Setting Goals: How To Do It

By Anthony D Carter

Setting goals can be a different task for each individual concerned. It really depends on the persons present conditions, physical ability, and various other influences. There are key pointers that will help anyone succeed by determining whether their goals are indeed solid and achievable. It is so easy to set unrealistic goals which lead to failure and frustration. Listed here are tips which will help you to have a better experience with the whole process.

Be Very Specific

Be specific by writing down all of the details surrounding your goal. Here is an example: "By October of this year I have made over $1,000,000." Another would be, "I have a solid growing friendship with my Brother-in-Law within the next two months." Or "I am the division supervisor of my sales department by this time next year." You want to include names, dates, positions and the exact amounts of your goal. Your success hinges on the degree of specificity that you include when writing your goal down.

Make it Measurable

Your goal needs to be measurable. You need to have a goal that is easy to break down into manageable parts. If it is measurable then it is easier for you to determine your progress. By attempting to accomplish the separate parts you are more able to easily stay on track. You simply complete each phase and move on to the next. That way you are never stuck wondering if you are moving forward or standing still. A measurable goal gives you an added advantage.

Make it Time Bound

In order to achieve your goals set deadlines. Having deadlines protects you from the failure that results from procrastination. Keep very tight and specific time-lines when scheduling your goals. An example is, " I am spending an hour a day with my family beginning next Tuesday. You want to be sure to write down the exact date and time. When you put a deadline on the goal you give yourself added incentive to get it done and not put it off to a more convenient time. It is better to set a date for your goal. That way you will want to start working towards accomplishing it now. - 31963

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The Rules Of Creating Instant Success

By Annie Jennings

Who wants to find out how to be a great success in business? It's a matter of knowing the insider secrets of creating a powerful business model built around the needs of your client. Is it a secret? Perhaps to some but the principles are well known. The All Heart business model is a solid set of buisness principles that pay off over time.

The Rules Of The Game:

Rule #1: Pay attention to your clients and not your competitors as your clients will tell you what you need to do to be successful. If you are not offering the right products, your clients will go elsewhere. So, the question is, what does the client want? Well, first thing, is to realize how your client makes money and create services that help them make money. Don't spy on your competitors. You want to creating your own products and services so you can truly understand your market place. If you are too focused on what others are doing you may miss opportunities to create top notch products of your very own. Remember to trust yourself.

Most people prefer to work with the bigger name brands for the confidence factor. They believe that the name brand will deliver better, more reliable and consistent results for them. People have a tendency to choose to work with firms that fill us with confidence. Think about the image and branding the car companies have. Each brand carries an x factor, the branding factor, that gives people a feeling of wanting to work with or buy from the company or not. People have more confidence in companies they have heard of in the media or throughout their activities.

Rule #3: Everyone loves a guaranteed deliverable. Be the firm that offers products or services that deliver what you promised your client. Everyone wants to buy the better mouse trap. You make the connection between your services and your clients' success, you'll get lots of business. The fastest way to create a non-stop flow of new clients? Guarantee your outcomes. No one pays unless they get the deliverable. WOW, sounds risky right - exactly. But also ignites a tremendous drive to creativity where you immediately see the flaws in your plan, in the services you offer.

Rule #4: Be the best in the business: Only sell products or services with clearly defined set of deliverable and guarantee the outcome or you don't take any money from the client. Think about this: What if General Motors came out with a new business philosophy that goes something like this: If you buy a car from us, we guarantee your car will last 10 years or you get your MONEY BACK. That's right, full fee returned. What do you think would happen? All of the "break down glitches" would be defined, redesigned and protected. No cars break down, everyone is happy, GM takes over the market..... all because it was unafraid to make the promise of a deliverable with a guarantee. Hey, would you buy a car with the guarantee that is anything went wrong with the car you get a brand new one? Hello? Yes, I would. Because, guess what? That car would be perfect. No flaws, no errors, just perfection in motion. - 31963

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Teamwork And The Modern Day Organization

By Bart Icles

We might well be familiar with the benefits of working as a team but it can sometimes be surprising that not every one of us understand the real meaning of teamwork. In most cases, we think that this concept is only appreciated in athletic clubs. What many of us do not realize is that it is quite important for us to work in teams and for us to feel that we are part of a team, especially in the workplace. In fact, there are some of us who believe that the words team and group have the same meaning. It can be a lot of help to learn more about the difference between working as a group and working as a team.

