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The Edge

Attitudes Are Contagious...Is Yours Worth Catching?

Workshops to Help You Achieve Your Goals

Maintain that "winning edge" and plan for ways to grow your team your business. It's not too early to plan for your fall program.

Workshops to put on your calendar to build the essential attitudes, skills and abilities for your team include:

High Performance Leadership
Innovation and Strategic Thinking
Maximum Achievement
Peak Performance Supervision
Professional
Team Building
Time Management for Results
Conflict Resolution
Selling Skills
Creating Change, not Just Managing it
Effective Leadership - Managing Change
Growing Coaches

If these workshops don't meet your needs, call us to explore how we can help you increase the value and contributions of your people and your company.

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About Us

Peter Neufeldt is the president of Peak Performance Consulting. We are located in Regina, SK, Canada. From here we provide consulting, training and coaching services across Canada and internationally.

The phrase "Success is a journey, not a destination" and the words "Learn...Change ...Grow" summarize our Vision, and describe our commitment to the growth and development of our clients.

Motivational Quotes

"The secret of success in life is for (one) to be ready for opportunity when it comes."
~ Benjamin Disraeli

"Image creates desire. You will what you imagine."
~ J.G. Gallimore

"There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority."
~ Orison Swett Marden

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November 2009

Welcome to the November issue of "The Edge"!

In this issue we explore the importance of having the same value base and having congruence in the things held in high esteem by everyone on your team and in your organization.

Closely aligned with values is the importance of attitude. The culture of an organization and the resulting success or failure is significantly impacted by the attitude of each person on the team.

Research validates that people view the world differently. These differences are neither right nor wrong. They are just different. However, understanding this diversity can make a positive difference in your internal interactions with other team members as well as in your exchanges and communications with your clients.

The core of your success and a fulfilling career will be centered on ensuring a good cultural fit for all members of your team and consciously developing an attitude that supports your key values. The following articles provide further insight into managing diversity to create an appropriate "cultural fit" and into consciously working on our "attitude development".

Enjoy!

Peter Neufeldt

The Importance of a Good Cultural Fit

One of the aspects of the hiring process that's often overlooked by companies is that of cultural fit. In other words, how well a candidate fits into the overall culture of the organization. While at first glance, that consideration might not seem too important, it's actually crucial for ensuring a good hire with a high probability of retention.

There are two measures by which you can assess a candidate's potential for fitting into the company's culture. Those two are as follows:

The candidate's values, or the things that they hold in most esteem. One way in which to ensure that the candidates you hire share the same values as your company is to pro-actively promote the company's. This can be done by posting them on its website, as well as someplace within the building, such as in the lobby. (The statement of values can also include the company's mission statement.)
The manner in which the candidate likes to work. This pertains to their "preference for production" and how it stacks up against the company's standard operating procedures. Do they prefer to work alone? Or do they thrive in a more cooperative atmosphere? If there isn't a match between the candidates's most efficient mode of operation and the company's, problems could arise.

Making a good hire a bad one

There's no doubt that talent and skill set are important components in determining who to hire. In fact, it could even be said that those are the main factors in the decision-making and hiring process. However, it would be a critical mistake to not take into consideration the importance of a good cultural fit.

Without such a fit, a potentially good hire can sour over time. The employee will gradually become less productive, less motivated, and less likely to remain engaged in their position. All that means, of course, that they're a prime candidate to leave, which is exactly what you don't want.

Being Wise . . .

Lao Tse said, "He who understands others is learned, he who understands himself is wise". Let's go for being wise! It is not until we understand ourselves and how we best interact with others that we can take control of our careers and build the lifestyle we deserve.

The "Insights Personal Profile" and the "Workplace Motivators" are two powerful assessments that are very helpful for ensuring appropriate hires, for enhancing understanding and for creating stronger teams. These assessments, developed by Target Training International, can be used to hire the right person, get employees off to a fast start, revitalize current employees, improve communication, and build sound employee-manager relationships.

Order your assessments today to help you build your team and your own career. If you are not familiar with these personal and team development tools please ask for your FREE introductory assessment.

Phone: 306-790-4570 or Email: peter@peakperformanceconsulting.ca

Attitudes Are Contagious...Is Yours Worth Catching?

Attitude development is at the core of achieving successful, desired results and outcomes.

The way you feel about yourself and others plays a crucial role into your personal and professional lives. In attitude development, we tend to always want to rush through the process. You cannot do this. You have to take it one step at a time if you are going to truly change your attitude. Attitude development is an important and difficult task- but not impossibility. And remember; it's up to you...only!

Here are a few tips on how to begin to develop a great attitude:

1. Don't Stress - This may be the hardest step of all in attitude development. Our level of stress can control what we feel about ourselves and how we judge others. It is very hard at times to control your levels of stress. You can decrease your stress levels by looking at every situation logically. There is always a logical explanation to all the stressful things that are plaguing your life. Take a moment to look at the area around you in times of stress and slip into a calm and relaxed feeling. With practice, you can be stress free...almost!

2. Grow some skin - Not literally. Grow some skin refers to not taking colleagues comments personally. People are going to name call or joke with you. You need to be the better person and shake it off. Ignore the comments that are more often than not, jokes, and you will be better off. It is hard to "turn the other cheek", but it is more important that if you are going to make any change toward attitude development, you need to be able to just ignore the comments and move on. When you do, you can easily move on to the second hardest thing to do in attitude development. This is to control your temper.

3. Calm your temper - You need to be able to calm your temper if you are going to change your attitude. There are times in which we almost achieve complete change in our attitudes of others and then our tempers explode. This is partially due to our behavioral make up. Some people have short fuse tempers while others have long fuse tempers. It doesn't matter what fuse you have, only that you are able to control it. Attitude development is very hard at times, but it can be achieved if you are willing to take the extra energy and take care of the little issues that trigger your temper. When you have taken out those triggers you can begin to see your change of attitude.

4. Read daily affirmations - affirmations are positive statements you tell yourself. These affirmations will help you with all the steps above and in times of self doubt. Positive affirmations will go a long way in keeping a positive attitude for years to come.

"It is your attitude that is going to hold you back or catapult you to achieving your goals and success!"
~ Gary Sorrell

Your attitude determines your altitude in life. How high do you want to go?

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