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If you are prone to hitting the snooze button once too often, this is for you. The Motivation Hacker by Nick Winter gives you multiple reasons to get going on those impossible dreams that you did not think achievable. Join thoughtLEADERS' principal Mike Lynn as he journeys through an adventure of possibilities.

Nick Winter's attitude towards life moves mountains and also changes attitudes. This is the story of how he launched his motivation journey to achieve multiple goals in just three months.

Nick Winter has a formula for increasing motivation. It involves expectancy, value, impulsiveness, and delay. Intrigued? This episode holds the answers as you fire your way through seemingly impossible tasks and use "Time Boxing" to your advantage.

Research shows Motivation is the combination of Expectancy, Value, Impulsiveness, and Delay. The trick is to keep the factors of expectancy and value as high as possible and lower impulsiveness and delay.

Committing to daily mini achievements contributes to bigger successes in the long term. Make attaining goals a habit to whet your appetite for more. Copy Winter's hacks to set multiple mini-goals.

Set several tiny daily goals and track their progress. Ride on the successes and multiply them over time to make it a habit. The last chance is a do-or-die situation that focuses our energies on accomplishing the target.

If it is important enough, you will find ways to do it. Nick Winter hacks into motivation using precommitment, making it obligatory to complete a task. The idea is to use social pressure or a penalty to inspire action.

Precommitment helps reduce impulsiveness score by building protections against other distractions. If you cannot commit to something at this moment, pledge to a specific time to do it or don’t do it at all.

Learn the allegory of the burnt ship to understand how removing distractions can allow us to focus better on our objective. It requires boldness to catapult yourself to this point of no return. So, what is your distraction ship? Have you decided to burn it?

Tackle the internet distraction with timeboxing techniques such as checking emails only at certain times, working on airplane mode, or switching to a computer with no internet access.

Keeping motivation levels high at work can be a tough ask. Nick Winter uses his experience in launching a start-up to share the journey's highs and glitches you can learn from.

To keep expectancy high, look for validations to boost confidence and reasons to increase value. Work as a team to tone down impulsiveness by increasing accountability. Deadlines keep delays in check.

Your ability to take on challenges expands with knowledge and experience. One way of doing it is to be a lifelong learner and pick topics or skills that are high value and fun for you.

Even five minutes spent on learning something new builds a certainty that you can do it. Take stock to see if what you do yields positive results and do more of it.

How productive you are depends on how well you spend your time coins. Nick Winter's motivation hacks help you speed up, so you have more time to do the things you love. The dos are as crucial as the don'ts. Here is what you need to do to know your mind.

Do not chase goals that are not yours. Do a quick check-in to gauge how happy you are at the moment and end those activities that are not making you feel fulfilled.

If you've chosen to forgo the more conventional path to success, and embarked on a challenging journey, the learnings from the life and career of international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney will resonate with you. This series follows the refugee from Lebanon who has made a career out of fighting for justice for the underserved, with focus, passion, and an unwillingness to settle.

The Columbia Law School and Oxford University alum could have become any type of lawyer. She chose to be the kind which doesn't get any easy wins.

Born in Lebanon, Amal Clooney restarted life as a refugee in London. Her insider view of troubled communities became the foundation for her fight for justice.

Let Your Background Make You, Not Break You

Strife and complications in your background shouldn't deter you. Instead, allow them to help define and fuel your goals.

The spotlight may have been trained more on Amal Clooney since her marriage to Hollywood A-lister George Clooney, but her success was anything but overnight.

Meaningful Success Is Not The Same As Instant Fame

Fame is fleeting but meaningful success, achieved with passionate hard work and razor-sharp focus, endures.

Amal Clooney demonstrates how being feminine need not interfere with feminism. She has carries both high fashion and lawyer robes without compromise.

Femininity Is Not An Antithesis To Feminism

There's no need to shy away from femininity. Don't let the fear of perception dictate your choices. Wear your style the way you want to.

