Along the lines of helpful articles and tips, this comes from Jim Paterson and the September 2008 issue of “Counseling Today.” While I’m a coach and not a counselor, I found this shadowbox article (on page 54) valuable to any business owner.
In his article, Jim identifies “six key points to consider before choosing a specialty”:
While cleaning my office for year-end planning, I came across a batch of articles I had saved over the years while managing various departments (sales, service, training, admin).
One such article (from a Priority Management* newsletter) is called “Eight Ways to Make Teams Work.” Here are their eight tips (in bold) with my thoughts (in italics):
Managing people can pose a variety of challenges, but there are simple building blocks you can use to identify performance issues, address them, and create the results you want.
So my gift to you this holiday season is a variety of tips to help you improve your management skills and increase your impact.
For me, it starts before you hire anyone. You see, there are only a few reasons people don’t perform (and we can only influence a few of them):
One of our company values is Generosity.
We live this value by giving time, talent, and money to special individuals and organizations. This month, we highlight two efforts that deserve your consideration.
The first involves Students Helping Others and the second involves Others Helping Students.
This is the last in a series of three articles that presents six recent discoveries about the brain that help explain our success—and failure—as it relates to living our lives and working towards our professional and personal goals (this information is based on the coaching model I use and the intellectual property of Results Coaching Systems).
In the first article, I presented Finding #1: The Brain Is a Connection Machine and Finding #2: No Two Brains Are Even Remotely Alike. In the second article, my focus was on Finding #3: The Brain Works to Hardwire Everything Useful and Finding #4: Perception Is Driven by Our Hardwiring.
This final article presents Finding #5: It’s Almost Impossible to Change Old Wiring and Finding #6: It’s Easy to Create New Wiring, and how you can apply them in your work, business, and/or life.
This is the second in a series of three articles that present six recent discoveries about the brain that help explain our success—and failure—as it relates to living our lives and working towards our personal and professional goals (this information is based on the coaching model I use and the intellectual property of Results Coaching Systems).
In the last article, I suggested you stop using your head and start using your brain. I also mentioned the first two recent findings about the brain: 1) The Brain Is a Connection Machine and 2) No Two Brains Are Even Remotely Alike.
This article, the focus is on Finding #3: The Brain Works to Hardwire Everything and Finding #4: Perception Is Driven by Our Hardwiring. I’ll present each finding and then how you can apply it in work, business, and/or life.
This was my first appearance, June 2008, on Life Coach TV, a Manahattan-based cable TV show.
Bonnie Gurwiczs was the host. She’s a terrific colleague and fun fun fun.
I offer my definition of coaching, my background and experience as a coach, and I talk about the brain science behind my coaching.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Okdusj4VNk
I’ll have my second appearance from July/Aug of this year (2008) available by end of year — lots going on.
Enjoy!
It’s not often you get called by a reporter to talk about what you do. That’s just what happened when Claude Solnik of Long Island Business News (LIBN) called Paul McGinniss to get his take (among other coaches) about career coaching. (Click the "Read more…" link below to see the article.)
If you have questions about the article, give me a buzz or drop me a line. It raised a few questions for me…
This article features Susan Accardo, a colleague of mine who runs sales for Accu Data Payroll. It’s about "buddy punching" (probably not what you think) and the new advancements in tracking time and attendance for employees.
Would you like to know a secret to being more productive, more effective, more fulfilled?
Here it is: Use your brain.
Seems simple but it’s not. In fact, your brain is often “sabotaging” you without you even knowing it.
How?
Your brain likes to conserve energy. It doesn’t want to work hard. It wants to make everything habitual so it literally doesn’t have to think. For the most part, we couldn’t survive if the brain didn’t work this way. Can you imagine if every day you had to relearn how to walk, talk, drive, brush your teeth, etc.? While these routines serve us well, other habits we’ve created may not.
So how do you harness the power of the brain to get what you want?
You just need to understand how the brain works. (And, no, you don’t need to be a brain surgeon!)