Tag Archives: improving motivation
Profit from Employee Ideas
By Verne Harnish and Howard Shore As you know, I am proud to be a Gazelles Certified Coach and Verne Harnish, our thought leader, has produced an article that has been the crux of a lot of the concerns our …
Delegation Success
Have you ever noticed that great leaders are also excellent delegators? Delegation saves time, develops and motivates people, and makes an organization more productive. Therefore, it is fair to say that this is one of the most critical skills for …
Commitment to Change
Just like the people who work for them, CEOs and leaders come in all different sizes, shapes, styles, and backgrounds. As you can imagine, those variations influence how their people behave, who they hire, the systems and processes they use, …
Long-Term Motivation
In today’s business environment, it is essential that we find ways to make our organizational resources more productive. In many organizations, the most prominent and expensive resource we have is our people. As a result, a lot of time is …
Set the Right Sales Benchmarks
Benchmarks are funny things. You could create any type of benchmark that would justify your performance, even if your performance is not where it needs to be. There is a great scene from the movie Facing the Giants in which …
Lead Your Team Meetings
Not many of us look forward to meetings. Whether you have them weekly, monthly, or quarterly, they are bound to be accompanied by groans and complaints. This is a problem. These negative responses towards team meetings may be because performance …
Stop Procrastinating
Procrastination is the enemy. In every facet of your life there are deadlines that need to be met. Whether it’s a work project, school project, when your bills are due (yes, those are deadlines too), they are in place for …
Decisions By Consensus Can Kill Your Growth
By Howard Shore I recently met with the CEO of a multi-divisional business to discuss an issue that was critical to the firm’s future. The company’s number one strategic goal is to drive its growth rate to a never-before-achieved …
Are You Fully Committed and Focused?
By Howard Shore One thing that most everyone would agree with is that when someone is fully committed to a priority and they get focused, they get it done. So when I find that people are not reaching their goals …
Biggest Secret to Interviewing
By Howard Shore There has been much written on interviewing and selecting talent. As I speak with clients, even those who use some of the best interviewing techniques, the main point is being missed. The key to finding the ideal …
