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Positive Thinking – Appreciate What You Have In Your Life
People often focus on what they want, and not on what they already have. Do you find yourself wishing for this and that, and take what you have for granted? Rather than thinking of what you wish you could have, why not first take some time to reflect on what you have right now?

Successful Entrepreneurs and The Importance Of Building A Team
Many entrepreneurs see themselves as soloists, single individuals boldly taking risks by themselves. What many have learned the hard way is that success requires a team of people who can add their unique talent and skill to the mix. Every entrepreneur needs to understand their own skills and talents, and also know what skills and talents are needed in other team members.

Naming and Claiming Your True Niche
In overcoming many challenges in finding my true niche, I am now focused on helping others do the same. Throughout these many years, I’ve observed what it takes shine in your chosen area – how to be one of the best in your selected niche, and be confident enough to market yourself powerfully and rise above the competition.

Living Your Talent: Eliminating the Roadblocks that Get in the Way
Claiming your Talent Advantage and using it to Live Your Talents are more than theoretical concepts for me. I believe that Your Talent Advantage is not only your birthright, but also the road to a more fulfilling and meaningful life.

Monday Prayer for Work
Monday Prayer for Work Lord, Help me to always give 100% at work….. 12% on Monday 23% on Tuesday 40% on Wednesday 20% on Thursday 5% on Friday

Helping Young People Find their Path: Strength Based Coaching and the U.S. Public School System

It amazes me how many children graduate from high school and even college with little idea of what they want to do with their lives and often even less of an idea about what their natural skills are. One of the reasons is that most schools fail to recognize multiple types of intelligence and teach to only two. I am convinced that much of the confusion about life and career direction that I encounter occurs when people who don’t fit the standard mold do not get recognition for their natural skills.

I Need More Time: Better Coaching Techniques For a Bigger Impact

The realities of today’s professional coaching environment dictate that more often than not clients are pressed for time. In order to help clients succeed, coaching professionals must use coaching tools that help them connect with clients quickly and hold their interest. By using formal assessments created especially for coaches, they can effectively set up a clear path for maximum impact in their client’s lives.

You Can Learn Any Skill With Training But You Can’t Learn To Love It!
Most of us have to acquire skills that are not innate and with enough training we learn to do them just fine. But no amount of facility and training can help us learn to love them. You can build your life around acquired skills, but nothing can take the place of natural skills that allow for creativity and inventiveness.

What Are You Waiting For? The Time is Now: Claim Your Talent Advantage
Each of us is born with a unique set of natural personal skills. When we learn to recognize and develop these personal skills into their full potential we are living our Talent Advantage. Applying this principle to our daily lives creates a greater sense of joy and life fulfillment.

A Coaching Dilemma: How to Discover What Your Coaching Client Really Needs

In our society, the majority of energy is focused on maintaining a functional level with skills we have acquired in order to become “well-rounded citizens.” Acquiring, developing, and maintaining these skills comes with a high price of both energy and time. As coaches, we have the responsibility to help clients discover what they do naturally well and give them the choice to let go of old approaches to life’s challenges.

Is Your Life Messing With Your Mind? Letting Your Natural Skills Take the Lead

What is going on that so many are not happy with what they do? Everyone is born with innate potential for a unique set of capacities, skills, and abilities. Unfortunately, very often this potential is left undeveloped, as people seek to build their lives and careers on capacities and skills that are outside their innate potential. A life built on acquired skills will mess with your mind. It will keep you exhausted physically, psychologically, and emotionally.

Coaching for an IT Business
Regardless of whether the business is in IT or other products and services, organizations recognize that they need help to strengthen them in these challenging times. This article explains what a business coach can do for the organization and/or individuals.

Psychological Diversity
Diversity is all around us. Most often people associate the word with differences in ethnicity, language, gender, values, sexual orientation, culture, economic class, or religion. Psychological diversity is often overlooked but is the most important kind of diversity because it is at the core of explaining the differences between people.

My Way or the Highway: The Power of Perception

It is impossible to experience how other people perceive the world. While you can gain an intellectual understanding and a sincere appreciation of perceptual differences, you cannot have the actual experience of someone else’s perception. Your Perceptual Style is at the core of a vast array of natural skills and talents that make you uniquely you. Claiming your natural talents and doing more of what you do best will bring you tremendous satisfaction, meaning, success, and happiness.

Living Beyond the Statistic and Claiming Your Talent Advantage

Building your daily actions around your natural skills means claiming Your Talent Advantage. Knowing what you do naturally well makes a difference in all aspects of your life; family, friendships, hobbies, work, everything. People are happiest and most satisfied in life when they are engaged in actions and activities that draw upon their natural capacities, skills, and abilities. Don’t become part of the statistic of people who hate what they do. Life is too short to spend it toiling at something that is no fun.

Un-used Potential
Millions of talents and gifts come and go from this world packaged within people who never used them. Yet, when you discover and use a hidden talent and/or gift, you significantly enrich your life and the lives of others.

Lesson #2: Know Yourself
In order to succeed, you need to know what you are good at. A talent, according to Lucas is “a combination of something you love a great deal, something you can lose yourself in – something that you can start at 9 in the morning, look up from your work and it’s 10 o’clock at night – and something that you have a natural ability to do very well.”

Lesson #4: Find Your Raison d’Etre
When Puck was asked once by a reporter what the best part of his job was, he replied, “The opportunity to work in the kitchen every day.”

Lesson #2: Don’t Take The Shortcut
“There are no shortcuts,” says Cuban. “Everyone tells you how they are going to be ‘special,’ but few do the work to get there. Do the work.”

Andrew Carnegie Quotes
Andrew Carnegie Quotes

Lesson #3: Stretch Your Brand but Do Not Let It Snap
“When I began making jeans, the press was skeptical that someone who made luxury ready-to-wear could start something so commercial,” says Armani. “But I considered it a medium to speak with a less affluent clientele.”

Lesson #4: Know Your Opportunities - and Your Limits
Entrepreneurship begins with a dream, and it means having the courage to follow through on that dream. But the danger that lurks for ambitious entrepreneurs is in not knowing how far to take that dream, and when it is time to call it quits.

Connecting with Connectors

My new book -- Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time -- was recently released by Currency/Doubleday. In Never Eat Alone, I expose many secrets behind the success of so many accomplished people. Most of these secrets involve the power of relationships and how we all can succeed best in business and in life by contributing to the success of others. The mindset and techniques that have helped me meet and connect with so many amazing people, all of which have meant everything to my professional success and personal joy, are distilled into 31 simple and fun chapters that are easy to read and to follow.

What You SAY is What You Get - How to Speak Your Way to Success

If you are going to be successful in creating the life of your dreams, you have to believe that you are capable of making it happen. You have to believe you have the right stuff, that you are able to pull it off. You have to believe in yourself. Whether you call it self-esteem, self-confidence, or self-assurance, it is a deep-seated belief that you have what it takes – the abilities, inner resources, talents, and skills to create your desired results.

Two Heads Are Better than One
How to Accelerate Your Success with a Mastermind Group

The Entrepreneurial Spirit
Fred Karl, designer of the Viking range and owner of that company said, "I was a weird kid—I began designing towns when I was 12." We all know that "weird" can be good, if we don't judge others through our lens ... Being weird increases creativity if we allow it to flourish. Fred Karl, founder of Viking Range, let his weirdness flourish abundantly.

