I wish to thank the following:  Chairman John D. Rockefeller, IV (D-WV) and Ranking Member Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI6), Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR2) and Ranking Members Henry Waxman (D-CA30) and especially Anna Eshoo (D-CA14) who believes in 911 and responded warmly to my book “911, Who will answer your call?”

This committee ANSWERED A VERY IMPORTANT CALL!

Kudos!!

Employees sometimes think emotionally and lose sight of their job description. As an employer you must remind them of what it is they are supposed to be doing. Then you assign their choices.

In today’s economy – bosses do not and should not tell an employee to be thankful you have a job. That’s thinking emotionally. What you want to do as the leader is show the employee how to keep their job. Employees are motivated by any number of things and its the leader’s responsibility to understand and motivate accordingly.  Therefore, if an employee is motivated by doing the right thing, then ask them to explain or show how they do the “right thing” in their job duties, and so on.

The example can be used across the board with co-workers, employees, employers, etc. We tend to (as leaders) make the situation about us and what motivates us (hence the line about being happy to have a job). We can never arbitrarily assign our own motivations to another and expect our own desired results.

Lead your way – and that means understanding how to lead better!

#911coach

I want to achieve my goals of shaking hands with the president and have lunch with the governor. I want to speak in front of 10,000 people (at least) and talk to the Lions as a motivational speaker. I want to make enough money to afford my house I have chosen in the place I have chosen to live out my years and most of all I want to continue to help others achieve their “I wants!”

You see, life is not an Avatar movie where you can live your life through some dream or through another’s eyes. You are worthy and valuable and ABLE to live your life YOUR WAY! Is it easy and quick? Most likely not. Is it worth it? As surely as it will be worth it the day I walk across that stage with my PhD; absolutely Yes! Anything worth having is worth effort.

I double-dawg dare you to invest in you, take a chance on you. Man ~ you are the best thing going and you should bet all you have on YOU!

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I tell my leaders in the Leadership Training series that the first two letters of GOAL are “GO” and if you are not GOing anywhere, you are STUCK. I’ve heard that line too many times from others. It was a bit startling to see it in myself. Once you realize by looking back, looking around, and taking stock of what you have accomplished (or not) then it is a good time to cease the relationship. In the end, you will win because you will reach your GOAL!

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As a 911 dispatcher, officers used to tell me sometimes jokingly, sometimes not-so-jokingly that it was a “need to know basis” and I didn’t need to know. I never quite got that idea back then. Now it is perfectly clear as mud, as I study epistemology (what you know and how you know what you know).

Take for example; someone who has never traveled, never gone outside of their own hometown, never done volunteer work anywhere, never expanded their core base of knowledge and influence. Now, I know some speakers like to say that financially you are the average of the 5 people you hang around with the most. I like to say you are the average average, meaning financially, socially, intellectually, spiritually, etc. of those 5 people.

Now, before you unfriend your friends and family, let me remind you that you can expand your sphere of knowledge and influence in many ways. I watch others and follow those who I would like to emulate. I could have met them at a volunteer group, grocery store, church, meeting, seminar, class or whatever. The thing is, our knowledge is limited if we limit ourselves.

If you change up your routine by just a little bit, you will learn something new. New knowledge spurs us on. The leaders in my Leadership Reality Adventure in Las Vegas know all about expanding their knowledge base. We use a reality-based learning event to teach, train, and demonstrate acquired knowledge.

Whaddayaknow?