If you are talking about groups, they are merely a collection of people that have something in common. On the other hand, teams are groups of people that are working together towards a common goal. This primarily involves having a sense of teamwork that will enable the different members of the team to identify and understand their strengths, weaknesses, abilities and skills. We all know that changes happen everyday, especially in the fields of finance, economics, and technology - it is best that we all start working as a team so we can get through the different challenges these changes pose.

It is true that is possible for a group of people to accomplish their tasks individually but there is really a significant difference between working as a group and working as a team. It is far easier to accomplish the different goals of the company or organization if teamwork is present. And this is why there is a significant number of companies that are starting to build and develop work teams. There are several ways to build and develop work teams, and one of the most popular ways is through team building activities.

Team building activities are quite common in a lot of organizations these days. These activities are meant to help employees understand the true meaning of teams, how teams are built, and how the different skills, abilities, and strengths of a team can be developed. This kind of activity can also help them identify their weaknesses as a team so they can take steps on how to bridge the gaps so they can function more effectively as they try to achieve a common goal.

It is quite important for modern day organizations to place value on teamwork. Employees who are able to work as a team give more value to the different tasks and responsibilities that are expected of them. And this makes way for better collaboration and innovation, helping them to increase their chances of achieving what needs to be achieved. - 31963

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Heed The Advice Given By Business Magnates

By Mark Walters

Though the big financial issues like Financial Times, Business Week, and the Economist are circulated in millions of copies, the publications of their writers rarely have the magical effect of the quotes made by the rich and famous in the world of business when it comes to business inspiration.

So, what is it that makes these quotes so appealing to the public? Several points have to be kept in mind when answering this question. First and foremost, the financial sayings of the rich and famous short and concise, and yet are packed with wisdom. You could say that it may require some knowledge in business and economics when it comes to grasping the ideas of business writers (three or four pages in length), while the quotes of the famous business-men and business-women are the gist and nothing else.

There is another reason why those making their first steps in business prefer to trust the big magnates more than business publications and those who write for them. The first have acquired their business knowledge from practice and have turned this knowledge into billions of dollars. The second acquired their knowledge from business textbooks and long lectures in dismal halls.

When asked change and innovation, Rupert Murdoch pointed out that it is no longer a case of big always beating small. As it stands, it is a case of the fast beating the slow. You could read hundreds of pages on the importance of innovation and change in the business world. Or, you can take Mr. Murdoch's simple words that growing a big business is not as important as growing one which is quick to adapt to changes in the market.

If you are an entrepreneur, you can use the clever thoughts of magnates and witty leaders just like they do - to motivate your employees. If your employees are not motivated enough, then you can motivate them by using quotes and sayings from famous business people. - 31963

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Why You Need The Right Business Strategy

By Jamie Xuereb

Your business strategy is vital for your personal and business life for many reasons. We will go through 11 different reasons why having the right business strategy is detrimental to your success.

The reasons why it is important have the right business strategy are:

1) If you don't choose the right business strategy you will not be motivated to wake up and go to work each day - this will affect your growth in the long run

2) Your business strategy can determine how much money you make from your business even though you might spend the same amount of time with different strategies - one will open up a bigger and more rewarding market which in the long run will be more beneficial to you

3) Your business strategy determines how quickly you meet financial targets - this will affect how quickly you meet your personal targets as well

4) A business which is underperforming can be turned around with a change in strategy - this shows how important this is to the core of your business

5) Your business strategy can leverage of your skill and hours put in to maximise your output and revenue thus increasing your efficiency

6) Some strategies will adapt and fit around your lifestyle while others will cause you to change yours around

7) Some strategies will be more suitable to your skill sets and also your business' resources - that way you can leverage your returns further

8) Your strategy can build a good aura of success in your business and empower your customers and employees

9) Your business strategy can open your business up to larger and more profitable markets where a bad strategy can limit your growth and earning potential

10) You can build a competitive advantage with a strong and sound business strategy

11) The best strategy will set you up for more success in the future with increases revenues and potential

There you have it. 11 ideal reasons why you should take note of choosing the right business strategy for your venture. Some readers might be stuck with a business with a bad strategy in place. Do not fret, you can always change it. This takes time and may mean a few months or even years of adjustments, but the payoff in the future can be tremendous. Also beware of changes in the market. For example the internet caused a lot of business to change how they did business. This affected their strategies and set others up for more future growth. - 31963

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Thinking of A Central Innovation Team?