What You SAY is What You Get: How to Speak Your Way to Success
In the previous issue of Success Strategies, I talked about how in order to be successful, we must first define what success means to us, and that means getting CLEAR about what you want, writing it down, and thinking BIG!

How to Accelerate Your Success with a Mastermind Group
We all know that two heads are better than one when it comes to solving a problem or creating a result. So imagine having a permanent group of five or six people who meet every week for the purpose of problem solving, brainstorming, networking, and encouraging and motivating each other!

Most of the Time Talent's Not Enough

You're a talented writer, designer, speaker, consultant, coach, salesperson, but doors aren't flying open for you. Why not? Talent, I'm afraid, is assumed - a lot of people have talent. It's the price to get into the game. Talent, married with creativity, however, is how you get out of the cheap seats. (In fact, creativity will allow you to get places with lesser talent than others - oops, potential self indictment)

Money with Meaning: Living Your Life “On Purpose”
Why are you here? Why are you on the planet right now? Many people believe we each come into this life with a purpose, a reason for living. Considering that every element in nature has a specific purpose for existing, and we are an integral part of nature, it stands to reason that we have a purpose too.

Business Plan - Charter
Back when I was 21 years old I figured you had to start somewhere. Our business plan started with a “charter statement” which – in hindsight – was roughly equivalent to a vision statement.

Seven Deadly Workplace Sins. First Up: Pride
Recently, I read an article from Careerbuilder.com about the Seven Deadly Workplace Sins. I’d have to agree that they did a pretty good job pinpointing the vices that can surely get you in trouble at work. Missing only the stone tablets and Moses, they’re some pretty good sins to avoid if you want to succeed professionally.

Perspective
Quit your griping - use what you've got! In 1993 the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce recognized John Foppe as one of Ten Outstanding Young Americans. John worked as a speaker while in college and graduated cum laude in just three and a half years. He's also a gifted artist and an inspiration to all who know him.

Can Anyone Be A Major League Pitcher?
Alan Shimel has a fantastic post up titled Do they have to grow up? As I read it, I thought of some of the great lessons my dad taught me when I was a little kid and how hard they must have been for him to carry out.

How to Stay Energized in Your Job Search

Several people have written me recently asking the same question: How do I stay energized and keep my confidence up while I'm looking for work? I know it can be hard, but try to focus on the idea that a period out of work is an opportunity - a time to home in on what's important, both personally and in your career journey. To help you (or someone you know) with that, I've put together some relationship-centric tips to help job hunters stay proactive.

Graphic Design Goal
Graphic design is based on objective goals, not subjective opinions like "I like red!" The design of your ads, brochures, newsletters, proposals, and web site should be determined by the image you want to communicate.

Two Important Qualities
There are a lot of similarities between business and baseball, and in ways they are interchangeable. I played baseball in high school and became captain of the team. I learned a lot about how teams can excel with the right leadership and with regard to the specific talents of each player. It was a great education.

When You Care Enough to Aggregate the Very Best
There is no better way to please and impress people around Christmas time than to make them something. If you can cook, make them a meal. If you can paint, make them a painting. If you can sculpt, make them a sculpture-you get the picture.

How To Widen The Gap Between Your Compensation Versus Your Value

Are entrepreneurs the only ones that own their own business? Everyone is really in business for him / herself, like an independent contractor. How you perceive the connection between the employee mind-set and that of an independent contractor is imperative. The independent contractor like the successful entreprneur, has a responsibility to maximize and deliver value. What can you do to deliver your assigned responsibilities with a new approach and be proactive with your talents in a way that creates maximum value? This article offer 2 key areas of focus for employees to increase your value, widening the gap between your worth and your compensation. Those are the folks who never get laid off, no matter what the economy is doing.

Finding Meaningful Work Starts With Self Awareness
Self Awareness is the first step in finding meaningful work. You must know your strengths, values and talents. More than that however you must be aware of your thoughts and how they affect the work that you do. Only by keeping your thoughts focused on the result you want will you begin to the journey toward meaningful work.

Knowing Your Unique Gifts
When Bill became my client he had a very successful recruiting business but he could see the business environment was changing. He felt that he was not using his natural gifts effectively in his business and he wanted some help in identifying what he could do with those talents that would provide him with more fulfilling work.

Diversity Training Can Help Your Business Succeed
Diversity training sometimes elicits disbelieving stares and head shakes. What if I told you you could use the power of diversity to make your company run even better? There are many benefits to using diversity training as a tool to help your business move forward. Discover a new perspective that will help you use the talents and abilities of your diverse workforce and create positive results.

Leadership Coaching to Discover Your Talents and Strengths: Strategies for Leadership Development
Most of us have a poor sense of our talents and strengths. Throughout our education and careers, there is a lot of attention paid to our weaknesses. We are acutely aware of our faults and deficits, our "opportunities for development," or whatever euphemism is popular for naming them.

Be Aware of Your Behaviors
Leadership is not something you learn once and for all. It is an ever-evolving pattern of skills, talents, and ideas that grow and change as you do.

When You Are What You Do
Are you an extension of your job or is your job an extension of who you are?

Trade Show Selling
Trade shows provide a unique but different type of opportunity to sell your products and services. Here are some tips to help you maximize your time and effectivness.

Evolve Your Strategic Mindset
Get your mind right and your business will follow

Passion - The Great Differentiator

Imagine that there is a cornerstone on which all performance-driven organizations are built. A cornerstone that–if you placed it–would ensure that your team or organization relentlessly delivered top-tier results. What would that cornerstone be? Based on "The Passion Principle: Designing a Passionate Organization", the first book in the "Passionate Lives and Leaders" Series, this article will show you that there are many components of success, but only one that’s not optional: Passion.

Learn How to Celebrate Your Limitations for Life Success
Having a life success with meaning and fulfillment requires not only knowing your gifts and talents, but also knowing your limitations. Knowing what you cannot do is just as important as knowing what you can.

Work on your Strengths, it's SIMPLE.
The following article outlines the relationship between meaningful work and a persons strength. The article discusses the data behind the Strength revolution and outlines a SIMPLE model to follow when looking at using your strengths in the workplace.

Life Success in 3 Steps
Distinguishing between those skills that fit you naturally versus those you had to work hard to develop is the key to a life of success. Having a clear plan for the specific behaviors and skills you want to develop is important.

Relationship Selling, So What Is A Relationship
Six key points to create strong bsiness relationships that drive sales and business.

Impossible Achievements

Last weekend, I did something that I thought was impossible. I broke a piece of wood into two pieces with my bare hand. I was in total shock afterward, but a good kind of shock. Breaking that wood was such a stretch for me that afterward, my mind started to play tricks on me. I wondered if I did really do it. Luck for me, there was a room full of people watching me and could verify that I did actually do it. AND I have the piece of wood to prove it!

Positive ADHD Traits
Just like adults who don’t have ADHD, not all people with ADHD have the same talents and strengths. However, there are a group of positive talents that are often seen in people with ADHD and below are five of them. Give yourself credit for the things you do well. This in turn will boast your confidence and self-esteem.

