve a bland lump of dough for family and friends. The same thing happens when you provide a leadership development program without the essential ingredients: Time, variety, and a personal touch.

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What is Passion for Today’s Business Leaders?
Leaders from entrepreneurs or small business owners to Fortune 500 C Level executives along with many others continually pursue greater understanding of this simple word - passion. This illusive thing of passion is recognized for driving many individuals to attain the unattainable. Possibly, a different perspective on passion is needed.
How to Identify The Real Leaders Out There Among Us
How can you know a real leader when you see one? What do real leaders do that define them as leaders? Many people may consider themselves leaders, but in reality do not demonstrate principles of leadership and are not leaders at all. In today’s world there are many imposters posing as leaders. In order to assist you in identifying leaders in your company or organization, I have selected seven (7) actions that I believe real leaders take that define them as “real leaders.” Those seven (7) actions are:
Nine Commitments That Will Emphasize Business Ethics and Company Core Values Are Extremely Crucial To Your Business
In the last few years, business ethics and company core values are among the most critical discussions I facilitate during strategic planning and business coaching endeavors. This is partly due to he tremendous negative reaction to corporate ethics scandals. My encouragement to clients is to go “public” with their core values and ethical standards so it becomes known what the company stands for and how the leaders will conduct business. So, you may ask how would a business go about establishing and emphasizing a set of core values and ethical standards? Based upon my personal and professional experiences and research, I would recommend making the following nine commitments:

Wheelchair Ramps to Help you Succeed
American Ramp was founded in 1970 with a simple mission - to serve those who use wheelchairs and have trouble with stairs. Over the years they have developed metal architectural products to meet the needs of its customers.

Hire the Best Salespeople on the Planet
Several months ago Objective Management Group began to identify hirable candidates that are ideal - they will ramp-up more quickly than a normal hirable candidate. A normal candidate should ramp up according to this formula I devised many years ago: Normal Ramp Up = Length of Sales Cycle + Length of Learning Curve + 30 Days.
Create a ‘No Excuses’ Sales Environment
What is your company’s sales culture or environment? Can that question be answered quickly and articulated consistently across your organization? The foundation for creating a clearly defined sales environment begins with the leadership - how they set sales standards and then demonstrate, communicate and inspect accountability to those standards. What sales standards do you set and communicate? Are they extraordinary? If we followed you around for 30 days, what would we observe about your actions and interactions with your team?
Quality is Not an Action, It is A Habit
Small Business Owners, have you ever faced this situation? You develop or improve your systems for product or service delivery. Along with your new systems you establish quality standards and measures, and then you train your employees to make sure that everyone knows how to do what they need to do to get the job done to meet the new standards. You feel good about what you have put in place and so you go about looking at other areas to grow or improve only to find out later that the employees go right back to the old way of doing things as soon as they can. How frustrating is that?
Do Your Values Drive or Derail Leadership? Part 1
The world needs strong, competent leaders now more than ever before. Effective leaders are needed in big and small businesses, as well as in communities and civic organizations.
So do we really have control over customer service?
Gary discusses standards set by management and staff within a company. How they might currently be set, how they could be set, what types of measures, control or standards are important or might be important in a company.
Create Rockin’ Relationships in Business
Some people have high standards when it comes to who they hire, partner with and accept as a client. The rest of the world wants something better for themselves but think they have to tolerate whoever enters their space. What if rockstar business relationships were only a perspective away? And of course, they are.
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