Amal Clooney has perfected the art of effective speech. Here are three keys used by this human rights lawyer who has made a career in convincing others.

Use fact, logic and emotion in speech to establish authority, connect with the audience, and support your ideas with rational arguments.

Some careers don't lend themselves to easy wins. But Amal Clooney is driven by her sense of purpose that is unfazed in the face of adversity.

If victories are few and far between, alter how you measure success. And if the work matters to you, keep fighting.

Motivational speakers and authors of the Chicken Soup For The Soul series Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen are joined by editor Heather McNamara in this rendition of timeless tales of courage, comfort, and creativity: Chicken Soup For The Unsinkable Soul.

A Book In 12 Minutes: Chicken Soup For The Unsinkable Soul By Heather McNamara, Jack Canfield, And Mark Victor Hansen

What better than inspiring narratives of ordinary people and their extraordinary lives to provide a fillip to rise above the mundane. The carefully curated stories in this series speak of rare resilience and how heroism and humor can stem from everyday occurrences.

Healthcare professionals bring undisputable comfort in times of distress. Here's the story of Albert and the committed nurse who brought him more than medical care, going beyond her call of duty to bring cheer. No matter how difficult life may seem, your supporters are just a beckon away, all you have to do is look up.

Look around for your cheerleaders to draw comfort from. They are your superpowers and sustain you through hard times.

Don't mind the naysayers. Arthur Gordon had lost all sense of purpose and life could not be any worse than it was when something changed his outlook. Pentathlete Marilyn King's story underlines the power of positive self-talk.

Give yourself another chance in life. Don't overanalyze a situation. Look at obstacles as speed bumps.

The stories of Jason Marion and Rachel Berry show how our lives pivot around our loved ones. When all seemed lost, their families rallied around them to spark a ray of hope.

Family bonds are crucial in remaining resilient to crisis. Support from loved ones makes the journey possible.

What happened when a father sought to withdraw his underperforming child from the gymnastics class? It is not a good idea to give up even if the going seems tough and successful, an improbable dream. There are many lessons to be learned from this story.

Keep trying even if you do not seem to be succeeding in your efforts. Success comes to those who persist.

Are you saving up the best for a special occasion? Anne Wells learns a difficult lesson from the death of her sister. That someday you were waiting for is today, that sometime is now!

Living in the present helps to live it to the fullest. Stop waiting for a special occasion to do what you have always wanted to.

The story of Steve Jobs is a rollercoaster ride of a man known to be fastidious about perfection, brutally honest in his opinion, one who asserted control over the brand, production and even packaging - to an almost maniacal degree. But he changed at least half a dozen industries with his ground-breaking innovations.Walter Isaacson's biography brings out the best, as well as the worst, of the features that made up this genius.

Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography By Walter Isaacson

An adopted child who left his mark on the world of technology, Steve Jobs was known to exert control. Author Walter Isaacson debated writing this biography for five years before finally agreeing to it. In an honest portrayal of the man who changed how the world lives and interacts are lessons on how to deal with people, run businesses, and what you should avoid doing, if you want to succeed.

The ability to connect seemingly disconnected thought processes highlights the brilliance of Steve Jobs. Whether in taking a calligraphy class that years later helped in offerings that made the Mac stand out or a practice CD of The Beatles. Here's an insight into his unique worldview.

Every object or endeavor has teaching potential. Pay attention to thing you love (or hate) and apply that sensibility to other areas in your life.

The appeal of a product lies in the act of unboxing it, and Steve Jobs understood that well. The attention to detail in Apple's packaging is as complete as the product development itself, one of the many things customers take delight in.

In the first few minutes (or even seconds) of encountering a person, place or experience, you will form an impression that colors your response forever. Make sure you present the impression that you want other to hold.

Steve Jobs did not believe in polite disapproval. If something was not up to his expectation, it sucked! And he did not hold back that opinion - it would come out loud and clear. He lost employees to this candor but had a team of dedicated A-Plus players he nurtured and recognized. Learn about the importance of having an A-plus team, in this episode.