Battling the Bully - Standing Up for Yourself with Confidence and Assertiveness

I learned at an early age that if you allow people to bully, harass, or cut you down, then they will do so. If, on the other hand, you make a decision to stand up for yourself and not allow the bully to take control, then s/he will move on to someone or something else. This article provides four steps you can take to battle the bullies in your life, with confidence and assertiveness, once and for all.

Can You Say “This Is It” for Yourself?
I am profoundly inspired... in a life-changing kinda way. I saw the new Michael Jackson movie, This Is It, yesterday. It blew my white rhinestone socks off! (Truth be told, I had tear dewbies at several points in the movie - it is that powerful!) As an entrepreneur, and a soul-driven person, it spoke to the depths of me.

"Doing What Comes Naturally"
One of the key skills of managers is to spot talent and nurture it. Not just in the odd person who comes along with obvious talent, but in those who are unaware of their talents or those who keep them hidden. Read this article to find out why nurturing talent is the secret to organisational success.

7 Characteristics of Achievers
Why do some people continually achieve great things, while others merely dream of bettering themselves? Are people born with some sort of "achievement gene", or can you learn to be an achiever? I believe that anyone can accomplish what they desire in life. By being aware of the characteristics of achievers, you really can change your thinking and take action now!

Who Do You Think You Are?
The more you understand your authentic vision for yourself, the more successful you will be and the more effortless it will feel. Ask yourself these 10 questions to get started crafting your perfect vision.

Is Attitude Gratitude Or Is Gratitude Attitude?

I often wonder about whether attitude is gratitude, or if gratitude is attitude. Actually, I think it is both. If your attitude is positive, more than likely you are thankful for everything that you have. And, if you are grateful for what you have, that says a great deal about your attitude. In either case, being grateful is positive, and it can have a huge influence on how you approach life and deal with daily issues. This article provides some tips on embracing gratitude, which will help you to develop and maintain a positive attitude.

10 Secrets to Team Development
Teams must work harder and smarter than before in order to be recognized for their achievements. Right now is not an 'employee's market'... so how do "teams" build and grow and succeed?

Tips for Starting a New SEO Business

What I want to talk about is something that is even more important that than just possessing the genuine SEO skills or which types of actions you will take in your optimization work. Let's discuss just a little bit about building a brand new business based on a few ideas that will set you aside from ALL your competition. The SEO marketplace is loaded with people who all say they know SEO and can optimize Web pages. So for your new business, are you going to just become one more of them. You don't want to be lost in the crowd.

Let your feelings lead you and others
The human being is rather a 'human feeling'.

Start Managing Using Your Sales Team’s Talents & Stop Focusing on Their Weaknesses

From you role in sales management, do you manage from a perspective focusing on existing talents or from a weakness one? If you truthfully answered from a more negative than positive focus, then can you answer this question?: Why do winning teams win because of their strengths or their weaknesses? Now is the team to change your management style especially if you wish to increase sales and have a high performance sales team.

Check Your Bank Account. There Is A Deposit Of 84,600
Wouldn't it be amazing if... today, you log online and open your bank account. You find a deposit of 84,600. What is the first thing you would do? How would you feel? How would you spend it? Stop for a moment before reading on and visualize that scenario for yourself. Really get into it and feel it. What a thrill this is.

Sales Motivation - Self analysis questions to keep you motivated in Sales
Sometimes we can lose our way in sales and lose sight of why we are doing things. If you ever feel like you need some extra motivation or that you are losing your way then try these self analysis questions to keep you on track. They will keep you focused and help you sell more while enjoying the process.

Navigating the World of Differing Opinions For Real-World Success
What you perceive is what you experience as real. Differing perceptions are at the bottom of so many unending arguments about who is right and who is wrong, serving no purpose other than to create conflict and push people apart. Real success in life comes from the ability to understand differing perceptions.

Retaining Employees – Protecting Your Most Important Asset

Developing and maintaining an employee retention program demonstrates that you value your employees and want them to succeed. They will be happier, look forward to coming to work, and want to remain with the organization. Satisfied employees are more committed and loyal, resulting in a productive work environment. This article provides helpful tips on how to retain your employees, your most important asset.

Life without Leaders
A discussion on how leadership makes a difference and what makes a leader.

Three Business-Building Ideas To "Steal"

One of the great joys of our work is meeting a wide range of successful local business owners. Each has a wonderful story to tell about how they created and developed their firm, and each has special challenges. Each owner has a set of talents that make his or her business unique, and some valuable lessons for all of us on what has worked for them. On the principal that it’s easier to follow someone else’s best practices than spend time and effort making up our own, here are some lessons we can all apply from business people right in our own neighbourhood.

4 Keys to Achieve Success With Your Virtual Teams
Virtual teams are the way of the future. Businesses no longer need to tie in full time employees at exorbitant costs when they don't have to - they can hire virtual employees/contractors to do the same work at a fraction of the cost. So how do you make the most of hiring virtual staff and make this work for you?

Ten Characteristics Of Meaningful Work
What is meaningful work? If you are working 8+ hours each day, that work should add meaning to your life and thus make you feel fulfilled, satisfied and happy. Does your work do that for you? To help to identify meaningful work for you, I’ve written a list of 10 characteristics that make the work meaningful.

What Creates Confidence?
Do you lack personal or professional confidence? Do you often wonder at how others can appear to feel so confident? Discover the path to both personal and professional confidence.

You're a Manager. Now What?
Congratulations....you’re a manager! Now what? You’ve gone from being managed to doing the managing without benefit of the “how to” book and no...manuals rarely work. As an executive coach you know I’m going to say experience beats any book. So how do you make that transition?

Talents
Exploring and gaining insight into your talents allows you to tap into and leverage hidden or unrecognized abilities and maximize your income earning potential.

Does everybody live by selling something?

Whether we call ourselves a salesperson or not, if we have an idea, product, service, skill, capability, talent, or opportunity by which we can make a living and others can benefit from, we need to be able to sell. This means that whatever role we are in, we all need to put ourselves in a position to secure the ongoing custom of customers, members, patients, supporters, peers, students, sponsors, or clients to make a living. Even internal service providers such as HR and Procurement professionals need to be able to sell and consult in order to fulfill their roles accordingly.

How to Increase Your Sphere of Influence
What is influence, and why would you want to increase your sphere of it?

Business Opportunity Success Teams To Build A Home Business

Business opportunity success teams make money online by pooling talents and sharing the workload. Work at home used to mean working alone. Anyone can make a living online if they are willing to learn how to harness the power of the Internet. You can shorten the learning curve by participating in home based business success teams to make money online. Making the decision work at home should never be taken lightly. Wishful thinking of making mounds of money with no effort seems to plague the Internet. Years of hype, half truths and misleading information persist even today when people are looking at online business opportunity. The biggest lie and the greatest truth about online marketing are so closely related that it would almost qualify as an urban legend. The Internet is changing and opening the doors for business opportunity.

10 Steps to Escape the Job World and Create the Life You Really Want

How many of us will look back in our old age and wish we'd gone to more meetings or put in more overtime. The point? Despite pressure to “play it safe” by sticking with your day job ("...but dear, you have a good job, you want to be HAPPY too?") you have every right to follow your entrepreneurial dreams. With the realization that life is for living comes the understanding that it is up to you – and you alone – to create the kind of life you really want.

