Inspiration For Peak Performance

·          Do you remember all your organization’s core values by heart? ·          When was the last time your company’s core values came to mind as you were working on a task? ·          Are you aware of the foundational underpinnings of your organization’s culture? ·          Do you have a strong grasp of your organization’s corporate goals and objectives? In the next two weeks, we’ll attempt to briefly explore some ideas on defining, sharing and affirming core values for maximum success. I’ll be looking at the importance of core values to employee engagement and how those values relate to both engagement and business success. Core values reflect what is central to any business success. They are designed to be your guiding principles: who you are, what you believe, and who you want to be going forward. In ...

T 3 10_Think Through These 10… "The opportunity of a lifetime must be seized in the lifetime of the opportunity." Anonymous "Be a first." Judy Garland   "Life has no rehearsals, only performances." Anonymous   "What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do." John Ruskin   “You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall.” Jim Rohn   "Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action." Benjamin Disraeli   "To have more, you must first become more." Jim Rohn Life responds to deserve and not to need. It doesn't say, “If you need, you will reap." It says, “If you plant you will reap." The guy says, “I really need to reap."Then you really need to plant. Jim Rohn   "Past performance produces present privileges." A...

I recently had a health challenge which led to depletion in my energy level. This made me seek medical help only to discover some very important but always neglected healthy habits. All matter is made up of energy. Energy is everything and it flows to make things happen. Work will always put a demand on you to tap into your natural energy and your most authentic self. While p ositive energy is all you need to sustain your performance in the work place; there is need to make conscious effort to sustain your required energy level. All of us will still experience fatigue every now and then irrespective of how healthy we are. There are many causes of this fatigue which can deplete your energy, but there are also loads of ways to ensure that you regain the lost energy. Some methods have quick effects on the body while others may take time for the average person to feel energized. Some of the ways to sustain your energy level are: 1.       Understand your b...

The growing change to a knowledge driven workforce in our times has made the command- and- control approach to managing people a less viable form of communication. There is therefore now an increasing need for communication in the workplace to become more dynamic, sophisticated and conversational. As a leader in your team, you must consciously engage with colleagues in a way that resembles an ordinary person-to-person conversation more than it does a series of commands from on high. True and lasting leadership is not really position-oriented but driven by influence. The ability to command followership without coercion is leadership. By engaging in communication exchanges, organizations can avail themselves the benefit of functioning like small entities no matter how large they grow to become. By talking with colleagues, rather than simply issuing orders, leaders can retain or recapture operational flexibility, high levels of employee engagement and tight strategic alignment. ...

Teams can simply do more than an individual and the only way to perform at your peak is to be part of a team. If you want to achieve something really big, something of value, then do it as part of a team. One is just too small a number to achieve greatness. Whatever your vision or desire, teamwork makes that dream work. It doesn’t matter how talented you may be, you still have gaps. Whether simple or complex, there are things you don’t just do well. It is therefore wise to partner with others who have strength in your weak areas. It’s always a rewarding experience when we work together with our others toward a common goal. We often get better results from less work. Teams involve more people, more resources, more ideas and more energy than an individual possesses and when we learn to work as teams in our workstreams, we maximize our leader’s potentials and minimize his or her weaknesses because everyone brings multiple perspectives to bear on how to meet a need or reach ...