A-players do not want B-players on their team. To get the performance you want, build a top-quality team that will challenge each other and drive forward.

Steve Jobs knew how to spin a story, and the world loves a good story. The year was 1984, and the competition between Goliath IBM and new entrant Apple was beginning to heat up. How did this David change the game? Defining the brand as an antithesis of conformity worked for Apple, as you will learn in this episode.

Successful sales, marketing and advertising campaigns use story to connect the product and the buyer. Use storytelling to create an emotional appeal that will drive your product forward.

Pixar, under Steve Jobs, scripted a new brave era, coming out with one blockbuster hit after another. And all credit goes to Jobs' obsession with perfection that sent the Toy Story team back to the drawing board. Find out what drove them, in this video.

A good product is often achieved only after extensive revision. Keep a sharp eye on what is working—and what isn't—and make the pursuit of perfection relentless.

His passion for music rivalled that for technology, and a tiny trackpad was iconic in combining the two. The sophistication of simplicity was an ongoing passion for Steve Jobs. The rigorous process of honing this is something Apple has mastered. Know more about simple solutions - as you watch this video.

Simplicity Is The Ultimate Sophistication

It can take more work to achieve simplicity than to build something complicated. When executing a product or process, work towards the simplest design possible for maximum benefit.

Steve Jobs did not let logistics jeopardize his plans. Riding on the strength of an idea is not all that is required. What was the other essential ingredient that Apple relied on to launch the iTunes store? Here's how the music industry was changed in days, one song at a time.

Ultimately, success comes down to execution. Even your best idea will require immense focus to win.

Learning from failure rather than success teaches a lot about handling adversity. In Steve Jobs' commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005, students had an insight into dealing with low points as the master innovator shared three such examples from his life. This will help understand how his mind worked.

Learn from crisis. Follow your intuition, take action quickly, and listen to your own inner voice.

Rajiv Bajaj shares insights on various leadership strategies that helped him make Bajaj Automobile a market leader in India in the motorcycle segment. He also stresses the importance of changing one's outlook to survive in a globalized world.

Rajiv explains the core and pillars of his business and how they help his business to succeed.

What It Takes To Build An FMCD business | Rajiv Bajaj

In an age when your product might not be much different from your competitor's, you can differentiate yourself with the right branding and marketing strategy.

Rajiv draws parallels between homeopathy and business and concludes with the secret sauce to achieve corporate wellness.

What You Can Learn From Homeopathy About Corporate Wellness | Rajiv Bajaj

CEOs, as a custodian of strategy, should ensure that the business is immune to the external factors that might negatively impact its functioning.

Rajiv, taking Bajaj Auto as an example, stresses the need to specialize in a highly globalized market space.

Globalization Needs Specialization | Rajiv Bajaj

It is advisable to specialize in a few areas to tap into the wider opportunity that our globalized world provides.

To be profitable, Bajaj is repeating the formula that it applied in the 60s, the 70s and the 80s but with a different focus.

Keep your effort focused rather than diversifying too much. Having a focused outlook has a positive impact on your profit margin.

Rajiv shares what he learnt on 'branding' after Bajaj's venture into the motorcycle portfolio.

How To Understand Your Brand | Rajiv Bajaj

It is not enough to have a good product. It is also important to understand if the product is compatible with the perception of the brand.

Rajiv shares how Prof. Yamaguchi, Bajaj's productivity consultant, made him realize his job clearly and why you must also get that clarity.

Understand Your Role Clearly | Rajiv Bajaj

The CEO mustn't worry about the day-to-day functioning but be more involved on the strategic front.

Can you recall how many meetings have you left feeling purposeful, energized and motivated? The fact is that too many meetings prove ineffective, boring, tedious and often uninspiring. In his book Death by Meeting, author Patrick Lencioni offers actionable tips on changing poor meeting cultures. Presenting simple, yet powerful solutions, Lencioni shows us how to make the meeting experience effective, inspiring and entertaining.