Michael Jackson’s Comeback – Why You Can’t Wait to Show Your Gifts
Love him or hate him, Michael Jackson left a huge legacy in the world.Jackson’s sudden death shocked the world and it also made us realize that we can be here today and gone tomorrow. Find out how Jackson's legacy can inspire you to show your talents to the world.

That Inner Smile makes the Entrepreneur a Success

“The most attractive thing anyone can wear is a smile, something money can’t buy and shops don’t sell! Looking good comes as much from within, Confidence, happiness and joy, that inner beauty”. Positive attitude comes with a smile! Negative thoughts are infectious. Once you wear a long face, it affects all around you, It is very easy to slip into negative thinking. Optimists have failures too, but they tend to blame the failure on factors that are external to themselves, temporary and specific to this instance. For the negative person however, they claim it is their own fault, and it always happens to them. They take Murphy’s Law to heart, “if it can go wrong, it will”…They look on the glass as always half empty. There are also people who have learnt the behavior of negativity.

Increase Sales by Remembering Your Footprints in the Sands of Business
Many individuals know the poem “Footprints in the Sands.” In business and especially in sales, we leave our own footprints. With the economy expanding from local to global, our footprints in the sands of business can quickly disappear.

What Are YOU Good At?

Recently, during a corporate training session at LEGO, I asked a group of professionals to write down 20 qualities about themselves, 20 strengths of their personal brand. One woman looked completely dumbfounded. She stared down at the blank sheet of paper and finally said, "Rahna, that's got to be the hardest thing you could've asked for!" She was stumped. She had no idea what to write and sadder still, she had no idea what she was good at! This is a woman in a very large, very well-known company that conducts annual formal performance reviews....and still she didn't know. Can you imagine?

Self-Growth Equals Striving to Reach your Potential
Growth is all about moving to reach our potential as fully-functioning fully-alive human beings. The major keys in this article, i.e. why we should never compare ourselves to others, shows us how to do this. It also gives tools to broaden our perspective of ourselves and thereby stop being self-limiting.

What do you want from your work?
Shockingly many people don't really know why they do the job they do. Most people on the otherhansd are desperate for a sense of calling or vocation. Find out how to discover and enjoy the certain knowldeg that you are in the job you were made for.

Choosing A Path
Reading in the airport while waiting for a flight to Houston, a housekeeper was tidying around me when approached by another facilities employee. After a few minutes of easily overheard chit-chat, she received coaching from her now apparent supervisor.

Personal Branding From The King of Pop
Yesterday, the world heard the bizarre news that Michael Jackson, the self-proclaimed King of Pop, had died. Talk about a strong personal brand. Here's a guy who was absolutely unique-unlike anyone else. You may love him, you may hate him, but one thing is certain: you know him. You understand who he was, what he has done, what he stood for and what he was all about.

Celebrate Your Talents

As an adult with ADHD, it is very easy to focus on your weaknesses and areas “to be worked on.” So much thought can be given to these areas that it’s easy to forget about your talents. Many adults with ADHD are humble to a fault and dismiss their talents because they come so easily. Naturally, they don’t feel they can be proud of these traits, or that they aren’t valuable. Nothing could be further from the truth. When you notice what you are good at, you can spend more time utilizing your strengths and less time worrying about your weaknesses.

Keeping Your Home Based Business Going After The Rush Has Worn Off
Starting your home based business is a challenge; everything is new, and it's very easy to just put in the extra hours because you're building something for yourself, not working extra hours for a boss who doesn't appreciate your talents or work ethic. It's easy to get wrapped up in the work and to dig down deep into the details that make your business yours.

How to Create the Best Life for You

It’s likely your current work pressures are forcing you to work longer hours and pushing personal interests aside. But passionate non-work interests are as important to your life as work. You have an array of talents, triggered by passionate interests to develop natural potential. If you strive for personal growth only through your work, you are living a narrow life. But it’s never too late to change.

Managing a Mid-life Makeover
Is it time to revitalize or reinvent your career? Try these exercises to help spark the process of creative transformation.

Do People See The
Much like Susan Boyle, the vast majority of people are toiling, waiting and attempting to pay their dues, hoping that their big break will soon come. But is anyone really looking past your outward cosmetic exterior, in an honest attempt to see the "real" you which lies within?

Thinking Of Starting A Home Business? Find Out What It Takes To Succeed!
You've probably heard it said that entrepreneurs are a special breed. Some observers have even gone so far as to say that entrepreneurs are born and not made, or at least that their early environment predisposes them to business success.

Develop your talents even if bored
I've learned not to allow boredom to cause me to quit learning a craft.

Holding your self to a higher standar
I met Cesco from ‘Primi World’, a wonderful restaurant chain in South Africa. Cesco and his partner, Peter, have set up one of the greatest eating establishments I have had the pleasure to visit. In my interview with Cesco, he made a comment that I would like to share with you. I asked him what drives him and keeps him going?

80/20 Principle in Entrepreneurship

To work effectively and profitably in business our 20% input of work should yield 80% output. 1. Where is the 20% input in your daily work either at home or in business that returns 80% rewards? 2. What has to happen in your business to pay attention and focus on that best 80% return? We should act on what inspires us. Sometimes unknown to ourselves, there is a power in us greater than our resistance. Because of this we should feed our inspiration and starve our resistance. Do not rob the world of what you have to share.

The Importance of Uncovering Your Core Desires
If it seems that success and achievement are still eluding you then you are not alone. I often encounter people who tell me they feel discouraged and that they feel those things are unattainable for them.

Empowerment – Taking Control Of Your Life
Do you feel powerless? Do you feel that others control your life? If you answered yes and you are ready to take control of your life, here are some steps you can start taking today to become empowered and the master of your life.

How To Stay Positive in Business and Sales
Many studies, such as Amen Clinics Research, illustrate the importance of a positive mind for physical health, mental health, creativity, productivity, focus, discipline, fulfillment, imagination, and dedication. All of these benefits have a direct impact on living more fulfilling lives and experiencing better results in business.

HOW YOU CAN FORGE YOUR NEW LIFE OUT OF THE FINANCIAL MELTDOWN
You can let the financial meltdown run your life, or you can run your own life. The shortage of money – actual or feared – is causing people to look for a new direction in life. You have some powerful natural weapons at your disposal to help you forge the direction you always wanted to go. Your authentic inner self knows what I am talking about.

You Schmooze, You Lose!

I generally think of myself as a borderline introvert/extrovert. Despite this, much of my business comes through networking and referrals; this marketing strategy requires me to go to events, meet strangers, make phone calls, schedule appointments, and actively cultivate new relationships. This is a breeze on my “extrovert” days, and much more of a struggle on my “introvert” days. What I’ve found, though, is that the more selective I am about where, when, and how I network, the easier it all is, regardless of how I’m feeling on a particular day. In this article I explore some basic principles for making in-person networking more comfortable, more fulfilling, and more fun, regardless of whether you’re building a business, advancing your career, or just wanting to meet new friends!

Balancing Work and Life
A physician said to me in 1986, after I had first started my own business for three years: "There is more to life than working hard and making money." Now, I'm seeing his protege at the same office. My former physician passed on. But his words stay for me. I miss him.

