Rev Up The Potential Of High Achievers In The Workplace

Give High Achievers The Right Push

An effective leader knows how to capitalize on the uniqueness of his team members. If there's a high achiever in the team, then he would know how to leverage their capabilities. The goal is to grow the high performers and retain them. With more than sufficient verve for work, high performers have a lot to offer to the team and the organization as a whole. High achievers are distinct in both likeable and unlikeable ways. They are unique, yes, and it takes a different combination of wind and sail to get them cruising in vibrant waters. You have to give them the right push so they can soar and render accolades for the organization.

Expect a high performing employee to be different. If you're the boss, you have to know the right kind of oil to grease and rev them up to function optimally. Take time to have honest communication with the employee. Get to know what their motivations, and strong and weak spots are. This way, you'll know what the right buttons are to push. You want to get real results? A high achiever is a gift to your team in that endeavor. The boon that the high performing employee is is just part of the package, nonetheless. There would be downsides, and as a leader, you have to learn to adjust when managing them. Here are some tips on how to deal with a high achiever in the workplace.

How To Deal With High Achievers In The Workplace
 

Let them run. High performers excel because they expand and go beyond borders. Consider that they typically do not respond well to a controlled process. High achieving employees have a distinctive set of innate and learned skills that served them well. If you have a problem solver high achiever in your team, for instance, you wouldn't

Learn the Top Three Strategies of High Achievers to Increase Your Business Success

Do you find yourself working at a slow pace with a low energy? If you want to work as a high achiever, then analyze how fast you work on tasks during your day. Ask yourself these questions: How faster do I move through my day? And, on a scale from 1 to 10 where am I? (10 indicates that you are moving fast.) The faster you move the more momentum you create. The more momentum you create the more you will accomplish. Get into activity that will produce high achieving results. As Dave Ramsay says, "gazelle intense."

Here are three top techniques that high achievers use in their chosen profession.

The first strategy is to work faster. Pick up your pace. Whatever you are working on, beware of your pace that you are working. Do you find yourself working at slower pace with a low energy level or are you working at a high level urgency? Develop a sense of urgency about your day. Get into the do it now habit. Use the ABC priority system. List your tasks that need to be completed for the day and label them with an A, B or C. An A task is something that needs to be finished today. Work only on the A tasks before moving onto a B or C task. Developing a fast pace is key to becoming a High Achiever.

The second strategy is to work longer and harder. Have you ever said to yourself " I can't get anything done at work"? This is a common frustration. You must resolve that you are going to work harder and be focused all day long. If you find yourself being interrupted by other co-workers simply use the phrase "back to work." Schedule two hours everyday without interruptions. Start an hour earlier, and stay an hour later.

How to Get a Job Selling Cars

I spent most of my 45 year career in the car business, first as a salesperson, then a leasing manager, sales trainer and general sales manager. Over that time, I interviewed and hired hundreds of salespeople. Within this article, I will share what I looked for in candidates and what traits were absolutely necessary in someone before I would hire them. The car business can be a wonderful and financially rewarding career if you get it right. Here are my best "Top 10 Tips" for getting hired.

Although this article refers to the car business, if I were interviewing and hiring for any other serious selling or servicing position, very little, if any advice given here would change.

Tip #1: Display plenty of passion, not for cars, but for serving people's needs. I didn't care if someone told me they liked cars or not. My primary concern was always that my customers were served at the highest levels. This would always result in selling many more vehicles. Beyond your product knowledge, your passion for vehicles has no value to your customers.

Tip #2: Research your prospective employer. When you know things about the business you wish to work for, interviewers are impressed that you took time to research the company. It shows you care about someone other than yourself.

Tip #3: Research the products you wish to sell. This is along the same line as the above point. It shows constructive effort on your part and shows interviewers that you are capable of learning. Get online and learn the product line up. Preparedness will often be rewarded with a job offer.

Tip #4: Remember, job experience isn't necessarily a prerequisite. In the car business, there are plenty of under-achievers that drift from one dealership to another. As a sales manager, I regularly hired passionate people who were brand new to the industry. They didn't have loads of bad habits to unlearn. A lot of managers

Tips How To Develop a High Achiever

1. High Achievers are in demand everywhere. They are the backbone of every successful business, every successful entertainment program, and much more. A parent would be foolish not to want their child to be a recognized as a student who failed this standard.
2. What is a high achiever? The simple fact is, that there is no single definition, because it is governed by a child's personality profile.
3. My purpose here is not get technical in personalities, but to recognize that the extroverted, expressive personality is going to manifest High Achievement status a little differently to the child who is intensely analytical.
4. Your goal, therefore, is to uncover the strengths of each individual, and harness these in unique and powerful ways.
5. That is not as difficult as it might appear. Each student tends to display his strengths - and his weaknesses. So all you need to do is observe.
6. Does this child like to sit alone and read? Then

How to Become an Achiever

Have you ever felt like you were wasting too much time? Procrastinating? Pushing all your work to near deadline date. Cramming for exams, midterms, rushing 2000-words essays, assignments... Well, I can tell you that you're not alone. We can both relate to this frustrating problem we've been facing for as long as we've been in school.

