Building Teams in Real Time

There is no better way to improve the performance of an existing team or to develop a new team than through a live experience. High Performing Teams adopt and commit to practices that lead to success. These practices must be an integral part of the team's thinking and behavior.

Think Like A Leader

In sports, coaches often talk about senior leadership as an important aspect of a championship team. In business and community groups, we frequently hear how experienced leadership is responsible for the growth and success of an organization. Leadership is constantly associated with people who have been around the block or have advanced to certain job titles, and rightly so. But you don’t have to be a veteran or have a title to be an effective leader in your organization.

SMART Team Performance

Teams are a lot like jazz groups. Their performance has to arise from within the team members, not be imposed from without. It needs to be soulful, mindful, astute, responsible, and trusting - SMART.

Peyton Taught Tony: Let Jack Teach You

Do you need to start looking at the value of your entire work team rather than boosting your ego, ruffling feathers or leaving your organization stagnant?

Successful Business Owners Weigh in on How to Keep Older Employees in Workforce

Evidence suggests that retiring workers will weigh down U.S. economic growth in the coming years, unless employers take steps to retain more older employees. Read some of our Best Bosses' thoughts on how this issue affects their workplaces.

How to Create Your Dream Team

As a business growth specialist, speaker, trainer and author I work with a multitude of business owners and show them how to grow their businesses. The effects can often be dramatic in terms of results. One of the crucial areas in any business is 'team' and especially team leadership. In this article I cover one of the prime issues for many business owners namely: creating a well motivated team

In Direct Sales - Team Meetings Made Easy

As Team Leader, you should hold regular group meetings to educate, inform, and motivate your team. Meetings provide an opportunity for your team to get together, learn new techniques, be recognized for achievements, and become more successful Consultants.

Inflatable Games add to a Company Picnic!

A company picnic can be twice as rewarding and about eight times more fun when inflatable games are part of the entertainment line up! Combined with offering great food for your crowd, offering inflatable games for the group can build the event into a huge success! In todays world there are hundreds of great options for planning the perfect company picnic, and finding a professional to work with can take your event to the next level!

Offer This to Your Newbie Direct Sales Recruits to Get Them Profitable Faster!

Recruiting new team members is the best way to grow your direct sales team. However, how do you get them up and running (especially earning and confident) faster? Try this for a confident, profitable new recruit in record time!

Visualizations and Affirmations

Every day that you do business without a visualization of how things can be you are losing money. Visualizations are extremely important to your success. But what are they?

Leadership's 11 Principles

All functions of business operate on a grounding of principled actions and behaviors. So it is with leadership. These principles define the parameters for the leader's code of conduct.

Building a Team

A team is a group organized to work together. Let me define the word further by considering the role of a team in a work situation: A team is formed at work to accomplish a task or effect a change when one person would not be sufficient. A team may be formed when a small group of people with different talents and backgrounds come together to accomplish a task or effect a change that one person could not do alone.

Unusual Cures For Boring Meetings

It is not even 10:00 am on Monday morning and it is already time to rush into one of those dreadful weekly status report meetings, a ritual that started sometime in your previous birth. You know no one will have anything substantial to report, a few trumpeters will hype up their trivial tasks, someone will hijack the whole meeting, a few egos will get bruised, and the meetings will go on till eternity or until your bladders burst. And those cups of coffee, tea and biscuits are fast taking you many steps closer to indigestion and ulcers.