Moore's Law Of Achievement

The best way to improve your results

is to focus on the things that cause your results, not your results.

Leadership and Coaching Tip...

Leaders who coach, install attitudes, teach skills and manage actions,

all to come back to the attitudes that drive the actions.

Timing...A Key To Effective Coaching

Coaching is so often about the right timing of the right words,

not just the right words. It’s planting in the right season to grow the most improvement. Leaders who coach are aware of this and masters of timing!

Just some of the coaches I learned from!

The ABCs Of Leadership...Always Be Coaching

When it comes to leadership, coaching and team building I had the distinct advantage of being raised by a coach and witnessing what coaches do in the locker room, sideline, meeting room, practice field, pregame, halftime and postgame meetings. My father also decided because of my love of sports to teach me all he knew and who and shared his tips, traits and

insights into leading, coaching and preparing people to perform to their peak. 

Being a coach’s son is a great way to grow up. It's an even better way to learn about the true value of sports and how to apply the lessons sports teaches us to our everyday lives, business, peak performance and how to become a leader. What I learned and applied to business led me to understand The ABCs of Leadership...Alway, Be, Coaching!

A coach's son gets exposed to the little things that make the difference between winning and losing in sports, business and life. The following are some of the most important lessons I learned from my father, growing up in a locker room, from other great coach's and my experience leading, teaching and coaching people using these lessons. 

Sports have always been an integral part of society. Leadership and peak performance are two of the many lessons we learn from sports that have nothing to do with the score, who won or who lost. Below I'll share 27 of the key lessons from my Locker Room Leadership Program.

My earliest memory of my father teaching me to coach began when I was 9 years old. It was a Friday night before a football game and as we entered the locker room he asked me to stop and listen...He asked me what I heard. He asked me what I felt. He asked if I felt the players were ready to play their best. It was the beginning for me of learning to prepare, lead and coach people. It was the beginning of my path to becoming who I am today. That first lesson was that leaders manage the atmosphere by coaching attitudes, emotions and the state-of-mind that produces winning results. 

I grew up in my Dad's coaching office, watching game film, on the practice field and in the locker room. I spent time with him learning to game plan and plan practices to prepare athletes to execute his plans. I watched him prepare his players to perform and was on the sidelines and heard the in-game coaching,  halftime adjustments and post game speeches which were always to get them ready...again. Then, I spent time listening to other coaches exchange ideas and heard coaches speak at coaching clinics. I am a coach's son, raised to be a coach and thankful for the lessons I learned.

The last time I spoke to legendary Major League Baseball Manager and family friend, Bobby Cox, he reminded me that I was doing what my father raised me to do...In business, rather than in sports.

My father exposed me to many of the great coaches of the past 50 years and I've learned

MY DAD, CHARLIE MOORE

from all of them. Coaches like Vince Lombardi, Bear Bryant, Tom Landry, Red Auerbauch, Don Shula, Chuck Knoll. Then I began to study coaches like Bill Walsh, Bill Belichick, Pat Riley, Phil Jackson, Tommy Lasorda, Bobby Cox, Bill Cowher, Mike Tomlinson, Pete Carroll and Jim Harbaugh. The one who influenced me the most after my father, was in my opinion the greatest coach of all time...John Wooden.

Coaches never stop coaching and my father never stop coaching me. We continued to talk and share ideas. He helped me refine my coaching insights and skills until the day he passed away. He and I talked for hours on end about how to apply what we both knew about coaching to business, leadership and management. We found that all he had taught me applied to coaching, executive leadership, sales management and salespeople. In addition, I learned something from every coach I ever played for, every person I ever worked with and every client I every consulted. Leaders keep learning so they can keep teaching.

I found that life and business are a performing art, just like sports. I also learned that people performed best when 'coached up' by a leader. I believe that sports are important to society not because of who wins or loses, but because of the lessons we can learn about peak performance, coaching, teamwork and leadership. Don't get me wrong, winning makes playing the game more fun, just as achievements make life more fun, and coaching and leadership is about preparing people to have more fun!

After using all I had learned to lead, coach and manage people, I began writing, speaking, teaching and training about what I had learned that would help others prepare to perform to their peak to produce their best results. 

