You should care because chances are you are not satisfied with your life, either personally or professionally.
- 63% of all employees want to work less, up from 46% in 1992.
- 40% of workers describe their office environment as “most like a real-life survivor program.”
- 62% of workers routinely end the day with work-related neck pain, 44% report strained eyes, 38% complain of hand pain, and 34% report difficulty in sleeping due to work-related stress.
- 88% of employees say they have a hard time juggling work and life.
- 70% of working fathers and working mothers report they don’t have enough time for their children.
| | | And if you are in a Leadership position, you are under constant pressure to perform and to motivate those who report to you. There is a high probability that, more often than not, you are being consumed by your business, at the expense of focusing on your business. Is your organization showing any of the following symptoms?
- 1. Lack of direction.
- 2. Impatience.
- 3. Greed.
- 4. Taking action without thinking it through first.
- 5. Poor cost control.
- 6. Poor product quality.
- 7. Bad or nonexistent budgeting.
- 8. Inadequate financial records.
- 9. Loss of momentum in the sales department.
- 10. Failure to anticipate market trends.
- 11. Lack of managerial ability or experience.
- 12. Indecisiveness.
- 13. Bad human relations.
- 14. Diffusion of effort.
| | | If your organization is suffering from one or more of the above, it is not surprising, nor are you alone. According to Entrepreneur Magazine, these are the most common reasons for business failures.
| Is Profit Performance Advisors the right choice for you?
| Are you personally or professionally profiting at the level you desire?
| Are you and your organization performing at the level you desire?
| Do you remember what 2x2 equals, or 3x3, how about 4x4. The answer is of course you do because in grammar school you had the benefit of a teacher who repeatedly reinforced the times tables in your memory.
| Now, try to remember the last seminar you attended that was meant to increase your skills. Can you name 3 key concepts from that seminar? Can you name three things from that same seminar that you are actually applying today? If you are like most people, your answer is no.
| Studies show that participants of training seminars have a 2% retention rate after 14 days. Shocking? The only thing shocking about it is the shocking amount of money that organizations and individuals continue to spend on training seminars intended for the masses.
| If your organization had a 2% Return on Investment (ROI), you would not be in business very long, so why would you invest in a training seminar where you will retain 2% of its content?
| People learn in one of three ways:
- Impact (I was doing "X" when "Y" occurred)
- - Useful in conversation and putting events in context of time
- Discovery (you gain insight or knowledge through doing or experimentation)
- - Useful in conversation and applying one time experiences
- Spaced Repetition (performing the same behavior repeatedly over a period of time)
- - determines how we behave in our everyday lives
| | | It is estimated that over 85% of a person’s actions are responsive – done without thinking. The only effective way to experience positive change is through "Spaced Repetition" of the desired new behavior. Studies show that participants of “Spaced Repetition” development programs retain up to 65% of the content fifteen years later.
| Which would you prefer a 2% or a 65% ROI?
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