Get More Done – Interrupt Your Interruptions
Constant interruptions reduce focus and effectiveness. Learn how the human brain handles interruptions (poorly) and how to work more effectively by stemming their flow.
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Source Let’s face it. Behind every successful product out there in the market lies a high-performance team. But, take a pause here. Ever wondered what goes into building these teams? More importantly, what if you could imbibe the same quality in your team? Well, yes, it is communication skills. If you are reading this post,…
Whether you are working from home or in the workplace using your breaks effectively to relax the mind can be hard to do. It can be easy to waste your breaks scrolling down social media or staring into space. With this guide we will show you some ideas to ensure that you use your breaks…
You may have heard about red flags to look out for in your personal life, but have you ever considered the red flags to look for in your business? You want your business to be as profitable and successful as possible, but if you don’t look out for the warning signs that your business could…
Source If you’re involved in the growth of a business anyway, gaining new eyeballs on your brand is nothing new to you. Whether your business is B2B or B2C, gaining month over month new traffic is one of the critical goals of any marketing team. After all, your business breathes on your customer base. The…
Credit cards are an exceptional financial tool that helps for day-to-day purchases for many people across the globe. While for some people, securing a credit card can be a milestone in their life and for some, it can be a burden because of mismanagement in the finances. Those who use their credit card wisely will…
Upgrading your business equipment is an exciting opportunity for introducing new practices to your business that will minimize any waste. Since new green solutions are developed all the time, it might be challenging to keep on top of the emerging power-saving technologies and trends. In this post, we’ll be sharing a few tips on how…
Those darn employees
It is a common refrain across every industry and every size organization today. In addition to, “I am having trouble finding the right people or any people in some cases! And once we get them, keeping them is harder than ever.” There are a lot of innovative ways to address the shrinking labor pool and…
Get More Done – Interrupt Your Interruptions
Constant interruptions reduce focus and effectiveness. Learn how the human brain handles interruptions (poorly) and how to work more effectively by stemming their flow.
Thriving in Ongoing Change
And we can create whole new pathways, new structures and frameworks constantly. This neuroplasticity requires the crucial ingredients of time and intention. Typically in unexpected change, we go through various phases including: Shock | a sudden upsetting or surprising event or experience | “What is this?” Denial | looking for evidence it is not…
4 Strategies for Hiring Bilingual Employees
Source The world is changing at an ever-increasing pace, and so should your company. In order to remain competitive, you need to keep pace by hiring writers that will spek the language of your consumers. By investing in bilingual employees who are able to speak and understand the changing trends you are enabling your content…
Seven Winning Habits to Practice in 2022
Want your organization to win in 2022? Start by practicing these winning habits.
GBG: The Acronym that Works
Many acronyms are negative and self-inhibiting. They stop us from pondering possibilities or alternatives. Here’s one that will switch your thinking from negative to positive.
Are you playing to win…to achieve excellence?
Your #1 job as a leader is to create a compelling vision of winning
Teach Employees the Business of your Business
Your employees are making decisions right now. How do they now the best ones if they don’t know the business of your business?
Transparent thinking
To make this a reality, leaders need to develop transparent thinking in themselves and their team members.
Are you clear on success in 2021?
Roger Bannister set out to become the first athlete to break the four-minute mile. “Experts” told him it was impossible. Some even suggested he was risking death; doctors told him his heart would explode! Not only did Bannister not die, but the week after he broke the barrier another runner followed in his footsteps,…
Are You Preparing to Win in 2021 or Just Continuing to Work Hard?
No doubt 2020 was a challenging year in so many ways. Whether you were busier than you ever dreamed because market conditions changed in your favor, or you were shut down, had supply chains completely disrupted, or found your customers were negatively impacted, 2020 tested us at work. And that doesn’t even begin to cover…
Top Workforce Issues
Effective business management requires balancing the big picture with the details.
Lead the Possible, Not the Probable
Today’s uncertain and volatile business landscape calls for new ways of thinking and working. So why do most companies attempt to solve problems and manage massive change in the wrong manner? A lot of it has to do with the way the human brain works. Our brains love certainty and predictability. So when faced with…
The Next Next
Individual and organizational brains in constant, unexpected change If you are like many, you were certain in April that by June we would see a settling in to the ‘new normal’. And then in May, once again, many of us were sure that by the end of June, our norms would be reset, and we…
Keeping Employees Connected
During times of uncertainty, human beings seek community and safety, and many find it in the workplace. Work typically provides a much-needed sense of stability and control over at least one aspect of our lives when everything else has gone topsy-turvy. Yet, millions of people have lost their jobs, either temporarily or permanently, due to…
Executing with Excellence in Uncertainty
Why is it so hard to keep up with the pace of change these days? Some ascribe it to the overwhelming amount of information we try to process every day. Others point to the rapid pace of change. Both are partly to blame. But the primary reason is our brains were not constructed to work…
How to Use Your Brain During Unexpected Change
The human brain is an amazing tool. But there’s one thing it doesn’t handle very well – change. Especially change of the magnitude brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Nobody saw this virus coming, but it has turned our world upside down. Our challenge as leaders is how we respond to it – a task…
