Leaders have a strong drive to succeed. They tend to be results oriented and want to place a check mark next to “goal completed.” Leaders also persevere through failure. President Abraham Lincoln faced several failures in his lifetime, such as losing political campaigns, a failed business and bankruptcy, before he became President of the United […]
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“Influence masters first ensure that vital behaviors connect to intrinsic satisfaction. Next, they line up social support. They double check both of these areas before they finally choose extrinsic rewards to motivate behavior.” – Influencer Often with influencing or motivating others, the first thing that we think of and do is connected to an extrinsic
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You Can Be an Influencer – Part VIII: Are Your Reward Systems Backfiring? “Influence masters first ensure that vital behaviors connect to intrinsic satisfaction. Next, they line up social support. They double check both of these areas before they finally choose extrinsic rewards to motivate behavior.” – Influencer Often with influencing or motivating others, the
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3 Steps to Life Balance When we lack life balance, we can often experience pain that impacts us in multiple areas of our lives. Often there is low mental energy, which leads to loss of productivity and money. We can have low emotional energy, which leads to unfulfilled relationships, strain in marriages, friendships and not
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“It is the lack of thought, not the presence of thought, that enable our bad behavior.” – Influencer: The Power to Change Anything Influence is the power to produce effects on the actions, behaviors and opinions of others. We want the results of our influence to be for good and not for bad. Many times
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You Can Be an Influencer – Part VII: Besides IQ, Do You Have NQ? Meet Rita. Her blood is pumping, heart racing as she tries to control her breathing in hope that no one will notice her agitation. She is frustrated and angry. Once again she feels sabotaged with her work. She wants to do
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You Can Be an Influencer – Part VI: Are You an Opinion Leader? “I learned a long time ago, that credit is infinitely divisible. Give it away every chance you get, and there’s always plenty left for you.” – Dr. Berwick The ability to influence begins with us. Believing that we can influence change is
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You Can Be an Influencer – Part V: How to Teach New Skills for Transformation “A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.” – Larry Bird In previous articles we have talked about how to motivate change
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You Can Be an Influencer – Part IV: Do You Use the Most Powerful Form of Influence? “It is the lack of thought, not the presence of thought, that enable our bad behavior.” – Influencer: The Power to Change Anything Influence is the power to produce effects on the actions, behaviors and opinions of others.
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You Can Be an Influencer – Part III “If you can’t find a way to change a person’s intrinsic response to a behavior – if you can’t make the right behaviors pleasurable and the wrong behaviors painful – you’ll have to make up for the motivational shortfall by relying on external incentives or possibly even
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