By Dr. James Gardner

Central innovation teams are a model well adopted in many industries, from Pharmaceuticals, where research and development budgets tends to be held by large business units dedicated to the purpose, to Banking, where there are likely to be a few smaller New Product Development teams. Even in Government, there's increasing reliance on central innovation teams to drive efficiencies and cost savings.

Understanding the reason is not difficult. Central teams are simple to establish, and very easy to measure compared to alternatives which rely on an "innovation culture". It is easy to point to such teams and say "here is how we do innovation". These are teams which make executives feel good about their innovation efforts, because when you can nominate specific individuals and assign accountability, you know things are being done.

Now, in this model, the innovation team is the group that decides how and when to innovate. They ordinarily control an investment budget of some kind, and are accountable for making investments that drive forward the innovation agenda. If they are any good at all, they will sign up to some big return numbers that can justify the investments they're making.

There is, however, a problem with a central innovation team that does everything. The problem is that in order to get more innovation, you are forced to add more people. In other words, central innovation teams do not scale well.

Frankly, for most innovations, the difference in effort required to get an organisation to do something radical, versus the easier incremental kind of innovation, is not all that great. You still have to do the influencing, the management of politics, and of course, find the money in order to get things progressed.

Incremental innovation, though it tends to be relatively risk free, doesn't really make big returns on a case by case basis. This means that innovation teams have to do a lot of simultaneous innovation before they can make a sizeable difference. With a central team, the fact is that a single incremental innovation will likely not pay for the time of the innovators.

By contrast, radical innovation has much better returns, though the risk level is much, much higher. For innovation teams, this makes it seem sensible to spend their time on radical projects. The rationale is easy to justify: do incremental innovations and never break even ever, or at least have the chance to break even if you do radical.

What is really needed, though, is a balanced portfolio approach to innovation coupled with significant inputs from customers and employees. Participatory innovation, as this approach is known when supported by a central team, is usually the best approach to making innovation work in large organisations. - 31963

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Why An Effective Leadership Training Program Is Important

By Bart Icles

These days, different organizations thrive in stiff competition. This is why it is important for an organization to emerge as a leader in its industry. With this said, it is important that organizations have leaders who can effectively direct employees towards the achievement of organizational and performance goals. Through a successful leadership training program, it is quite possible for organizations to continuously train and develop not only its managers, but each and every leader that it has.

Along with this, companies must be able to understand what makes a leadership training program effective. More often than not, this will involve different factors that can significantly affect the success or failure of such a program. Companies must understand that such a program should not only be geared to develop the skills of the leaders who participate in it, but also those who show potential for leadership.

Among the most important elements that a leadership training program must give emphasis to is the quality of business leadership. Participants to this kind of program must be able to learn and understand essential and tried and tested skills and techniques that will help them become well respected and highly effective leaders in the organization, as well as in the entire business and industry. To turn this into reality, participants to such a program must be able to understand the truth behind the different mysteries surrounding leadership - including the popular concept that effective leaders are born and not made. Through having an understanding of leadership mysteries, they will be able to have a better and more updated concept of good leadership.

With the help of a training and development program for successful leadership, leaders and potential leaders can learn different skills and techniques that are essential to effectively and positively leading employees in modern work settings. These would include learning more about skills that are needed in persuading and influencing difficult people that can prove to be challenging to lead.

Through an effective leadership training program, leaders are able to learn how to develop consistent, concrete, and interesting goals that will serve as guides to what kind of future the organization will have. Leaders are able to learn effective communication skills needed to make employees clearly understand the vision of the organization, which in turn will help them better see the benefits of having employees who are giving their best in completing projects that have been initiated. So start taking steps to implement this kind of training and development program today. - 31963

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Secrets Of Being A Great TV And Radio Guest

By Annie Jennings

To be a great guest you need a top notch set of media skills and knowledge. With radio and TV, you reach so many people that if you are not ready that is, prepared, you may not be able to make your publicity pay off for you. Here are publicity tips to help you do a great job. The tips include how to look and sound like a polished pro, tips on how to be promotional during the interview and etiquette tips to add to your success.