Despite being fairly successful and possessing stellar qualifications, a CEO found that his company's business results were slackening. Why? Because he ran deathly boring and ineffective meetings, which demotivated his employees into complacence. Weaving a fable, Lencioni explains how rethinking meetings plays a crucial part in making a business successful.

What makes our meetings so bad? The fact that they are often an antithesis of the passionate, productive, and invigorating activities that they need to be and should be. Watch this video to understand the real problems behind meetings and make improvements.

Meetings can lack meaningful discussion, prioritized agendas and appropriate timekeeping. To make meetings work, learn how to focus your meetings on meaningful issues.

Lencioni proposes that one way to reduce the dangerous and often overlooked “sneaker time” in offices is to hold more meetings to make the day more productive. Intrigued? Find out what a sneaker time entails, in this video.

Working with information in unstructured ways (sneaker time) can absorb precious hours from the workday. To avoid sneaker time, schedule more meetings with prioritized, focused discussion.

A key to a good meeting is an engaged and passionate team. Learn how keeping the clear on each meeting helps with healthy debate, allowing for more productive meetings in general.

Different kinds of meetings may require different formats and durations. A quick daily check-in and weekly tactical meeting can help keep teams moving forward without distractions and excessive discussions.

Lencioni advocates long-form scheduled and ad-hoc meetings for tackling complex issues. This video elucidates how designing these meetings like movies—wherein each character brings their own personality and point of view on the table—makes them more effective.

Appropriate meeting formats depend on the nature, urgency, and long-term implications of a topic. Learn the different formats and establish a practice around each.

Lencioni encourages leaders to build drama and conflict into meetings and exploit it. To avoid torturous meetings, he suggests keeping the content interesting by engaging in healthy disagreements. Watch this episode to see how a truly successful meeting ought to follow a classic story plotline: set the stage, introduce the characters, encourage healthy debate to get different perspectives, and eventually resolve the conflict.

Meetings, like movies, need conflict. Allow conflict in your meetings to bring out different perspectives, ideas and potential obstacles.

It is key for leaders to be prepared for conflict and uncertain outcomes. Predictable outcomes do not need a meeting. This video explains how uncertainty and differing opinions can be transformed into sharpened group thinking by careful moderation.

Uncertainty—The One Thing That’s Certain

It's okay for teams to disagree on desired outcomes prior to a meeting. To maximize productivity, encourage participants to make recommendations and take distinct positions on a topic.

What is the leader’s role in ensuring that a meeting is not boring or tedious but drives strategic decisions? How does a manager ensure a debate is not left inconclusive and there are clear, precise actionable points with agreement? How does Lencioni’s model for effective meetings culminate? Watch this video to find out.

Meetings that engage and drive an organization forward involve debate and drama. Like a good movie, your meeting will be more dynamic with conflict and varying points of view.

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As businesses have become more familiar with the principles of and multiple approaches to business process improvement, it has become all the more important to be able to drive these kinds of efforts centrally. Accenture senior leaders Peter Franz and Dr. Mathias Kirchmer have compiled the best practices of driving such efforts centrally in their book Value-Driven Business Process Management. The authors draw from extensive client experience to provide an overview and specific approaches for anchoring business process management efforts on the overall success of the business. They combine proven approaches for strategic, operational, and organizational change to provide a robust toolkit for driving value-driven BPM initiatives. In this course, Mike Nemeth, a principal at thoughtLEADERS, LLC., shares Franz and Kirchmer’s insights to equip learners with these capabilities.  

Value-Driven Business Process Management: The Value Switch For Lasting Competitive Advantage, By Peter Franz and Mathias Kirchmer 

With the diverse approaches that are prevalent for business process management, there is a need for a unifying model that organizes and drives any such initiative. This video introduces the concept of Value-Driven Business Process Management and orients the learner to the key learning objectives for the course.  

