“There are a lot of ways to do things. Some are more fun than others.” S.R. Foley, Jr., Adm, USN
“There are a lot of ways to do things. Some are more fun than others.” S.R. Foley, Jr., Adm, USN […]
Category: Leadership
Uniquely Great
Great leaders have things in common. They also have different ways to find their individual greatness. Here are eight ways you can […]
What Makes a Teacher Great?
What makes a teacher great? Here are traits that you should consider if you want to become a great teacher. Communication A […]
No Excuses
Authenticity and self-honesty are critical to success. You can’t solve a problem until you admit that that you have a problem. However […]
How the Best Leaders Manage in a Crisis
Difficult managers use crisis as a management tool. Everything is serious. Everything is urgent. They shake everybody up. The Power and […]
Creating a Positive Workplace
Focusing on a negative can distract people from the positive side of doing their job. It’s Not about Fruitcake I love fruitcake. […]
The Personal Benefits of Helping Others
Helping Others is Rewarding Some of the best things I have done for myself involved helping other people. Giving my time to help […]
Quotes on Hiring Great People
Hiring the Best People and Empowering Them to Excel: How do great leaders build great companies? Here are some of the things […]
Career Strategy: Creating a Powerful Plan for Your Success
Career Strategy: Where do you start in creating a strategic plan that is tailored for you? What do you need to know […]
Thinking: Learning how to Manage the Pain Between our Ears
Thinking: Happiness is easy when everything is going our way. However, we can suffer, even when have everything we want. By managing […]
Gaining Respect in the Workplace in 10 Easy Steps
Gaining respect in the workplace affects your income, job security, and career progress. Here are 10 ways to get the respect you […]
Leadership Development: A Four-Step Process for Success
Leadership Development: How can companies hire and train people to become leaders? Here are four steps to effective leadership development. Companies that […]
Creating Leaders: 4 Elements of Leadership Development
Creating Leaders: How can companies hire and train people to become leaders? Here are four steps to effective leadership development. Companies that […]
Toxic Personalities: A Poison in the Workplace
Toxic personalities create stress that spreads throughout an organization. What are the skills that you can develop to survive and even change […]
Getting Discovered: How Powerful People Find Great Jobs
Getting Discovered: You have all the skills, the talent, intelligence, charisma, and emotional intelligence for success. But what does it matter if […]
Habits: Giving Up the Behavior that Weakens Our Careers
Habits: The things we don’t do are as important as the things we do to be a winner in the workplace. Here […]
Network Event Anxiety: Tools and Skills for Success
Network Event Anxiety: becoming effective at networking events may require that you step outside of your comfort zone. Meeting new people, especially […]
Anger Prevention: How Small Steps Can Help You Decompress
Anger Prevention: Anger is a normal feeling when we have experiences that threaten our beliefs or possessions. We can learn skills that […]
Stress Reduction for a Clear and Productive Mind
Stress reduction: Life’s challenges create pressure. I can’t always eliminate these challenges, but I can reduce the pressure by being smart about […]
Leadership Skills: 7 Steps to Creating Powerful Teams
Leadership Skills: 7 Steps to Creating Powerful Teams. Ways to interact with teams to create engagement and understanding. Smart Leaders Share Their […]
Bias Dictates the Thoughts that Govern Us
Bias dictates to our reason and wisdom, but is it always bad? What role does it play in decision-making and in governing […]
Rebel: The Power of Being Different
Rebel: The world is full of successful people who conform to the norm. However, a rebel can blow past the norm and […]
Bad Bosses: How to Excel In Spite of Them
Bad bosses can destroy your career as they make your life miserable before you get away from them. Here are ways you […]
Leadership Qualities that Create Great Teams
Leadership Qualities: Some teams have a manager but still suffer from a lack of leadership. What qualities help leaders raise the team […]
Wise Choices: Little Adjustments Can Change the Day
Wise choices: Success comes from making wise choices about how to feel and respond to the things that happen to us. When […]
Confidence Development: Clearing the Mental Clutter of Job Stress
