Increasing Your Authenticity & Success through Acknowledgement
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One of the most important thing that you can do to increase your Authenticity Ratio and ensure your success is to ACKNOWLEDGE the people you interact with on a day to day basis. It's a principle that is so rarely used that some might even regard acknowledgement as a "secret".
You might be thinking "really? How is acknowledging other people going to help to make me successful?"
The truth is that so few people apply this success principle properly, but when you do you will see dramatic and almost instant changes that will open doors of opportunity for your business and personal life to lead to success.
How do you use acknowledgement to succeed?
Before I share this success "secret" with you, let's set the record straight about acknowledgement.
True acknowledgement is always genuine, real, and truthful. It's about honoring someone by recognizing what they've done, who they are, and the significance they have in your life or business.
This recognition could be how they've influenced you or something they have done or said that has made a real difference. It is more than just a simply thank you. acknowledgement must come from the heart, so much so that the other person recognizes it not just cognitively (in their mind) but realizes the value they have in their heart too.
When you truly acknowledgement someone, you change them for the better. It is more than the mere platitude we have all so often heard. True acknowledgement makes people want to be better people. It is the ultimate form of positive reinforcement.
True acknowledge is authentic and immediately recognizable in your demeanor, the tone of your voice, your body language, and particularly in what you say.
I know this may sound extreme for some of you, but it's true. It is one of the success principles that every great leader knows and makes use of it daily.
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About the Author
Michael McIntyre is the CEO and President of The Authentic Salesman, a Dallas-based consulting and sales training firm. In addition to being a professional sales trainer, Michael is also a renown keynote and motivational speaker who specializes in helping CEOs improve brand traction and increase ROI, sales, and employee performance by creating authenticity in the workplace.
In his 27 years in the sales industry, Michael has generated more than $3 billion in sales, recruited and trained over 20,000 sales agents, and has opened offices in more than forty states. His leadership grew a start-up insurance company from $25 million in assets to over $15 billion in less than 10 years and revolutionized the insurance industry with a unique formula for generating prospects for his agents. During his time in the insurance sales industry, Michael has received numerous Top Agent and Top Agency performance awards, as well as the National #1Recruiting Agency award.
Michael is the creator of "The Authenticity Ratio" which is a highly rated keynote and training topic that has transcended industry borders from insurance to real estate to professional sports teams. He is also the author of "The Authentic Salesman" and several articles on sales training, leadership and personal change. Michael has been featured on FOX, CBS, TheStreet.Com, Business Insider, Forbes, US News & World Report, The Huffington Post and many other publication for his unique insight not only in sales and leadership but on breaking topical issues.
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