by Shaun Heuerman | Jul 22, 2020 | Culture, Effective Leadership, Employee Motivation, High Performance, Profitability and Growth, Sales & Marketing, Sales Training, Strategic Planning, Workplace Culture
Isn’t it fascinating how for years and years and years, people would fight wars by standing in line with red coats on, in formation, shooting guns, while the other side would come at them when they had guns standing in line, running with swords, thinking that...
by Shaun Heuerman | Jul 16, 2020 | Culture, Effective Leadership, Employee Motivation, High Performance, Profitability and Growth, Sales & Marketing, Sales Training, Strategic Planning, Workplace Culture
I’m always astonished how difficult we make the chief lending officer’s job. We tell essentially this wonderful human being, who is probably good at credit, “hey, you’re in charge of finding your team members”; “you’re in charge of making sure...
by Shaun Heuerman | Jun 4, 2015 | Employee Motivation
According to a recent study by Teresa Amabile and Steven J. Kramer, when 600 managers were asked to rank the impact on employee motivation and emotions of the five workplace factors that are commonly defined as significant influencers—incentives, recognition,...
by Shaun Heuerman | Nov 24, 2011 | Employee Motivation
A new attitude invariably creates a new result. That is why it is essential to identify those employees within your organization that have an attitude problem and correct it quickly. Not only do they impact their own performance, but they suck the energy from everyone...
by Shaun Heuerman | Nov 10, 2011 | Employee Motivation, High Performance
Keep your sales funnel clean. Instead of accepting a weak “no” or “maybe later” and keeping that person on your prospect list, try using the prospect’s “NO” to get one step closer to “YES.” Take a lesson from kids who have set their sights on a treat. It’s pretty hard...
by Shaun Heuerman | Jul 28, 2011 | Effective Leadership, Employee Motivation
Passion is the driving force behind motivation. Your job as a leader is to exude that passion for your team. Stay in the spirit of celebration. Be as if. To inspire and lead, you must keep yourself in the zone. How? Take time to reflect. Take time to reflect on what...
