11/22/2018

The modern workplace almost seems designed to distract and divert us from delivering desired results! How do we put the focus back where it belongs? Take the initiative and make a periodic appointment with yourself to pause and think through the important factors that contribute to your success. Ask yourself: What particular results am I being paid to deliver? What specific activities do I need to do to achieve those results? Am I currently investing my time in these activities? The answer

11/14/2018

When a famous American football coach first walked into the training room of a team he had just taken on, he found it full of players getting treatment for a variety of minor ailments. 'Get this straight', he barked, 'when you are really hurt you will get the best medical attention we can provide. But this has got to stop. You're going to have to live and play with small hurts if you're going to play for me. I don't want to see this again!' And he didn't. The team learnt a very valuable

11/07/2018

'Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers'. Effective leaders find solutions that are clear and understandable. They are able to take abstract and complex matters and turn them into straightforward goals and values that everyone in the organization can grasp. Simplicity is a way of thinking. It takes discipline. Men and women who are great leaders consult widely, listen carefully, define clearly and act decisively.  They achieve strength of purpose, credibility, integrity, and

11/02/2018

Ideas have a short shelf life! You have to keep them coming and act on them before they expire. It's perfectly healthy to have an idea tomorrow that contradicts or challenges an idea today. A 'fixed mindset' in certain situations prevents development and growth. It could sabotage your health and happiness for the future. Persons with a 'growth mindset' are willing to try new ideas and learn new skills. They see failures and setbacks as an indication that they should continue developing their

10/26/2018

Negative feedback, particularly if unexpected and unasked for, is not easy to take. So how do we turn hurtful criticism from colleagues or customers into an opportunity to learn? How can we use it to help us improve? Think of criticism as an unpolished diamond fresh from the mine. It may appear as an unattractive rock to the inexperienced eye but its value becomes obvious after the process of cutting and polishing. Put personal feelings aside, extract the benefits of criticism and turn them

10/17/2018

SELF-DISCIPLINE AND GOALS Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work towards them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other factor The tragedy is that most people think they have goals already but what they really have are hopes and wishes. Hope is not a strategy! A wish is said to be ‘a goal with no energy behind it’. When you decide upon a goal, you change the direction of your life. You go from being like a ship without a rudder,