JOHN WOODEN

I was blessed in 1996 to have John Wooden take the time to meet with me. We spent hours discussing coaching, leadership and teaching. John graciously spent those hours at his home in Encino, California where we shared ideas about how leaders should view winning, losing, relationships and life. He opened up and shared his wisdom and insights and patiently answered all my questions. I lost my father, Charles Moore, in 1992 and John in 2010. I miss them both and feel very fortunate to have called them my mentors and coaches...I love them both.

Their influence and impact on me, and many others is their legacy and the reason they will never be forgotten. The lessons I learned from my father, John Wooden and the other great coaches have served me well and helped me serve others.

Now, I am teaching leaders, managers and coaches how to build businesses, teams and individuals that produce their best results. The following are some of the high points from my 'Locker Room Leadership Series' of workshops, seminars and coaching sessions.

• Leaders challenge people to always be learning, growing and improving, their attitudes, skills and actions, to become likable, trustworthy, experts, who are helpful, caring and courageous
• Great leadership, coaching, teaching, managing and parenting is an act of will.
• Leadership is something you do with people, not for them or to them.
• If you stop learning, growing and improving, you'll stop listening and leading.
• In a locker room, boardroom, sales office or with any group of people, if you pay attention you'll hear and feel the attitudes that need to be addressed and know when they're ready to perform.
• Peak performance is driven by Spirit (Attitude), Mind (Skill) and Body (Actions). To win in sports, business and life, they have to always be kept in that order.
• Leaders don't worry about averages or rules...They set and raise standards...The lowest form of behavior that's acceptable.
• Who you are as a coach or leader is defined by the lowest form of behavior you except.
• Leaders, like winning coaches, spend the most time with the people who need to improve the most...As long as they keep participating in their improvement.
• Leaders assign and monitor so they can coach, teach and manage to generate improvement.
• Leaders manage the air to produce a high performance atmosphere! They do this by managing attitudes, because attitudes create the behavior that produces the results.
• Leaders inspire, motivate and hold people accountable to be their best.
• The traits that separate leaders are their insight, intuition and personal touch.
• Great leaders love people...That's where their insight, intuition and personal touch comes from. Love motivates them to serve, not please people.
• Most managers and coaches sabotage the results they want by trying to manage the results they want, instead of leading by instilling the attitudes that produce the behavior that creates the results.
• When you manage people results, you’re too late to lead.
• Results, the score and winning, can’t be managed. Preparation and people's spirit, mind and body can be.
• Results come from the intentions, attitudes, skills and actions that were present long before the results.
• Winning takes care of itself when leaders help people learn, grow and improve their attitudes, skills and actions.
• Leaders lift people to accomplish beyond their own expectations through preparation.
• Treating everyone the same is the fastest way to show favoritism...It takes courage to treat each person the way they deserve to be treated…The way that's best for them.
• Leader’s help people grow and become their best by getting them to do the things they don’t want to do...People don't always like this when you're doing it.
• When you truly love people, confrontation is a great tool to improvement.
• Leaders instill a performance culture by managing people’s intentions, attitudes and dominant thoughts because they are the cause of people's behavior.
• Great leaders get uncommon results from common people by requiring them do the work to become uncommonly prepared.
• In the absence of leadership, mediocrity will take over and average is the best you can expect.
• You won't know how good a job you've done until you see how the people you've led, mentored and coached turn out...Sometimes that takes years but can last many lifetimes.

Everyday is a challenge for leaders. They are always swimming up stream, fighting mediocrity and average thinking. They have to inspire people to overcome their human nature and desire for comfort before excellence and they know this starts with them.

 By Mike Moore

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Being The Boss

Be courageous, it's not easy to do the right thing. It takes a large heart filled with love and genuine caring for your people. Remember love holds people accountable to be their best self and to keep improving that best self. You have been given a great responsibility to serve and care for the people who work for you. Give them your best and your business will be blessed and grow. Then you'll be given even more opportunity to care for more people. It's also important to keep in mind your business cannot improve unless your people do.

Go be the boss, someone has to lead if people are to overcome their mediocrity, come together and be part of something extraordinary! You've all seen it and been part of it in your past, now share it and help your company be that kind of place!

Last, remember they're going to challenge you because they want to see if you mean what you say. Be prepared to stand strong and remember as leaders you are the lowest form of behavior you except and tolerate.

Be your best!

