Franchise Money Maker

This article is written by Drew Stevens
With the conclusion of the year, holiday stress, and economic pendulum swings, it is very easy to self-sabotage.
Statistics prove that internal stress is the key factor in self-sabotage. More important, we sabotage because we focus on negative aspects; we focus on failure. Research shows that individuals have a fear [...]

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by Kate Mercer
In coaching clients on Leadership we’ve noticed an early sticking point. Though different people give different reasons, there is a common theme: at this point, the clients seem to be showing resistance to ’stepping up’ to Leadership. They of course don’t accept that it’s resistance; from where they stand it seems impossible to [...]

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by Kate Mercer

Welcome to the last in my three-part series on Leadership, which I define as “holding the Vision, causing Partnership,
and holding people to Account”. Over the last two
articles I have explored the areas of Accountability and
Partnership. This time I am going to take a look at the
key to Leadership: the [...]

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by Trevor Hill
It’s too easy to lose ourselves in the complexities of working and living. Overwhelm and stress can takeover. We look desperately for simplicity.
Busy-ness can be an ingrained habit. Yet we can be jolted out of it when we experience radical change. It can help us get reconnected with what is really important. Then [...]

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This article is written and owned by Pamela Scott
Clear communication consistently ranks as a priority for
any organization to be successful. We expect clear, concise
communications with our fellow workers.
Instead, we should expect misunderstanding. It happens all
the time.
Consider the following example.
Jim updated the other officers about plans to present an
award to the company owner. “Sue, Jerry and [...]

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by Matt Somers
More fuss has been made about the distinction between coaching and mentoring than most other facets of coaching put together. I don’t want to add to this fuss and would stress that to the coachee or the mentee the difference is largely meaningless as long as they are getting the help they need. [...]

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by Denise Ryan
Most employees view training as medicine or worse, as punishment. As an outside trainer, I work with hundreds of groups in a wide variety of industries and most people enter the training room as if they are going to the gas chamber. They might not expect death, but clearly some horrible form of [...]

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by Linda Feinholz
One of my clients, Don, kept waffling back and forth over which sized firms he wanted as his clients. For the lack of that focus, his efforts were scattered and outright conflicting with each other.
If you’ve been aware of hearing about the Law of Attraction recently, you’re in step with the latest message [...]

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by Fabienne Fredrickson
QUOTE: “Until one is released, step by step or all at once, from the roots of fear-based thinking, no amount of Money will give prosperity. This is fact…” - Anonymous
Even though I’m totally unplugged from what’s going on in the world, by choice, stuff is still trickling in. You see, I’ve made a [...]

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by Jennifer Selby Long
If you’re not worried, maybe you should be. In a down economy, the core and bottom performers hunker down, fearful of leaving familiar territory, but your top 20% are still getting calls from recruiters and lucrative offers from competitors or even from other recession-resistant industries trolling for talent.
So what motivates key talent [...]

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