Engaging Your Employees During Difficult Economic Times
Tips for keeping your employees engaged when times are tough.

Succeeding in the Midst of Challenging Times
In times of economic challenges most people look at life from a position of what isn’t working as opposed to what is. Even more so, if you equate yourselves with what you do rather than who you are, and you’re struggling in your work, it will fundamentally impact your life. Don't ever take your gifts for granted.

The Secret of Success
The secret that guarantees success and a happy life.

Leadership Strategy - One Size Success Does Not Fit All
If you are very successful, by whose standards do you feel successful? If you are not getting up in the morning looking forward to the day and the contribution you will make, that is a sure signal trying to get your attention There comes a time when you know there is another way and something else is possible.

Recognizing the Power of Belief
Whether you realize it or not, beliefs control the world. They cause nations to go to war. They cause people to get married and divorced, they determine the car you drive and the physical shape you are in. They also determine whether a customer buys or doesn't buy.

What Impact Are You Having On Others?
An article of 1432 words explaining how to make the impact you want in the lives of those you meet along your journey through life.

Simply Speaking Increase Sales Using These 7 Words
Imagine just by changing 7 words that you currently use now as a sales professional you could quickly increase sales. Would that be of interest to you? If you are so inclined to improve your sales skills and therefore your sales results, then read on.

How To Destroy The Bridge Between Generations - Scoop 44
Creating effective communication within organization

As Good as Anyone
You can use your relationship status, your lack of money, the lost contract and the spilled milk (or whatever) as an excuse for why you’re not living up to your potential. You can blame external circumstances and other people all you want, but nothing will change until your attitude does.

Six Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurship
James Chan presents six lessons on running a successful one-person business.

Companies Develop Leaders? 10 Ways to Know
Is your company paying enough attention to internal leadership development? Here are 10 ways to determine if developing the next generation of company executives is a strategic objective.

So You Just Got Promoted to Management – What Next?
This article provides an excellent process to use when you get promoted to your first or subsequent management position.

How to Shift From Fat & Nice to Lean & Mean to Increase Sales
Have you ever considered that maybe one of the reasons for your less that stellar sales is because you are just too fat and nice? Read how by being lazy to not having enforced accountability, you may be your own worst enemy.

Without Emotional Intelligence Sustainable Change Can’t Happen

Emotional Intelligence is not fluffy or “touchy-feely.” For anyone who interacts with and influences others, it is the most critical skill set to develop and improve. When you think about any situation in your own life, can you imagine it without an emotional component? Probably not. Emotions and feelings are at the core of everything we do; feeling are always involved. So how does Emotional Intelligence relate to sustainable change?

Work At Home Mom- Learning To Take Care Of Yourself
As a work at home mom you will experience plenty of opportunities to explore your talents in a flexible and convenient way. One of the best things about being a work at home mom is that you not only get to spend time with your family but also devote time to your home based business.

Increase Sales By No Longer Being the Toad in the Road
If you could be anything but a salesperson and still increase sales, would that be of interest to you? Read how you may need to change your focus from your weaknesses by truly leveraging your talents.

Where Are You Looking For Success?

Success is not found somewhere out there-success resides inside, for each of us. You already have what it takes to succeed in life. You were born with all you need. Your birth certificate doesn't come with any guarantees of success, but when you were born you came fully equipped with talents, abilities, desires, and choices. As you grow and progress through every stage of life, you discover that there are things you really want-things you now have your heart set on. As you identify those things and make wise choices, your success is assured.

Engagement, Performance, Retention - Where Do Your Employees Fit?
Employers need to look forward and not hunker down during an economic crisis. You do this by using all the tools at your disposal and by understanding your employees and where they fit in your organization.

Providing a Blueprint for Generational Leadership
Learn about succession planning and how to tap into the skill set of each generation

Pay my dues Why What are you doing for me
Paying your dues are a Gen Y'er

CARVE YOUR SUCCESS KEY
I had just finished commenting to my husband how much I liked the use of copper in the Parade of Homes' kitchen we were touring, when I overheard another woman telling her husband how much she disliked the look. It made me laugh. It's funny how we see things differently.

5 Tips For Starting A Home Based Business

Today, more and more people are fighting a trying economy and looking for alternative ways to make a living from home, saving on transportation and child care costs in the process. And, according to recent surveys, nearly half of all adults just in North American alone have wanted to start their own home based business, but only a small fraction of them will act on their ideas, and even a smaller number of those who do will know where to begin.

Forming a Successful Sales Team

Perhaps the greatest change in organizations today is the shift from independence to interdependence, from individual efforts to teaming. Teamwork is having a profound impact on selling. Many companies today leverage the synergy of teams by sending two or three team members to sell an account. This is especially true when accounts represent significant revenue or when the team will be cross-selling various products. If you're thinking about bringing in a selling partner, or if a sales team is about to be formed, consider these ideas when setting up the team:

Focus On What's Right
Trying to fix what you (or other people) perceive to be wrong with you is not going to make you feel happier or more fulfilled.

How to Perform at Your Best and Stay Employed
Unemployment is growing at this time; however, there are many actions you can take to help you stay employed, enjoy your work and become a more valuable asset to your organization. You can accomplish this by learning to play off the best attributes you bring, or could learn to bring, to the job.

Five Fundamentals to Sales Super-Stardom in 2009

The single biggest difference between success and failure is your attitude. While this might be a much talked about concept in all walks of life, the reality is that only a very few actually ever truly get it. Great attitude is the common denominator of success; everything else including talent follows or is learnt. Top sports people have got it, top business people have got it and top salespeople have got it.

Is A Children's Small Business Franchise Right For You
Working with kids is profitable, but is it for you? Here are some questions you can ask yourself before jumping into a children’s franchise.

Mother of Three Finds Freedom Flexibility and Success in Less Than One Year as a Home Stager
Expert home stager, the Staging Diva®, shares a success story about one of the Graduates of her home staging training program.

Stop Living on Auto-Pilot
When we discover who we really are, we stop living on auto-pilot and start to live with intention, focus and purpose.

You need involvement
If you're looking to build connections for you and your business, then you need involvement, too. Networking requires you to know other people, and successful entrepreneurs know the best way to do that is to be involved.

Play To Their Strengths
If you’re not getting the best out of your workplaceteam, you may be playing people in the wrong positions. Find out how you can transform your team’s performance by the simple skill of playing to your team’s strengths.

I Wanna Be a Kid Again! - It's More Fun Than Retiring

I loved being a kid and I learned so much while I was playing. But life became serious. I started taking courses I didn't want to do and try to be someone I didn't want to be. Fun became a waste of time that could be better used on making money. Before you know it, life is slipping by fast. At 60, bosses tell you "you're too old to work anymore...go book into God's waiting room and pass the time until you die". That's when I exploded.

Work + Leisure = Wealth
What sort of response would you get from the boss if, on a working day, you said you were off to play golf? The answer could be an enthusiastic yes if the boss is serious about getting and keeping the best staff to do their best work. The power of leisure lies in its ripple effect. This article will interest those who think the title should read work minus leisure equals wealth.

