7 Steps To Effective Goal Setting
You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things – to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
– Sir Edmund Hillary, first climber to successfully summit Mt. Everest
Setting goals is one of the most commonly used training tools. Goals can organize the competitors’ focus and endeavors towards achieving a specific task. They also increase persistence and motivation for long term training. Having a goal can hel…
Enhance Performance Through Hypnosis
When an individual enhances their performance, whether in business, in relationships or generally in life, they are taking control in a new more positive way. We all have aspirations and goals, but at times we feel as if they are unattainable, almost as though its like reaching for the stars.
If you want a promotion at work or to have more energy or to be better at a sport you may want to consider focusing on enhancing your performance. Hypnosis is a natural and effective…
Performance: Turbo-Charge Your Life With Powerful Self-Talk
Self-talk is the inner chatter that accompanies us in most of our waking moments. Your self-talk can be a powerful aid to your performance, or it can be destructive.
What do you say when you talk to yourself? If you’re like many of us, your self-talk is a caustic mixture of judgments, complaints, and verbal abuse, in the form of “tapes” – mental recordings – that you’ve imprinted on your mind and play over and over again. No wonder you feel down and depressed.
However, …
Coaching for Success
Coaching is perhaps the most effective method of increasing performance available to managers, team leaders, and colleagues. This article defines coaching and outlines a process for effective coaching.
Problem Solving/Corrective Action
This article introduces the problem-solving model as a technique for managing performance issues that are more controversial, or that are not effectively addressed through coaching or feedback.
Good Self, Bad Self
Do you walk your talk? Most of us like to think that we mean what we say and say what we mean.
Then why do we keep saying we will quit doing this, or start doing that, and we find we keep on doing the same old things? Most New Year’s resolutions end up abandoned shortly after they were made.
We are not liars. We are sincere at the time. But soon or later, we find ourselves faced with conflicting emotions, convictions and our real actions.
Most of the time we kid ours…
Beware The Busy Manager
Only about 10 percent of managers work purposefully to complete important tasks, according to a 10-year study of managerial behavior across a variety of industries. The other 90 percent self-sabotage by busily engaging in non-purposeful activities, procrastinating, detaching from their work and needlessly spinning their wheels.
In a revealing study over a 10-year period, 1993-2003, authors Heike Bruch and Sumantra Ghoshal tracked behaviors of managers in a wide variety of …
Employee Performance Reviews — Dealing With Disagreements
What do you do when an employee disagrees with something you’ve written on their performance review? How can you prepare for this and deal with it effectively?
Start by listening to figure out the source of the disagreement. Is it an issue of fact (you wrote that the employee received a customer satisfaction score of 79 but the employee says that his score was actually 83), or is a matter of judgment (you wrote that the employee’s customer service skills were unsatisfactor…
Employee Performance Reviews – Dealing With Disagreements
Most of the time, you have a reasonably good understanding of the areas where disagreements are likely to pop up in the course of the performance review discussion
Get Your Performance Appraisal Discussions Off To A Good Start (Part 1)
Too often, participants in performance appraisal meetings seem awkward and uncomfortable. To some extent, that’s unavoidable — it’s always a bit awkward for one person to deliver a formal assessment of the quality of work performed by another.
But following some simple suggestions can eliminate a lot of the awkwardness in performance appraisal meetings. Here are a couple of tips that will help put both players at ease. (In Part 2 of this article, I’ll provide some addition…