I, too, used to procrastinate like a procrastinating addict. I was too lazy to do anything. Pushing all works to the end and all that fun stuff. But, living through those times then actually improving yourself... I've also experienced. Here, I can provide you with a 4-step quick read about how I came to this enlightenment to motivate myself.

First and most important, you must realize what you want in life. Like really, what do you want in life? I know this may sound stupid and a waste of time. But, really, it's one of the most important steps. This will create the foundation of your motivation. This should be what will drive you do to get what you want as soon as possible. I, myself, want to become financially independent and move out of my parents house. And this is what gave me the wake up call I needed. This is my goal.

Second, you must map out exactly how you want to get there. Since you know where you are now (PhD in Procrastination) and you should know where you want to be (ie. financial independence, Grade "A" student). So how will you get there? All you have to do is list down the things that you have to do to get there. A grade "A" might say, start all assignments the day of, study a minimum of 20 hours per week, read 1-2 chapters of the textbook per week or assigned reading, attend to class every time (never miss one intentionally) and always be one step ahead of the class. In my case, what I would do to become financially independent, save 80% of all income, don't spend money recklessly, invest my income in GIC accounts in the bank, blogging (work hard enough to generate

3 Keys To Identifying A Sales Achiever In A Hiring Interview

How can you identify the great salesperson in a job interview? Well, it's not easy.

First of all, true sales virtuosos are scarce, even though there are many good salespeople and sales is one of the most common and necessary types of jobs. Also, research shows that the job interview is notoriously unreliable as a predictor of job performance. And it's even worse if you are interviewing salespeople. Because if there is one thing that all salespeople - from the great ones to the average ones - have in common, it is the ability to interview exceptionally well.

So, how can you use an interview to increase your "hit rate" in hiring the best salespeople? Naturally, you want to look at their history, references, performance on per-employment tests, and the like. You want to ask the usual interview questions (Tell me about yourself. Why did you leave your last job? What are your strengths and weaknesses, successes and failures? Etc.).

But salespeople are experts at getting past a typical interviewer. So here's your challenge: How can you turn the odds in your favor? How can you interview in a manner that will reveal whether the person sitting across the desk from you will be first string on your sales team or will be a sales underachiever?

As a psychologist who has spent decades interviewing and counseling salespeople, I have learned that there are certain patterns that keep coming up so frequently in interviews that they have become highly predictable. Using the power of communication, here are 3 powerful interview tools to add to your interview approach:
1. "How will our company be better off if we hire you?" This is the mother of all hiring questions. It speaks to whether the sales applicant is focusing on your bottom line. Most applicants are primarily worried about how to explain themselves and how they come across in an interview. But you want to see if their major focus is on helping your company become more successful. Especially in sales, you are looking for

MLM Achievers Attract Achievers

Are you an achiever and do you attract other successful achievers to your MLM business?

First, we need to be clear who you are before we identify who will be attracted to your MLM business. Thomas Jefferson is quoted as saying "That which we elect to surround ourselves with becomes the museum of our soul and the archives of our experiences." In other words, to achieve success we need to surround ourselves with success. For MLM business owners that includes the MLM company, the people in the organization and the quality product or service being represented. Therefore, successful achievers attract successful achievers.

An achiever is defined as "having the ability to perform or carry out success; accomplish. To get or obtain by effort; to achieve victory or to bring about an intended result; accomplish some purpose or effect." In order for a MLM network to be successful, it must be filled with achievers willing to work hard to accomplish the established goal.

A second question you will need to ask yourself and ask every prospect you are working to recruit for your MLM team is... do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day? The Gallup research has

Managing Worry - Productivity Tips For High Achievers Who Worry

Are you a worrier? Do you frequently spend time and energy worrying about your finances, your children, your career, world politics? Worry can be a highly useful, brilliantly engineered cue to action or a useless and destructive energy drain. The challenge is to decide which it is, on a case-by-case basis, and manage yourself accordingly.

Here is a quick and dirty, but highly effective way to manage your worrying habit.

1. Learn to recognize when you are worrying.

This takes practice. You may not recognize yourself worrying until you've been at a particular worry for days or weeks. But whether you catch yourself in the first minute or the first month, the most important step is recognizing the pattern. You can develop your "witness" over time and become more proficient in noticing when you are worrying.

2. Determine if something needs to be done.

Ask yourself, "Is the worry a cue to action?"

    For example, if you are worried that your toddler will get lead paint poisoning from the lead paint on your windows, there is indeed

Leadership Coaching Boost The Potential Of High Achievers

Make The Best Of The Boon

Your team members were hired because of their skills, abilities and competence. As an effective leader, one of your main tasks is to capitalize on and leverage the uniqueness of your people. The same goes for high achievers in your workplace. You need to boost and make the most of the boon high achievers can be to your business. You will want to grow and retain your high performing employees.

First thing you have to know are their characteristics. High performers are not like everybody else. They have distinct likeable and unlikeable traits. High achievers are more revved up for work. They have more hype in their respective skills and abilities and are therefore unique. You have to know the right combination of wind and sail to get high achievers to sail on smoothly or glide in still or rough waters. Give them the right push and they can bring accolades to your company.

