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A 14 hour travel day can get pretty boring even if you sprinkle in the occasional joke, predictable encounter with rude motorist, and share it with family members. This past week I traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to scratch off an item from my bucket list: Gettysburg Battlefield. On the way there I unleashed a practice on my two sons I’d learned in Dale Carnegie training many years back. It is absolutely guaranteed to raise the self-esteem of the people who participate.
Read MoreTopics: Employee Recognition, People, People/Relationship Drivers, human behavior, human behavior performance, superior human relations
As noted in previous blogs SmartTribes – How to Deliver Accountability and Consequences That Work - More SmartTribes we’re exploring Christine Comaford’s Smart Tribes for ideas to help you grow your business. If you’ve not picked it up I highly recommend it.
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In our previous blog SmartTribes – How to Deliver Accountability we offered how Christine Comaford gets accountability in the DNA of developing SmartTribes by building “containers.” Containers are the structures that enable a group of people to achieve real accountability across the board, pulling together like a synchronized rowing team. She offers four key practices that will help you do that:
Read MoreTopics: Accountability, People, Business Development Tool, Smart Tribes
Since listening to Christine Comaford speak at the Orlando Growth Summit I’ve been reading and listening to her book SmartTribes extracting valuable nuggets on how to grow your business.
Read MoreTopics: Accountability, success criteria, Business Dashboards, Smart Tribes
As a salesperson for over 20 years one axiom to remember was never to impress your prospect with how smart you are. The prospect isn’t interested in how smart you are. They’re interested in solving their problem. The only way to solve their problem is to ask questions and listen.
Read MoreTopics: leadership, Leadership Team, Smart Tribes, Listening
You’re probably not old enough to remember a TV program that a gentleman by the name of Art Linkletter hosted. You may remember the program from 1995 when Bill Cosby hosted it. It was called Kid’s Say the Darndest Things.
Read MoreTopics: People, Brian Tracy
Many companies and managers believe a dashboard is a great way to keep their staff focused on the metrics and priority that they should be targeting for quarterly and weekly objectives.
Read MoreTopics: Strategic Discipline, Business Dashboards, One on One coaching
Topics: Core Values, hiring decisions, recruiting
Topics: Jim Collins, Businesss Disciplines, Business Culture, Business Failure, How the Mighty Fall,
In Greg McKeown, Author of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, recent blog he discussed the definition of priority: When the word priority came into the English language in the 1400s, it was singular. Think for a moment: What did it mean? The answer is the prior or very first thing. What’s interesting is it stayed singular for the next 500 years. It wasn’t until the 1900s that we came up with the pluralized term and started using the word priorities. But what exactly does the word mean? Can there be multiple very first things?
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