Personal Development Plan for Success
In my last post, I talked about creating a document to track our progress on a long term goal using the FAST method which includes… 1. Focused work means working on one thing at a time. You turn off all distractions such as e-mail, web browsers, and close your door if possible, and focus on [...]
I just finished up a powerful and insightful personal development book, entitled The Way We Are Working…Isn’t Working, by Tony Schwartz. Michael Hyatt had recommended the book, and I found it to be chock full of great ideas to improve your life. The thing that sets Tony’s book apart from so many others is the [...]
I am a kinesthetic learner by nature and I find that if I take notes during a meeting, the hands-on activity of note taking helps me retain more of what I have learned. To make note taking even more effective, I’ve done some research into note taking systems and developed a template that helps me [...]
As a leader or project facilitator, you probably have numerous tasks that you need to delegate to others. While most items are easy to assign, it’s often difficult to track the progress of projects with multiple due dates and project participants. Michael Hyatt has a great post on his blog about tracking numerous delegated assignments. [...]
In the world of work, I’ve held positions of leadership and also secondary ones where I was called upon to make something happen. In our modern corporate structure, there are many standard leadership positions, such as CEO, COO, CFO etc. But for each leadership position there are many second level job descriptions that call for [...]
I ran into an interesting website the other day that really challenged my way of thinking about sales. I have always believed that you need to do everything possible to assure that your customer will say “YES” to the sale. You need to reduce objections and put your product in the best light. Everything should [...]
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