By Mike Moore

Be...Do...Have!

If you wake up everyday to learn, grow and improve, your attitudes, skills and actions, to be a likable, trustworthy, expert, who is helpful, caring and courageous, you'll do more na have more!

Make your 'To Be List' of the things you want to be and stay focused on them rather than on what you want to do or have!

By Mike Moore

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Leaders Attract & Retain Top Talent...Turning Managers Into Mentors

If you want to be a leader and attack top talent today you need to address three things. The world we live in, the people in the world we live in and what you need to be and do to become a positive influence to both.

THE WORLD

We live in a fast past changing world, a different world than we were born into! We all acknowledge that, but just how different is it? Why is it so different and how can we adapt

and thrive in this new world?

It’s important to understand we’re living in the transition to a 'new economy' a new way of

life really, but just how different is our world? The International Monetary Fund has now stated "This economy is beyond our knowledge and experience.” Really, it's beyond the people who have been in charge for a very long time. So, it's a brand new and in this world, it won’t be enough to stay ahead of your competition, you’ll need to keep up with your employees and customers. It’s not just a ‘new economy’ it’s actually a new socioeconomic system that makes this a radically different world to live and work in. It’s the dramatic shifts in people’s attitudes, social views and values that makes this a massive socioeconomic transition.

Why is today so different? We’ve gone through economic and social ups and downs for 100’s of years, isn’t this just another fluctuation? No, it's a transition different from anything we’ve ever experienced. We’ve never had the population, demographics, globalization, technology, virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D printing, science, healthcare and artificial Intelligence we’re faced with today. Add to these factors the 4 generations main generations of people living on the planet who seem to have deteriorating character, values and integrity. It’s really the perfect socioeconomic storm.

It’s the social shifts that really add to the challenge we all face in business. We've become a celebrity society where Boomers want to be rich, Gen X wanted change and 50% of millennials state they want to be famous and rich and now we’re about to add Gen Z. The celebrity society influence of luxury lifestyles and a reality, that isn’t a real reality, is in everyone's face everywhere they turn. 

Today's employees are faced with the possibility of more jobs changes than ever before and we’re headed to a time of more change in the next 100 months than we've experience in the last 100 years as this transition continues to develop, mature and head towards the rapid advancements in technology, science and health care. 

A transition this significant and massive will be messy and when we look back this transition will be significantly more challenging than the shift from the agriculture age to the Industrial age.

Sounds tough, has been tough, will be tough but you know the saying, 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going'! Change has always been the only constant but today it's happening so fast it's producing more insecurity, anxiety, worry and earthen the average person can handle. And that is the point, this transition requires people to keep up by become lifelong learners who embrace the idea of continual growth and improvement. 

I have good news, there's great opportunity for any business that's tough enough to get going by giving people purpose, by challenging them to be their best and helping people learn, grow and improve to face this new world. The business leaders that accept the challenge will be those standing tall, attracting and retaining top talent, talent that will help them reap huge personal rewards, impact many lives and increase profits!

THE PEOPLE

Understanding people's mindsets gives you the insights to start being a positive influence. Most people are suffering from ‘Economic & Social Normalcy Bias’, it hasn’t happen before so it can’t happen now. The arrogance or denial that results from this causes them to fight to maintain a status quo or go back to a better time. This causes people to keep doing what made them successful or comfortable in the past. This plan won't end well since we cannot stop the rapid change we are experiencing. Past success and comfort are the greatest enemy to present and future success because they keep us from embracing today's changes and taking new actions. Frankly most business owners and executives are comfortable because they’ve worked hard for years to get comfortable. So your first challenge is to accept that it's time to be uncomfortable if you want to grow and improve. Is also important to remember you're either getting better or you're getting worse, there's no maintaining the status quo.

What's about all the articles, studies and talk about the millennials and aging boomers?

Let's take a closer look at the generations. What’s the difference between the generations? Not as much as what most people think! With all the change that's happening our human nature hasn't changed and all 3 generations seem to suffer from deteriorating values, integrity and character which infects and influences each other! 

It's in out nature to seek comfort and make excuses so in this way we are the same. Our future success depends on the same thing it always has, self-discipline, the ability to face and do the things we don't want to, to get the things that are best for us. We were all created to be extraordinary but wired to be mediocre until someone inspires, motivates and coaches us to be our best. That's why leaders who coach, inspire and motivate win! Today however mediocrity is king, standards have been lowered and leadership is more important than ever before! 

