The Butterfly Manuscript Is All You Need
Butterfly Marketing proves to be just as powerful in strategies as in the software itself. Below you will find a student and customer of the course.
Michael Cheney of "Adsense Videos" applied the pre-launch strategies and affiliate tools and JV strategies outlined in Mike Filsaime's Butterfly Marketing Manuscript to the his launch.
Here is what Michael Cheney had to say about what he learned in the Manuscript:
As part of our ongoing effort to provide the best on-line learning experiences available, we are pleased to announce the addition of the online Workplace Harassment Prevention course.
Now, more than ever, managers and employees need to be aware of what is and is not acceptable, and what is legal behavior in the workplace. This program addresses not just sexual harassment, but other forms of workplace harassment, and discrimination that may leave the organization open to litigation if not addressed. This course is appropriate for managers and employees at all levels throughout the organization.
For further information:
http://www.norquestonline.com/CRKI-Workplace-Harassment-Prevention.html
It's been hot around here – some days going to over 100F. And in spite of the heat, we have been spending a lot of time in our backyard – in the photo 
you see the two loves of my life – Doreen and Max. Doreen does the gardening!
While we call this hot & muggy period the “Dog Days of Summer” I have often wondered why? Max doesn’t complain, he just drinks more water. And I don't know about your area, but here in Sarnia we sure have had our share of hot days this season. But here is the good news - the "dog days" are supposed to occur during the period between July 3 and August 11. So, today is August 11th -and I have told Max that those miserable days better come to an end.
But do you know where the term "dog days of summer" comes from? I sure didn't. But thanks to Google I now have the complete scoop. You too can find the answer here:
The answer is complex and simple at the same time, and the solution is unique for each team member:
Generally people agree that motivation comes from within. Motives are the needs and wants that cause a person to act.
In the workplace motivation is the process of influencing a team member to act so that the organization’s goals are achieved, and the team members’ needs are satisfied. Without the later, peak performance cannot be achieved. Being aware of team members’ needs has become a widely accepted way of positively influencing team member motivation. There may be different approaches to identifying needs, but most successful team leaders find some application of this concept essential to their success.
For the past few days we have been discussing coaching, and its importance to peak performance. It is perhaps fitting to mention a book that was written by a successful senior executive for an international financial organization who took a year’s sabbatical to pursue outside interests.
The book is entitled Coaching Kids' Hockey: The Good, The Bad, and The Unbelievable; and is the true story of a coach and his team of eight year old hockey enthusiasts. “Starting the season as if they might never win and ending as if they might never lose, they encountered everything from cheating coaches to referees ignoring blatant fouls to red tape that would make a civil servant blush.”
However, to me its real value is that through practical and actual examples, the author reinforces the following principles, which can be applied to any coaching application:
“Eighty-one percent of the respondents to the 2005 Skill Gap Survey of the American Manufacturing Workforce (Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute, 2005) said they couldn’t find qualified workers to fill their open positions. As far as manufacturers are concerned, the skills gap is upon us,” notes Stacey Jarrett Wagner, managing director, Center for Workforce Success, at the National Association of Manufacturers. - Training and Development magazine, February 2006
Statistics like this point to the issue that organizations need to be looking at their workforce now, and in the future, for what appears to be a growing issue. Hiring right and retaining are obviously one part of the equation, but organizations need to invest in training and strategic workforce strategies that help managers understand their role as “coach.”
Can you imagine the person that comes on to the manufacturing line with absolutely no skills? How about the individual who is pulled from the front line to be a supervisor? And, what about the new executive working in an industry that is changing so fast he/she barely has the business skills to cope? This is the challenge of our fast-paced world, where employee skills shortages meet with business technology expansion, competitive overload, and monumental change.
Andy Wibbels, the ever popular author of Blogwild!, and host of many blogging training sessions, has come across an internet tool that is truly remarkable! StumbleUpon is a browser toolbar that helps you find websites that match your interests. I think that it is a truly fantastic tool, and one that you should certainly check out. Andy has even developed a flash demo to show you how to start using it. Check it out through this link:
http://andywibbels.com/post/1200
You won’t be sorry!
Check out this exciting deal our web-based course development partner is offering for a limited time only. It will appeal to large organizations that invested in e-learning within the past few years and are now facing budget busting price increases when license renewal time comes around.
Our partner is CRKInteractive, a high-end online course development house, and we are an Authorized CRKInteractive Associate. With a student course completion rate close to 90%, the CRKI library is focused on helping organizations to maximize the potential of their people and minimize the investment.
You can provide your entire organization (regardless of employee population) unlimited use of elearning that is educational, engaging and entertaining. These courses are targeted for:
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An elite athlete will never reach his peak potential without a coach, and neither will you! You may be good at many things, but you can improve! With someone to mentor you, or teach you better methods, or shortcuts, can move your personal or business life to the next level, and the next, and the next! Have you ever pondered a problem for a long time, only to find someone who could solve the problems quickly?
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) defines talent management as the implementation of integrated strategies or systems designed to increase workplace productivity by developing improved processes for attracting, developing, retaining and utilizing people with the required skill and attitude to meet current and future business needs.
It is essential to all organizations to not only recruit the best talent, but also retain it. One of the crucial strategies involved in effective talent management is to define competencies (knowledge, skills and attitudes) the organization needs to get the work done, and then to coach individuals toward that end. In essence, organizations need to assess the skills of their people, and then provide them with the proper training so that employees and managers are performing their jobs effectively.
Is your organization focusing on this? Are your supervisors doing all they can to coach individuals in the areas that they need to be competent? Are you matching what is needed for business results to what is being coached?
The path to a persons full potential is a series of peaks. Each peak attained gives one the confidence and vision to undertake new peaks or challenges. Simply put, our goal, and the goal of this Blog, is to unleash the power of people. We aim to provide people with the skills they need to achieve their personal and business goals.
We believe, like John Kotter of the Harvard Business School, that changing the behaviour of people is the most important challenge for businesses competing in the change-oriented environment of the 21st Century. Organizational success depends, more than ever before, on people working together effectively. People must communicate clearly, turn ideas into action quickly, and deliver results consistently. A clear understanding of personal strengths, and a real appreciation of the difference of others, is the foundation of organizational success.
Since 1990, Norquest Associates Inc. has been providing professional training and coaching, along with the best in resources for learning, leading and performing in the workplace. Our mission is to bring the new workplace into the 21st century by increasing performance levels and creating strategies for sustained growth. We believe that by providing individuals with quality resources and learning, they will achieve their own full potential and create success for the whole organization.
As Charles M. Schwab once said, “Everyone’s got it in him, if he’ll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities. There’s no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.”
Why not visit our website to learn more. www.norquestsolutions.com.