Tips! When the producer or journalist is contacting you the segment or story idea is already positioned within the format of the media outlet. You have no power to influence the media because they looking for this specific idea or slant. If what they want for the story or segment fits with your point of view, that's terrific and the media opportunity will work out for you. If you are not a good fit for the particular point of view they are looking, its best to just say no than to try to change the segment or story idea to be a better fit for you. Don't worry, if you are professional, the media will be back to use you the next time. If you are easy to work with, even better, as the media will surely be back with lots more.

Never Cancel A Segment Or Appointment With The Media! Once you represent that are able for the media opportunity, please do not change your mind because the producer or journalist moves immediately to finalize the media placement on their end. If you pull out you upset the booking process you leave the producer or journalist in a tough spot. This business is built on trust so never do anything to jeopardize the trust the media has in you. When you make a commitment, stick to it, even if something comes up that you feel is more important. Your word should be worth gold in this industry!

Prepare in advance for your pre-interview with the media and for the actual interview. During the pre-interview the media is evaluating you on many levels including your energy, enthusiasm and ability to engage yet provide an expert opinion. If you waffle or appear frazzled, the media will move on. The media is looking for both signs that you are the one they will choose or warning signs that they have to keep looking. No being prepared gives them the big signal for them to keep looking. If you are not able to get your commentary together for the pre-interview where there is little stress, how will you perform when in the hot seat, that is, on the air? So, take the time to find out what is the point of view that media is looking for from you and prepare your five talking points or more.

The media moves fast and they need to be able to connect with you quickly, at all times. If you have presented yourself as the guest or expert, be available. Give the media your cell phone for direct access. Do not make them go through voice mail or layers of phone prompts. Just give them your cell phone and when it rings, answer it. Set it up in advance, that if your cell phone rings, you will be in position to answer it. If for any reason, the call goes to voice mail, access it immediately and return the call right away. This way, the media will remember you as a great guest. - 31963

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Powerful Hypnosis Techniques--Cooperation Strategies

By Dr. Anthony Taylor

Covert hypnosis has now brought its strategies to a perfection by integrating social dynamics into its hypnotic techniques. In the past, hypnosis techniques were exclusively a matter of how you spoke to a person, but now the power of social dynamics has come into the art of covert hypnosis full fledge.

The problem many would be persuasion artist faced was straightforward: How could they run hypnotic language patterns in a real life scenario? In real life conditions where the art of persuasion is being used, you do not have the space and the time that is crucial to install hypnotic language into someone's unconscious mind. This wasn't only a problem, it was also an interference with the consistency that mind control secrets were effective.

Now the playing field has been evened out because social strategy has been integrated into the tactics of covert hypnosis. Now, for the first time, a persuasion artist has the chance to influence a person anytime and anyplace. To make this new development in the social sciences even more significant, for the first time the art of persuasion actually is getting people better jobs, enhanced relationships, and improved lives.

The obstacles one faces in attaining their goals are often the direct resistance of other people. It is other people who have the power to give you the jobs you want, to give you raises in the work place, and to decide if they want to date you. Since the cooperation of other people is so imperative to getting what you want in life, it is crucial now more than ever to find out the techniques used to softly conquer the opposition of other people.

If you master the cooperation principle, you will easily get people to open doors for you because you will be able to overcome the opposition of other people. The more cooperation you have from other people, the more power and opportunity you will have in life. What this means is that covert hypnosis is not about hardness. You do not meet force with force. Instead, by practicing the art of being soft, you can effortlessly obtain the cooperation of other people so that you can create win win situations.

The most powerful and effective way to obtain the cooperation of others is through the power of social strategy. - 31963

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Mobile Marketing Leadership Bonus (Get it Here)

By David James

If you haven't had the opportunity to grab a copy of Howie Schwartz's free Mobile Marketing Leadership ebook yet, be sure to pick it up by clicking on the links below. We're sure that you're well aware that mobile marketing is the wave of the future and is a completely untapped market at the moment. Why? Because not too many people know exactly how to promote businesses and other clients through mobile marketing.