You will need to understand that you will not lead a group of all passionate, motivated individuals. The majority of people will be average and your job will be to get 10%-20% above average behavior form these average people.  Don't stop looking for extraordinary people but know that when you hire them they will either move up in your organization or out to better  themselves and you will always be working to improve the average people they leave behind.

The truth about any group of people is that that are full of average people just trying to be comfortable and get by. The vast majority of people are busy looking for the easiest way, not the best way, and your challenge is to help them overcome their nature that drives them to be average.

The good news is that for any organization to be extraordinary they only need people to be slightly above average, because a group of slightly above average people pulling together produce exceptional results. The more important issue is how do you inspire average people? The answer...Give them purpose!

BEING A POSITIVE INFLUENCE

A leader armed with the acceptance that things are truly different, change will keep occurring at light speed and people will always seek to be comfortable and be average, if not given a purpose that inspires them to overcome their nature, is ready to become the positive influence and difference maker that can succeed in the new world. 

If you are going to be the employer of choice, attract and retain top talent, you must accept

that you are first and foremost in the people development business. You will not improve your company, you can only improve your people. You are in the people development business or you're working way out of business!

A great place to start changing the way you hire, train, coach and develop your people is to remember people's #1 reason for leaving their job...Their boss! It's time to lead and turn your managers into mentors. Training falls far short of what's needed to inspire and motivate people. Coaching, which happens daily and starts by instilling and addressing attitudes, monists and people's emotional intelligence is the key to attracting and retaining top talent. 

So take an honest look, make a list and make sure there are great reasons why people would want to work for you? What is our personal brand, your influence? Do you give people a purpose higher than themselves or just having a job? Ask yourself, "Am I the leader you’d want to follow? 

Then, you can begin to ask your people to answer the question, "Are you the followers they'd want to lead?"

Studies reveal that people perform best when working for a purpose. The best purpose a

business can have is to make a positive difference in people's lives, not just give them a job! You need a higher purpose that inspires, motivates and brings people together. Helping people be their best is a purpose that creates a performance culture in your business and helps hold people accountable to perform at their peak. To do this owners, executives and managers need to be engaged, connected and an active communicators who coach attitudes, teach skills and manage action to hold people accountable to be their best. You need to love your people enough to get the best out of them!

You need to turn your managers into mentors! Leaders and managers who mentor and coach attract and retain top talent because they stand out and make your company the employer of choice.

Great leaders have always been committed to helping people learn, grow and improve. In fact, if your people aren't learning, growing and improving, you aren't leading. You may be running a business, but how long can it run on the backs of average people when average people keep lowering the bar?

You need to define who you are as a company? If a corporation is an individual then give it a personality, character and values that inspire people, attract people and makes people proud to be a part of. Do you have a company 'To Be List’? Who do you want your company to be? How do you expect your people to behave. If everyone knows who you are, you'll attract those like you and give them a compass to stay on course. You can also recruit using your 'To Be List' to set expectation for future employee coaching, development and behavior.

Next make sure you have set clear standards and communicate them to everyone. Remember a standard is the lowest form of behavior you will tolerate and not ever lower. These standards can be used when recruiting to establish your expectations. Standards are also the key to instilling a performance culture where people hold each other accountable. Oh, by the way, if you aren't prepared to hold people accountable to meet the standards, don't bother doing anything, just wait and prepare for the end of your business, because it's coming sooner than you think. High standards and accountability attract top talent and chases away those trying to hide,et by and be mediocre. Low standards chases away top talent and attract the mediocre.

What should you be looking for in your people? You should be recruiting people with high emotional intelligence who posses a growth mindset, not a fixed mindset. Recruiting instead of waiting until you are desperate is an important element attracting top talent. So is how you interview and test. So if you really want to be the best, build an organization that performs to is peak you have to invest in recruiting, testing, training, coaching and you need it to be a priority because it is the best way to increase your efficiency and productivity.

