The mind and heart can envision and feel great things, but so many times there is a disconnect in where we are today vs. where we desire to be. While there are many necessary pieces to bridging that gap, one of the key girders is accountability: the willingness to do what one says. Part of this is holding each other accountable. There must be both individual and team accountability for a business to work effectively. I am reminded of Peter […]
Without a long term view of the future, people in organizations have a tendency to get focused on smaller details and get bogged down with what is not critical. When business is tough, they become even more entrenched and bogged down. The human mind will focus on something and it will choose whatever is closest at hand. The negative issues seem to feel bigger and can overwhelm the team. Incremental improvements do not seem worth the effort and improvements stop. […]
Mid-Level Leaders and Managers have it tough because they are caught in the middle between bosses and workers. There is an art form to performing well in the middle and the right people take successful joy in it. In our 30 years of working with organizations to get successful results and live better lives, we see mid-level leaders as critical bridges on the journey to creating one big team, one family, one culture. Download May’s Compass Check
In this week’s video blog our expert guide, Don Hadley, discusses how life and business are a safari of the heart. This adventure we call life changes, and we can sometimes lose our sense of self and wonder. Our job at Applied Vision Works is to help people (individually or as an organization and team) go on a “safari of the heart” and pursue those things they would not normally do. We encourage you to ask yourself the following questions: […]
Why are people not logical? We would then be like computers, predictable, and yet breaking down at the first missing bit of data or at the first amount of data overload. We could not get to better answers because we would be preprogrammed for a set outcome. With emotion, we are able to break patterns and to weave new ones. It gives us a shot at new and better possibilities. Some of those possibilities we may not have ever considered […]
In this week’s video blog our expert guide, Don Hadley, discusses how people are a lot like vegetable soup; meaning that we are each made up of many different pieces (or ingredients). Many people identify themselves and others as “introvert” or “extroverts”, etc. When doing this, we limit not only ourselves but those around us to reaching our fullest potential. Our program is designed to bring out and discover all aspects of a person’s potential, abilities, etc. Those who work […]
In a meeting recently we were coaching the salesman of large, expensive systems. He gave a great presentation and had a wonderful presence. He reminded me, though, of a friend of mine that had bought a telescope and could not get it to work. Over and over he kept looking through it and moving it around. He was persistent though and figured one day he would get it to work. I went to visit one day and upon arriving at […]
In this week’s video blog our expert guide, Don Hadley, discusses the importance of resolving conflict and even better, preventing it. There will always be some form of conflict when multiple people work and live closely with one another whether it is family, friends, co-workers, teams, etc. Unfortunately most spend too much time discussing and dwelling on the actual conflict rather than working through the issues and resolving them. When we work to resolve conflicts 3 things occur: Creates a […]
While I do believe that we are responsible for bringing good to other people in our contact with them, I have noticed, especially in politicians, an arrogance where someone believes that they are smart enough to control other peoples’ lives. Traditionally they do this by limiting choices through regulation and taxation in a social engineering experiment that, in turn, steals the responsibility people have for running their lives well. This also causes the productive ones among us that are normally […]