JJ's (Apr 2010) Tips in this issue:
1. Renewing Your Perspective
2. JJ’s Favorite Quotes
3. Tele-Coaching, Mentoring, Training
Use the following tips as training tools.
Present this situation to your group and brainstorm solutions together, or submit your own
situation question to be answered in an upcoming newsletter.
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SITUATION QUESTION:
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Are you losing your perspective in light of everything that has happened to you and around
you lately? What are the tell-tale signs observed about yourself or others? How have your
plans been altered?
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SOLUTIONS:
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In my Monday email inbox I read this from Alan Weiss who is a National Speaker Association
colleague and well-known business consultant. Perhaps it will give you some food for
thought too.
“Alan’s Monday Morning Memo’s mission is to help readers to thrive.”
“This week’s focus point: We've had floods in the northeastern US, a volcanic
eruption in Europe, earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, and China. Despite these huge hardships,
loss of life, and economic damage, life continues. Humans are resilient. How is it that
your colleagues or your clients can tell you that a new idea or initiative is too
traumatic to implement, or an unexpected event was too staggering to permit any thought of
new projects? People tend to lose perspective. Business, like life, goes on. © Alan Weiss
2010. All rights reserved.http://www.contrarianconsulting.com
Yes, there have always been disasters happening around the world that affect our lives
and businesses, but we must strive to keep our perspective through them.
The recent volcanic eruption stopped airline travel to and from Europe, and probably
someone you know has been affected by it. We empathized with people close to us who were
impacted. Some passengers are still waiting to get flights. Businesses have had financial
losses with one affecting another like falling dominos.
Hopefully your life and business goes on through the peaks and valleys of life. It’s
a journey that teaches us to be resilient, resourceful and hopeful for more peaks than
valleys to come. It is time to rebuild, reinvent and change your perspective.
You are never too young or too old to stop and take inventory of where you’ve been,
where you are and where you strive to be. Talk to colleagues and clients. Imagine the
possibilities together. Communicate and brain storm. Envision your workplace and how you
will overcome, change and grow to meet your customers’ needs and desires. Dream
big....get a new and refreshing perspective of life and your new business for the
future...NOW!
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JJ's FAVORITE QUOTES:
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“A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better
selves, a call to become something more."
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up
the steps, we must step up the stairs."
- Vaclav Havel
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(CMC) on customer service management, specializing in performance improvement, call
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