Monday, December 15, 2008
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Friday, November 28, 2008
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Friday, November 21, 2008
Four Key Tips To Mentoring!
Below are some factors which can influence whether an acquaintance, co-worker, friend or relative makes the transition to the role of a mentor.
* Mentoring requires a primary focus on the needs of the mentee and an effort to fulfill the most critical of these needs.
* Mentoring is often built on a just-in-time principle where the mentor offers the right help at the right time. A potential mentor must recognize when the mentee feels free to expose a deep-felt need, thereby enabling the mentor to provide the right help at the right time to the best of the mentor’s ability.
* Much of what the mentor offers is personal learning or insight, which has never been written down anywhere. The mentor may not be aware of what he or she can offer until a mentee expresses a need or desire and the mentor realizes there may be a match between something they know and what their mentee needs.
* Mentoring requires going the extra mile for someone else. Many people may think twice about adding such a commitment to their busy lives. However, if they choose to do so, the rewards of personal achievement, mentee appreciation, and sense of helping to build a better society can be enormous.
Information Monitoring: Identifies monitoring needs
For example, an objective in your performance plan includes your area meeting certain sales goals. Naturally, you'll want to monitor the company's monthly sales reports, but you must decide exactly what data you will use from this sales report. In this instance you would focus specifically on the number of sales budgeted for your area versus the number of sales actually made.1. Determine what areas to monitor.Information monitoring can be a powerful tool to help you meet objectives, encourage appropriate actions, and keep surprises to a minimum.
"It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised." -- Frederick the Great
When you monitor systems, processes, areas, or goals for which you are responsible, you are
Outputs.
Resources.
Performance management systems.
Reports on progress, productivity, or projects.
Regularly comparing actual performance against established standards.
Tracking waste, rework, defects, and non-value-added process steps.
Resources include money, materials, and equipment. You need to monitor information around:
Financial and cost controls.
Expenditures.
As an executive, Ryan monitors people, outputs, and resources by using a detailed operational plan. He often uses Pert or Gantt charts to control the various activities that need to be accomplished to finish a project. He also sets time limits and integrates these limits when planning work. This information monitoring system allows him to direct and track how much time, material, or human resources he needs to assign in order to meet organizational goals.
Angela, a team leader on an assembly line, monitors the weekly defect report. Monitoring this information helps her pinpoint significant trends and gives her ideas on how to lower her team's error rate.
2. Determine what information is needed.Now that you've identified the areas you would like to monitor, you next need to determine the specific information you will monitor. This depends on your position, your performance goals, your department's objectives, and your company's business plan.
Customer satisfaction survey scores.
The number of times a telephone rings before it is answered.
The number of times a customer's call is transferred before he or she speaks with the right person.
The number of successful service interactions versus number of complaints. Here are some additional examples of data that might be appropriate to monitor, depending on your job:
Scrap rates
Safety violations
Associate attendance
Job satisfaction
Turnover rates
Total sales
Error rates
Equipment downtime
Productivity
Susan, a customer service representative, was frustrated. Every time a customer complained to her, all she could do was apologize. It was costing her and the company sales, which hurt her paycheck. She talked with a coworker and they agreed to start tracking when customers threatened to do business elsewhere and their reasons why. After one month they discovered a trend and reported it to their manager. The manager was thankful and said their initiative would give him the information he needed to improve the product.
Monday, October 13, 2008
We Don’t Need Playoffs in College Football?
The University of Oklahoma took over as the top team for the next 2 weeks until they got beat at the Cotton Bowl by the University of Texas this past weekend. This is a big rivalry game, so ratings don’t matter when these teams play. Texas beating Oklahoma isn’t a big upset.
The teams that remain undefeated are Texas, Alabama, Penn State, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, BYU, Utah, Tulsa, and Ball State. Texas, Texas Tech, and Oklahoma State all play each over the next 4 weekends. So, only one of those teams will be undefeated and odds are all of them will suffer a defeat.
BYU and Utah play each other on November 22nd, which means one of those teams will be knocked from the ranks of the unbeaten. The winner of that game will probably be undefeated. Ball State is ranked 25th and faces a hard time moving far enough up in the ratings to even get into a BCS game. They also face two-time defending MAC champion Central Michigan on the road. Neither Boise State nor Tulsa is even ranked, so they don’t count.
That leaves us with Penn State as the only other team that has a chance at an undefeated season. They have their two hardest games at home – Ohio State and Michigan State. Penn State has looked tough, but losing one of those games wouldn’t be surprising.
Put all those things together and either BYU or Utah has a good chance to be in the BCS championship game. Boise State was a nice story when it beat Oklahoma in the Fiesta two years ago, but that wasn’t the national championship game. BYU or Utah will definitely lose to the winner of the SEC title game and would even be trounced by loser of that game.
It is time for a playoff in college football. Something like an 8 team playoff that could still use the existing bowl games. We just want a little fairness in the world and that is what 104inc.com is about.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
I don't Care About Health
So is exercise and good health important? Doctors say it is. How do doctors make money? They need to treat sick people. If people did not get sick we would not need doctors. If people did not get hurt we would not need doctors. That would mean that we would not need drug companies or insurance companies. We would save so much money by not having gym memberships, dealing with doctors, insurance companies. That would then reduce or level of stress and we would live longer.
That sounds like a better deal to me then exercising. Just eat better reduce your stress and you will live longer. Some people may say I am crazy but it sure makes sense to me. We are to busy complicating life. We need to step back and realize that we are just animals that were put on this earth to procreate and eat. Why do we have to have a higher purpose then that?