Confidence Development: Stress loves mental clutter. As the pile of clutter grows in a person’s mind, stress becomes more powerful. The clutter […]
Meeting Agendas: Gaining Control Through Preparation
Meeting Agendas can empower you to set and control the purpose of a meeting as well as the agreements reached during the […]
Winning Traits: Empower Yourself for Success
Winning Traits: What traits do successful people have that empower them for success? Are they traits that you can develop? Horrible things […]
Career Intelligence: Learn as if You Will Live Forever
Career Intelligence is a prerequisite for career agility. “An agile career is the result of an awareness and willingness to learn new […]
Accomplishments: Knowing the Purpose of Your Goals
Accomplishments: Why is it that some companies and some people fail to achieve their goals? How can they define their goals better […]
Choosing Better Friends: Powerful Steps to a Happier, More Successful You
Choosing better friends is more than picking friends you like. And it does not mean breaking ties with friends you cherish. The […]
Effective Communications: 7 Steps to Being Understood
Effective Communications are part of the job for professionals in all types of fields and responsibilities. Here are 7 ideas for communication […]
Winning: 4 Conditions that Empower and Motivate Successful Teams
Winning: The best conditions empower, motivate, and engage teams. Additionally, these conditions create bonds and ownership among the team members. Four Conditions […]
Mental Flow: Present Moment Awareness Continues Through Time
Mental Flow: Living in the present moment is like riding a canoe. You have control with your paddle, but you ride effortlessly […]
Action: Just Being On Time is Not Enough
Action: Just Being on Time is Not Enough. Successful people use their time effectively to accomplish more. ~ www.jaywren.com Big Projects and […]
Team Success: 5 Traits that Engage and Build Loyalty
Team Success: What traits engage and build loyalty among team members? This article covers five of the traits I have found among […]
Workplace Winners: How to Gain Respect and Create Success
Workplace Winners: How do people set the tone and take the action to become a winner in the workplace? Here are four […]
Arriving Early: How a Simple Behavior Makes Life Easy
Arriving early: How does this simple behavior make life easier for you and the people around you? What does this character trait […]
Communication: How Effective People Speak and Write
Communication: Effective speaking and writing are part of the job for professionals in all types of fields and responsibilities. Here are some ideas […]
Impact Writing: 4 Ways to Engage Your Reader
Impact writing: In a digital world, everyone is a writer. However, not everyone entered the digital world with the same writing skills. […]
Words that Empower and Motivate Successful Teams
Successful Teams: Words that empower and motivate teams create bonds among the team members. These words acknowledge ownership of responsibility. Furthermore, they show […]
Emotional Intelligence: 12 Steps to Empowering Your Mind
Emotional Intelligence: Learning how to manage emotions is part of growing up. However, becoming aware that our feelings are making us dumber […]
Character: Four Leadership Traits for Long-Term Success
Character traits for leadership are more than a leader’s personality. These traits are a leaders’ moral, emotional, and mental makeup. What character […]
Creating Future Leaders: 4 Steps to Leadership Development
Creating Future Leaders: How can companies hire and train future leaders? Here are four steps companies can take to strengthen their leadership […]
Open-Ended Questions: Solving Problems and Creating Leadership
Open-Ended Questions: What are they? How do they create opportunities for greater understanding in solving problems and creating leadership? One of […]
Triggers: When Emotions Control Our Thinking
Triggers are anything that cause negative emotoinal response. Everyone feels stress. However, the degree that people experience stress, the things that create […]
Toxic People: How to Deal with Destructive Personalities
Toxic people create stress that spreads throughout an organization. What are the skills that you can develop not only to survive but […]
Simplicity: The Essential Leadership Skill for Success
Simplicity: As situations become more complex, simplicity is a powerful tool. How do leaders eliminate the clutter to create success? Simplicity creates […]
People: 18 Point Check-Off List for Making Great Hires
People: What are the steps for building teams? How do you know which person is best for the work you need done? […]
