We live in a world today that makes it easy to blame others for our success or lack of success. Most people want to believe that somehow those with great success have been given a break, or they have been born into privilege and that is the reason why they are successful. However, the facts are that the overwhelming percentage …
Creating Positive Change – Start with Your People – Brian Dixon
We can look in our business, our relationships, our careers, our lives in general and say, “things need to change”. None of us want that change to be for the worse, so we try to take control. We decide quite often that if we have the power to change things we will. So we start handing out orders, making edicts, …
Leader Board: The DNA of High Performance Teams – Omar L. Harris
It doesn’t matter if it is a sport, a for profit business, a non-profit business, or even a family when it comes to developing a “high performance team” there seems to be some commonalities. The first is we are all pretty aware that all teams go through pretty much the same phases, from forming to storming, to norming, to performing. …
Lessons from the Farm – Essential Rules for Success – Jay Izso
What positive lessons did you learn as a child that you still hold on to today? It seems that so many things that we do as an adult are so directly from things we learned in the first two decades of our life. So often we walk around this world and do not even realize that the things we do …
Courage Goes to Work – Bill Treasurer
How are you about doing something new in your job or your life? Little scary? Do you focus on the consequences or the possibilities? How about the issue of trust? Do you really have the courage that it takes to trust others in your life or your business? Of do you distrust and control? And how about really telling the …
Managing When No One Wants to Work – Ralph Peterson
It is has happened to most all of us. You start your job so excited. You work like crazy to impress your boss…and then something happens. The intensity is gone. The desire to put forth the effort wains. Then there are those types of industries, oh, let’s say housekeeping where many people are not excited to do their job. What …
The Power of Authenticity – Ora Nadrich – Live True
Let me ask you a question. If you were to look at yourself from above would you, or could truly say you are living authentically? Are you truly being who you are? Do you even know who that person is suppose to be? It is so easy in life to lose sight if who we really are. We get so …
Be Successful – Your Career is Your Business – Ines Temple – YOU Incorporated
On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being awful and 10 being the best it can be…how would you rate your career right now? If it is anything less than a 5, I have to ask you this question: Why are you still in that job? The answers could range from, “I need the money”, “it’s better than nothing”, …
Be Chief: It’s a Choice, Not a Title AND 28
I have read and heard it said from numerous coaches and experts, “the only thing you can control is your attitude and your effort”. My guest on A New Direction Rick Miller would add one more to those two true statements…Being Chief, because after all it is a choice, not a title. Rick Miller is an author true of the …
Social Media Tactics for Student Athletes, Coaches, Administrators, and Applications for Business – Jay Izso – AND 25
I have heard it said, especially from coaches, “social media and athletes are like oil and water, the two just don’t mix”. Well the same could be said for athletics in general. Because even coaches and high level administrators have found themselves in hot water over a tweet or social post that resulted in termination. Is social media really a …
- Page 1 of 2
- 1
- 2