This video explains how Value-Driven Business Process Management goes beyond the practical aspects of fixing inefficient processes to more broadly address the success factors driving any business. This model adds focus and consistency to any business process improvement effort. It provides a high-level management discipline that allows practitioners to put the multiple puzzle pieces of this kind of effort together as a holistic strategic initiative. 

This video describes the core model that drives all Value-Driven Business Process Management efforts: the BPM Capability Blueprint. This blueprint pulls together multiple integrated aspects of BPM work and provides an overview for practitioners to make connections across different aspects of BPM initiatives. All aspects of the blueprint mostly operate in sync to ensure the success of any BPM program. 

This video highlights three key success measures for any Value-Driven BPM effort: value as an organizing principle, alignment with strategy and execution, and organizational transparency. It highlights key trade-offs that must be considered in driving toward these success measures and prepares learners for a deeper understanding of different Value-Driven BPM tools. 

This video explains different business triggers that might cause a Value-Driven Business Process Management effort to become a business priority. While these efforts are sometimes started centrally or from the top down, it’s more common for specific business needs to prompt a disciplined process management approach from the bottom up, thereby driving a need for a consistency and focus. 

Triggers For Business Process Improvement

Driving a centralized Business Process Management effort requires selecting the right overall approach to match the needs of the organization. This video explains the concept of the “Process of Process Management,” or PoPM, a core attribute of Value-Driven BPM. A PoPM includes specific choices for operations, methods and tools, delivery, transformation, and support. These choices are formalized for consistency, and communicated throughout the organization. 

It’s not enough to just have the best practice methods and tools in place to drive a Value-Driven BPM effort. This video highlights examples and four key success factors for rolling out Value-Driven BPM across the organization. With an awareness of what has helped other companies achieve their objectives in these programs, practitioners can build on those outside successes to drive their own efforts. 

With an awareness of best practices and success factors, Value-Driven BPM leaders are ready to begin the work of business and process transformation. This video describes how to develop a roadmap to get your priorities clear. It provides key principles and guidelines to put the roadmap in place. 

The Value-Driven Business Process Management roadmap serves as a comprehensive workplan for your efforts. This video describes how to begin the process of making that roadmap with a comprehensive issue tree and strategic prioritization. 

As Value-Driven Business Process Management efforts roll-out against the roadmap workplan, a company will begin to formalize its approach for use in other business areas. This video describes the four different models for standardizing approaches within the company. It explains the two broad parameters of being either IT- or people-centric and being top-down or bottom-up. 

The tools and descriptions of Value-Driven Business Process Management are best understood in practice rather than just in theory. This video includes multiple case examples of companies that enacted Value-Driven BPM, including companies in different industries. In all cases, the stories highlight the precise targeting and measurable results that these companies experienced through their own Value-Driven BPM efforts. 

Beyond a sense of overall Value-Driven Business Process Management strategy and best practices, it’s also important to understand the organizational components and infrastructure mechanisms to ensure the effort sticks. This video addresses two topics. First, it explains the BPM Center of Excellence, the process organization, the process culture, and key roles. Next, it explains practical approaches for establishing a center of excellence. 

Set Up Your Organization For BPM Success 

At the heart of a Value-Driven Business Process Management effort is a carefully designed repository for process and analytical information. This video describes how repositories can be used, a phased model for developing and curating the repository’s content, and how to maintain and revise it.  

Part of the success of ongoing Value-Driven Business Process Management efforts is creating mechanisms for interacting with all involved employees to drive the cultural transformation. This video includes ideas for internal social media tools, user access and ownership, and models for sharing and learning best practices outside the organization.  

Value-Driven Business Process Management has been evolving for many years. Although the book shares many best practices and leading approaches, the concept will continue to evolve. This video addresses some future trends that will continue to affect how companies make the process a reality. With rapid change and global connectivity, Value-Driven BPM will require a special kind of leader that can adapt to change and keep a strategic focus for the organization. 