Winning Behavior: 8 Bad Habits to Break
inning Behavior: The things we don’t do are as important as the things we do to be a winner in the workplace. […]
Attitudes: How to Choose the Way We See the World
Attitudes: How is it that some people seem to have a natural, positive attitude? Even when life gives them challenges, these people […]
Complaints: How Top Managers Manage Feedback
Complaints are a grievance issue, not a management feedback issue. Knowing the difference is important to becoming a strong manager. www.jaywren.com Why […]
Worrying: The Pointless and Painful Abuse of Fear
Worrying: Fear is a healthy emotion. However, when we turn our fears over and over in our mind, we experience pain with […]
Solutions: How Successful People See the World
Solutions: Viewing the world as a series of problems is discouraging, even scary. How can we change our outlook for greater success? […]
Anger: Managing Your Emotions for a More Powerful Mind
Anger gives us the energy to avoid or overcome danger. However, managed incorrectly, anger can destroy relationships, ruin careers, and linger forever. […]
15 Leadership Soft Skills that Create Greatness
Leadership soft skills: What are the leadership soft skills that create great employees and successful companies. How can you develop these skills? […]
Trust: The Most Important Trait of Leadership
Trust: What makes this trait so valuable to leaders? What is the role of this trait in the relationship between leaders and […]
Composure: How to Overcome Meeting Anxiety
Composure: Whether they make mistakes or simply must deal with intimidating people, everyone has stressful moments in meetings. How can you stay […]
Great Leaders: 7 Steps to Creating Greatness in Others
Great Leaders: Some leaders are not only great themselves, but also inspire others to become great. What do they do differently? Great […]
Winning Teams: 5 Traits that Lead to Team Success
Winning Teams: How is it that some teams continue to win while other teams continue to lose? What are the things that […]
Confidence: How to Feel Comfortable in a Crowd
Confidence: From time to time, everyone feels insecure. Our feelings turn inward. Here are five tips for turning insecurity into poise and […]
Authenticity: The First Step to Greatness
Authenticity: Why are rebels so appealing? Why are they so successful? Authenticity – The First Step to Greatness If you copy other […]
Bias: How We Interpret the World with Our Feelings
ias is the noise above reason and wisdom, but is it always bad? What role does it play in decision making and […]
How to Use Your Emotions to Make Better Decisions
Emotions: How do some people keep a clear mind to make intelligent decisions? Is managing emotions a skill anyone can learn? There […]
4 Traits that Form the Foundation of Great Teams
Great Teams: Why is it that some organizations always create great teams? Additionally, why is it that other organizations never create great […]
Reduce Turnover with These Powerful Steps
The most valuable assets of any company walk out the door at the end of the day. Ensuring that those assets return […]
Grumpy versus Grateful: Do We Have a Choice in How We Feel Today?
Grumpy versus Grateful: Why is it that some people manage to find happiness during tough times? “Choosing to Feel Happy Is Good […]
Empowering Teams: How Leaders Create Success
Empowering Teams: How Leaders Create Success. When a team performs below the sum of its members’ abilities, has leadership failed? “The greatest […]
Fun: In What Way Can Fun Increase Productivity?
un: What are the things that you can do to reduce stress in the workplace? In what ways can we enjoy our […]
Cold Calls: How Do You Take the Chill Out of Cold Calls?
Cold calls: do you fear calling people you don’t know? How do successful people open doors to opportunity through a simple phone […]
Business Meetings: Bringing the Right Tools
Business Meetings: job interviews, sales calls, client service meetings, meetings within your own company. What tools can add power to your presence? […]
Leadership Traits: What are Four Traits Leaders Must Have?
Leadership Traits: Some teams have a manager but still suffer from a lack of leadership. What traits help leaders raise the team […]
Team Culture: Creating Success That Endures
Team Culture: Why do some teams pull together, even in the face of adversity? On the other hand, why do winning teams […]
Mentors: A Source Of Power Or A Waste of Time?
Mentors: What is a mentor? How can a mentor help you? What skills do you need to benefit from mentoring? What type […]
Success Made Simple: Do These Things.
