Creative Success Depends on Long View
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Create Smart Goals to Score Big
You won’t make it across the goal line if you don’t learn how to manage the scrimmage line.
I suggest you utilize the S.M.A.R.T. principle to focus your goals and craft guiding power questions to make your team a winner. Are your goals specific? [...]
Are You a Star Quarterback on a Winning Team?
The position of your team members is a part of your plan that you need to carefully define.
Team roles are important to fulfill accurately so you have all the coverage you need for the abilities you desire. Each step of your action plan will [...]
Is There Anything Verifiable We Can Really Count On? Polls, Pundits and Polarizing Opinions
Recently a client called upset with his CEO.
He read the handwriting on the wall. Or so he thought. He just wasn’t sure what the handwriting was saying. Should the client stay? Should the client leave? Should he look at the myriad of other [...]
Your Cheerleaders the Chanteuses of Encouragement
Creative people need to isolate for a great part of their work, but it isn’t always a good practice.
Sometimes you need to be in the graceful presence of another person to feel yourself in their reflection. Everyone needs cheerleaders. Assemble [...]
Dink and Dunk for Masterful Team
A great practice is about asking powerful questions.
In my book Ask Power Questions: A Practical Guide to Help You Get What You Want in Business, Life and Friendship, I share my 17 Strategies to Help You Formulate Power Questions. One of a series, [...]
How to Draft a Winning Team
To make your team a winner you’ll need to isolate and assemble the attributes that lead to success.
Who are the people that work hard to help you succeed? Where and how do you engage your team members? Do you meet in coffee shops, online, [...]
What’s Your Quarterback Cadence
Hut-one, hut-two?
For your team to function well, good communication is absolutely necessary. In my book Ask Power Questions: A Practical Guide to Help You Get What You Want in Business, Life, and Friendship, I share the skills of working with [...]
Know Your Team
You need at least one expert team to help you achieve your goals, and you may need many to reach success.
Think about all the teams you have in place now. Your work, doctor’s office, grocery store, coffee shop all function as teams that serve [...]
Four Personal Keys to Kick Off Your Year
It’s easy to kick off your year focusing on the big stuff you want to accomplish.
You’ll find plenty of encouragement to make vast goals so you can attain great things, but as a coach I know that making big goals alone usually ends up [...]
What Sports Taught Me about My Business Plan and Yearly Goals
You’ve probably read plenty of headlines hawking that you need to plan your year wisely with success in mind.
You’re told to make new resolutions that fix challenges, and you’ve heard the pumped up messages intended to inspire change [...]
Workplace Bullies: Don’t Let Them Defeat You
When we hear about bullying taking place, our first assumption is that it’s happening to a child or youth, however workplace bullying is ever-present, and often like many other younger victims, the bullied individual suffers silently.
Workplace [...]
Podcast: Redefining Responsibility In The New Economy
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Motivational Keynote Speaker and Business Growth Expert, Meridith Elliott Powell works with clients to help them instill ownership at every level to ensure profits at every turn. Meridith is the author of several books, including Winning [...]
Podcast: ENTRYpreneurship-Be Your Own Boss The Easier Way
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ENTRYpreneurship: Be Your Own Boss The Easier Way
What is “entrypreneurship”?
Is franchising an appealing model for individuals looking to get into their own business?
How has the face of franchising changed over the past [...]
Podcast: Pick Up The Darn Phone!
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David Hill is a leading expert on telephone prospecting to increase sales and author of the upcoming book The Sales Playbook, which will be published in Spring 2016.
Pick Up The Darn Phone!
Are people afraid of the phone?
Do [...]
Round Up: How To Break Into The Speaking Business!
Can you hear them clapping?
That’s right, thousands of people eagerly awaiting your next words, followed by tons of back of the room sales, people asking how they can hire your company and more speaking invitations rolling in. . .
But [...]
Don’t Wait Until The Knife Is In Your Back; Business Lessons From The Twinkie!
Recently, Twinkies are making headlines. And the bottom line is that there might not be anymore Twinkies. But in any tale of a famous brand’s demise, there are lessons. What can entrepreneurs learn from the trouble with Twinkies?
1) [...]
LeBron Knows: Do You Know What You Need to be Successful?
In Game 5 of this season, LeBron tore the sleeves off of his jersey while on the court at Madison Square Garden.
He knew what he needed to do to be successful. Kevin Love rolled up the sleeve of the jersey on his shooting arm. Perhaps the sleeves [...]
Talking Journalism in the Math Building
Robert De Niro got lots of attention last May when he told graduates of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts they were screwed.
