• 3.4 min readPublished On: April 29, 2013

    Managers and Owners: Who Motivates YOU?

    Managers and owners: Who motivates YOU? Who gets you up when you're down? That's a really important question for us [...]

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  • 3.6 min readPublished On: March 4, 2013

    New Rules of Motivation Managers Don’t Know….

    (Sorry, I couldn't resist the picture....). Are your motivating methods working? If you're using the methods most managers use, they [...]

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  • 2 min readPublished On: October 26, 2012

    Questions to Ask Your Agents to Uncover Their True Motivation

    As managers, we're told we must 'motivate people'. But, how to do it? Many of us use outmoded methods. In [...]

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  • 2.3 min readPublished On: October 24, 2012

    Is Money the Biggest Motivator for your Agents?

    Is money the biggest motivator for your agents? No. Motivation: It isn't what you think it is.... Do you really [...]

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  • 2.5 min readPublished On: September 7, 2012

    Two Best Management Tips from My Eighth Grade Teacher

    Where did you learn your two best management tips? I learned mine from my eighth grade teacher! If we really [...]

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  • 3.2 min readPublished On: August 9, 2012

    What the Great Conductors Can Teach Us about Leadership

    In my last blog, I discussed how an orchestra either played in harmony--or it didn't. Just as there are negative [...]

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  • 0.6 min readPublished On: August 2, 2012

    4 Ways Managers Demotivate and 3 Methods to Assure We Don’t

    No, I don't mean we de-motivate on purpose! But, we tend to 'follow the leader'. If we saw someone do [...]

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  • 0.5 min readPublished On: July 28, 2012

    Retention: How Most Contests Demotivate

    For many managers, the idea of contests is a great one. They like to think they will motivate their associates [...]

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  • 2.5 min readPublished On: July 25, 2012

    8 Questions to Ask your Agents to Refresh their Careers

    Do you have agents in your office who have lost that spark, that enthusiasm? It happens to almost everyone at [...]

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