Success Made Simple: What are the things that successful people do differently? How can you simplify your life to simplify your success? Success […]
Finding Confidence in the Face of Fear
Finding Confidence in the Face of Fear Finding Confidence in the Face of Fear: Do you fear giving a presentation or job […]
Creating the Story of Why You are Great
Creating the Story of Why You are Great: What makes people want to hear or read about great people? How can you […]
Wired For Success: Five Steps to Upping Your Mental Game
Wired For Success: Some people procrastinate, worry, and accomplish very little. However, other people get into action, have peace of mind, and […]
How Leaders Create Powerful Teams and Reduce Turnover
Powerful Teams: Leaders use different methods to create powerful teams and reduce turnover. Here are some simple steps that any leader can […]
Successful Leaders: What is the one thing a leader must do?
What is the one thing a leader must do? There are all kinds of opinions on what leaders must do. But what […]
Mental and Emotional Burnout: When Self-Sacrifice Becomes Destructive
Mental and Emotional Burnout: Do you look at your work and say, “I can no longer do this?” How do you recover […]
Isaac Asimov: How Did He Create a Lifetime of Success?
Isaac Asimov: What are the things that Isaac Asimov did that enabled him to become a professor, writer, and success story throughout […]
6 Signs Your Boss Hates You and 6 Solutions
Signs Your Boss Hates You: What are the signs and what can you do about them? Should you just ignore the situation? […]
Delegating Authority in Large Organizations
Delegating Authority in Large Organizations Cruise ships are complex organizations. Examining the operations of a cruise ship presents an operating to see […]
Auftragstaktik: Empowering Site-Based Leaders
Auftragstaktik: Empowering Site-Based Leaders. What is Auftragstaktik? What are its limitations and risks? How does it free leaders for greater success? The German […]
Empowering Others: Leadership and General Patton
Empowering others is not a concept that people often associate with George S. Patton, Jr. But at what point does success depend […]
Hiring the Best People and Empowering Them to Excel
Hiring the Best People and Empowering Them to Excel Hiring the Best People and Empowering Them to Excel: How do great leaders […]
Poise: You can have it, and it’s free. Here’s how.
Poise: You can have it, and it’s free! Poise: It’s inside you. ~ www.jaywren.com Some people have a graceful balance. They exude […]
Social Anxiety: Is It Killing Your Career?
It is your responsibility to stop thinking negative thoughts about yourself before they become fixed in your mind as beliefs. Smile. Say […]
Fear is what people say behind your back.
Fear is not equal to respect. Fear is what people say behind your back. Respect is what people say to your face. […]
4 Winning Steps to Emotional Intelligence
4 Winning Steps to Emotional Intelligence I can listen without bias. When I fail to listen for any reason, I frustrate people. I […]
8 Leadership Skills You Can Develop Now
Leadership skills: here are 8 leadership skills you can develop now. Share your ideas with others. It takes time and patience to […]
10 Ways to Get Respect at Work
Getting Respect at Work affects your income, job security, and career progress. Here are 10 ways to get respect at work. You […]
Picking Winning Teams and Mentors
Picking winning teams and mentors is an important part of making career progress. Although we often find ourselves on teams our company […]
8 Steps of Leadership for Team Success
8 Steps of Leadership for Team Success Do your team leaders have authority to direct their teams to win championships? Teams most […]
Authority, Responsibility, Accountability, and Leadership
Authority, Responsibility, Accountability, and Leadership: these are four of the most discussed subjects on business forums and articles. Authority is the power […]
Does Your Boss Hate You?
Does your boss hate you or is your boss just cranky? What are the signs? What are your options? Should you just […]
You Do Not Have to be a Genius to Manage Well
You do not have to be a genius to manage well. As a new Navy ensign, I was assigned me to work […]
Humility and Team Success
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.” C. S. Lewis” Research on Humility and Teams In an […]
Small Business Saturday: Jobs Where You Are the Boss
Small business Saturday reminds us that there is opportunity in working for yourself. To begin self-employment, start simple. The goal is to […]