3 Top Peak Performance and Entrepreneurial Articles for The Week of September 29, 2014

Each week I read a number of peak performance and entrepreneurial articles from various online resources. Here are my top three picks this week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too.

How Mood Effects Performance
By Brain Amble

If you’ve ever had one of those customer service experiences which left you convinced that the employee you were dealing with must have got out of bed the wrong side, new research suggests that could have been exactly what happened. Read more

My  Comment:  What do you do to make sure your employees and team start the day in a positive mood? www.motivateresults.com

How Mood Impacts Results
By Daniel Goldman

Emotions are highly intense, fleeting, and sometimes disruptive to work; moods tend to be less intense, longer-lasting feelings that typically don’t interfere with the job at hand. And anemotional episode usually leaves a corresponding lingering mood: a low-key, continual flow of feeling throughout the group. Although emotions and moods may seem trivial from a business point of view, they have real consequences for getting work done.  Read more

My  Comment:  It’s important to find ways to address mood. www.motivateresults.com

Business: Change Your Performance Mindset
By Dr. Jim Taylor

When I work with businesspeople and companies, my first challenge is to convince them that profitability, whether individual or corporate, though important, should not be the primary focus. To persuade the often-resistant corporate brain trust, I introduce them to what I call the 3 Ps. Yes, at the top of the business “food chain,” the ultimate goal in the business world and the first P isprofitability (or increased profitability). But how to achieve greater profitability. It comes from the second P, productivity, meaning getting stuff done that results in individual compensation or corporate revenues. But what underlies productivity? The third and most fundamental P, performance, is the engine that drive productivity and profitability. Read more

My  Comment:  One way to change your performance mindset is to set a record.  www.motivateyourresults.com

Are you planning a meeting for this year or a kickoff meeting for early next year? Book Raj to speak to energize and inspire your team, organizaton or corporation to consistently perform at the top of our game! Call him at 864.569.2315 or contact him at raj@rajgavurla.com with your date, time and location to book your date today!

Your Raise The Bar Primer: Mental Performance Tools

“Easily look your best and set records.” – Raj Gavurla

Easily look your best and set records with my new workbook, Your Raise The Bar Primer: Mental Performance Tools.  If you’re not seeing the results you want, then this is the workbook for you.

Learn to set records and use your mental performance tools for greater success.  Will be available soon as a monthly and yearly workbook.

3 TOP PEAK PERFORMANCE AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ARTICLES FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Each week I read a number of peak performance and entrepreneurial articles from various online resources. Here are my top three picks this week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too.

The #1 Secret to Reaching Your Peak Performance Level
By Mohamed Tohamil

By the time you finish reading this article you’ll discover the #1 secret to reaching your peak performance level.

It has been proven again and again that all successful people have used this secret at some point in their lives, and that this secret is responsible for generating successful people and financial giants each and every day. Read more

My  Comment:  Mentoring allows you to create something greater than you initially started with. Not just copy someone’s past success.

Focused Priorities Fuel Leadership Success
By Pat Heydlauff

What are your leadership responsibilities – engaging the workforce, hiring, acquisitions, financial planning, visioneering, innovation? Jack Welch, former chairman and CEO of General Electric, believed he had only three things to do as a leader: choose the right people, allocate the right funds and transmit ideas from division to division at the speed of light. Read more

My  Comment:  This article can also be applied to entrepreneurial leadership or corporate entrepreneurship

7 Questions To Ask Yourself Every Day For Peak Performance
By Jason Brick

The life of an entrepreneur is hard. It demands your time and energy, and it often torpedoes relationships and other aspects of your life outside of work. It pulls you in so many directions at once that it’s hard to find a clear path. Read more

My  Comment:  Knowing your why (relationship between motivation and inspiration) is essential for you to thrive

3 TOP PEAK PERFORMANCE AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ARTICLES FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Each week I read a number of peak performance and entrepreneurial articles from various online resources. Here are my top three picks this week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too.

1 Weekly Habit That Will Push You to Peak Performance
By LAURA GOLEMAN

In 15 minutes a week, you can get closer to your optimal work life.
Most of us have the desire to be high-performing. The alternative is boredom and less personal pride. Entrepreneurs especially, with their names on the sign, aim high. Read more

My Comment:  This article really gets to the importance of asking the right questions.  In anything you pursue, instead of reaching a comfort zone or boredom ask the right questions to set a record (your personal best or a world record).  I believe health and having the tools to set records are the keys to living a great life.

Peak Performance In The Workplace
By DANIEL GOLEMAN 

THE old joke — How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice — is getting a scientific spin. Researchers are finding an unexpected potency from deliberate practice in world-class competitions of all kinds, including chess matches, musical recitals and sporting events.  Read more

My  Comment:  Training is important, however, be sure to pick up on the importance of motivation and the need to perform entrepreneurial to eliminate patterns that are causing stagnation that once worked, create breakthroughs, and eliminate boredom.

The New Corporate Ethic
By BILL COLE, MS, MA

Corporations today are committed to helping organizations empower their people with high-performance work styles. People who are identified as peak performers, even in high stress environments have mastered the skills top achievers in all disciplines possess. We share the secrets of renewing oneself in a high-stress world.

In a fast-paced and ever-changing workplace, we are all concerned about stress, burnout and how to achieve peak levels of performance on an ongoing basis. We propose the Sports Metaphor to help your people move away from burnout, stress and chaos toward peak performance.

Part of the answer to reversing declining levels of performance lies in empowering individuals at all levels of the organization to effectively combat stress and to rise above daily challenges to strive toward self-mastery, which ultimately leads to organizational wellness. All levels of the organization can then learn how to partner to create individual and organizational health.  Read more

My comment:  Towards the end this article has one of the best descriptions of being “in the zone” (feels effortless, everything is in slow motion, you accomplish spectacular, great, wow, amazing, etc.! )

Value of Consistency

There are several reasons one succeeds in a specific goal, project, or endeavor.  Think of a success you’ve had.  Can you write the key components for success on this goal, project, or endeavor?  What made it work and enjoyable?  

Did you list the word “consistency”?  The value of consistency produces tremendous benefits towards your success. After attending a leadership team building session, I noticed as the team members progressed through the stations the ability to work together became easier.  Why?

Initially, we had to discover the best approach to take.  As the day went on we honed our approach to the following:

1.  Someone in the group suggested an initial strategy and if it was good we used it.

2.   We listened to ideas.  This was essential to improving our initial strategy.  Do you listen to ideas in your company to improve performance?

3.  We went with the best idea(s) to create a better strategy.

4.  Then we had to perform as a team and individually to achieve better results.

5.  We “consistently” applied this approach.  Once we realized we had a methodology it became easier to accomplish our goals.

By the end of the day, we realized the value of consistency.  Did you list consistency as a key component to your success?

Are you planning a meeting for this year or a kickoff meeting for early next year? Book Raj to speak to energize and inspire your team, organizaton or corporation to consistently perform at the top of our game! Call him at 864.569.2315 or contact him at raj@rajgavurla.com with your date, time and location to book your date today!