I was in Phoenix last week at the Summer Conference for TTI Performance Systems.  Always in pursuit of how we can help our clients manage their businesses and their talent better, a select group of 50 of us put our head down and went to work: branstorming, collaborating, sharing knowledge, and listening to experts in [...]

If a job could talk, what would it say about itself?
What would it say are the behaviors, key motivators, and personal skills necessary for superior performance?
 
Job Benchmarking is a process that tells you that very thing, about any position in your organization. 
 
80% of turnover is caused by bad hiring decisions, and a job analysis is the most [...]

   Growing your Business without Hiring Anyone New 
Yesterday we talked about Strategy, Today we’ll talk about Efficiency, and Tomorrow we’ll talk Viabillity
 
Part Two: Efficiency
 
·       Systems, Processes, and Standardized Procedures. When these are not in place, or inadequate or outdated,  your organization is wasting so much time.  The average worker spends up to 20% of [...]

 
It’s early Monday morning and I’m looking at my schedule for today.  All the typical things are fighting for my attention and need to be completed:  yoga, devotions, coaching sessions, proposal submissions, a keynote speech prepared, a power point presentation created, list of people called, copy reviewed, part of a chapter written for the book, thinking and reviewing [...]

FaceBook?  Are you kidding me?  Who’s got time for that?
Let’s get real.  Using official Facebook statistics (http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics), over 100 million users login to Facebook every day . Over 3.5 billion minutes are spent on Facebook every day. This means an average user spends 35 minutes on Facebook, before logging off. It’s not going away.  Plenty of people [...]

We have serious global environmental challenges to face,  an estimated 100 million homeless people worldwide, drugs devastating our communities everywhere, the US Financial Crisis weighing heavily on the global economy, countries at war, including our own, and that’s only the tip of the iceberg.
You have a company to run, a board of directors meeting to [...]

You’re the guy (or gal) at the top.  The buck stops here.  Let me ask you a question: What is your most important job?  Self-care.  What?  Self-care?  That sounds wimpy, or medical, or stupid; at any rate, we don’t like to hear it.  However, I have personal experience with two separate instances of having to be on bedrest and [...]

This past Monday my executive coaching clients and I had a web conference on “time management”.
The truth is, we don’t, nor can we ever, manage time.  We can’t slow it down, speed it up, stop it, or re-boot it.
What we can do, however, is manage our minds and our energy.
Given that, of course, the natural [...]

Ouch…Does this cartoon hit a chord with you?
Here is my new version of the old nursery rhyme:
“Hickory Dickory Dock
I ’ve sold out to the clock
The clock struck one                            
and I’m undone…….
Hickory Dickory Dock.”This seems to be the mantra of so many of my clients.  You don’t even want to know how many times I hear “I didn’t have time” in [...]

The clock is ticking…..Just when you thought December might be a time for you to “catch up” on some things you’ve been putting off, it’s become busy and you are overwhelmed with work; the phone is ringing off the wall, you are getting 287 emails a day and now the Christmas season has piled up on you and you realize Christmas Day is only days away. Your hair is on