By utilizing effective communication strategies, you can communicate like an expert rather than a beginner. These techniques are versatile and can be applied in any situation where you need to persuade others. Whether it's for presentations, emails, letters, speeches, or any other context, they help you present your ideas convincingly. Here are three of the 14 communication strategies from our ...

Effective Communication Recipes Everyone Can Use

What do you think is the most common mistake people make when setting goals? Could it be a goal that lacks specificity or doesn’t have a clear metric? Or perhaps it’s when a goal focuses too much on actions rather than a defined end result?While those are certainly issues, they’re not the biggest mistake in goal setting. The same goes ...

BIGGEST Error in Goal Setting – Planning Too!

The Freedom V is an effective concept and tool as it illustrates the connection between self-governance and freedom. The V graphic speaks for itself, and the table to the right in the image below offers additional details. The key components are the V shape and the arrow in the center.Freedom V GraphicFirst, the V shape. The lines on the right and ...

Self-Governance and Freedom V Foster High-performance

Goals are often easy to discuss but challenging to create. To help you achieve more, I hope the following goal-setting process will be useful. This approach is designed for individuals but can be easily adapted for organizations. For those needing a comprehensive planning system for organizations, we offer the GR8 Results System. It gives you a step-by-step guide that begins with ...

The Results From Proper Goal-Setting Processes

"I don’t own a business, nor do I work in marketing or sales, so why should I care about the 4 levels of customer expectations?"  That’s a great question, and it can be answered with another question."Does anyone see, use, review, or take notice of your work?" If your answer is "No," then you likely have a job many people ...

4 Levels of Customer Expectations

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A Secret Ingredient to Getting The Job Done

To be an effective leader, it's essential to embody these 6 key leadership values. Strong leadership can only be achieved with strong values. Sadly, these values are often underestimated, but they are what truly distinguish a GOOD leader from a BAD one. As a leader, when you align your leadership with the six essential values, you’re not only doing what’s ...

Six Critical Leadership Values for GREAT Leaders

Everyone makes mistakes, we hear this all the time, right?  Some mistakes are bigger or more meaningful than others, but when the following most common leadership mistakes are made, they are more fatal and could have easily been avoided. Lets dive deep into the top 10 most common leadership mistakes, as these can prove a pivotal point in leadership as far ...

10 Most Common Leadership Mistakes

Over the years, with lots of the material I have researched and studied, people believe that the most powerful skills relate to motivating people to action, such as persuasion or casting a vision. While those are valuable skills, the most important leadership skill is...believe it or not........ASKING QUESTIONS.As crazy as that may sound, here are 3 reasons why Asking Questions ...

Why Questions are the Most Important Leadership Skill?

Great leaders demonstrate 5 critical leader capacities or abilities. Each capacity is necessary, but it takes all 5 working together to be an excellent leader. More importantly, the 5 essential leader capacities work best with a firm foundation of the 6 Critical Leader Values.  Thomas Edison stated, “Vision without execution is hallucination.” No doubt, execution is a critical part of ...

5 of the Most Critical Leader Capacities