Make sure you have people who are responsible to always be recruiting. If you want good people you have to be obsessed with pursuing them and developing them. We've heard that people are our most important asset for decades and watched as not must was done to prove anyone really believed that. If you're ready to accept that as fact, then take actions that prove it. It requires resources and money, but will produce the best return on investment you make. So make sure your have a budget for recruiting and people development. Then take action to improve your people. Be active at job fairs, veterans organizations, start internships, be visible at colleges and business organizations and start looking  or the other industries that you can recruit people from. You need to build a deep bench by never continuously  recruiting! This will also help you have the strength to hold people accountable to meet your standards. It will give you the courage to raise those standards and watch people begin to take more pride in their work and company.

Once you know who you are and who you’re looking for you can effectively promote your company and personal brand by creating a social media presence that will be a positive influence on your existing employees and prospective employees of  all generations.

This new world we talked about presents us with a great opportunity. One that can produce extraordinary rewards. We have to remember though, easy doesn't ever produce excellence, it's always the result of doing the hard stuff, and leading people, managing people and getting the best out of people isn't easy, it's just worth the effort!

Today your people matter more than ever before because the average person’s standards have fallen so low and that makes mediocrity more dangerous than ever before.

The challenges you face today demands that you build a company made up of people with above average attitudes who give an exceptional effort everyday. These will be people with high emotional intelligence and a growth mindset. When you do, they’ll take your company a level up to serve your customers needs before they even know they have them. One of the greatest challenges of the 'new economy’ it to be able to provide information before it's common knowledge. To provide creative ideas to solve the unforeseen problems your customers face. You need people who can think one step ahead of your customers, not just respond to them and you won’t just hire these types of people you'll need to hire right and then continue to develop them. It’s not about training as much as it is about ongoing coaching that generates continuous individual and group development. 

Today, you're either all in to help people be their best or you're on your way to being average and then extinct. So if you're in, start controlling the two things within your power, people’s attitudes and effort! Commit to spend the time, money and resources to create a performance culture in your business that moves average people a level up and produces peak performers who excel in this new world we live in. I promise you that your ROI on the time and money invested will be off the charts!

A Checklist For Leaders Who Coach!

Most people make lists, some are of things to remember, some are of things to do, usually later, but this is a list of what a leader can do to be most effective. It's also important to remember that a leader cannot just check the boxes, they have to engage, inspire and motivate people. That is the intention of  my checklist for leaders.

Before we start down the list it's important to remember people are wired to be average but created and capable of becoming extraordinary. Here is my checklist of things a leader must do if they want to be extraordinary and help people experience excellence. The list isn't in any particular order because the real secret lies in apply these things when they are needed most, not in doing them as a process, but as an engagement with the people you are responsible to lead. It's about instilling a performance culture and inspiring people to think and believe the things on the list. Then, they will do them naturally as part of who they are, not just a task to be accomplished, but a way of thinking, living, working and engaging others.

CHECKLIST FOR LEADERS

Excellence is the result of never accepting mediocrity, average or the status quo. Excellence is the result of obsession, persistence a relentless pursuit of improvement.

Set standards and hold people accountable to meet them. Always be focused on and working towards
improvements.

The lowest form of behavior you allow, accept or tolerate defines who you are as a leader and becomes your company's, or organization's, culture. Raise the standards!

People are spirit, mind and body...Treat them with this as your priority and serve the whole person!

Understand that attitudes come from the spirit, skills from the mind and actions from the body. So attitudes are more important than skills.

Leaders who coach, win. Coaches adjust attitudes to improve performance.

Skills can be taught when attitudes are right, so keep teaching skills.

Actions reveal attitudes and skills, so manage actions and use the feedback to keep coaching and teaching.

Companies don't improve, people do. So, start helping people improve!

People move in the direction of their dominant thoughts...So, start manage people's dominant thoughts.

If you manage results, you're too late to lead because results come from actions, caused by attitudes.

Manage, adjust and instill attitudes to produce the best results...Managing attitudes is a leaders top priority.

Find and define your higher purpose that makes people more important than things.

Character is more important than reputation, so build your character daily.

You don't build relationship, you build trust and it causes relationships. So, never miss and opportunity to build trust.

A leader is always being watched...You lead by example whether you like it or not. People who don't want to learn, grow and improve are watching you for an excuse not to.

You have to overcome your human nature to be extraordinary and you'll have to help others do the same to be their best.

The whole truth is always more than can be seen or explained by one person.

You'll have to do the things you don't want to do, to get what you want.

