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One easy way to increase motivation 500 percent
The best for-profit and nonprofit organizations I’ve worked with had leaders who involved the whole team in the development of their vision, mission, strategic plan and values. The leadership teams for both organizations drafted the mission, vision and strategic plan then worked with all employees...
Best of CoBiz: High-performance selling
A sales secret - the best way to control fear of sales. The best way to minimize fear of selling is to create a belief about selling that has no fear. What if you truly believed selling was a great and loving service? The most successful, relationship-focused salespeople I've worked with do. "Love...
Best of CoBiz: Success secrets of world-class athletes and business leaders
Olympic athletes and world-class business leaders have many of the same success secrets. Here is one: They know how to control their fear, anger and frustration as part of creating a mindset of greatness. Fear, anger and frustration wreak havoc on your success! These negative emotions, like all em...
Best of ColoradoBiz: Feel like a fraud?
Everyone who felt like a fraud had a secret. What was Dan's secret? He'd dropped out of the eighth grade, gotten a GED diploma and never attended college. Now he was in business negotiating multimillion dollar deals with Harvard MBAs, some of the most brilliant business minds in the country. His g...
Seven brain-drain time-sucks
Most of our worries are about something we can’t control. Worry is a 100 percent energy time suck. With worry, you drain your brain and take no action. Decide that instead of worrying, you’ll take action or do everything you can to replace your worry with constructive thinking.
Best of CoBiz: Nine unusual strategies for killer meetings
Are your meetings a dreaded time suck or an enjoyable, productive collaboration? When summarizing a meeting, have you ever heard, “What a waste of time!” “That was boring!” or “Please shoot me if I have to go to another meeting like that!” Those types of meetings are not only a waste of time, they...
Fear of selling: Here’s my powerful antidote
An antidote is defined as a remedy that counteracts poison. And fear can be one of the most potent emotional poisons to your success. Fear of selling is likely your […]
When negative feedback is actually positive
“If I see one more article or blog post about how you should never be ‘critical’ or ‘negative’ when giving feedback to an employee or colleague (or, for that matter, […]
Underperforming your potential? Time to change!
If you’ve ever led a meeting or given a presentation, put yourself in my place for this story. What would you do as the meeting facilitator? I was presenting to […]
Blame your boss…
If you’re feeling unappreciated, uninspired and unhappy and you’re working for somebody else, who’s to blame? Findings of the Bad Boss Study suggest it’s your boss’s fault. The Bad Boss Study found that, in general, bosses leave their employees feeling unappreciated, uninspired, lonely and downrig...
The invisible obstacle to success
If you were building a fire, would you pour water on it? Not if you knew that’s what you were doing. Many of us work on building our inspiration, motivation […]
Pain or pleasure: What motivates you?
The answer to the question of what motivates you will in part determine your level of success. Most people move away from or run from what they don’t want, what […]
