Productive Leaders
5 Reasons Why the Great Attrition is Great for Your Business You are a great leader and you run a great business. But some of your people have recently quit, and you are wondering if you are as good a leader as you think. You are wondering if you said something that...
Time Management Tips for Busy Sales Professionals and Entrepreneurs Have a strategic plan and make sure days contribute to the success of the strategic plan. Have routines and habits that contribute to the strategic plan every day. (Ex. Start the day with...
Did you know that discipline is a decision? Discipline is a decision! Have you ever looked at someone enjoying success in multiple areas of life and wondered what made it possible? Was it luck? Good fortune? Great genetics? Nepotism? When we interview people achieving...
5 Ways to Find Out if You are Maximizing Your Time The way you handle your time determines your level of success. If you give in to time-wasting activities and find yourself thinking “I’m behind schedule again” you need to revisit your time management skills. If you...
Avoid Burnout in 2018! Stress. Deadlines. Meetings. Client issues. Burnout. Busy professionals may experience increased levels of stress-induced cortisol, poor sleeping habits, mood swings, and other health manifestations from today’s workplace demands. One study on...
Why do professional, smart, highly-motivated, ambitious people need accountability? Because we do. Our Paleolithic, survival-motivated, dinosaur brains tell us that life is short, so enjoy today. Don’t do anything difficult right now because you might need that energy to escape the dangerous wooly mammoth that is chasing you.
Spring break is a time for fun, sun, and silliness. Spring is a great time to cut loose, relax, and recharge. But many entrepreneurs and business people rarely take time to relax, because they are so devoted to their work. As it turns out, I am not very good at relaxing either. Apparently, most Type A personalities…
Academics are trained to be perfectionists, to overthink solutions, and to view a problem through potential research options (even if some are considered irrelevant, improbable, or impossible). It is hard to be a perfectionist, because it means the job is never finished. You can…
Achieve all of your business New Year’s Resolutions in one day. Manage your public profile, identify your goals, delegate tasks, create assignments, and set up workable systems for the year. That’s right, one 8-hour block of time is all it takes. If you start to get overwhelmed…