The verb he used was actually harsher, and followed by the suggestion that they would have done better [...]
Sell More Pumpkins! Use Amazing Videos, Trailers & Online Commercials For Success
Did you know that videos, book trailers and online commercials can help you be a smash hit success?
Whether you sell pumpkins, candy or branding services, your product is in demand!
Except, you may not know it
Why?
You may not be reaching your [...]
Speak Up About Something: Courage To Create Good In The World
Henry David Thoreau said, “The masses of men (and women) live lives of quiet desperation.”
That equates to the fact that most people lack the courage or incentive to get involved with the great events of life within their communities, states [...]
Can We Keep Calm In Every Situation Nowadays?
The internet meme of the British World War II slogan, “Keep Calm and Carry On” has morphed into any number of amusing applications.
The latest I saw was “Keep Calm and Have a Tarot Reading”! Is it really possible to keep calm in any [...]
What Kind of Buy-In Do You Need to Move Forward
Buy-in is very much a 21st century word.
I grew up in Akron Oh when Akron was rubber capital of the world. Firestone, Goodyear, Goodrich, General and the world made tires in Akron. We were taught in elementary school that Akron was the tire [...]
Podcast: Turn Networking Events Into Revenue
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Tony Wilkins is the host of the Internet sensation Small Business Forum Radio www.blogtalkradio.com/tonywilkins with over 125,000 listeners worldwide. Mr. Wilkins is also the publisher of Small Business Forum Magazine, Foodie Quarterly, [...]
Podcast: Create A Compelling Vision For Your Business
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Barney Kramer is the President of Strategic Management and an experienced leadership trainer, coach and entrepreneur that is with us today to discuss why creating a compelling vision is so important to the long term success of [...]
Podcast: Increase Team Performance In 4 Simple Steps
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Donald Hunter MBA, is the founder of a business coaching and consulting firm that creates solutions for teams to increase performance. As leadership coach, he implements four simple steps to help his clients boost productivity.
Increase [...]
Podcast: Using Conflict To Increase Productivity & Innovation
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Lynne Eisaguirre is a workplace and leadership expert, former employment attorney and author of six books on workplace topics, including the Power of a Good Fight: How to Embrace Conflict to Drive Productivity, Creativity, and [...]
Podcast: Disruptive Leadership Is A Good Thing
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Fortune 500 Corporate Talent Expert, Speaker & Consultant, Angela Nuttle, is the author of From Invisible to Incredible: The Secret to Brilliant Executive Presence joins us today to discuss disruptive leadership and why it’s [...]
Self advocacy- a step toward minimizing workplace bullying
As we reflect on best practices for civility in the work place, many of us strive to be kind, pleasant and agreeable.
However, there is a self-advocacy component to avoiding bullying in the workplace. When someone throws a barbed comment or [...]
Did You Want a Trophy for that Competition?
Competitive nature bombards you and you likely compete with it all day long.
Don’t think you do? Think again. Are you hurrying against time moving to your next meeting? Getting ahead of that car in front of you? Pushing up the line for coffee? [...]
Five Star Workplace
Ever wonder why it is tough to return to work after a five star vacation?
Think of the courtesy and service anyone receives when visiting a classy hotel. Visitors are greeted kindly “How was your flight…” or “May I help you with your [...]
Podcast: Social Media Time Management
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Rivka Kawano is a speaker, author, and social media specialist. She helps entrepreneurs, small businesses, and creative professionals learn how to master the power of social media to build real relationships and success.
Social [...]
Podcast: The Risk You Don’t Know Can Hurt Your Biz
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Tom Bullen is with Premier Risk Management, the risk management advisory arm of AETHOS Consulting Group, a hospitality focused executive search and human capital services firm. AETHOS speaks with hospitality companies around the [...]
What A Saying On The Venice Boardwalk Has To Do With You
“Cool story babe, Now make me a sandwich.”
The boardwalk in Venice, California is filled with every cliché imaginable. That includes people and product! The woman looks normal until she starts talking about the impending invasion. [...]
Podcast: Catch Your Dreams Millennials!
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Cheya Thousand is the Founder and Chief Creative Officer of The DreamCatcher Firm Inc., a lifestyle consulting firm for millennials. The company’s mission is to empower and educate millennials to think outside the box, [...]
Podcast: Make Way for Millennials
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Dr. Joanie Connell is the author of Flying without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life. She runs her own consulting firm called Flexible Work Solutions where she works with companies to onboard new [...]
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