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By Pat HeydlauffAug 30, 20121 topic

Make Room for Innovation - Discard Old Systems

Are organizational boxes keeping you imprisoned in the “we’ve always done it this way” mode? Are you finding it impossible to rapidly adapt to change within existing bureaucratic confines? The workforce that begins in confining boxes stays confined and cannot work to its highest potential. Workers cannot become fully engaged, maximize productivity or work at peak performance because they are always bumping into barriers that prevent forward movement. Nor can they cope with c

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Pat HeydlauffAug 7, 20121 topic

Gut Feelings, Not Emotions, Rule Communications Today

Communications are becoming exponentially more complex and instantaneous with each passing day. In fact, information about an event such as an Olympic Gold Medal win in London reaches Beijing, Los Angeles, Sydney, Miami and Branson, Missouri simultaneously. There is zero time delay between continents as the information, good and bad, swiftly passes through the electronic communications universe and social media. Some might say communication today is all about speed, perhaps e

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Pat HeydlauffJul 11, 20121 topic

Super Ordinate Goal Strengthens Businesses

Do you have a super ordinate goal (SOG) for your organization; one that drives you above and beyond basic needs for your organization’s success? Is it at the core of your vision? Take the Disney Corporation as an example. One of their objectives is to maintain and build the integrity of the Disney name and franchise while preserving basic Disney values. But this is not the ultimate driving force behind Disney. Their super ordinate goal is “guest perception.” Everything they

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Pat HeydlauffJun 12, 20121 topic

The "Orbital Effect" for Business Success

Leadership was on display as the audience hung on every word uttered two weeks ago in Ft. Lauderdale, FL by Bob Danzig, former nationwide head of the Hearst Newspaper Group and vice president of the Hearst Corporation. For 20 years this industry giant was the epitome of what leadership should be in the 21st century. He used engagement techniques and conversational communication skills long before they ever had a name. Danzig’s leadership philosophy was summed up in eight simp

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Pat HeydlauffMay 22, 20121 topic

Today’s Leaders Need Soft Skills

The new normal, if there is such a thing, is all about the workforce, the client and the consumer – they want to know you have their best interests at heart. They are bombarded daily with an information tsunami via electronic communications but the one thing they lack: personal connections. It can be argued that they are always connected but the reality is they are constantly in contact but never connected. And, even their contacts are seldom long term. So for them the new n

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Pat HeydlauffMay 7, 20121 topic

Inspire Encore-Worthy Performances from Your Team

Experiencing Yanni live in concert is an incredible journey of musical magic through sound, showmanship and his dynamic persona. It is also a masterful journey of visibly obvious leadership. Yanni is not only a genius composer but is also an engaging, enabling and empowering leader. Usually leadership is recognized as a necessity in the corporate world and politics – not music. But Yanni not only brings the music he hears in his head to life but empowers each of the musician

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Pat HeydlauffApr 23, 20121 topic

Knowledge Applied is Leadership

There is a new breed of leadership surfacing in organizations. According to an article on informationmanagement.com by Stacie Capshaw and Thomas M. Kuolopolous, this new breed, “knowledge leaders” is evolving. It no longer fits into the nice square organizational chart boxes used since the fifteenth century. Citing a multi-client study by the Delphi Group, they indicated that knowledge leaders from diverse organizations exhibited similar qualifications, most notably: • A hy

Primary topic: Change Management

Change Management

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By Pat HeydlauffApr 10, 20121 topic

Budgeting Time for Leadership

Whether you are an entrepreneur growing your business or the CEO of an international multi-continent corporation, your organization’s sustainable future rests squarely on your shoulders. It is leadership not management that sets the course for an organization and it is the leader’s vision, communication skills and his or her ability to empower the workforce that determines whether the organization will enjoy long term growth and sustainable profitability. Leadership is such

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Pat HeydlauffMar 28, 20121 topic

Unleash Focus – Improve Productivity, Performance and Profitability

Are you dealing with more regulation, a reduced workforce and a shrinking budget leaving your organization with decreased productivity, mediocre performance and waning profitability? Are you hoping to push a button that will delete all old programming and thinking and magically upgrade your systems and workforce? This may not be the quite magic button you are hoping for but there is an answer – focus. By unleashing the focus of your workforce you can increase their engagemen

