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Your Car As A Virtual Office - Click To Read Article
Are you using your car as a "virtual office" at times? If so, is it safe and are you using it as an office in safe ways? Protect yourself and others, check out the list of seven things to think hard about and do in this article!

Delegating Diligently - Click To Read Article
Are you enjoying running your business or is your business running you? Too many business owners and other leaders try to control work outcomes by doing everything themselves. Burnout and personal and staff ineffectiveness is the result. This article outlines the proven benefits of being proactive by delegating diligently. It gives you 8 tips for delegating effectively.

Clear Your Clutter to Increase Personal Efficiency
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Ever assessed the cluter you gain and maintain around yourself at home and at work? What about your desk and working area? Clutter diminishes your optimum efficiency and effectiveness and keeps you from being your best and making your best contributions. Read on to discover 7 key tips to help you eliminate clutter in your life and at work.

Deterring Interpersonal Conflict to Enhance Productivity
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Review this article to discover nine things you can do, and encourage others to do, to deter interpersonal conflicts from escalating into interpersonal chaos. These steps will keep conflict in your company low and productivity high.

Proactive Time Management
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Do you have all the time you need to do what you need to do? Read on to discover 18 things you can do to increase your discretionary time while accomplishing all you really need to accomplish on any given day. The key is carefully establishing your priorities and not wasting the time that comes your way, 24 hours a day.

Avoiding Dangerous Pits of Dysfunction Faced By Leaders
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Leaders are especially vulnerable to dangerous pitfalls of dysfunction that can derail their personal and professional lives and careers. Read on to review 12 of these dangers and learn what you can do to help avoid them.

Identifying Dangerous Interpersonal Communication Problems
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As a leader, can you tell when their are serious interpersonal communication problems among your staff members? Check this article for the ten clues to observe for so you don't suddenly face lower productivity, loss of good customers. If you don't look for interpersonal communication problems and do something about them, you will most likely find yourself looking for employment.

Hire Only The Best People
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Ten keys to hiring and retaining ONLY the top 10% performers of high character and commitment.

How to Demonstrate Personal Committment
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As a leader, do the nine things outlined in this article and you will enhance the motivation, trust and rapport of the people you serve. When you model personal commitment, you have the right to ask your staff members to follow you and model it too. Share this list with them and ask them to demonstrate their commitment in these ways.

Assessing Team Effectiveness: A Key to Enhancing Productivity and Profitability
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This article outlines 12 proven attributes of excellently functioning teams. These attributes can be used to survey team members, staff members and other teams within a company as to how a team is perceived as functioning in these key areas. Leaders who are serious about building stellar teams will find this information invaluable.

Convicted Civility vs. Interpersonal Rancor
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What does interpersonal rancor do to relationships, productivity and customer relations within your company? This article outlines a hopeful alternative to interpersonal rancor, convicted civility. Read on the understand the concept and alternative and how to begin integrating it into your company culture and operating norms.

Proactive Leaders Apologize Now
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This article outlines 12 strategies proactive leaders draw from to make things right when they have done wrong by a staff member, colleague or customer. Selecting the right strategy to meet the needs of the situation and the person is critical and often requires a bit of coaching. It also takes a good amount of genuine humility to apologize when you have done wrong by another person. However, appropriate apologizing is an investment in healthy, trusting relationships with others.

Strategically Starting Your Own Business
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Learn about 10 key steps to avoiding failure when starting a new business. This short article provides tips that will help you better think and do the right things to increase the odds of your new business being successful.

What Leaders Expect Is What They Get!
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This article outlines fifteen behaviors proactive leaders can learn to exhibit toward individual staff members which will motivate them toward manifesting their highest character, competence and commitment to better achieve the goals of the organization. The opposite behaviors cause the poorest performers to do far less than they are capable of. Leaders who apply these skills enhance the productivity of their staff members and the profitability of their organizations.

Using Strategic Alliances To Increase Your Business
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As a business owner, have you ever considered developing strategic business alliances to enhance the breadth of your marketing to sales funnel dramatically? Read on and you will discover 10 key steps you can take to do it to increase your business and enhance your service to your customers.

Stellar Supervision Enhances Company Productivity
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This article outlines a framework for managers to use to provide stellar supervision for each of their staff members. Proactive, collaborative supervision is a key to enhancing each staff member's competencies, commitment and optimum personal productivity. It enhances staff loyalty and reduces turnover because staff members feel their career success is a top priority of their leader.

Be Strategic to More Quickly Achieve Your Goals
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How strategic are you before you take action to achieve your vital goals? Having a clear strategy in place for each of your personal and business goals will help you achieve the results you desire more quickly and easily. Read on to review eight key coaching tips regarding the development of strategy.oac

How To Remove And Replace Unproductive Habits
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Suffering from unproductive habits that deter the expression of your best character and competence? Read on and discover 7 tips you, your staff members and your colleagues at work can implement to develop positive habits in the place of unproductive habits.

