SELF IMPROVEMENT AND MOTIVATION

Last year, I conducted an independent workplace survey on LinkedIn & in Clients Office and received hundreds of responses to the question: "What is the ONE mistake leaders make more frequently than others?" It obviously struck a chord, as the sentiments of employees across the globe came streaming in, many of them feeling distressed and disengaged. I am revealing my top findings from this survey, broken down by the eight most common themes. In essence, these are the eight biggest mistakes leaders make that suck the life out of their teams. 1. MICROMANAGING. Really, no surprise here. Leaders who dominate people, decisions, and processes, lead by fear, and lack vision make this the No.1 mistake. As I have written in the past, micromanaging ultimately derails your team's motivation and creativity. 2. LEADING FROM A POSITION OF POWER OR EGO. As it has always been, hubris is the cause of much conflict and grief. As one respondent succinctly puts it:

"Thank you." These two simple, monosyllabic words mindlessly slip off our tongues every day, almost reflexively. We utter them so much they've all but become meaningless, out and about, at home and especially at the office. If you merely grunt a quick, curt "thank you" to a colleague who just did you a solid, and then say nothing more, you might as well say "thanks for nothing." "This one especially applies to bosses, who often feel, 'I don't have to thank my employees because I'm paying them,'"as I mentioned to somemagazines tells  during a phone interview. "It goes a long way, starting at the top, where leaders can model gratitude, and not with employee-of-the-month programs that can cause animosity. It could be as simple as taking a few seconds to pop your head into someone's office and properly saying 'thank you' to them for expending their life-energy to make your business successful." Notice the ope

Jim Rohn, the renowned management guru from the US once said, “Invest more in yourself than in your career because the most skilled and competent people are NEVER unemployed”. I certainly think that this is very, very good advice indeed and is something that everyone in the workforce should take heed of. To ‘invest in yourself’ first and foremost means treating yourself as an asset!! You must accept the fact that you are an asset either to your company, to your family, spouse etc. You must therefore do everything you can in order to increase the value of this asset. Improving your skills, academic qualifications and health for example will most certainly mean that the value of this asset goes up. You will then reap high returns as the effort you put into consistently improving yourself will certainly play a role in determining your destiny and quality of life in the future. Some simple ways to invest in yourself are as follows: a.  Invest in your health.  This is paramount as without g

Who’s your hero? In 2008, 13 year old Joseph Schooling got to meet his hero, Michael Phelps, when the Olympian visited Singapore prior to the Beijing Olympics. Today, 8 years later, Joseph just made history by beating Michael to Gold in the 100m Butterfly finals - the first Singaporean to ever make (let alone win) an Olympic swimming final. After meeting his hero as a young teenager, Joseph said “Michael Phelps may be my idol, but I just want to make my own career.” He then became fully committed to his swimming and, 3 years later in 2011 Joseph beat Michael’s age-group (15-16 years) time over the 100 yards butterfly. At the time, Joseph said, "It's been a target of mine and I'm really happy to do that. It is a huge boost… Hopefully, I can get more of his records." In 2012, at 17, he finally got his dream of swimming in the same race as Michael, saying it was "a tick off on my bucket list.” That was the year Joseph first qualified for the Olympics in London, but

Hello once again fellow entrepreneur friend colleague and all out there. Today we have a very interesting article based on an interview I had last week.  When I think about this accomplishment, i told myself it has taken about ten years to get to that level of expertise in my presenting skills. This led us to discuss something I reiterate numerous times, that success is   never an overnight phenomenon , and it’s always the long distance runners who win in the end. Endurance Beats Speed In many areas of business, you hear people talking about overnight success, but  business and wealth creation  needs to be committed to for the long term.  I have has studied wealth creation for decades. The penny dropped after one of his mentors asked him to read the  BRW Rich 200  and start  studying billionaires , rather than listening to people who talk about making money. He noticed all these guys were 50+, and only started to really crack money game in the mid 40’s. He also noticed that a lot of th