Personal-growth can take many forms and cover a wide range of skills. But, to be sustainable it must be built on a foundation of character and integrity.
Houses built on sand collapse during the even the weakest storms, only those built on rock stand firm.
If you do not develop your character the sales and leadership skills you seek out and master can never be used to their full potential. The strength of your character is the foundation of your development.
So, with that in mind, the content on this page will focus on personal-growth combined with specific sales and and leadership skills.
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. "
John Quincy Adams
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The 3 Most Prominent Personal Growth Barriers
What’s the deal with all this personal growth and self development business? Why bother in the first place? Charles Atlas who earned himself the title as the ‘the world's most perfectly developed man’ had this to say: ‘Truest SUCCESS is but the development of self.’ - MORE
Job Negotiation Tips That Work!
Climbing the corporate ladder may prove to be a difficult task for many. If you’re aiming to get what you want from your job, you have to strategize, enhance your communication skills, and negotiate for it. That’s where using certain job negotiation tips can be a great help to your career. - MORE
Generational Diversity - Case Study
In the era of diverse workforce, managers are primarily concerned with obtaining high levels of performance, through creating workplace synergy among the employees. - MORE
Do Your Goals Get Away From You?
Effective employee performance management is really all about clear expectations. Many of you use SMAART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Agreed Upon, Realistic, and Time-Oriented) goals to help employees focus on the most important things at work. But can you have too much of a good thing? The answer is yes! and I've seen it. - MORE
Five Crucial Steps to a Successful Career Change
Leaving any job is stressful but when you decide to not only change jobs but also change careers it is definitely a tense and demanding situation. Good news though, you can take steps to make the transition a smooth, lucrative and rewarding experience. Below are five steps to take before ever leaving your current job that will help you in conducting a successful career move. - MORE
Invest in the BEST: YOU
When it comes to investing in yourself and business, what percentage of your professional development budget is dedicated to growing and nurturing your business? - MORE
Stop Stress Now: Ten Proven Techniques
There's no such thing as a stress-free life. We face challenges every day, and our bodies are designed to react automatically, equipping us to achieve more than we thought possible. - MORE
Thoughts, Emotions and Beliefs: Are they Controlling Your Life?
Today, there is a huge change in scientific thinking. The seeds of a new vision or reality are sprouting throughout the arenas of physics, biology and psychology. This vision is a shift away from matter as the only reality, toward the inclusion of consciousness and mind as part of that reality. - MORE
4 Psychological Needs Help Deal With Conflict
Internal conflict, conflict within yourself, reflects the difference between what you really feel and what you are able or choose to do about it. Interpersonal conflict occurs between you and another person when what they do or say is different to what you feel and vice-versa. - MORE
The 3 P’s: Perfectionism, Procrastination, and Paralysis
Do you set your standards high, but always feel like you've failed? Learn about the 3 "P's" and end the vicious cycle that keeps you stuck and ineffective. - MORE
Effective Time Management - Ten Top Tips
Have you ever thought to yourself that there aren’t enough hours in the day, or felt overwhelmed at the tasks facing you? If you have, this article can help you! - MORE
Double Or Triple Your Time!
Why do some say that time is much more important than wealth? Nearly all biographies and self-help books, by top leaders and speakers from the past decades, all focus on time as being the most important resource available. When we manage our use of time, through self-mastery, success is a natural product of that effort. Success becomes the harvest we reap. - MORE
THE ABILITY TO WILL!!
What determines your results?
The ultimate power in being able to exercise your will.
Now, some people will refer to will as 'will power' but the word "power" attached to the end of the word will only confuses us when it comes to really understanding what our will truly is.- MORE
Key to Success: Passion for Your Career
An important key to success is developing passion for your career. This means thriving in your work, not just surviving. When you have that extra spark that generates enthusiasm, others see it and want to be part of it. You become a leader who is sought after and valued because of your positive attitude. - MORE
The four rules to lead an extraordinary life
Everybody can lead an extraordinary life. There is no better time to live your dreams. Knowledge is abundant. The World Wide Web is filled up with billions of pages of information. Libraries contain thousands of books on every topic possible and you can attend seminars all around the world about many different subjects. But to live an extraordinary life, you need to focus and follow these 4 rules. - MORE
Integrity in Leadership - How we treat those closest to us
Recently, during a conversation with friends, someone wondered aloud why we are often more polite and patient with strangers than with those closest to us.