You have to teach, motivate and inspire people to do the things they don't want to do, to help them get what they want and to become their best.

Trust is the most valuable currency in the world, so the truth is always the best choice and option.

It takes courage to be honest, but honesty isn't enough to be trustworthy, that requires keeping your commitments, care about others and following up and through.

Be present, pay attention and listen to people to show respect and let people know you care about them.

Communicating openly, honestly and directly isn't just the best policy, it's the only policy. Be prepared to hear the truth as well as speak it.

Most people don't really want to be extraordinary but they also don't like the idea of being mediocre.

Easy never produces excellence and you'll have to be obsessed with excellence to experience it.

People won't always like you while you're challenging them to be their best, so stop trying to please people and be committed to serving them.

You'll have to make the hard decisions and take the tough actions and this can only be done if you truly care enough about people to serve them.

Spend time with the people that need you the most and that's probably not who you'll naturally want to spend it with.

Culture does always trump tactics and culture is the cumulative, pervasive, dominant attitude of the people they lead and their responsibility to manage.

It's your job to help people be prepared to, and perform to, their best.

It's a strength to be humble, gracious and forgiving.

Forgiveness doesn't mean acceptance, it just means learning from but letting go of past mistakes.

Never defend the status quo...Be a change agent by not only embracing change but promoting it.

Change isn't painful, it's resistance to change that causes the pain.

Leadership is an act of service, caring and love to help people learn, grow and improve.

The only leaders people care about are the ones that care about people. Be that leader!

Leadership, like love is an action! The act of leadership is an engagement, it's a service that's all about helping people learn, grow and improve. It's not a process, so go and figure our how you can be of help to others and the things on my list will begin to make sense and happen naturally from your heart.

By Mike Moore

Overcoming our nature is the key to success!

The Most Important List You'll Ever Make

Who we are and what we believe drives us to our accomplishments and creates the life we live. When we work on who we arena the inside, then what do and have, the outside, gets better. If we focus on our outside, or wants, we become needy and wanting and this will hinder our learning, growing and the improvements need to achieve our best life.

Peak performers make who they are more important that what they do, and what they do becomes amazing. Their normal becomes extraordinary!

You can become a peak perfumer who's normal is amazing to everyone else and the best place to start is by making the most important list you'll ever make...Your 'To Be List'! Do it today don't wait! Try to keep it to no more than 7 to 10 character traits. The traits you are going to make key to who you are. The traits you will not compromise. Then, shift your focus to being these things, instead of what you're going to accomplish and use them as the compass pointing you towards constant improvement. You see, peak perfumers aren't worried about their results, they're too busy focusing on becoming the person they've set our to be! The person who'll natural produce excellent results! 

This list is your most important list because it activates the natural law of accomplishment...Be, Do, Have, and starts a process of learning, growing and improving that will result in making you undeniably excellent! You're going to be taking advantage of this natural law to become your best self! Pick your traits, design who you will be and your results will take care of themselves! Read your list daily, focus on one each day and stop worrying about your results, they'll begin to improve until your new normal is extraordinary!

Here are some of the character traits possessed by peak performers. Analyze your strengths and weaknesses, then make your 'To Be List' and shift focus, energy actions to being the person who'll naturally accomplish amazing results. Remember we are human beings, not humans doing. So make your list and start learning, growing and improving the cause of all your results...You!

Self Discipline

Correction or regulation of oneself for the sake of improvement
Self Control

Restraint exercised over one's own impulses, emotions, or desires

Self Confidence

Confidence in oneself and in one's powers and abilities

Forgiving

Allowing room for error or weakness

Open-minded

Receptive to arguments or ideas

Educated

Giving evidence of training or practice

Caring

To be concerned about or to the extent of

Giving

To commit to another as a trust or responsibility and usually for an expressed reason

Humble

Not proud or haughty: not arrogant

Courage

Mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty

Genuine

Actually having the reputed or apparent qualities or character

Cooperative

Marked by a willingness and ability to work with others

Honest

Free from fraud or deception

Integrity
Firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values...Making what you say, and what you do, match

Faithful

Firm in adherence to promises or in observance of duty:

