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To Stay Creative, Stay Connected
As a professional speaker and book author, I often teach programs and coach executives on how to be more creative and innovative. Everyone that I work with wants to know what the secrets are to be more creative. The reality is simple, it’s just about making small changes. The good news is just by changing or adding small things to the buffet of your life,
Can You Stay Forever Young?
I have a birthday coming up soon and I will be turning 57 years old. This is has led me to think more about what it means to age as a man and what it means to fight against the ravages of age. A few weeks ago I wrote an article for The Good Men Project with the title When Does a Man Become an
Is Everything You Know About Productivity Wrong?
One of the biggest challenges of leading a company is managing the work of other people. In managing the work of other people, one of the hardest tasks is making sure that you maximize productivity with each employee. Here however, is the problem- everything you know about employee productivity is wrong. As a leadership expert, I find most people's thoughts about employee productivity are based on myths and misinformation-
6 Secrets of Motivating Employees
What you don’t know can hurt your leadership I travel all over the country facilitating leadership programs for companies, and I have come to a conclusion: most managers do not have a clue about how to motivate employees. They ask me why employees aren't motivated, why they won't work harder and why they aren't loyal. Managers often say to me "well you know this generation of workers isn't like they used
Getting Started
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaYII8yWgYk Speaker and coach Shawn Doyle traces the steps he took from an otherwise good sales job (“I liked it, but I didn’t love it”) to finding his passion as an executive coach, life coach and motivational speaker. Today, Shawn Doyle delivers over 100 talks each year in the US, the UK and Canada. And Shawn’s “Jumpstart” training programs are used by some of
The Power of the Mentor
By Shawn Doyle I have been lucky enough to have several mentors in my life, and they have had an immeasurable impact on me. Let me repeat - they have had an impact on me that you cannot possibly imagine. Why is it important to have a mentor? I wrote about this in my book Jumpstart Your Motivation; it is important to have a mentor for
What Kind of Leader are You?
Are you a beacon...or a blowtorch? I want you to imagine that I go to your office when you are not there. When I am at your office I decide to survey the team that reports to you. The subject of the survey? Yes, we are doing a survey about you as a leader. I want them to tell me about your leadership skills. If
Get Motivated by Motivating Yourself
"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents." - Andrew Carnegie
Finding Your Personal Motivation and Passion In Life
Passion pushes your pure profitability potential, your productivity potential, promotion potential, and professional potential!
How to Not be a Jerk
How To Not Be A Jerk? It is amazing that companies allow jerks to be in leadership positions. 6 Tips for making sure that, as a leader, you aren’t a jerk.
Learning How to be Confident
Do you want to be confident? Or, are you confident but want to be more confident? I'm going to tell you how you can be confident starting right NOW!
Find Your Motivation With These 7 Easy Tips
A thought diet is like a diet with food except I want you to control your mental food/input. So here are the key rules and components of your thought diet for the next 30 days.