It really is a great question, and one, I am sure, many of us can relate to. - MORE
The World of Business Education: Available Degree Programs
The world of business is wide and diverse. How do you navigate this world and find the best career for you? Here is a "map" of the many facets of the corporate world, and of the business degrees currently available. - MORE
Life Balance Creating Harmony in a Business Professional's Life, Achieve Health & Peak Performance
Creating harmony in your life as a business professional takes discipline, self-control, and a commitment to priorities.
With the many demands continually pressing executives professionally, there is unlimited possibilities for distractions and deadly attractions. While urgent is not important, neither is that which is good always best. - MORE
Leadership Character Traits -21 Core Qualities to Guarantee Success (Part 1 of 4)
Your character is comprised of 21 distinct qualities that distinguish you from other people. Character is a constant standard that enables you to evaluate your daily performance and helps you to determine to what extent you have control, discipline, order, and precision in your life. This report is part one (1 of 4) of a four part series, which explains 21 distinct character traits.- MORE
How To Stop The Inner Critic
Let's face it, from time to time, most of us suffer from critical inner voices. The fact is we often use self talk throughout the day so wouldn't it be great if we could learn a way to transform the annoying internal voices into something more effective. - MORE
Using Positive Affirmations to Achieve Success
Although people do not always realize it, they can often be limited in what they can achieve by mental boundaries. These mental boundaries can in turn be overcome by positive affirmations and affirmation enhancement. When a person is mentally limited, they may find that they are unable to complete a task or goal that they are aiming for. Whether this is career progression, overcoming money problems or even passing a driving test; being able to understand and achieve your full potential can be difficult. - MORE
Personal Success Through Self-Development And Growth
There are many occasions in a person's life in which they must make an important decision, or tackle a project. Many times, taking action when it becomes necessary is actually quite difficult. There are many people who are very frightened of setting decisions and tasks into motion. However, in order to achieve personal success through self-development and growth, this must occur. - MORE
Leadership Character Traits - 21 Core Qualities to Guarantee Success (Part 2 of 4)
Honesty is conduct that is trustworthy. It is conduct that is upright, fair, sincere, and truthful. It is saying what you mean and doing what you say. Honesty is more than not telling a lie… it is telling the truth. It is living up to the spirit of an agreement, word or bond between responsible parties. - MORE
Avoiding Procrastination
Are you like me - need to or even want to do something but can’t get started? Would you like a foolproof method for getting things done? Try this, it works for me! - MORE
Procrastination Kills, Kill Procrastination
In the fight against malaria, some television adverts were launched and they all ended with the same message: "mosquito kills, kill mosquito!" In my own fight against a destroyer of destinies, I will also want to adopt the same theme. - MORE
Workaholics: Extreme Workers
In the May 23, 2007 edition of USAToday there appeared a feature article about the growing number of workaholics in our country. My experience with my clients confirms that it is becoming an epidemic in the workplace where employees are given increased tasks and then achieve increased performance by paying for it out of their hides, putting in more time rather than acquiring better time management skills to learn how to get more done in less time. - MORE
Leadership Character Traits - 21 Core Qualities to Guarantee Success (Part 3 of 4)
Dependability is conduct, which is reliable and trustworthy. It is consistently performing when others are relying on your conduct, your products, or service. It is measuring up. When others rely on you, it is simply being there when you are needed. - MORE
Unleashing Your Personal Development Potential
You eventually reach a point in your life when you're ready for change and a whole bunch of information that'll help you unleash your personal development potential. Until then, something can stare at you right under your nose but you don’t see it. - MORE
Leadership Character Traits - 21 Core Qualities to Guarantee Success (Part 4 of 4)
Spirituality is an understanding that there is a higher order to life and that life has meaning. It is an expression of your attitude and disposition to the essence and meaning of life. Spirituality, regardless of its origin, is meant to convey a lifestyle of charity, fellowship and goodness. - MORE
