Bad Habits & Old Habits!
Bad habits and old habits make sticking with a new plan difficult and frequently impossible. As a coach, I see people continually fail at new plans, not for a lack of want or knowledge however, simply due to their inability to break old habits and create new ones.
As you look out into the end of one season and the start of the next what do you need to change or improve upon to grow yourself, your organization to where it needs to be in order to excel throughout 2012? Almost always increased accountability helps create new habits. If you would like to increase your team’s engagement and accountability call the office, let’s go for coffee and discuss some specific strategies on how to get the most out of your employees.
Developing Great People, Building Great Businesses
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on June 22, 2011, 6:06 pm,
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Keeping Staff on Track. A great article about a local client, ULS Maintenance and Landscaping, and how the President, Ken Ruddock, leads his team of 130 employees and motivates them, read the full article here in
The $50,000 Phone Call!
What is the impression that your staff is leaving on your new and existing clients?
Think of the money you invest and all the hard work you and your staff go through to make your phone ring or get a client to walk into your place of business only to be greeted by…
Your annoyed, over worked, burned out, never very good at it anyway receptionist.
Maybe it is time to retrain your staff, maybe it is time to upgrade your staff. Stop wasting your marketing dollars and the referrals of your great clients!
Create the business you deserve! 2011 is the year.
Four months into 2011 and this is the question that people have asked me most this year.
What is the difference between sales and marketing? The biggest difference is in which party is performing the activity.
Sales
Is when you or your team knock on the prospect’s door in an effort to earn them as a customer.
Marketing
View Marketing as an invitation. It is when your team has to perform an activity that invites the prospect to take action and knock on your door.
The fastest way to be a huge success is to build a great team of people to help you…
Who’s on your team…?
According to Peter Drucker, and the experience of all my clients, “what gets measured, gets managed”.
If you are not achieving the results you want in your life, organization or business ask yourself, “What exactly are we measuring?”. Maybe you are measuring nothing at all.
Our clients will tell you that the simple act of measuring will improve your results by 25% to 50%. If you want help determining what to measure or evaluating what you are measuring please give us a call.
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on April 25, 2011, 1:51 pm,
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I believe we all can learn a lot from the actions of the Texas Rangers baseball team, not from the actions on the field, but their actions in the locker room.
When the team celebrated their AL West Division title they celebrated in typical fashion with Champagne, excluding one their top players, Josh Hamilton. Josh is a recovering alcoholic and he choose to avoid the celebration and the temptation.
Having learned from their mistakes, when the team won their first playoff series they celebrated with Ginger Ale, providing a more inviting and inclusive environment.
What things might you be doing, even by accident that is excluding some of your top teammates?
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on April 25, 2011, 1:44 pm,
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The job of the CEO isn’t to check things off the agenda. His / Her job is to view the landscape, assess the players and the trends in the industry, then set the agenda & figure out what’s next.
Now that more and more of us are supposed to be CEO of our own lives and careers, it might be time to rethink who’s setting your agenda.
When someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer?
I know I am, not everybody is though.
A good friend of mine recently left his place of employment after 20+ years of service. He had a great career there, a large international company and he was being paid very well.
You may ask, why did he leave then? Well the truth is, he was wasting away, he was no longer challenged by the work, he was feeling disrespected and he was no longer engaged. Are you wasting away in your current job? What toll is it taking on your life, your career, your body and your family?
No matter what your job is, no matter where you work, there’s a way to create a project (on your own, on weekends if necessary), where the excitement is palpable, where something that might make a difference is right around the corner.
Go do that, you be amazed at how well you feel and how much energy you get back into your life, your family and friends will thank you.