Home Staging The Perfect Career for Baby Boomers Nearing Golden Years

The economy has everyone worried about their financial situation, especially those nearing retirement age. Many baby boomers consider starting a small business to supplement their income into their retirement years, while affording them the flexibility to pursue their passions and hobbies in a way they didn't have time for when they were younger. The Staging Diva® shares why home staging is the ideal career to get into at any age.

MAKING REQUESTS GRACIOUSLY

Much of my work focuses on encouraging people to acknowledge and harness the gifts and talents they already possess because I believe that kind of thinking leads to excellence and success. Part of acknowledging our strengths is making peace with our areas of weakness. This article teaches you how to graciously make requests of others in those situations where your own personal gifts, talents, time, money, etc. just aren’t enough to get the job done alone.

THE FOUR KEYS TO NETWORKING CONFIDENCE & SUCCESS
The best four strategies for improving your networking.

INSPIRING QUOTATIONS FOR BUILDING CONFIDENCE
INSPIRING QUOTATIONS FOR BUILDING CONFIDENCE

Is Your Sales Model Effective? Know Your Salesforce ABC's

What happens when you compare a model like Deborah's - if you're gonna go hunting you'd better come back with dinner - with a model that has its salespeople making 3 sales calls per day, or around 60 per month? Do you think those salespeople come back with 60 new customers or orders per month? No chance! They probably sell 10. That's why they're on so many calls. What would happen if you told those salespeople that you only wanted them to go on 30 calls per month, but you want them to be a lot more selective, and you expected them to close 50% instead of 10%?

Your Inner Entrepreneur
Recently I was asked by a friend “how do you see so many opportunities?” I thought about her question for a while and was not sure how to answer and said “My mind always sees the big picture, but I’m not sure why.”

How Do I Find Clients For My Bookkeeping Business?
When you decide to run your own bookkeeping business, one of your biggest problems getting started is finding clients. If you are smart, you will have a few clients set up before you quit your regular job. But, where do you find these clients?

Real Work at Home Jobs - Why Cant You Find One?
With the rise of work at home opportunists comes more real work at home jobs. But before you start throwing your hats up in the air consider what youre about to read very carefully. The supply will probably never meet the demand when it comes to real work at home jobs.

Before Venturing into the World of Franchise
An excellent way to give you the benefits of both being part of a reputable brand name and spending a lot less on advertising, is becoming part of a franchise.

Yes, No & The Choices We Make
How do we go about making changes and gain better balance in life? It starts by looking at the choices being made. You are either moving away from or towards balance and harmony based on your daily choices.

Cleavage in the Boardroom
New approach to show your intellectual genius.

Expect Victory

Do you wake up in the morning thinking, “This is going to be a lousy day” or “Nothing good ever happens to me”? If you have an important presentation to make, do you tell yourself, “I don’t have a chance at closing this sale”? Winners wake up every morning with excitement, enthusiasm, and confidence, knowing that success is in store for them. Billy Cox gives you the steps for living with positive expectancy.

Overcoming Self-Doubt
An article of 11318 words which details the four steps involved in overcoming self-doubt through confidence and self-esteem.

Using Your USP When Writing Job Ads To Attract Great Employees

I have heard many businesses moaning that they haven’t had a single application to an ad – and yet some businesses are snowed under with applications. What’s the difference? The smart business knows that in a candidate poor market you have to sell the benefits of working for your company BEFORE the candidate will consider applying for a job with you. This is where your USP or unique selling proposition comes in.

Top 10 Ways to Maximize Your Marketing Dollars
Top 10 Ways to Maximize Your Marketing Dollars

Are You Making the Most of the 80/20 Rule?

80/20 Principle: 20% of everything you do results in 80% of your outcomes. Ouch! That's a tricky concept, isn't it? Yet, understanding what it means to your business - and your life - is essential to earning what you're worth, and doing so in less time. If only you could understand what that 20% is, and what the heck you're doing with your time. The trick is knowing, without question, what your customers pay you for, and matching that up with engaging your best talents in your work. When you find the intersection it's magic.

I'm Not Interesting Enough to be in the Media
Think of your business as a separate entity that deserves respect and caring. Remember, you are the only you around. No one does what you do quite like you do it. Whether you know it, or even want to believe it, you're an original, you're unique. So start viewing yourself that way.

Mastering the Art of Executive Presence
As an executive you virtually live in a fishbowl. People are constantly observing you and forming opinions about your capabilities. You must constantly and genuinely mold these opinions about who you are, and what you can accomplish.You must master the art of executive presence.

Can You Change Your Destiny?
Anyone can make great strides towards advancing in the direction of their destiny – but it takes a definite shift in attitude, a definite shift in action, and a bit of courage…

Yes, Smart Women are Unique!
We are all unique. We each have our own distinct gifts, talents and preferences. There is only one you. Ladies, that’s powerful! Take some time to explore your unique gifts, where your energies lie, and bring it to the world. Everything is possible. Everything is waiting for you.

You ARE a GREAT Mother (even if you don’t have kids)!
The nature of the Mother within you is a powerful leader and an intelligent woman. This means you have a purpose that extends past your home and into the world. That is why you often want more. Is it any wonder that women are the fastest growing group of Entrepreneurs?

What Instrument Do You Play In The Symphony Of Life?
It is sometimes hard to figure out your place in life. What is your purpose? What are you meant to do in life? I like to think of life as a large symphony. Each player in the symphony plays a certain part. There are different instruments in each section –piano, violins, cellos, flutes, trumpets, percussion. Each section seeks to play in harmony with the other.

Interesting Ways To Make Money Online
There are a number of interesting ways to make money online. Many individuals around the world are now making a lucrative income by simply working online. Now, I know you all have heard about making money through various types of affiliate programs. However, I am going to sway a little from the norm and share with you some new, innovative ways to make money on the internet.

Help, I Don't Want to be a Salesperson
When you hear the word "salesperson" do you cringe? But you realize if you don't learn how to sell you'll be out of business.

The Three Rules for Hiring A Players

It is very hard for people to admit that they are not good judges of character. In fact, just about everyone I know thinks he or she is a superb judges of people. But is this true? Are people generally good at assessing the qualities and evaluating the talents of others? The good news is that the research on this question consistently points to the same answer. The bad news is the answer is a resounding no — people are not particularly good judges of character.

How to Effectively Delegate
Effective delegation will leverage your time and your efforts. It will work to develop your team and make them more valuable, more productive and more loyal. If you want to boost your production, spend more of your time on efforts that produce and less time on tasks that are administrative.

Home Based Business – 7 Things To Do Before You Start Your Home Business

These days, a lot of people are searching for a good work-life balance, and having a home based business is the popular option. The limitations of a full time nine to five job, demanding work commitments and commuting to the office have prompted a lot of people to look for an alternative way to earn money and live better lives. Home based businesses are trendy and people are now able to earn good money while working at home.

The Success of a Mentee Is a Mentor’s Ultimate Reward
If you are looking to succeed in business, you should find yourself a mentor, or you can let a mentor find you. A mentor is a person who will guide you, help you, take you under his or her wings, nurture your talents and put you on the path to success. Find out why a mentor is so important and how they can change your perceptions that allow you to create more success than you thought possible.