Proactive Sales Force Development
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This article outlines 10 key steps you can take to gain and retain customer-satisfying sales people who get and keep loyal customers for your company.

How to Get Valuable Customer Feedback
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As a company owner or leader, read on to discover what you can do to better retain your competitive edge. You will learn how you can better stay close to your customers to find out what they think about the effectiveness of the different aspects of your company's operations and the quality and usefulness of the products and services you deliver to them.

Commitment Check: A Process for Enhancing Staff Performance
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This article outlines a simple but powerful commitment check process. The process will help you as a leader to avoid assumptions about any given staff member's commitment before you delegate functions, tasks or projects to them to complete. It will help you help others make their "Yes" a "Yes" and their "No" a "No." It will help keep you from looking the fool as a leader when others procrastinate and fail to perform because their commitment to do so was never there.

Affirming Others Builds Trust and Motivation
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As a leader, what do you feel and think when you receive a sincere affirmation from another person? Doesn't it build you up emotionally and increase your motivation? Here are ten points you can use as a leader to enhance your ability to more consistently and regularly affirm others, including your staff members, colleagues at work and customers. Doing it will build good will, trust and rapport between yourself and others and help them feel strong emotionally and more motivated to help you achieve your company's goals.

Intentional Business Integrity
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This article outlines tactics and strategies for notching up the "walk and the talk" of managers and staff members within any type or size of enterprise so that high integrity customers are attracted to do business with you. The optimum success and longevity of your enterprise depends upon the integrity with which your people conduct the business.

Gaining and Maintaining A Healthy Company Culture
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Your company's culture drives many of the behaviors leaders and staff members express in carrying out the functions and tasks of their positions and how they relate to customers. A healthy culture promotes optimum productivity and motivation and a less than healthy culture deters productivity, motivation and optimum company productivity. Read on to discover some key attributes of a healthy company culture and elements of an unhealthy company culture.

Fostering Staff Creativity To Enhance Productivity
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Help yourself and all of your staff members become more productive by reading on and learning about 14 things people can do to help enhance their creativity in ways that will enhance their productivity. Also learn about 12 organizational blocks that I've found need to be need to be removed to allow personal creativity to flow optimally thoughout a company.

Preparing To Partner Effectively and Profitably
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Thinking about forming a partnership? Read on to discover the key steps you should take to increase the odds of working effectively and profitably together. Without doing due diligence regarding the strengths of each partner and the parameters of the partnership itself, you have little chance for enjoying and profiting from a long-term, successful partnership.

Managing Meaningful And Profitable Meetings
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Have you calculated the actual dollar cost of you and your staff coming together for a meeting? Do it, and you will be motivated to do all you can to make your meetings as meaningful and profitable as possible. Read on and discover 10 proven action steps you can take to enhance the profitability of each meeting you organize.

How To Maintain A Smooth-Running Company When Facing Tradegies
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Do you see your company running smoothly if you and a couple of your key leaders were taken out of the day to day action for operating the business? Proactive leaders plan for bad contigencies should they happen. Read on and discover 11 action steps you can take to ensure that your company operates smoothly when facing the temporary loss of yourself as the owner or some of your other key personnel.

Comprehending and Strengthening Your Staff's Conscience and Productivity
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Learn how to understand and strengthen your staff's conscience to enhance productivity and company profitability. Read on to learn about how you can determine the demise of a person's conscience and engage them in a mutual performance accountability process to strengthen their conscience and their character and performance.

360 Degree Performance Feedback Enhances Productivity
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Everyone in a company needs and deserves feedback about their contributions and performance. They need both affirmative "on course" feedback as well as corrective, "off course" feedback from all of their team members, not just the boss. Read on and you will find ten tips for developing 360 degree performance feedback among all members of your company team.

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Dr. Mac shares with business owners the practical knowledge and insights he gained as a small company CEO. He founded Sycamore Ranch, Inc. when 27 and as CEO led his partners and a staff of 100 for 16 years in developing and operating the 50 acre recreational facility. Years later, he integrated what he learned from his Doctoral program at USC with his practical business experiences and began consulting. For four decades Mac’s coached business owners in mastering and applying "how to" leadership and managerial skills for: Hiring and retaining only the top ten percent producers; Optimally deploying and supervising staff to maximize their personal motivation; Developing high integrity leadership teams; Facilitating mutual performance accountability and peer coaching processes; and, Integrating his Intentional Business Integrity Process into their company operations. Mac has served leaders in manufacturing and high tech companies; accounting, banking and insurance enterprises; medical and health care organizations; service and retail oriented businesses; as well as educational, governmental and non profit organizations. Q&A ProActive Leadership 888-648-5552 or MacAdam@PALConsulting
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