Primary topic: Productivity

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By Pat HeydlauffMar 18, 20121 topic

Engage Your Workforce: Use Conversations Not Dissertations

Communication that successfully engages and focuses the workforce means getting off your soapbox so you are accessible. This means interaction and conversation – not unapproachable dissertation. Nineteenth century communication methods such as lecturing, impersonal written missives and top down delivered information result in workforces disengaging, productivity dropping, reduced performance and limited profitability. Engaging everyone at all levels of the business through c

Primary topic: Communication Skills and Training

Communication Skills and Training

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By Pat HeydlauffFeb 23, 20121 topic

Gain the Ultimate Competitive Edge: Create a Business Soul

Walt Disney knew exactly what soul was in his organization. It was the feeling of happiness and the joy of the Disney magic whether created in movies, theme parks, customer service or products. Those feelings were at the core existence or soul of the organization. Everything Disney does is designed to provide joy in the hearts and souls of everyone who shares the Disney experience. A soulless corporation was defined by Roland Marchand in his book, Creating the Corporate Soul

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Pat HeydlauffFeb 21, 20121 topic

A Business with a Soul Inspires and Motivates Its Workforce

Some businesses are born out of ideology and conviction. Others spring up out of necessity, to fill a void or meet a burgeoning need. Then there are those born out of innovation with a vision for the greater good that have soul – companies like Apple, Disney and Ford. • Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple wanted to produce products so imaginative and appealing that people didn’t even know they wanted them until Apple released them, not just another computer. • Walt Disney, foun

Primary topic: Success Principles

Success Principles

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By Pat HeydlauffJan 28, 20121 topic

Are You Working Without a Target?

According to Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, “Great leaders are great communicators. It’s not a matter of memorizing and repeating the right words, but of developing the ability to speak directly to other people’s spirits.” He believes that money does not go to businesses with the best products or services but rather it flows to ones with the best leaders. He went on to say, “When I find a business that is struggling financially, it is often because the leader

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Pat HeydlauffJan 22, 20121 topic

The Engaged Workforce: Who is Responsible?

Walt Disney once said, “Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.” He understood perfectly whose responsibility engagement was – it was his. He was a hands-on leader, personally involved and engaged with his workforce. Engagement is a leadership necessity. Once hired, it is leadership’s responsibility not Human Resource’s to keep employees engaged. When the leader of an organization is not en

Primary topic: Business Networking

Business Networking

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By Pat HeydlauffDec 20, 20111 topic

Harness Distracted Focus – Leadership’s Secret Weapon – Part 2

Public Enemy No. 1 for leadership and management is distracted focus. It leads to lack of clarity and reduces personal and workforce engagement, productivity and performance. Change the focus dynamic in your life and you will improve your personal performance, engage your team and improve long term success. Unclear goals and distracted focus slow your productivity and limit profitability. You can eliminate distracted focus and harness it to maximize productivity by first ackn

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Pat HeydlauffNov 28, 2011Topic pending

Harness Distracted Focus – Leadership’s Secret Weapon

Focus is much like the wind. If harnessed and channeled, the wind can create electricity, expedite the flight of an airplane or the movement of a ship and pump water from a well. You cannot stop the wind, change its intensity or at times destructive forces, but when harnessed, it is useful, productive and generates a limitless supply of focused energy. Like the wind, you cannot stop focus. You, your peers, your workforce and associates are always focusing on something all of

Primary topic: Nov 28, 2011

Nov 28, 2011

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By Pat HeydlauffNov 4, 20111 topic

How to Focus in an ADD World

For sustainability in a complex ADD world, the key is focused engagement. What the business community knows today is that old ways are not sustainable and you can no longer execute without engagement. However, a strategic business advantage comes from knowing there is a flow to the focus of engagement. Focus is like water, it flows where it is easiest to flow and as leadership, you take advantage of its flow or you don't. The flow is already in your workplace and within your

Primary topic: Empowerment

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By Pat HeydlauffOct 16, 20111 topic

