In This Issue -My Weekly Reminder–REVVED!-Feedback From a Subscriber-Pass it on My Weekly Reminder One habit that’s all too easy to fall into is to treat people like light switches–pay attention to them when you want their help and then ignore them until you want their help again. When you treat people this way, you…
In This Issue -My Weekly Reminder–REVVED!-Feedback From a Subscriber-Pass it on My Weekly Reminder One of the things that high performing companies have in common is they care about their employees–big time! They understand that caring not only energizes people which enables them to work harder, but it comes back in other ways as well. …
In This Issue -My Weekly Reminder–REVVED!-Feedback From a Subscriber-Pass it on My Weekly Reminder Do you manage a department, team or sales force where employees routinely underachieve? If so, would you like to turn your situation around immediately—as in overnight? In 2006, Jim Leyland, manager of the Detroit Tigers, took a team that had 12…
In This Issue -My Weekly Reminder–REVVED!-Feedback From a Subscriber-Pass it on My Weekly Reminder Some people look at performing acts of kindness as the expenditure of time and effort to benefit someone else. In reality, the big winner for being kind is you. First of all, peforming acts of kindness makes you feel good because…
In This Issue -My Weekly Reminder–REVVED!-Feedback From a Subscriber-Pass it on My Weekly Reminder Recently, USA Today celebrated the 25th anniversary of its founding. As part of the celebration, it published a list of the 25 people that the USA Today staff determined had inspired us the most during that same time period. The list…
In This Issue -My Weekly Reminder–REVVED!-Feedback From a Subscriber-Pass it on My Weekly Reminder If someone apperars to be down, take the time to build them back up. Go to them and say something like, “You seem kind of down today, is everything all right?” Then be prepared to listen to what they have to…
In This Issue -My Weekly Reminder–REVVED!–Feedback From a Subscriber-Pass it on My Weekly Reminder The way you treat others is how you put the real you on display for the whole world to see–and people will be watching and making judgements. They will be entertaining thoughts like: “Is this the kind of person I want…
In This Issue -My Weekly Reminder–REVVED! Update-Feedback From a Subscriber-Pass it on My Weekly Reminder Recently I received an email from a subscriber containing the following quote: “There are two types of leaders: those interested in the flock and those interested in the fleece.” Effective leaders are those interested in the flock–the people they’re leading. …
In This Issue -My Weekly Reminder–REVVED! Update-Feedback From A Subscriber-Pass it on My Weekly Reminder While reading through some of the hype that preceded the recent NFL draft, the comment I kept seeing over and over was about how many talented players weren’t willing to do the work necessary to take advantage of their talent. …
In This Issue -My Weekly Reminder-5 Cool Ideas-Feedback From a Subscriber-Pass it on My Weekly Reminder Television Commentator, Charles Kuralt, once said, “Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fades and popular opinion.” Dale Carnegie put it this way, “The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is…