Let’s discuss this more at 104health.com.
Al-qaida is Winning the War and we are to blame!
You don’t think so? Your stock portfolio is shrinking, your 401k is not worth anything, you have you’re your home plummet in value, and your bank is out of business. So do you still think we are winning this war against them?
Let us examine the situation. How do you do the most damage all western powers? Is it by killing their people? Is it by overthrowing a government? The answer is none. You destroy them by disrupting what they love most; Money, Power and Greed. The world trade center gets attacked. The world trade center represented the financial strength of this nation and a sign of stability. Things are not very stable now.
The governments of the world that are supported by the US rally to fight a war on terror. Our government is more focused on this war on terror then anything else in our country or around the world. Enter the greed and money. The wealthiest people in the world convince the government to deregulate a number of industries which opens up a faucet of riches to these people. These greedy people then manipulate the system to their advantage rape the world and walk away.
Let us now fast forward to October of 2008. We are no longer facing a US economic meltdown. We are actually facing a worldwide financial crisis, a destruction of our financial markets as we know it today. This crisis is going to destroy wealth around the world. It is going to create fear, hatred and destruction among countries and people. Why do you think the holocaust started? Hitler said that it was the fault of the Jews that their economy was so bad. He said if the people of Germany put him in charge he would get rid of the Jews and the German people would prosper with jobs.
Looks like history is repeating itself, we are on the verge of a worldwide great depression. We will then blame someone and World War III will be in affect. So let me ask you this question again. Is Al-Qaida winning the war and achieving their goals. I think so. They wanted chaos in our society and we let it happen. Shame on us.
Does this mean it is too late? Hell No! What is the solution? Not sure yet. Maybe this can be discussed at 104inc.com.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
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Friday, October 3, 2008
Use Communication Skills To Reach Your Career Goals
As a Sales Associate, you will depend upon your communication skills from the Meet/Greet to Thank/Follow-up।
You probably spend more time using your listening skills than any other kind of skill. Like other skills, listening takes practice. What does it mean to really listen? Real listening is an active process that has three basic steps.
Understanding. The next part of listening happens when you take what you have heard and understand it in your own way. Let's go back to that report on zebras. When you hear that no two are alike, think about what that might mean. You might think, "Maybe this means that the pattern of stripes is different for each zebra."
Judging. After you are sure you understand what the speaker has said, think about whether it makes sense. Do you believe what you have heard? You might think, "How could the stripes be different for every zebra? But then again, fingerprints are different for every person. I think this seems believable."
Passive listening is a non-verbal form of listening. The listener provides little to no verbal feedback to the client. Passive listening can lead your clients to assume that you are not really interested, or they may feel it necessary to repeat themselves to ensure that you understand.
Selective listening can be summed up as “hearing what you want to hear.” When selective listeners hear what they want to hear, they appear to be engaged and to understand. Conversely, when selective listeners do not hear what they want to hear, they tune out the client, or worse, become reactive.
· Show patience
· Give verbal feedback to summarize understanding
· Acknowledge emotions
· Speak up when something is unclear, or confusing
Fundamental to good communication is using “active listening.” Whenever you listen actively to another person’s comments, your reason for doing so is to understand the meaning of the message from the speaker’s point of view.
Your clients have choices. If you don’t make them feel welcomed and valued, you will likely lose them as a client.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
You Should Vote None of the Above
In 1985 a movie came out staring Richard Pryor and John Candy called “Brewster’s Millions.” The plot: A minor league baseball player has to waste $30m in 30 days in order to inherit $300m; however he's not allowed to tell anyone about the $300m deal. It sounds easy but it is not because he could not have any assets to show for his wasteful spending. They had limitations such as how much you could give to charity and lose gambling etc.
The movie illustrates how difficult it is to spend that amount of money and to not have anything to show for it. It is funny how our government can spend $700 Billion of our tax money and easily have nothing to show for it. The roads are not fixed. Traffic congestion is at an all time high. My health care costs are not paid for, the school districts waste our tax dollars on stuff that does not help educate my children, and the list goes on and on.
Getting back to the movie, one of the biggest ways to waste money is to run for public office. Richard Pryor’s character learned that and decided to run for Mayor of New York City. In that seen he made a very interesting observation. He pondered the question, “Why are the candidates spending millions of dollars to run for public office when the job itself pays about a fraction of what is being spent to run for office?”
Do any of you ever wonder that same question? I believe the President of the United States which is the highest paying job in our Federal Government which $400,000 per year as of 2000. The president also can get a pension that can pay him or her over $7M in paid benefits before they pass away. Also keep in mind that most of the people that run for office are already rich like George Bush and are Multi-Millionaires.
So why spend $500M - $1B for a presidential campaign for a job that only returns a fraction of that. The ROI there is not positive but negative. Not only that who are the people that are donating all this money and why is it so important that their candidate win? Because these are very rich people who want to get richer and stay rich. They are paying for their government. Your $5 donation to Barack Obama or John McCain is not going to get you good government. If these candidates want to be president so bad let them spend their own money.
They won’t because they are not stupid. The system was created to keep the powerful in power and the weak out of office. They do not want to do right by the American People. They only want to do right for their friends. Why aren’t more Americans standing up and asking these questions? Why aren’t more Americans upset about how things are going on Main Street and Wall Street? If you are so upset why do you only vote Republican or Democrat? How about None of the Above? Vote but make your vote count and show that you all have a lack of confidence in both candidates and you want and deserve more choices except for the same 2 people that they recycle every 4 years.
Join the revolution at 104inc.com and voice your opinion. VOTE NONE OF THE ABOVE this November.