The Kole Hard Facts
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Below you can find select blogs and articles from the past. New content is published every Tuesday and Thursday on Substack, where you can subscribe. The blog focuses on leadership, sales, marketing, building teams, and organizational culture.
Motivators vs. Consequences!
You layout the new policy … your team will adapt their daily work habits and put it in place. If they do this the company will have; higher efficiency, more effectiveness, improved customer satisfaction, and they all will be treated ...
Do you know what you want?
I was approached by a coaching client getting ready for a job interview. Their main concern was to come up with a narrative of what they could do in a position that had become vacant within their current employers’ organization. ...
What’s the oxygen level in your organization?
I want to first apologize for missing Friday’s Blog. For all the money you are paying me I should be at least consistent, right? If you saw last Tuesday’s blog, I mentioned that I had pneumonia, which actually became double ...
Determining the value of the team
If I were to ask you what the value of this is, what is your answer? Pretty simple – it’s $100. A nice crisp brand new bill. You would be able to give me one-hundred $1 bills, five – 20’s, ...
Defining success by asking 3 simple questions
Listen to the PODCAST VERSION or Read Below Day 1 – Zig Ziglar Headquarters, July 2015 I am sitting in Class 7 of the Ziglar Legacy Certification class. To quickly summarize what that is; after the passing of Zig Ziglar in 2012, ...
What is the definition of fair?
“Fair is when one side gets exactly what they want and the other side gets just enough to stop complaining.” – John Dutton, Yellowstone Although this is a great life lesson, it should never be your intent when you are ...
Make this years goal setting process easy
Mondays’ have always been my day. I loved them. It was time to put my plan into action. That plan was different every week, but it was the same. It always revolved around sales, accounts, territories, products, management, building the ...
Leadership Tip: Delegate problem solving
You are the leader, it is your problem, no one else’s, right? Leadership involves calculating return on investment. Sometimes that means you take the 2nd best solution to a problem, not the first. Why would you do that? Stop being ...