February 2010 LMI Journal “Staff Development” Featured Article
The February issue includes the following article: “Transmit Information to Promote Success”- Define the three elements of clear and effective communication. Click Here to Read Complete Article: LMI JOURNAL, VOLUME IV, NUMBER 2 Leadership Management® Institute Reprinted with permission
Business Motivation – February 26, 2010
Opportunity Lies In The Midst Of Difficulty Every problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity. You’ll find that every situation, properly perceived, offers you an opportunity. As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it. No matter how tiny an opportunity may be, use it. You’ll find new directions when you have an open mind and a willing hand. Successful people don’t achieve their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They developed an opportunity that was at hand. You must make your own opportunities if you want success. They are all around you. Open your eyes and act on them. (Reprinted with permission, Sam Maitz, Director of Marketing Technology, Leadership Management® International, Inc.)
February 2010 LMI Journal “Personal Leadership” Featured Article
The February issue includes the following article: “Boost Confidence with Self-Awareness”- People tend to do what they are expected to do – including what you expect of yourself. Click Here to Read Complete Article: LMI JOURNAL, VOLUME IV, NUMBER 2 Leadership Management® Institute Reprinted with permission
Business Motivation – February 24, 2010
Keeping Balance Life is a balancing act, it requires us to evaluate our activities and keep a perspective in all that we do. Falling off a curb is a lot different then falling off a ten-story building. The higher we are on life’s journey the more critical balance becomes. Life is also like riding a bicycle; balance is lot easier when you’re moving then when you’re stopped. Everyone needs to stop sometime, just remember that when you do it helps to put your feet down. (Reprinted with permission, Sam Maitz, Director of Marketing Technology, Leadership Management® International, Inc.)
February 2010 LMI Journal “Supervisory Management” Featured Article
The February issue includes the following article: “Create a Climate for Team Performance”- Use these techniques to encourage the development of self-motivation in employees. Click Here to Read Complete Article: LMI JOURNAL, VOLUME IV, NUMBER 2 Leadership Management® Institute Reprinted with permission
Business Motivation – February 22, 2010
You Won’t Get Anywhere Without A Goal A life without purpose is like a ship without a rudder. The purpose of a goal is to focus your attention. Your mind will reach toward achievement only when it has a goal. There is no achievement without goals. Establish a goal worth working for. Your goal will keep you going in tough times. Always have something ahead of you. Continuously visualize your next step. Keep moving after you achieve your goal and set another. Momentum is maintained by always having something to look forward to. Constantly give yourself something to work for. Do what you can do well, and do well whatever you can do. You can plant your dream with a goal. (Reprinted with permission, Sam Maitz, Director of Marketing Technology, Leadership Management® International, Inc.)
Business Motivation – February 19, 2010
Reality Forms Around Your Commitments When you care enough for a given result, you’ll almost certainly attain it. All of your dreams can come true, if you have the courage to pursue them. Intense anticipation will transform your possibilities into reality. Strong desires will in time externalize themselves into concrete fact. Your desires are the precursors of the things which you are capable of having and doing. Weak desires will bring you weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. The intensity of your desire governs the power with which your energies will be directed. Desire is the starting point for success. If you want it, you can have it. (Reprinted with permission, Sam Maitz, Director of Marketing Technology, Leadership Management® International, Inc.)
February 2010 LMI Journal “Organizational Leadership” Featured Article
The February issue includes the following article: “Take Deliberate Action to Reach Goals”- Simple rules to follow that will draw you toward goals and propel you toward success. Click Here to Read Complete Article LMI JOURNAL, VOLUME IV, NUMBER 2 Leadership Management® Institute Reprinted with permission
Goal-Setting – Still the Overlooked Secret to Success
Often it’s the basics that determine the difference between thriving in your life and business or merely surviving in business. Goal-setting is one of those bottom-line, essential basics. Mark McCormick in his book What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School tells of a Harvard study conducted between 1979 and 1989. Researchers found that the 3 percent of 1979 MBA graduates who had created clear, written goals were earning, in 1989, on average, 10 times more than 97 percent of their graduating class. They also found that the 13 percent of the Class of ’79 MBA graduates who had set goals, even though they were not in writing, were earning, on average, twice as much as the 84 percent of students who had expressed no goals at all. Goals and the clarity of goals made a lifetime of difference for these Harvard MBA graduates. Goal-Setting Process In my consulting practice and workshops, I often include a 9-step goal-setting process. I’ve found that one of the most overlooked steps in the process – the one so many of us dearly want to skip over – is one of the most intuitive. That skipped step: identifying obstacles and challenges that are likely to appear along the way and thinking through solutions. These obstacles are usually quite easy to identify. Begin with the top two: you and everyone else. Consider the obstacles you put in your own path: procrastination? Chaotic time management? Inability to delegate? Then consider the obstacles others contribute: Interruptions? Lack of support? Lack of training? Once you’ve identified your obstacles, then set about finding workable solutions. I encourage you to hold to your goals. Resist the urge to reduce your goals; instead, improve your solutions. And remember, well-planned and supported goals – the ones most likely to succeed –…
Business Motivation – February 17, 2010
You Can When You Believe You Can Don’t be afraid of what life has to offer you. If you believe that life is worth living, your belief will help create the fact. The barrier between you and success is not something that exists in the real world. It’s simply composed of doubts about your ability. Your only limits to your realization of tomorrow will be your doubts of today. If you want to be successful, start thinking of yourself as being successful. What you believe yourself to be, you are. Success is a state of mind. (Reprinted with permission, Sam Maitz, Director of Marketing Technology, Leadership Management® International, Inc.)
