For CEOs & Board Members
You Have to Get the Cows Out of the Creek First
Monday, November 7th, 2011
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It’s Not My Fault! Really? Then Stop Making Excuses
Saturday, September 24th, 2011
Learn the top 5 ways to stop making excuses
Albert Ellis, was an American psychologists, who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) once said, (more…)
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Leadership – Let Me Give It To You As Straight As I Can
Monday, July 25th, 2011Becoming an effective leader demands hard work and commitment on your part
In two past blog posts on leadership, I shared with you a number of key traits that are common among effective leaders. In the first post entitled (“No trust = No Leader”, and “7 Steps to Make Leadership Simple”). When combined, these two posts covered a great deal of territory found on the leadership landscape.
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Perseverance – Your Key To Success
Thursday, May 19th, 2011Perseverance Means Never Giving Up
Perseverance means never quitting. As a leadership keynote speaker, I try to make this point as many times as I can to my audiences when I talk about these critical success principles. There are many true stories about people who have demonstrated this trait. Thomas Edison inventing the light bulb, or Lance Armstrong fighting cancer and winning the “Tour de France” for the sixth consecutive time. The fact is, they would not allow themselves to give up. They, by their actions, demonstrated that they knew how to “Be Fearless, Step Up and Play Big”. And, the “act” of not giving up has to be practiced and developed into a habit. In addition, the concept of perseverance and never giving up is often surfaced when working with my coaching clients, guiding them through the many challenges they face.
We all have a dream or a goal that we would like to accomplish. Often times the difference between accomplishing the goal or not is how strong your belief is to overcome the obstacles that you will face. Have you ever thought about why some people never reach their personal or business goals? Sometimes there are good reasons that are beyond their control. Often, howver, it is because they lacked perseverance. The fact is, very few people get it right the first time, or the second or even the third time. The difference is that they learn from their past mistakes and adjust their approach going forward. In other, words, they don’t give up. They live with the belief that in life, there are no mistakes, just a variety of learning experiences.
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How Not To Hire Your Future Problems
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
Hire The Best People You Can
As the economic recovery begins to gain traction, employers – both big and small – will be in the hunt for new talent at all of the management levels within their companies, up to and including the executive suite. The question is, will you hire the best person or a future problem?
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No Trust = No Leader
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
Trust must be earned.
From my own business experiences and in my role as a motivational business speaker, I have learned that one of the most important tools a leader has at their disposal is trust. Without it, you’re not leading; you’re just going for a walk in the park. Think about it, if your team doesn’t trust you, why would they follow you or even listen to you? When I am in my role as a professional keynote speaker, I explain that without their trust, a team will not respond to even the simplest request from their leader, let alone the hard ones which require extra effort on their part. The fate of a business can be tied to the level of trust a team has in its leader.
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Put Yourself in “Time Out”!
Monday, February 21st, 2011The keyword here is “self-discipline”
“That’s it! You need a Time Out!” This is a common expression that a parent will use when their child has either done something bad or is on the verge of doing something bad. I know…I have heard my son and daughter-in-law use it with our 3 year old grandson. I read on a parent help site the following – “Time out is a very effective discipline technique.” The key word here is discipline or as you will read later on “self-discipline”.
“Time Out” is also an action or tool that sports teams use to either take a breather or discuss where they are at a particular moment in a game; to discuss a possible change in strategy and / or tactics or, slow down the surge or momentum of their opponent. Depending upon the sport, each team has a set amount of time outs they can use during the course of a game. When used correctly and at the right time, it is not unusual to see a shift in the momentum of the game in favor of the team who called the “time out”. (The same holds true with 3 year olds).
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Start the New Year Off With a Real Bang – Fire Yourself!
Monday, December 27th, 2010
That’s right, I said fire yourself! This act alone will probably be the best and most important thing you can do for your business or your career right now – at the start of a new year. In the process of firing yourself, make sure you do an indepth exit interview so that you understand completely the reasons for this harsh and necessary action.
Oh! Don’t forget to throw yourself a “going away” party and buy yourself a gift (not to expensive). You will want to take this occasion (the party) to tell the boss (you) exactly what you think about him…and what you would do if you were in-charge! And, when you’ve done all of these things, figure out what you need to do and who do you have to be to re-hire yourself.
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Stop Relying on Self Help Books; You Already Have The Tools – Start Playing Your Game!
Monday, November 29th, 2010Forget most of the self help books and the “mass produced” seminar peddlers – let me show you how simple it is to realize and maximize your full capabilities and start “Playing Your Game”.
#1 – believe in yourself; you have many gifts- talents and skills that are waiting for you to use. Many rely on hope – but that means you are waiting for something to happen and hope is not a strategy. When you have faith in your abilities, you make things happen. The worst that can happen is you make a mistake. Simple – just fix it. Believe in yourself and not what others tell you about you.
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Never, Never Bleed When The Sharks Are in The Water With You
Saturday, November 20th, 2010
Finding yourself in a tough and even scary situation often comes with the territory when you are in a leadership position. During my executive career, I used to describe these situations as being comparable to swimming with a bunch of hungry and unpredictable the sharks. I also learned through my experiences that the one thing you never do is bleed when the sharks are in the water with you. Simple, right? However, in these tough situations, leaders sometimes get bruised and battered and they bleed. Once the sharks sense that there is blood in the water, the intensity of the crisis acclerates and the urge to start a feeding frenzy increases. A feeding frenzy in business terms is when there is a complete lack of discipline within the team; they loose their focus; fear of the unknown becomes the dominating emotion and the overriding purpose shifts from solving the problem to “every man for themselve”. This is when the situation goes from bad to worse, usually at a rapid pace. Right?
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