Motivation Archives - Business Fitness

Reduce Costs by Defining Your Ideal Employee

by Guy | Jul 28, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Excellence, Growth, HR & Personnel, Leadership, Motivation, Profitability

Following last week’s post about how “Defining Your Ideal Customer Boost Profits,” I now want to turn to another very important consideration: your ideal employee. Research shows that almost 75% of people have left a job because of a cultural mismatch. Given the costs...

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

by Guy | Jul 26, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Customers, Disruption, Excellence, Growth, Leadership, Motivation, Productivity, Profitability

Customers #Disruption #Excellence #Growth #Opportunity #Planning #ProblemSolving #Resilience #Success #Teams #Unstoppable #Winners #QOTWThis is really a continuation of the thinking around last week’s post, “Opportunity doesn’t make appointments” – you should not just...

3 Things You Must Do to Keep Your Top Performers and Your Company in Great Shape for the New World of Work

by Guy | Jul 7, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, HR & Personnel, Motivation, Pandemic, COVID, Productivity, Upturn, Work Life Balance, Working From Home

We’re looking at a new world of work. As we see many countries easing restrictions with vaccination programs reaching a critical mass of the population, companies are opening up more, and staff are now increasingly evaluating their current roles and the way...

“The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry Kissinger

by Guy | Jun 28, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Growth, HR & Personnel, Leadership, Motivation

What a great summary of one of the most important facets of leadership from the global statesman, Henry Kissinger. Too often, leaders seem to think their role is one of telling people what to do without either leading the way or setting an example. And then there is...

Growing Pains – When Is it Time to Fire Your Top Salesperson?

by Guy | Jun 23, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Growth, HR & Personnel, Leadership, Motivation, Productivity, Sales

We’ve all seen this – the business starts and gets a great salesperson aboard that really knows how to work the phones and get the business in. But is this the right person as the business keeps growing? Initially, of course, the new business is about making sales at...

“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.” – Joel A. Barker

by Guy | Jun 21, 2021 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Growth, Leadership, Motivation, Strategy

A major issue many of us face is the separation of vision and action, as the futurist and author, Joel Barker, captures so well. How often do we hear grand expressions of a vision, and yet see no activity towards achieving it forthcoming? Politicians are probably the...