Your Voice of Choice

I am a voice specialist. I am a voice specialist because I believe the world needs to hear from all of us. Due to stage fright and confidence issues- some of us are not getting our message heard! I just professionally audited an acting class in Los Angeles by a colleague who is one of the world’s most famous acting teachers. His clients win Academy Awards. Today he was teaching a class of future stars in the making. The students were exciting actors with top notch talents and abilities, they chose challenging material, and had given lots of committed thought to their acting intentions and character development.

Turn Job Interviews into Job Offers

We all have only one chance to make a good first impression. Here are some ideas to make the most of your interviews and hopefully turn your interviews into job offers. There are definitely strategies and tactics that make the most of each phase of your interview- The opening phase, the selling phase, outlining benefits, positioning yourself, repositioning your competition, overcoming weaknesses, closing, rapport building, great question asking… to name a few.

Business Literacy Stimulates Entrepreneurial and Personal Mastery—Part 1
In this series, I will share the traits, actions and strategies pertaining to entrepreneurs I’ve gathered over two decades. Business Literacy™ adds order to chaos and reason to scattered efforts and information.

Sharing Yourself
An article of 1044 words describing the process of moving from the lone ranger mentality to connecting with others by letting people in and letting more of yourself out.

A Puzzle: Who Are You?
An article of 1139 words focusing on understanding who you are by identifying pieces of the puzzle of you without judgment to journey towards authenticity.

How To Start A Home Based Business Now?
Can you start a home based business now? Yes, you can start it and have a profitable home based business soon. You just need to follow these 5 essential steps.

Train People to Leave
Who are the most valuable people in your organization? Let’s look at 3 groups; you put them in order of value:

Small Business StartUp Advice Why Picking the Right Market Niche is So Important
If you broke your leg, would you go to a family doctor or an orthopedic surgeon? Well, your potential clients want niched experts as well. It's crucial to pick the niche that's best suited to your expertise.

Five MustHave Skills to Be Successful Home Stager
Many individuals take for granted the things that they naturally do well and assume that everyone else knows how to do those things too. But building a business around those innate talents dramatically increases your chances of success. The following is a list of skills and talents a professional Home Stager should possess to be successful in this business.

Keep Your Message Focused to Get More Clients
The key to delivering a powerful message is focus. While you may indeed be an expert in your field, to be considered one by the media, keep your information targeted and concise.

Outsourcing-how to work less and make more.
Learn how to affordably outsource tasks you don’t like to do and where to find outsourced help.

Are You Maximizing Your Genius?

Most people go to bed thinking about the things they could improve or do better in and very few think about the things that they did well that day. Living your natural genius is all about capitalizing on your strengths and exceptional talents and delegating your areas of weaknesses. Ask yourself: How much more could you accomplish in your business if you were an expert in your strengths and knew how to delegate your weaknesses effectively?

Is Working at Home Really for You?

Having a business that you run out of your home can be very rewarding if gone about the right way. Unfortunately many will give up before beginning to reap the benefits due to many reasons. A large number of the businesses that fail can be traced back to step one - the decision of a.) Whether you are the type of person that should work at home and if so, b.) What type of business you will run out of the home. Working from home can be a dream for some, and a nightmare for others. Not everyone is cut out to run a business and be their own boss. Some don't have the discipline or persistence to follow through. It is crucial to recognize this in yourself right from the start.

Women Entrepreneurs: Can Your Desires Really Make You Money?
There really are tangible ways to make money from your desires because real talents are attached to your desires. This is as true for you as it is for any other woman. Wouldn’t you love to be able to do what you love to do AND still get paid for it?

I am a senior woman in an organization whose power structure is dominated by men. How do I succeed in this game without losing track of who I am?

Women who have attained senior positions in an organization often find it lonely at the top. A 2006 Catalyst Canada study shows that only 4.2% of FP500 companies have a woman as CEO or president. Women make up nearly half the work force, but rarely make it into the ranks of corporate officer. In fact, only 7.3% of so-called “clout titles” belong to women. As a woman in a senior position, you can maintain your personal momentum by staying true to who you are, knowing your strengths and having the confidence to show them off, as I describe below.

Own & Communicate Your Value
Learn how to market yourself in a way that potential prospects see your services and products as a value rather than an expense

Selling the Difference
Cars, dealerships and sales people can be commodities. As a sales person, your job is to move everything you do and everything you have towards being a non-commoditized item or service. You must sell your difference.

Busy About
Once upon a time, a prince and princess lived in stressful palace, surrounded by a stressful village, inside a stressful land. They knew it was stressful because everyone said it was. Their parents, the king and queen, worked from sunrise to sunset hearing issues from their kingdom, weighing the requests, and appropriating the collective harvest to the people of their land.

Weakness is Expensive
Weakness is Expensive...Employees who lack personal power cost you money.

21 Secrets of Shared Leadership
A list of 21 leadership secrets provides you insight you can use as you continue to form your leadership core competencies.

Authentic Living

You are meant to live an authentic life-a life that nourishes your soul, honors your heart, and provides you with meaning and satisfaction. A truly honest approach to your life enables you to act in empowering ways that are joyful for you. As a result, you go with the flow-letting go of guilt or worries about pleasing others who may have their own expectations of you There are certain belief systems and traditional pressures from society and family that make it more challenging to be true to your self. Following are some practices that may help you integrate a greater degree of authenticity in your daily life.

Organizational Talent You Need To Succeed
No organization can continue to prosper and grow without having the right people in the right jobs. Quoting Jack Welch of GE fame, “Winning is about having the best people on your team. It doesn’t help if you’re surrounded by people who are less talented than you are.” So much of leadership is about accomplishing results through others.

Staying on Target
Keep your message targeted and focused. You may be well versed on a number of topics, but believe me, you don’t want to pitch the media a Chinese menu.

Leadership Coaching Based On Organizational Values

Within a leadership development coaching process it is important to know and understand what the stated and actual organizational values are, so both the coach and the colleague can better understand how people fit or align themselves within the organization. A leadership coach needs to be sensitive to how things are actually done within the organization in which they are going to be coaching leaders and other key individuals.

How to get the job you want. 5 things You Can do Right Now to Improve Your Odds.
Whether you are looking for that first job right out of school, or you're ready to seek advancement in your career by re-entering the job market, here are some things you can do right now to improve your chances of getting the outcome you want and deserve.

Tips When Taking Over (Or Transformational Leadership)
If you have just arrived in a new organization, received a promotion to a new position or are new to the management game; this article is designed to help you get a good solid start in your new role.

The Leader as Coach: Creating High Performance in Change

Leaders have never been more critical to an organization’s performance than they are today. Continuous turbulent change makes leadership a more demanding role than ever before. We look to our leaders for not only laying out the path into the future but also to engage, inspire and motivate others to join eagerly in the journey. What’s more, we want our leaders to be trustworthy, modeling the kind of character we expect in someone we willingly follow. This is the route to high performance and many of the old rules no longer apply. This article looks at a new leadership style – the Leader Coach© – that is particularly suited to what’s required in leaders now. To lead as a coach today means new skills and approaches – read on to get started!