Get To Know Their Characteristics

As a leader, be aware that a high achiever is different. It takes a different kind of oil to grease them, and you have to know the right kind.

Identifying High Achievers by Examining Their Wake Effect

High achievers leave a lot of evidence in their wake.  As long as you know what you're looking for, much of this can be easily found during the work history review portion of the formal interview or during the phone screen.  Once you find it, you then need to determine if the person is a fit for the actual job available, and if the job offers a significant career move for your candidate.  This takes a bit longer, but if it's affirmative on both counts, then the fun can proceed (i.e., recruit, negotiate, close, hope).

The hunt for evidence starts with this definition of a high achiever:

    Highly motivated to do the work required
    Consistently delivers high-quality results on time and on budget
    Personally driven to become better
    Works well with a broad and diverse group of people
    Will commit and deliver consistently without making excuses
    Volunteers for tough tasks or will take them on despite personal inconvenience
    Overcomes challenging obstacles to meet personal commitments
    Will do more than expected and expand the role of their primary jobs

Top people aren't conservationists, at least in terms of leaving footprints and making an impact.  Much of this is in the form of recognition, assignments given, or results achieved.  It all can be unearthed during the work history review portion of the interview.  In a phone screen the work history review should last about 15-20 minutes and about 30-40 minutes for a full interview.  It should be much longer for senior-level positions.  Here's how to conduct this portion of the interview and what to look for to determine if your prospect is a high achiever worth pursuing:

    Find out the actual dates of each major job including months and years.  Many people hide non-positive information in their resumes so it's important to create an accurate position-by-position calendar.
    Get an explanation of any gaps in employment.  If there are gaps, look for areas of self-initiated personal development or special training.  Achievers wouldn't consider wasting this valuable time.
    Determine why the person changed jobs and why each new job was selected.  Achievers tend to carefully select jobs based on some major overriding career goal.  Look for this pattern and look for logical connections among the moves.
    Determine if the job change achieved the desired result.  Non-achievers tend to move from job to job based on circumstances out of their control or personal convenience.  The reasons why a job is accepted is typically more tactical, emphasizing compensation, location, security, and basic job content.  Achievers, on the other hand, tend to focus more on the strategic aspects of the job including the potential for learning, impact, and growth. 
    Within each company ask about major projects, accomplishments, and results achieved.  Achievers demonstrate a consistent pattern

From Underachiever to Achiever - Three Tips For Parents

Who are the underachievers?

Underachievers are kids who have a lot of potential but don't live up to that potential in school. Underachievers span all social, economic, and ability levels. Many underachievers have very high IQ's. Teachers and parents often accuse underachievers of being lazy, of having attitude problems, or of not caring about themselves. Sometimes these kids get into trouble at school and at home. Nobody realizes that underachievement is the issue.

How do I know if my child is an underachiever?

Sometimes it's easy to tell. Lots of smart middle-school boys underachieve because it isn't "cool" to get good grades. If they did well in elementary school and are now getting bad grades, "forgetting" to turn in homework, and not completing in-class work, underachieving could be the culprit. You'll want to rule out health issues, lack of sleep, and poor nutrition. Teachers can usually spot these "trying-to-be-cool" boys right away.

Often an IQ test answers your question. If a child has a high IQ and is doing poorly, underachievement could be the reason.

But the problems can also be so subtle that they escape detection through the usual tests. Huge numbers of children end up "falling through the cracks" in our schools every year simply because they aren't doing school work that they're quite capable of doing.

Many factors can cause underachievement including

A High Achiever's Daily Rituals

I'm a big fan of the blog Zen Habits written by Leo Babauta. It's a great blog about keeping your life simple while still achieving everything you want to. Leo himself practices what he preaches, and aims to simplify his life while still getting twice as much done as the average productivity blogger. For instance, back in the early days of his blog Leo worked 2 jobs, updated his blog with quality posts daily and had time for his wife and 6 children. I consider myself a fairly productive person, but I've got nothing on Leo. Here's how he does it all.

First, Leo has a very set morning ritual. Leo is a big advocate of early rising, which is the practice of waking up very, very early in the morning while the rest of the world is still asleep. It's an idea that he got from Steve Pavlina, and both swear by its ability to start your day off on the right foot. Leo wakes up at 4:30am every day of the week. He says that this gives him plenty of time to exercise and get in a couple of hours of work in before any other distractions come up.

Next, Leo explained that he used his 'free' time intelligently. While many people take lulls in their work day to surf the web and check Facebook, Leo would take the time to write in between his work tasks. He said that his boss was well aware that he did this, and that it was OK because he still got a ton of high quality work done, and that he didn't have any problems because of this.

Leo argues that it's best to work in bursts. Instead of laboring over what he does and really agonizing over it, Leo explains that he prefers to give some thought to what he wants to produce when he's driving, exercising, walking, or is otherwise occupied. That way when he sits down to write he has already worked through a lot of the problems and is able to accomplish a lot in a short