Happiness & Time Management


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Schedule what is important to you

In getting ready for this month’s webinar on Managing Your Own Performance, I recalled a small epiphany I had many years ago: Time management is the key to happiness.

What I mean by this is simply that:

I have way more fun, when I make time on purpose to have fun. Read More

Motivating Without Money



This month’s webinar was on the topic of Motivating Without Money

If you missed it, you can download the recording.

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This is a very useful webinar to download if you want to:

  • Increase performance and momentum in your team
  • Build genuine loyalty, support and engagement
  • Create a work environment that makes employees feel confident
  • Find out what specifically motivates each individual
  • Communicate in ways that create clarity and buy-in

Money is the easiest, but not the best motivator

There is no doubt that money is a motivator, but it is not the best one. Read More

Commitments, Deadlines & Employee Motivation



This month’s webinar was on the topic of Motivation, Commitments and Deadlines.

If you missed it, you can download the recording.

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This is a very useful webinar to download if you want to:

  • Get your team executing better, and more consistently
  • Become more comfortable discussing and sticking to deadlines
  • Learn how to enforce consequences without de-motivating people
  • Choose the right measures that make success and failure very clear
  • Have the right (non-emotional) conversations when expections are not met

Why organizations don’t deliver on time

The simple truth is that many organizations don’t deliver on time because there are no consequences for not delivering on time. Read More

What a manager must communicate…


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Operation vs. Communication Tools

Your team creates all kinds of reports, spread sheets and slides to plan, run, measure, and report on what you are doing in your operation.

Of course you need these detailed materials to run your function — but please don’t inflict them on others! Read More

Imagined power vs. Real power and respect


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People often ask me if it was hard for me to go from running really large organizations to having my own (implied — “much smaller”) company.

This was never an issue for me because I always maintained a psychological distance between the power of my role, (managing a $1B+ global business, multi-hundred-milion dollar budget, and thousands of people) and my own personal power. Read More

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