In my career of coaching 1000’s of sales professionals and leaders to get better, there is one strategy that will…
What is your routine for the first five minutes when you arrive at your business or office? What do you do…
Hopefully you will live to experience at least 80 summers. Personally I am going for 100! How old are you now? I am 55. Using 80 as the number of summers that leaves me just 25 more to experience. Yikes. It is so easy to keep busy and not plan some special activities. It can be simple activities like floating a river, having a picnic, taking a hike, going to a play or concert, borrow or rent a boat for the day on a local lake, visiting a state park for a quick camping adventure. The possibilities are endless.
I wanted to thank you again for coming to speak to our group. I was very excited for you to come back for two reasons. One, I wanted to be hear you again and I wanted my team to hear your message as I thought it was a powerful one that would impact them greatly. Two, I knew that this time I would break the board. You see, for me, not breaking the board that day many years ago was life changing. As I mentioned I had fibromyalgia for many years and my journey of healing and overcoming that challenge was a long one.
A recent finding in a Clarizen/Harris Poll Survey said employed Americans spend over 9 hours a week on meetings and almost 50 percent of respondents would rather go to DMV or watch paint dry. The challenge is when they get in the way of people being productive. you need to take acton to change it. Meetings need to be eliminated that have no agenda or clear outcomes, are too long, no clear time parameters, endless PowerPoint slides, one way “data dumps” or a leader who runs on endlessly with material that does not impact you.
If you are the leader, you can make the changes right now. If you are not the leader, be the catalyst for change. Try NMW for a few months, if you try it, your people will never let you bring them back! Announce that every meeting must have a written agenda with clear desired outcomes. Each meeting must have clear starting times and ending times. Do not set up an hour meetings “just because”, because if you make it an hour you will fill the hour! Challenge people to set up shorter meeting times. Institute the stand-up huddles.
Did they say, “I signed and paid up for this thing, I’ve GOT to go.” Or did you say, “What a great opportunity to spend the day with 300 other farmers, learn how to be even more efficient. This will be fun, I am so happy I GET to go.” There is a chasm between got to and get to attitude. I walk my talk in this area too. I am blessed to have the opportunity to do what I do and the travel can get be difficult. What makes it easier, is for me to remember that I GET to go on the road and speak to these audiences.
When I worked with Tony Robbins for 5 years I remember enjoying the Living Health Seminar. I just pulled out my Journal from November 1988, the first time I attended. Here are a few of the ideas I have implemented the last 27 years. The key principle is – Immunity is the ability of the body to recognize substances as foreign to itself and eliminate it. What can you do to strengthen your immune system?
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In the old days before social media, an unhappy guest had a hard time venting to more than a few friends, writing a letter to the company and the Better Business Bureau. Now the game has changed in a big way. There are endless ways to post a bad review on all the 3rd party room booking sites like Travelocity, Trip Advisor, Expedia etc. YELP, Twitter and Facebook. Google Reviews are actually tied into each Motel 6 property on their own booking site Motel6.com. There is a also a new wave of sites like ConsumerAffairs.com, PissedConsumer.com and Complaints.com. Those bad review live forever on line and someone who had a bad experience is 10 times more likely to leave a bad review than someone who had a great experience is to leave a good one.
There are no secrets! You cannot HIDE!
Here are four keys to creating a great first impression.