April 2010 LMI Journal Featured Article on – Supervisory Management
Making team members aware of the importance of their work and how best to get it done prevents most problems that affect performance.
April 2010 LMI Journal Featured Article on topic– Organizational Leadership
Because a positive attitude forms the foundation for a positive self-image, building a positive attitude is the most effective method for developing a positive self-image. Knowing exactly what a positive attitude is will help accomplish this important task.
Business Motivation – April 23, 2010
Success Is A Door You Walk Through You must move toward success, it doesn’t come to you. The golden opportunity you’re seeking lies within you. It’s not in your surroundings. It’s not in luck or chance, or the help of others. It’s in you alone. Opportunities are all around you. You can develop them if you apply persistence to your possibilities. If the door of opportunity appears closed, just keep knocking on it, and keep knocking on it until it opens. Be an opener of doors. (Reprinted with permission, Sam Maitz, Director of Marketing Technology, Leadership Management® International, Inc.)
April 2010 LMI Journal Featured Article on topic – Growth
The April issue includes the following featured article titled: “Designing Personal Growth” – Use affirmation as a dynamic tool for personal leadership development. Click Now to Read Complete Article Here: LMI JOURNAL, VOLUME IV, NUMBER 4 Leadership Management® Institute Reprinted with permission
April 2010 LMI Journal Featured Article on – Motivation
The April issue includes the following featured article titled: “Develop Your Creativity for Maximum Success” – Why best thinkers make strategic thinking a regular process. Click Now to Read Complete Article Here: LMI JOURNAL, VOLUME IV, NUMBER 4 Leadership Management® Institute Reprinted with permission
Business Motivation – April 21, 2010
Attitude Is Everything You determine your attitude. You can respond positively or negatively to any situation. Your attitude is not determined by circumstances, but by how you respond to your circumstances. Any challenge facing you is not as important as your attitude towards it, for that will determine your success or failure. It’s how you react to events, not the events themselves, that determines your attitude. (Reprinted with permission, Sam Maitz, Director of Marketing Technology, Leadership Management® International, Inc.)
Business Motivation – April 19, 2010
There Is Always A Good Side Everything depends on the way you look at things. View every problem you encounter as an opportunity. There is always a good side to every situation. The optimist sees an opportunity in every misfortune. The pessimist sees misfortune in every opportunity. The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist sees the hole. You can develop success from every failure. Discouragement and failure are two stepping stones to success. No other elements can do so much for you if you’re willing to study them and make them work for you. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. (Reprinted with permission, Sam Maitz, Director of Marketing Technology, Leadership Management® International, Inc.)
Goal Setting: Find the ROI – Measure Your Goals
By Valerie G. Cardenas “You can’t manage it if you can’t measure it.” – Paul J. Meyer Have you heard this business quotation before? It’s one of my favorites because it’s absolutely true. Unless you have a strategy for measuring your goals, you have no way of keeping your business on track and no way of knowing when you’ve achieved success. Good management of goals begins with setting measurable goals. (You may recall my reference to SMART goals in previous blogs – Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Tangible goals.) If you’ve set measurable goals, then you’ve asked some basic questions, such as: How much? How many? By when? Now you’re ready to measure. Choose Measurements that Can be Managed for ROI Every business is different, so measurement strategies and types vary. But here are a few standards to get you thinking about measuring your business goals and determining your Return on Investment (ROI): General Business Measurements Dollars per contracts signed Number of call-backs per 100 jobs Increased your profit by [insert your goal percentage here] Sales Measurements New accounts as a percentage of total accounts Number of new accounts per day Percentage of referral business to your total business Ask yourself: How can you track your success? Or, what does success look like to you? Remember the quote we started with: You can’t manage it if you can’t measure it. Set up Dynamic, Motivational Measurements of Achievement Once you establish measurements, then share them and your checkpoints reached – even if the sharing is just with yourself. We humans need to celebrate our achievements! Create the visual that works for you. It might be a chart that shows your upward progress, a graph that compares, counts, or illustrates checkpoints reached. It might be pins on a map, numbers on a spreadsheet,…
Business Motivation – April 16, 2010
Happiness Is A Byproduct Of Activity Happiness lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy. Happiness does not come from doing easy work. but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demands your best. Your personal growth itself contains the seed of happiness. You cannot pursue happiness by itself. There is no happiness except in the realization that you have accomplished something. Happiness thrives in activity. It’s a running river, not a stagnant pond. (Reprinted with permission, Sam Maitz, Director of Marketing Technology, Leadership Management® International, Inc.)
Business Motivation – April 14, 2010
You Are What You Think loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak. What you impress upon your mind, you’ll inevitably become. It’s a psychological law that whatever you desire to accomplish you must first impress upon your subconscious mind. Relentless, repetitive self talk will change your self image. You’ll affect your subconscious mind with verbal repetition. Constant repetition carries conviction. When you change your values you’ll change your behavior. Start thinking of yourself as becoming the person you want to be. Self suggestion will make you the master of yourself. You can become whatever you want to be. If you believe you can, you can. (Reprinted with permission, Sam Maitz, Director of Marketing Technology, Leadership Management® International, Inc.)