Implies firm determination to adhere to a cause or purpose

Perceptive

Responsive to sensory stimuli

Creative

Marked by the ability or power to

Conviction

A strong persuasion or belief

Alert

Quick to perceive and act

Empathetic

The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner

Perseverance

To persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement

Hardworking        

Industrious, diligent

Restraint

A control over the expression of one's emotions or thoughts

Competitive

To strive consciously or unconsciously for an objective

Initiative

The action of taking the first step or move

Tolerant

To allow to be or to be done without prohibition, hindrance, or contradiction: to put up with

Enthusiastic

Intense or eager interest; zeal

Responsible

Able to answer for one's conduct and obligations

Flexible

Characterized by a ready capability to adapt to new, different, or changing requirements

Ambition

An ardent desire for rank, fame, or power: desire to achieve a particular end

Passion

Intense emotional excitement, as rage, enthusiasm, lust, etc; the object of any strong desire

 By Mike Moore

Winning Is About More Than The Score

Mediocrity Sneaks Up On You

Winners Don't Worry About The Score

Leadership Is An Act Of With Love

We often mistake love for a feeling...It's not a feeling, it's an action. In fact, it's many actions and it's leadership at it's finest! 

Before I get to the actions that make up love, let's define love...Love is patient and kind. It doesn't envy or boast, it's never proud. It doesn't dishonor others, it's not self-seeking or selfish, it's not easily angered and it keeps no record of wrongs. Love doesn't delight in evil or dishonest gain. Instead, it rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres...Love never fails.

Leaders need to love people...Yes, they have to care enough to want the best for those they lead.

It's even love that gives them the toughness and hard edge they need to challenge people to be their best, to set and raise standards of acceptable behavior. This is true in parenting, business, sports and religion...It's a leaders love that powers their belief and confidence in people. It's love that emboldens them to challenge people to learn, grow and improve. It's a leaders love that gives them the courage and strength to hold people accountable and it's love that helps them be open, honest and transparent.

It's a leaders love for people that causes those people to trust them and follow them in the first place. It's love that gives the vision a leader needs to know where they are going and how to help others get there with them.

When leaders fail it's because they didn't love people or lost their love of people. It's love that enables a leader to influence and inspire people to be more than they would be without them. 

If you want to be a leader...Love more!

By Mike Moore

Leaders Never Miss A Chance To Build Trust

What Leader Do To Lead

BE TRUSTWORTHY

Be accountable...Take responsibility! Create and support an open, positive, risk taking environment. Have the courage to be open, honest and direct. Don't send messages, say what you mean and mean what you say. Focus on solutions, not fault finding or assigning blame. See unwanted results as an opportunity to coach and teach to improve individuals and the organization. Don't be defensive. You don't have to have all the answers...Just help people find them.

BE EXTRAORDINARY...REJECT MEDIOCRITY

Set and raise standards...Keep raising the bar. The lowest form of behavior you allow defines who you are as a leader. Blur the lines between job assignments...The mission is everyone's job. Don't allow average attitudes, thinking or behavior. Assign and monitor all work to teach and coach using specifics situations. Hold people accountable...Starting with yourself!

BE CARING...DO WHAT'S BEST FOR PEOPLE

Coach attitudes, teach skills and manage actions to help people learn, grow and improve...Don't overreact! Make people more important than results and manage people's attitudes before they become actions that produce poor results. Don't accept or allow average thinking or behavior...Reject mediocrity! Care enough about the person to challenge them to do what they don't want to do, that will help them grow, improve and become the best they can be. Be a servant, do what's best for people don't just try to please them.

BE AWARE...PAY ATTENTION

Make people more important than things, results or accomplishments. Make taking time for people a priority to validate and show your respect for them. Ask people's opinions...Pay attention and listen. Reward extra effort...Pay attention. Make people feel important...Pay attention and pay complements. Don't avoid conflict, it will serve you and the people you care about, but be kind, compassionate and respectful. Listen to people to validate them and their efforts, growth and accomplishments. Did I mention pay attention? Be mindful that people will treat each other and your customers the way you treat them.

BE A CHANGE AGENT

Be a change advocate...Lead the change. Encourage others to embrace change! Ask people how they and the organization can improve. Question everything...Never except or settle for the status quo. Make learning, growing and improving the primary goal. Hold people accountable to change so they'll learn, grow and improve...When they don't or won't, then, change your people. 

By Mike Moore