One of my friends, sales trainer Bill Lee, was on a consulting assignment in Connecticut, accompanying an outside salesperson as he called on his lumber yard customers. As they drove from job to job, the salesperson was honking his horn and throwing up his hand to say hello to the various lumber yard truck drivers as they passed by. On …
7 Hacks for Creating a More Positive, More Productive Workplace
You will spend more time at work than any other activity in your entire lifetime. And you will spend more time with your customers and coworkers than you will with most of your friends and family members. So for God’s sake, your work, your workplace, and your workplace relationships had better be positive and productive, or you’ll never be truly …
9 Tell-Tale Signs Of An Unhealthy Workplace
A while ago I asked a manager at a company where I was speaking how many people he had working for him. He replied, “About half of them.” And when I asked one of the employees in that same organization how long he’d been working for the company, he answered, “Ever since they threatened to fire me.” I didn’t know …
Leadership: Are you an energy giver or an energy sucker?
You are never a neutral. You are always making a difference. You’re making your workplace a better or poorer place to work. And you’re making your family a better or poorer place to live. Basically, it all comes down to energy. You’re either injecting energy into the people around you or you’re sucking it out of them. So let me …