According to Howie Schwartz's book Mobile Marketing Leadership over 70% of the worlds population owns a mobile phone nowadays. Advertising to potential clients and customers through mobile services is a huge commodity and gets bigger by the day. The response is actually bigger than advertising via email.

According to various research sources teenagers are 16% more accepting towards advertising to them via mobile marketing. When we talk about mobile marketing, we mean several things such as text messaging, video marketing and other mobile web activities.

Another huge statistic is that over 2/5th of individuals who own a smart phone have made purchases with their mobile devices. Companies are finding that people are making more purchases by mobile phone than they do via computer. The reason why is because making purchases such as these are more spontaneous than if they were at their desk. These people may be out with friends while having lunch, having fun at the beach, enjoying life by having a picnic, etc. Because people are out and about, they have a more spontaneous sense of urgency to buy products from their mobile phones.

Need to find out more? Be sure to pick up your free EBook on Mobile Marketing Leadership - 31963

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Productive Rage Control - 7 Remarkable Methods to Manage Anger Through Rage Control

By Broyde McDonald

Rage control is doing what it takes to have your anger expressed without the use of fury and violence. Just because rage involves violence we know that there is the possibility of something wrong taking place.

In this article we talk about 7 things that can help you succeed.

Exercise

The power of exercise to put you in the mood where you do not want to rage should not be underestimated. Even moderate exercise will make you feel better so that your anger is not felt as deeply.

Don't seethe

Keeping anger in makes it more likely that your anger will turn to rage. Make sure that you know how to express yourself, and make constant improvements in this area.

Anger drugs

Drugs do not work well for calming anger. They may treat some of the symptoms that are associated with anger, but they do not work on the root of the problem.

Exercise often does everything that the anger drugs are supposed to be able to do.

Relax

Get to be more relaxed than you are uptight and concerned. If you did rage control would be less of an issue for you then than it is now.

Distractions

The ability to distract yourself with productive activity like a hobby will do you a lot of good. Your mind will be moved from thinking about the things that bother you.

Maturity

Make progress in your personal maturity. When you become more advanced in your mind, you will find that it is increasingly difficult for you to be shaken out of your self control.

Greater maturity and self control gets you to understand what it takes to prevent rage from being something you need to be concerned about.

Anger management classes

Anger management classes will help, do them. You will find a lot of new ways of dealing with anger. The classes do not cost a lot, and they are proven to be successful for 95% of the people who take them. The amount of time it will take for you to see that you are improving is also short and if your desire to change is high, success is just about guaranteed. - 31963

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Rage Control - Latest 5 Turbo Methods to Improve Your Rage Control

By Broyde McDonald

Rage control is all about controlling the effects of anger. When anger is not expressed properly, it often tends to change from anger and it develops into rage, which is anger that is being expressed through some form of violence.

There are a number of ways to stop rage; this article looks at five of them.

Don't seethe

The first thing you would do to stop rage is not let it become rage in the first place. People who need to understand and do rage control is first of all the category of people who seethe with anger.

Rage tends to come from anger that people hold in. The not so funny joke is that many times people who hold in their anger do so thinking that they are not hurting anyone. While in fact, they are hurting themselves.

You need to be assertive without being aggressive.

Exercise moderately and regularly

Exercise will help when it comes to rage control. It does not even have to be difficult exercise. What you need to do is exercise aerobically. This is enough to release endorphins inside you, which make you feel better.

And because you feel better, you will have a more efficient and profitable outlook on your surroundings.

Be relaxed

You also need to relax. Take time out to sit and not be concerned about anything. Just enjoy life for a certain amount of time every day.

Take relaxing swims, baths, or other activity that will help you to relax. Try a massage.

Helpful distractions

A hobby that you enjoy will help your rage control. As you see yourself becoming more and more productive in other areas your satisfaction with life will go up, and you will not be angry as much.

Where there is no anger there is no rage

Anger management classes

The best way to deal with rage control is to take anger management classes. They are not expensive and surveying those who have participated show that the classes are 95% effective at changing behavior and attitudes. The classes work in a short amount of time, and can also be done online. - 31963

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