How to Create a Performance Based Workforce

Much is written today about workforce engagement, productivity, and performance yet few lay out a basic strategy for aligning the workforce with a company's expectations and long-term goals. According to Erik Breggren, Vice President of global research and customer results, SuccessFactors, "Our research shows that companies that invest in the ability to execute, aligning goals to strategy while creating a performance-based culture, experience higher shareholder returns. Conn

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Pat HeydlauffSep 27, 20111 topic

Good Plan, Good Team - Engage and Execute for Success

Success rewards are much greater than the risks when leadership begins with a crystal clear objective and only then creates the plan for execution with a fully engaged focused team. Once the goal is set, a good roadmap is essential before you start building the team or training the existing team. The more clarity leadership has about the end goal, the easier it will be to create the plan, engage and focus the workforce so they will successfully execute the plan. Therefore, t

Primary topic: Empowerment

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By Pat HeydlauffJul 31, 20111 topic

An Engaged Focused Mind Yields Peak Performance

The power of peak performance lies within. It is all about knowing who you are, what you want to accomplish and a plan for how to accomplish it. Peak performance's simple definition is "doing ones best at achieving one's goals or objectives." Peak performance is often linked to physical activity and sports such as football, baseball, tennis, golf, basketball, swimming, etc. However, when you apply specific peak performance enhancing tools to your workplace performance goals,

Primary topic: Peak Performance

Peak Performance

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By Pat HeydlauffJul 12, 20111 topic

A Focused Engaged Workforce Increases Profitability

A groundswell is building when it comes to acknowledging that the engaged workforce is one of the keys to success in the 21st Century. Research is everywhere connecting the dots of engagement, productivity and profitability. "Employee engagement has emerged as a critical driver of business success in today’s competitive marketplace. Further, employee engagement can be a deciding factor in an organization's success. Engaged employees work harder, are more loyal and are more l

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Pat HeydlauffJun 29, 20111 topic

Engagement – Connecting Focus, Productivity and Profitability

Engagement is all about focusing the power of leadership and the workforce on the productivity and profitability of your organization. This holds true for profit centered organizations and non-profit membership driven associations. An engaged focused workforce is key to a successful business roadmap for sustainable productivity and profitability. There is a next generation for creating the engaged workforce. Call it Engagement 3.0 or Harness the Energy, the engaged workforce

Primary topic: Productivity

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By Pat HeydlauffJun 18, 20111 topic

Focus, the Productivity Solution

Multi-tasking, maintaining or increasing productivity and peak performance demands are at an all-time high. The result, stress and anxiety are also at an all-time high. Today's economic demands and their undesirable side effects are the same whether you are in accounting, marketing, manufacturing, the healthcare sector or retail. Maintaining and increasing productivity and performance are usually considered a leadership challenge, not an employee responsibility. In reality,

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Pat HeydlauffJun 13, 20111 topic

The Golden Age of Leadership –Where are You, The Silver Age?

Leadership comes in many shapes, styles, sizes and sex. However, none of that really matters. When it comes to the success of your organization, what does matter is how good you are at leading and is anyone following you? One of the biggest obstacles leadership faces today is that the world has dramatically evolved over hundreds of years and organizational roadmaps for leadership have not. Innovation comes from an organization’s leadership that has vision and is able to impl

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Pat HeydlauffMay 20, 20111 topic

The Golden Age of Leadership –Has It Arrived, Are you Ready?

There are many ways to describe Leadership and an organization's operational model through the centuries since its evolution out of the Dark Ages in the 1700s. Its progression through the Iron Age, Bronze Age and Silver Age is very evident whether described by those exact names or something else like the industrial age and the information age. Everyone should agree that there has been vast advancement and achievement in countless realms during those times, but where they all

Primary topic: Achievement

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By Pat HeydlauffApr 19, 20111 topic

The Golden Age of Leadership –Where are You, The Bronze Age?

Like millions of others, has your world been turned upside down? Have your responsibilities at work and at home escalated and the time you used to have for yourself been depleted? The old norms just aren’t working and everywhere you turn someone is trying to provide you advice on how to live your life. What you need to know - is that advice provided by well-meaning others is not a “one-size fits all.” Just because they have provided you advice, both wanted and unwanted doesn’

Primary topic: Leadership

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