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SELF-IMPROVEMENT
AND PERSONAL GROWTH ARTICLES
The links below take you to pages filled with self-improvement ideas
which will assist you to live the life you desire ... a life filled
with meaning and significance.
Life is certainly short and when the curtain, on this play called your
life, closes you will want to take your final bow feeling you have
lived with purpose. Take the small, and sometimes seemingly
insignificant, daily actions that propel you to breakthrough to the
pinnacle of success - a life well lived!
Managing Executive Stress: Use these seven tactics to help you stay at the top of your game ...
Accept Responsibility: Take a peek inside a coaching session and learn how to discipline your thinking ...
Self-Improvement
Tips: Follow these five easy tips to ensure you get
the most from your self-improvement journey ...
Develop
Your Personal Mission Statement: It only has to be
big enough to rock your world, but it does have to be significant to
you ...
Have
Positive Self-Talk: Discover how your self-talk
governs your performance and consequently dictates your success ...
How
To Build Self-Esteem: A Gallup Survey tells us 2
out of 3 people have low self-esteem. Enhance your sense of self ...
Increase
Your Self-Efficacy to Achieve More: People with
high self-efficacy perform better because they believe they can ...
Work
on Your Locus of Control to change your Destiny:
Discover how who you believe has control impacts on how your life plays
out ...
Optimists
Tend to Outperform Pessimists: Discover the three
crucial elements that differentiate optimists from pessimists ...
The
Steps of Positive Thinking: Use the ABCDE
model to train your mind to think the success way ...
Write
Your Success Affirmations: Affirmations
are a great tool to deliberately train your mind to focus on what you
do want. Follow these nine steps to get them exactly right ...
Living
a Purposeful Life At Work: "That was the best
moccha I've ever had and I think I know why. It is because you have
such joy, passion and love for what you are doing right now and it came
through to me ...
How
Beliefs Hold You Back: Discover how to recognize a
limiting belief, how to challenge it and overcome it ...
Live
A Passionate Life: These three tips can help you to
live with passion and sizzle ...
Ready for Success? Daily Actions propel you to success ...
Where
Attention Goes, Energy Flows: See how the Universal
Law of Attraction, plays out in the workplace ...
Universal
Laws: There are a series of Universal Laws that
apply to each and every one of us, regardless of whether you know about
them or not ...
Wildly
Wealthy: Sandy Forster, Australia's leading
prosperity coach shares with us the 7 Secrets of Millionaires ...
Want
To Know How Much You've Improved? What doesn't kill
you will only make you stronger! You've probably had someone attempt to
cheer you up with this platitude at some time when you were feeling
disappointed, hurt, frustrated or downright rejected. But do tough
times really make you stronger? ...
Careful
Your Self-Esteem May Be Showing: Have you ever been
embarrassed by the actions of someone else? Steve had several people
reporting to him and his business unit was performing pretty well. In
fact, Steve was fairly confident ...
The Difference Once Person Can Make: Ever wondered what it takes to get 6,000 people to work together? Learn a lesson from a tweeny ...
Be
Open to Receiving Feedback: If you are fearful of
people giving your feedback you may be under-living your potential ...
Live
Fully and Treasure Today...It Could Be Your Last:
Live each day fully alive. Recently as my daughter Connor and I drove
into the local shopping center I saw a young woman (we'll call her
Mandy) standing outside the Doctor's office sobbing and clutching a
radiologist's report to her chest ...
The
Meaning of Success The meaning of success is
different for each of us. For most though, it has something to do with
the level of influence, affluence and ...
Live
In the Moment: If you spend more than 15% of your
time in the past or future you are robbing yourself of life's richness
...
Foster
an Attitude of Gratitude: If you are living an
attitude of gratitude it is impossible for self-pity to thrive ...
RELATIONSHIPS
AND COMMUNICATION ARTICLES
Managing Your Boss: For your personal and professional success mastering the skill of managing your boss is critical. In this article find out what to do and what not to do ...
Signs
of A Bad Relationship: Here's 10 signs of a bad relationship
(regardless of whether its a personal or professional relationship) and
some tips to help you overcome them ...
Verbal Abuse In The Workplace: Find the signs and symbols of verbal abuse in the workplace and what you can do about it ...
Communication
Barriers in Organizations: Here's one easy tip you can use to
ease the frustration of communication breakdowns ...
Types
of Conflict in the Workplace: This article contains a list of
the most common types of conflict, and an important rule to follow to
successfully resolve personality conflicts ..
High
Performance Leaders Build Strong, Healthy Relationships: Who
did you call when you heard about 9/11 - your stockbroker, your banker
or someone who has significance in your life? Strong, healthy
relationships are, at the final count, what makes for a significant
life ...