Inclusiveness Expands Our Knowledge

Diversity can easily be treated as a buzzword, numbers game or as a program. When this happens, the full power and impact of its meaning is lost. Diversity is much more than a program, hiring a few people of different gender or ethnic backgrounds or allowing a few diverse opinions to surface from time to time. It is actively searching out and embracing the uniqueness, strengths and talents of all people

Sustainability Growth and Talent Are Key
All organizational stakeholders need to be thinking and driving toward the big picture, while still mastering the details. With this objective in mind, the organization must also build a dream team of talent. This allows the organization to be both compliance (sustainable) and performance (growth) oriented.

What New Managers Should Know About Their New Team
I was at a conference recently, where the CEO of a large UK Corporate stated only 3% of the company’s staff was talented. That implied 97% were not. Poppycock!

How to Build a Great Team
Success in the workplace is no different than success in sports. It’s about having the best talent and using that talent, knowledge, skill and strength in the right place at the right time so you and your team can win the game. Do you know who your best talent is? Have you told them? Are you taking care of them? If not…Why not?

Consulting Code Blue

Management consulting skills (or the lack of them) make the difference between the success and failure of a consultant. Poor skills usually result in the consultant not being asked back, or worse, being dismissed. Such dismissal is the consulting equivalent of heart failure. In many hospitals, they would call such a failure a "code blue". I use the term "code blue" to describe the situation of consultants who are quite talented but find themselves out the door and on the outs.

5 Marketing Tips to Grow Your Business And Attract What You Want
Learn 5 tips that will magnetize customers, clients and prospects to boost your sales and forge business relationships.

Don’t Waste Your Talent

As I watched the football play-offs over the last few days, it struck me how we need to consider our talents and how they fit into this game called life. What position can we play that brings us excitement, challenge and success? A position that allows us the opportunity to work hard yet is worth the effort. A position where sometimes we succeed and sometimes we fail but always feeling the importance of the position as it delivers benefits to the team?

12 Steps Toward Greater Career and Life Fulfillment
Clients are always asking us the “secrets” to life/career success and fulfillment. You’ve heard of David Letterman’s Top Ten – here is Cheryl’s Top Twelve steps toward greater fulfillment in your career and your life.

Africa + Nollywood Makes the List of "Eighty Things to Watch in 2008"

JWT, "the largest advertising agency in the U.S. and the fourth-largest full-service network in the world,yesterday, [r]eleased its list of 80 things to watch in 2008." Africa was #1 on their list to watch for "foreign investment and development in." Borrowing Kelly Rowland's line from her hit song, "bump like this," we say "Africa told ya'll they were gonna bump like this, ya'll didn't think that they could bump like this."

Your Dream Job - Go For It! (Even if You Currently Have a Good Job)
Do you have a good job but wonder if you can have your dream job? The difference between a good job and the right job may seem small, but it can make a huge difference for your long-term career satisfaction and for your health and happiness.

The Wheel of Life
Decide what areas you can and will tackle. What actions will you take, and what timescale will you complete those actions in? Are there any areas that you feel you can’t tackle? If so, it may be a signal that it’s time to tackle moving jobs.

Ten Reasons Why Its Best to Accept How You Feel During Change
Change is challenging. It impacts on people and they resist. But sometimes they resist experiencing the feelings that accompany change. Yet accepting and appreciating how you feel in changing situations can help. Here's how...

How to Create Your Personal Work Life Balance Plan
Creating a Work Life Balance Plan is not hard but there are some crucial issues to explore. In essence, you need to 'Plan your work and plan your play'. You may also need to deal with conflicting demands on your time and energy. Here is how to get started.

Business Management Skills - Seven Levels of Delegation
In any business, unless you are a true one man band, you need the help of valuable people around you. By ensuring their capabilities are developed as you go, you will bring along a team supporting you, that will be able to do pretty much everything you can do. Delegating can be tough to get the hang of, but it is of immense value. Here's how to let go, comfortably...

Are You Using Your Greatest Potential?
Your greatest potential is tied to your greatest talents and desires. Grasping this one concept could be the key to opening a huge door of unlimited possibilities and opportunities for you.

Dreams Come True Series II: Dreams Waiting to be Realized
"For the truth is that I already know as much about my fate as I need to know. The day will come when I will die. So the only matter of consequence before me is what I will do with my allotted time. I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze." Richard Bode, author, First You Have to Row a Little Boat

Dreams Come True Series I: Passion Ignites Your Higher Purpose

Many of us had inspiring dreams as we were growing up. Often we abandoned these precious dreams, leaving them sadly behind. Some of us are living those dreams, yet still desire to accomplish special goals that express our unique talents. As years go by, we know that our skills can be used for benefiting others, and for creating a world filled with art, beauty, love, inspiration, passion and compassion.

The Opportunity of Conflict
You will feel better about your professional role and see greater accomplishments. Here are several areas in which you can reconsider the role of conflict and apply different approaches to it.

Worry in the Workplace
Worrying does not serve you at any time. It takes you away from your priorities, diminishes your focus and prevents you from engaging at your full level of competence and confidence. It robs your company or organization of your full capabilities and talents.

Starting A New SEO Business (Part 2) - Tips on Getting Started
After all, once you start building your SEO skills, the light bulb generally comes on in most peoples minds as to how they might like to make use of their talents. Here are a few tips for getting started:

The Gift of Your Talents
Each person is born with talents that she/he is free to share or to hoard. When people share their talents, the world literally becomes a different place. Those who hoard or hide their talents deny the world the benefit of their gifts.

4 Ways To Increase Personal Effectiveness

This article touches upon the importance of Personal Effectivenss in the workplace. It highlights four simple tips that can be followed to achieve the same. One method to improve Personal Effectiveness is through training from an established resource. Personal Effectiveness Training help participants in improving effectiveness through time management and stress management. Organizations gain through interpersonal effectiveness of employees.

Empathy Means Not Going It Alone
When I feel overwhelmed, it's often because I forget that I'm not in competition with the rest of the world, but I always have the option to join in cooperation. That requires that I adjust my attitude toward the rest of the population of the world and see them as other 'selves' rather than threats. This awareness, this attitude, I call 'empathy'.

Leading with Your Strengths

Making a difference starts with banishing negativity from life. Changes happen when we start focusing on our achievements and surrounding ourselves with people who support rather than disparage us. As they have unique perspectives to offer us, we, in turn have unique strengths that they need. This is what I call 'social economy' — we 'supply' them what we have to offer and 'demand' that they offer to those in their circle their unique best.

Better decisions -getting it right!
How is that as sophisticated and intelligent thinkers we can still manage to go through life making some poor decisions?

Leaders Get Paid for What Their People Do
When you get your next paycheck, take a close look at it. The money that was deposited in your bank account was a direct result of the work your people did. You were rewarded for their performance or nonperformance-not yours. To tell yourself anything different is an outright denial of the facts.

Garnering respect in others
Sometimes it's not what you do, but how you do it which brings acknowledgement and success your way. Understanding the idea of respect can play a major role in your ability to obtain it. Take this article as a stimulus for thought on the matter.

Talents! A Remarkable Untapped Phenomenon
What are talents anyway? A talent is the capacity to perform certain activities or process certain information in a way that is very easy, natural and most often times enjoyable to the person. A talented person is capable of doing something easier, faster, with less effort, and more naturally than most other people. Talents can be physical, mental or emotional or any combination of all three.

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