Use SMART Goals To Get Through Tough Times The most effective thing any of us can do right now is to focus on our goals - define them, refine them to reflect changing realities, test them to see if they remain realistic and relevant, and act to achieve them. It's hard. The steady drumbeat of bad news - about the economy, about the elections, about man's inhumanity to man can really divert attention from the really important things. That's Keywords:
Andrew Cox, SMART goals, goals, tough times Victor Or Victim - Your Choice Right now it's tough to not feel like a victim. So many events seem to be beyond our control, and so many consequences of the decisions of others appear to have cost so many so much. Others choose to be victors. Faced with the same events and circumstances and consequences and outcomes as victims, they will continue to swim upstream - possibly more slowly and with more effort, but still working thKeywords:
Andrew Cox, victor, victim, victor or victim, goals, choice, choose Use Goals To Stay In Play Never has there been a more critical time to remind ourselves to 'Stay In Play.' 'Stay In Play' tells us just how important it is to press on, to take the next step, to develop the best possible solution, to make the next sales call, to play the next down, to serve the next serve, to stay in the game.Keywords:
Andrew Cox, goals, stay in play, shared goals, personal goals, How To Be A Top Contributor In Tough Times In these times - tough times by anyone's measure - it's important to be seen as a contributor - a person who makes a positive difference in the success of their enterprise. So what does it take to be a top contributor? We asked some of the most successful contributors we know. Read on to get their answers: ten Behaviors, Attitudes and Personal Skills of top contributors.Keywords:
Andrew Cox, top contributors, contributors, conribution, success My Top Resolution For 2009 I'm not that great at keeping New Year's resolutions, but this one is going to stick - I promise. I resolve to wipe the F word 'fair' from my vocabulary, from my thinking, from my emotions. How did I arrive at this resolution? Read on.Keywords:
Andrew Cox, resolution, top resolution Use SMART Goals to Overcome the Tyranny of the Unimportant Have you ever caught yourself rearranging your desk, or your E Mail files, or checking E Mail, or making a purchase on Amazon, or automatically answering your cell phone, even when you know the call isn't important - when you know, in your gut, that there is more important work to be done? Read on to see how to overcome the Tyranny of the Unimportant.Keywords:
Andrew Cox, SMART Goals, procrastination, goals Ten Behaviors For Success In A Business Downturn A lot is written about what to do after losing a job, but what about the people who don't lose their jobs, but are faced with the results of business slowdowns - layoffs, reduced expectations, salary freezes, greater responsibility with fewer resources and the uncertainty of what's next? Read on to get ten behaviors that can mean the difference between failure, survival or success in business downturns.Keywords:
Andrew Cox, behaviors for success, success, attitudes, personal skills How To Hire The Right People 'The first thing you have to do is hire the right people.' Have you ever heard that profound piece of advice? Of course you're going to hire the right people - if you know who the right people are. If that's the case, why isn't more time spent defining what the job requires of the right person as the first step in any talent selection?Keywords:
Andrew Cox, Hire the right people, hire the best, Personal Skills 7 Steps To Developing Personal Power The most successful people are those who know who they are. They know that each of us is made up of three selves. Each of us is first, the person we think we are - our self concept; second, the person we want others to think we are - our mask; and third, the person others think we are - our perceived self. These can be three very different people. Successful people know that, and work hard to closely align their three selves.Keywords:
Andrew Cox, personal power, develop personal power Our Greatest Source of Security The only real source of security any of us have in this time of change and downsizing and merging and new business models and all the other stuff we see, read and hear - is what? The only real security any of us have comes from our own accomplishments. Top performers - the people who will prosper even in the toughest of times - believe that. For others it's a frightening thought - or a frustrating thought - or just plain not true.Keywords:
Andrew Cox, source of security, security, accomplishment, personal accomplishment
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