Characteristics
of a Toxic Relationship: Whether on the receiving or giving
end, at some point you will find yourself embroiled in a toxic
relationship. Here are some ways out of such a situation ...
Assertiveness
in the Workplace: A lack of assertiveness in the workplace
causes people to avoid giving appropriate feedback and results in
under-performance ...
Communicating
Without Defensiveness: With so much riding on your capability
as a communicator you probably don't need much convincing to constantly
improve this facet of your life
CULTURE, CHANGE AND HIGH PERFORMANCE WORKPLACES ARTICLES
Creating a high performance organization is a journey that many have
attempted to travel (and many have chosen to ignore). There are a
number of simple steps you can take. I say simple, but they aren't
easy. It takes dedication and commitment.
You, the leader, must be committed to your personal growth to improve your odds at creating a high performance organization for the long-term. So do make sure you make
use of the articles under the self-improvement and communication tabs.
Changing Workplace Culture: Most workplace cultures have not been deliberately designed. Follow these 8 steps to ...
Dealing
with Change in the Workplace: For most people dealing with
change in the workplace is a time of great stress. This article is
filled with tips for both the leader and the led on how to deal with
change ...
Managing
Change in the Workplace: Here are some tips for leaders to
help make the change process run more smoothly ...
The
Power of Organization Design: Hiring talented people is not
enough to ensure organizational success. The best and brightest
employees will not be able to do their best work in a poorly designed
workplace ...
An
Organization Re-design Process: The model below shows you how
the choices you make in organization design impact on the various
parts. The important thing to note is ...
Vision,
Mission and Values: Poorly used they will create deep
cynicism throughout your organization, wisely used they ...
Tips
on how to Create a Team Vision Statement: The purpose of your
vision statement is to stretch boundaries and comfort zones and enable
the people within the organization to have a sense of what could be ...
Tips
on how to create a Team Mission Statement: Developing a team
mission statement is not an exact science. You are simply fleshing out
the distinctive competencies and primary reason for existence of ...
Tips
on how to Develop Team Values: The shape of any organization
is determined by the values held by the leaders with decision-making
authority. People do not learn how to act by the organizational values
that are written on cards and brochures ...
The
Difference Between Rule Based and Principle Based Workplaces:
Shifting from a restrictive style of management to principle based
leadership is not for the faint-hearted. It will possibly be the
personal growth journey of your life!
Four
Steps to Creating a Principle Based Workplace: Articulate
your Values then identify the irrational ...
Team
Norms - The Bridge: Finding rules too restrictive and
principles too airy-fairy? Then you need to create some team norms.
Norms can help your team to focus on performing rather than conflicting
...
Employee
Performance Management Technique: This technique enables you
to identify why a person doesn't perform the task required or to the
standard required. Generally there are two reasons people under-perform
...
Team
Building Program for Self-Reliance: Creating an
empowered
team-based organization takes time. The model discussed here is one
that you will be able to use for years. It is a process and a team
building program all rolled in to one ...
Effective
Ways to Reward Employees: Most reward and
recognition
programs inhibit high performance and encourage even more of the
traditional behaviors that originate from command and control style
organizations ...
Workplace
Gossip: You probably gossip a lot more than you realize. Try
to go without it for 7 days and see how strong your withdrawal ....
Trust
in the Workplace: Trust in the workplace is a residue of all
that you do. Trust does depend upon history, but at times it also
requires a leap of faith ...
Do
You Have A Toxic Workplace? A toxic workplace is one that's
not learnt to balance the need for profits with concern about the heart
and soul of its people ...
Talent
Management: Talent Management is used a lot today to describe
the various activities an organization can undertake to ensure they
keep people in their seats longer ...
Employee
Motivation Program: Looking for an employee motivation
program? Well it's possibly a lot easier and a lot more complex than
you ever thought. If it's a quick fix you are after ...
Employee
Motivation Program: Many people find themselves trapped in careers and jobs that don't enable them to be free-flowing, natural, effortless ...
LEADERSHIP CONCEPTS/SKILLS/MODELS ARTICLES
Effective
Leadership Styles Your Style of leadership impacts
your team. There are many different styles, find the one that works
best for you or best fits the situation you are in ...
Micromanagement
and Delegation: A snooperviser is one of the most
demoralizing leaders to ...
Successful
Delegation Techniques: For successful effective
delegation follow these six steps ...
A
Different Leadership Style? Take Some Leadership Lessons From Horses:
The old command and control style is dead. A different
leadership style
is needed if you really want to connect with your people. You may be
able to gather some leadership lessons from horses. ...
Qualities
of Good Leadership: Research shows that there's a
consistent set of traits, characteristics and qualities of good
leadership that people look for in their leader ...
Leadership
Skills Analysis In any corporate organization there
is much pressure on leaders to perform at their optimum, consequently
at some point in your career you will spend time in leadership skills
analysis/assessment.
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