6. Help Employees Succeed People go to work to succeed, not fail. It is your job to understand your employee’s strengths and weaknesses so that you can put them in best position to succeed. If, for example, you find out that an employee is lacking in a certain skill set to succeed during a change then provide coaching and training to make them and your organization successful. The best managers minimize or eliminate their employees weaknesses and while building on their strengths. Remove any and all barriers to success. 7. Focus Your Team on Goal. Focus your employees on end result, overall team goal. Once you successful communicate this your team will band together to defeat any obstacles that get in way.

8. Create High Standards High-performance organizations set high standards for their people. Employees want to know what is expected of them, how their performance is measured, and what rewards they can expect when they exceed standard. Make sure standards are consistently applied to each employee. Make sure each employee understands how standards are measured so that they know how to reach it. As each plateau is reached, set new goals.

9. Help Your Employees Compete and Win Develop goals that help all your employees excel. Make your goals inclusive not exclusive. This means that everybody is working together and wins together. Have your employees complete against goal, not each other.

10. Reward Outstanding Achievement Find ways to recognize your achievers in a public way. The more you reward employees for excellent achievement, more you receive more of same behavior. Make sure you are consistent with way you contribute rewards to your employees. Very important, make use you communicate exactly why employee is being rewarded. And last, reward as soon as possible to action.

Some of ways you can show recognition are:

* Idea board * Initiative Board * Star Spotlight * Certificates * Gift cards * Say thank-you * Lunch

Apply these techniques and you will achieve your goals during most challenging of times.

"As is" is your today. Is it what you expected? Are you happy, fulfilled and motivated? Or are you blaming someone else for failures in your life? Do you even know why you don't feel fulfilled, motivated or happy or sad or upset? A lot of us are not even aware what causes these feelings .

As part of my journey to answer what makes me tick better I spent a lot of time working on what makes everyone tick. I wasn't particularly interested in psychology, but I was interested in what psychology was trying to answer. I knew that if I kept looking right questions would finally appear and then answers would come from that.

The point is, never quit looking, asking questions, reading and studying. If you quit being curious about what is going around you when you left high school or college then you have missed most of what living is all about. Those two venues were only there to prepare you for a lifetime of discovery and adventrue. I have changed careers over three times in my 30 years of working history, and I fully expect to change several more times before I expire. It is never too late to change and learn something new. Your brain grows every time you do, so use it and it gets better and better.

"As is" sets stage for what "Can be" with lots of diligent thinking, hard work and perserverence. If someone told you it would be easy, they told you a lie. If they told you it would be greatest thing you ever lived, they told you truth.

"Can be" is jar full of dreams, possiblitiy and glory. It is stuff that drives anyone to achieve anything. I know many of you watched Summer Olympics last month. So many examples of "can be" showed up on gym floor, running track and swimming pool that they are too numerous to recount. Every one probably has their favorite story of supreme performance, and excellence from Summer Games. But there is one common thread in every story, thread of belief in "can be" inside each athlete.

"Can be" is born out of a lot of practice, study, and focused effort over many years. These all program our minds to recognize those moments of serendipity and discovery for us. All this means having a central point of principle which drives us to measure all our actions in light of our central desires. It often means taking risk for our actions.

If you come to me and say "Andrew, you just don't understand my situation. It just isn't possible right now to..." I do understand. You are afraid to risk what you have now in order to get what you really want in future. You think it is more important to hold on to what you have now, than to reach for a life-time dream. You haven't really assesed what you really have to have and what you can give up. You haven't determined where your center principles are and how you are going to change your own actions to realize that dream.

Now it's time to combine "once was", "as is" and "can be" into "become." I learned a great truth about myself about 15 years ago when I discovered -- I "am", I "become." I just didn't put it down in a recognizable way until about a year or so ago and recently it became PINT. When I combine past, present and future into image of what I want to become, I am successful every time, without fail. It's part of how everyone of us is made. It isn't just for a select few or rich, or famous or brightest. Your brain was made wonderfully to allow you to grow into who you want to become. The sad fact is many of us grew into what someone told us to be and never listened to still voice inside that said we "will become" "can be."

Now it's up to you. Educate yourself about your interests, be your best-everytime. Develop an inner discipline and find your central principles that drive you. Then you will have dream you dreamed so long ago.

Now you have keys to your success.

It's time to Get Started!

¬ 2004 Andrew Abernathy Founder, Put It iN Thought (PINT)

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