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Quality: Setting Right Goals

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Most improvement initiatives are heavily focused on internal goals – increasing productivity/efficiency, eliminating waste, reducing defects/costs and so on. Processes around these goals are written and implemented. People are trained, tools are implemented, energies are directed and everyone starts working hard to meet these goals.

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Win the Workday with Brain On!

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Mental Fitness Strategies for Sharpening Focus, Boosting Energy, and Winning the Workday ”. The first is prioritizing and acting on your strengths-based goals and second is managing the energy of your brain. Part 2 offers excellent brain booster exercises, strategies and tips to refuel the brain energy and avoid burn-out.

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In Communication, Substance Comes First

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This means a few things: Communication (written or verbal) is transfer of energy. If your communication does not transfer any positive energy (or worst yet, sucks energy from the other party), it is not going to work. Style is not the goal, but a by-product. Substance comes first. Purpose strengthens communication.

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Taking Charge of a Team? Avoid These 4 Mistakes

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Resistance is negative energy, but energy nevertheless. Try directing this energy instead into constructive initiatives that leave people feel more valued. Establish goals, keep setting expectations, define milestones and let your team members stretch to achieve those. Keep them positive. Use “we” more often than “I”.

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Great Quotes: Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky

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Along the journey to making ideas happen, you must reduce the amount of energy you spend on stuff related to your insecurities.”. On Managing Your Energy. The way you organize projects, prioritize, and manage your energy is arguably more important than the quality of the ideas you wish to pursue.”. On Our Insecurities.

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Building Engaged Teams with Power of Appreciation

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Appreciation is a fuel that helps others move forward in direction of their goals, yet we often see that managers take others/their work for granted thinking, “So what if they’re doing it – they’re paid to do just that.” It has to transfer positive energy! The act of appreciating has to be a genuine one.

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What Creating Sketchnotes Taught Me About #Learning

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There are people who stick to their primary pursuits for long and then there are those whose energy keeps changing direction. Between these two extremes, there are people who stick to their primary pursuit but still manage to go wherever their energy takes them. I have figured out that I belong to that middle path.