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Control: Take It or Give It
Is there someone you work with who could use a little motivation? Could you use a little motivation? You can’t motivate someone else if you can’t motivate yourself and, frankly, we could all use a little motivation sometime. Too often we think of motivation as money...
Three Tips to See Past Your Wiring for Good Decisions
You’re wired to see what you already believe. It’s a simple statement but the implications for decision-making are complex. What you already believe is built layer upon layer from your experiences which create a filter through which you see the world. Good...
Knee Jerk Decisions Creating Havoc? Notice the Clues from Your Body (Video)
When a person or situation triggers you, learn to recognize how it feels in your body. That’s your first line of defense to slow a knee-jerk reaction. Subscribe
Flip the Switches in the Brain: 5 Ways to Motivate Your Team, Staff or Client
The brain has two important electrical circuits for motivation. One activates feelings of reward and the other, feelings of threat. Whether staff, teams or clients, the reward circuit is the more reliable, long-term motivator of behavior. Unfortunately, the threat...
Reap the Rewards of a Checklist: Two Easy Steps
Pilots use it; some doctors use it. The benefits of its use have been documented. What is it? A simple checklist. Are you taking advantage of it? My sister and her husband are pilots. Each time I fly with them they pull out their pre-flight checklist. Even with hours...
Kindness Matters
Where are the keys? They must be here somewhere. I drove to Starbucks between a meeting and my flight home. Clearly, I had the keys when I arrived. The Starbucks staff helped me search. No keys. "Maybe you left them in the car?" they offered. Maybe. It's worth...
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Make Your Meeting More Productive: Take the Emotional Temperature
Taking the temperature of the room doesn't mean too hot or too cold. It means taking the emotional temperature of the people in the room. Taking the emotional temperature gives you an edge to enhance productivity. Here's an example. It was an exhausting meeting, but...
Make Your Mark: Three Steps to Get Started
The chances are good that you haven’t heard of Gustav Vigeland. But his single-minded focus on one concept has much to teach us. He is the Norwegian sculptor whose life’s work is on view in Vigeland Park in Oslo. He created hundreds of bronze and stone figures...
Challenge These Five Assumptions for More Innovation (or Learning from UFOs)
There were thirteen of us and an unknown number of them. We, leaders of a technology company, were standing in a dark field surrounded by the rugged mountains of Sedona. We held night vision goggles and laser pointers that reached ten miles. They were the inhabitants...
Give Your Staff a Trophy (and It Doesn’t Have to be Silver)
The trophy case stood in the middle of the building. It covered an entire wall. Walking through the Miles River Yacht Club, the sun reflected off the polished silver cups, chalices, and bowls. Some of the most highly sought trophies could have held a basketball. I...
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