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What You Should Know When Looking for Personal Protection
As a former personal protection operative and present business/career coach, I have had the opportunity to be on both sides of the fence, so to speak, in regards to being hired as- and hiring personal protection.Any executive or other businessmen looking for a protection should take certain things into consideration, unknown to most people.A. If a bodyguard is needed in a certain area, so is local knowledge. Do not fall into the trap of solely hiring someone from your own backyard, if you are going to a foreign country. Hire a local security specialist to assist your own security on s

Playing Hookey Can Help! A Surprising Secret To Small Business Success!
Would you like to increase your chances of business success by 350%? The good news is that you can! Before you start working harder or learning the latest business theories so you can work smarter, try something different. You can increase your chances of success by as much as 350% by being more innovative and uncovering dramatically different ways to look at your business and develop your product or service. (***footnote #1) This is good news.Even better news is that one highly effective way to increase your innovation ability is by playing hooky from your normal business acti

What an Idea! It was in the 1980s, when I owned a manufacturers representative sales agency that I heard Patricia Fripp talking about this idea in one of her success seminars. I tried the idea with my sales team and it worked magnificently. For over a decade now, I too have been sharing this tool with audiences across North America and have received numerous notes of success from attendees.

Let me first warn you—while this tool is simple to understand and quite easy to use, if executed incorrectly, can be crushing to your ego. But, what the hay—as a leader, it is your job to leave your ego at the door when you come to work each day.

The Value

The important value you will receive from this tool is that of knowing what perceptions your employees hold about you and their work environment. I absolutely believe that in every company—no matter how caring toward employees—exists a metaphorical two-story outhouse. Since we all know what flows downhill, your concern needs to be that of determining how to dismantle or tear down this barrier between

Some Ideas For A Sport Fundraising Activity
A great way for raising money for any organized recreational or competitive sports program is arrange a creative sports fundraising event. Such events are very crucial to the success of any sports team and although these sports fundraising events take place year after year, now organizations are trying to find more inventive ways of raising the money. They are not only look for ways to get the all important cash into their coffers, but they are also looking for ways which will excite the public's imagination and so get them to hand over their hard earned cash.But probably the biggest contr

d it worked magnificently. For over a decade now, I too have been sharing this tool with audiences across North America and have received numerous notes of success from attendees.

The Value

Leaders Set Goals To Define Priorities
Setting goals as the way to define priorities, whether in business or in personal life, is what leaders do to maintain direction and focus in their organizations and in their personal lives. Unfortunately, many managers take a tremendous amount of potential leverage out of their organizations by not prioritizing.I had a boss whose standard answer to "What's the most important thing?" was "Everything's the most important thing." What a copout. We were in a crisis mode and there was a lot to get done, but what that "Everything is important" direction led to was a lot of counterproductive behav

this tool is simple to understand and quite easy to use, if executed incorrectly, can be crushing to your ego. But, what the hay—as a leader, it is your job to leave your ego at the door when you come to work each day.

The Value

Management - How to Be a Great Manager
How would like to be a great manager? I mean a really great manager? Of course we all would but what does a great manager look like? It was years ago when first stumbled over a really great manager and boy I didn’t want to admit he was great. Let me explain.It was 1970 and I was driving truck for my Father’s company, a small trucker with a hundred trucks serving the building industry. There wasn’t much money in the business, the margins were razor thin and hauling clay pipe, brick and steel coils wasn’t too glamorous. The company had three terminals at this point, one in Chicago, one north o

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The Value

Starting a Business: Should You Do It?
So let me get this straight, you want to be your own boss. You want to voluntarily and willingly throw away your current employment (or maybe the company you previously worked for made that decision for you, but rather than pursue another job, you have decided to launch a new business). And you are convinced this is what you want to do, IN SPITE of (some or all of) the following:1. The overwhelming majority of new businesses fail within the first few years of opening 2. You will be assuming responsibility for a “spouse” that never sleeps, always puts demands on your time, does not rec

—no matter how caring toward employees—exists a metaphorical two-story outhouse. Since we all know what flows downhill, your concern needs to be that of determining how to dismantle or tear down this barrier between you and your employees, no matter how inconsequential you believe it to be. Learning the perceptions of your employees is key to bettering the work environment for them. It is also true for creating an open door safety net that will allow employees to operate in an environment that encourages them point out overlooked mistakes before they become costly catastrophes.

The Tool

The brief description of this tool is to sit down with your key employees, department heads or executive team—one at a time—and ask them to share with you three things that they do not like about how you manage them and the organization. Then to ask them to share with you three things they do like.

A Word of Caution

In order for you to successfully use this tool you need to realize that your employees will be very skeptical at first. They will wonder

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If your team is lacking in productivity and performance then as a leader, check your organisation's goals. Are they clear, singular, numeric, time based and audacious, with supporting short-term goals? Have you communicated the goals persistently and consistently? Are you using performance management to ensure that you have a team with the right behaviour, skills and knowledge to achieve the goals? If not, the problem may not be your team, it may be you.

That was the question that I started to ask myself. “What does it all mean? Who cares if I have all these “nice things” to play with? Surely that’s not what life is supposed to be about?” The endless fight that we were fighting was not bringing us the real stuff that counted.

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