Running an effective meeting

- turn a time suck into productive time

 - By TC North. Ph.D.

Are your meetings a dreaded time suck or an enjoyable, productive collaboration? When summarizing a meeting, have you ever heard, “What a waste of time!” “That was boring!” or “Please shoot me if I have to go to another meeting like that!” Those types of meetings are not only a waste of time, they’re also demotivating!

After the basics of how to run an effective meeting.

After you learn the basics of conducting an effective meeting try these nine unusual strategies to create killer meetings — highly productive meetings that people love: read on …

Simplify and expedite effective business solutions

– By TC North, Ph.D.

What’s your rate-limiting step? This isn’t a new bar pickup line to replace, “What’s your sign?” It’s a term I first learned in a graduate-level biochemistry course. Being in psychology, the hard science almost broke my brain, but I was totally fascinated with the concept that one step determined the ultimate speed of a highly complex biochemical process involving scores of other steps. And it seemed like it applied to most everything.

So what’s the high-performance business effectiveness (and life) lesson from biochemistry? … 

Peyton Manning and Tim Tebow High Performance Unites With Higher Consciousness

– By TC North, Ph.D.

In the meat market of professional football, the Denver Broncos look at Peyton Manning as well-aged prime meat. And Tim Tebow? A cut below. But sometimes, even in meat markets, higher consciousness prevails. (How often do you hear the term “higher consciousness” connected to football players?)

In business, government, religion, humanitarian efforts and even our families, most people yearn for leaders with higher consciousness.

In the heart of Denver, we momentarily had two quarterbacks who think and live in their higher consciousness. Peyton Manning and Tim Tebow have demonstrated great depth of character and …

High performance organizational culture – seven known and one unknown characteristic

Imagine this: You’re in an environment where everyone is laser-focused, working with passion and excitement and being optimally productive (wouldn’t that be blissful!?). In world-class athletics, we refer to this as the flow state. At times, individual athletes experience it and teams attain it — and it creates optimal performance. In business and sports, you must be in a high-performance environment or culture to achieve … 

Overcome the fear of selling

An antidote is defined as a remedy that counteracts poison. And fear can be one of the most potent emotional poisons to your success. Fear of selling is likely your greatest obstacle in selling more effectively (whether you’re selling yourself, ideas, products or services).

The good news though, is you can develop a powerful antidote to fear. The antidote to fear of selling is … 

Does selling fear control you?

Fear is one of the most powerful human emotions; its grip is strong and pervasive. To maximize your success in business and selling, you must learn to control your fear of sales, or it controls you.

There are four kinds of sales in business: products, services, ideas and yourself. In the corporate world, you sell ideas up to your boss, down to your team and across to your peers. If you’re a CEO, you’re the lead on selling …