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Personal Development

We all have our own filter in how we see the world, and that filter creates the meaning that defines our experience. Filters are based on the beliefs your mind has developed over the years from the meaning it assigned to each event in your life. It is our perception of an event and what we believe about it that determines how we experience the event - not the event itself. Therefore, there is no such thing as good or bad, but rather how we perceive it determines good or bad.

Employee Performance

Leading people to their own conclusion is more powerful than telling them what the conclusion should be.

Employee Training

With consistent training you can put higher standards into place and raise the bar of performance for you employees. Train or feel the pain!

Employee Training

When training your employees, take the time upfront to ensure that they have a clear understanding of what they are about to hear and see and why the training is important to them in their jobs. This way they will be mentally prepared and focused on the training, as opposed to staring at the clock counting off the minutes until the training ends.

 

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Good is the enemy of great!

Employee Productivity

Do you view your employees as an expense or an investment? If you said investment, then what is your return (ROI)? If you said your employee return is the fact that they, show up, are in uniform and don't steal, then clearly your expectations are way too low. You always get what you expect. Expect more and you'll get more. If you viewed your employees as one of the many profit centers you have in your store, would your perception and expectation of their job performance change?

Employee Training

When your employees encounter a situation, they're in one of two categories - either you've trained them on how to successfully handle the situation or you haven't trained them on the situation and they feel helpless and are going to be guessing what to do. Which category would you want your employees to be in?

Personal Development

Examine your beliefs about your goals. Pick a goal and write down three beliefs you have about achieving it. Are these beliefs empowering? Are these beliefs in alignment to help you achieve your goal? If not, what do you have to change to achieve your goal?

 

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Nothing happens until something moves. -Albert Einstein

Personal Development

The most important time of our lives is the present moment. Yesterday is history and our future will be determined by the decisions and actions we take today. Think about it. The only thing that exists with any certainty is the present moment. That's why it's so important to be fully and completely engaged in the moment. What else is there?