You can’t get more time, but you can have more energy. Learn five simple strategies to gain more time through maximizing your energy. In the book, The Power of Full Engagement, Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz offer a paradigm for time management which focuses on leveraging energy rather than time.
Do you resist change or struggle to embrace it in your company or organization? Change is hard for most people. In the DISC personality profile, one company statistically extracted that 63% of the world (so over ½ of the population) are more of the “S” profile style. The “S” profile
Simple and effective Daily Habits. 10 min. daily pick-up time. Check e-mail 3x a day; limit time to 30 min. for each checking. Touch it once and put it in its place (file it, toss it, etc.) Keep a weekly plan of activates with the top 5 things you will
Have a long list of things to do and can mark off 4 of them in an hour. You are straightening, cleaning or micro-working. You are spending hours on e-mail. You can’t find things and spend a lot of time looking and discovering things you have not seen in a long
I have goals, but don’t seem to reach them? Why? Lack of a plan. In the book “Goals” by Brian Tracy, he tells the story about 2 deserts and how people died crossing to get from one town to another because they lost perspective in the middle of the dessert
Goal setting often gets a bad rap as people have tired and been unsuccessful at setting goals. Do not despair. Try, try, try and try again. Each time you will develop a stronger discipline, focus and skills for goal success. Here are some roadblocks people run into with their goals
In the article, 10 Leadership Practices to Stop Today, Paul Spiegelman argues that some traditional leadership practices should be replaced by better options. “1. Out: Micro-management, or the need to control every aspect of your company. In: Empowerment, the ability to give your people some rope–even rope to make mistakes
In her article, The Strengths and Weaknesses of Your Leadership Style, on Entrepreneur.com, Gwen Moran defines the good and bad of four leadership styles based on the DISC assessment tool. “Conductor. These leaders are direct, with a constant sense of urgency and focus on results. Conductors want to win, and
When the CEO arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted his young executives. Jim just tried to hide in the back. “My, what great plants, trees and flowers you have grown,” said the CEO. “Today one of you will be appointed the next CEO!” All of a sudden, the CEO
A successful business man was growing old and knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business. Instead of choosing one of his Directors or his children, he decided to do something different. He called all the young executives in his company together. He said, “It