Deciding to quit your job is not easy and you will need all the practical help you can get to get through this process. Leadership trainer Paul Smith breaks it down for you in this five-part series. Smith is a speaker and leadership trainer specializing in storytelling techniques and has authored books such as Sell with a Story and The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell.

Before you decide to quit, it is important to understand why you are doing it. Pen down the reasons that make you want to leave.

Before deciding whether to quit your job or not, define your quitting criteria. A good place to start is: are you still passionate about what you do?

Paul Smith walks you through a representative checklist of quitting criteria, including better compensation, bigger title, or a retirement plan.

Career Planning;Decision Making;Growth Strategy;Influence;Innovation;Managing Yourself;Motivation;Retirement;Strategic Planning;Strategic Thinking;Strategy Execution;Paul Smith;Passionate Work;Promotions;Positive;Support Family;Reasonable Criteria;Opportunity

Once you've identified what you're looking for, you don't have to quit immediately. One idea is to start gradually by pursuing your passion part-time.

The best way to test your quitting criteria is with a test run. Try it out on a part-time basis, and see if it meets your criteria. If your schedule doesn't allow for this, consider asking your current employer for reduced pay and work hours.

Be patient as you test your quitting criteria. Keeping watching for whether your role or job is ticking all the boxes.

Make sure your partner is comfortable with your decision to follow your passion by checking for financial stability, assessing risk of failure and a commitment to go back to your old career if this doesn't work.

Paul Smith shares a heartwarming story about his father -- how it is better to chase your dream today than live with the regret of not achieving your full potential.

Someone else in your life probably also wants you to pursue your dream—a parent, spouse, child, mentor. Do it for them too.

Process Improvement is a broad-based set of approaches that help businesses reduce inefficiency and increase performance. Practitioners have been applying these techniques in manufacturing, operations and service contexts for more than 100 years. This course covers insights from Tristan Boutros and Tim Purdie’s “The Process Improvement Handbook: A Blueprint for Managing Change and Increasing Organizational Performance,” to bring those insights into practice in the viewer’s everyday work. In this course, Mike Nemeth, a principal at thoughtLEADERS, LLC, shares insights and lessons that can help learners understand process improvement core tools and principles, success factors, and management approaches. By the end of the course, learners will have an approach to shape their own next steps as they adjust their own processes. 

The Process Improvement Handbook By Tristan Boutros And Tim Purdie

Process Improvement involves taking a big picture view of the steps and processes that drive everyday work, and making adjustments to get better results. The Process Improvement Handbook is a blueprint for this kind of work, including essential practices and everyday applications. This video introduces the course and the key learning objectives to help learners apply the best practices that can drive improved organizational performance.

Process Improvement has been applied in various ways for more than 100 years. This video sets the stage for the rest of the course by providing historical context and stories of how this body of work has evolved. Several related process improvement approaches are now prevalent in the business world. The work that will follow this course will carry on that legacy.

The first step of effective process improvement is to have the right mindset for the work ahead. This video prepares learners for the work ahead by highlighting ways we take process steps for granted in everyday life, and some essential habits and tools to help become effective practitioners. With the right personal approach and a high-level understanding of basic approaches, you will be ready to understand more detailed concepts.

Start With A Process Improvement Mindset 

The Process Improvement Handbook presents The Process Improvement Manifesto, which codifies the ten essential principles for this work. This video explains each of those principles to help drive a broad organizational approach. All ten principles are inter-related, so learners must understand each concept at a high level to be process improvement advocates.  

Understanding process improvement pitfalls as you start your work will help you ensure success. This video highlights the most common obstacles to successful process improvement efforts so that learners can take precautions and ensure sustained results. The video includes preliminary steps that practitioners can take to ensure favorable process improvement outcomes.

Navigate Common Process Improvement Pitfalls 

To be an effective process improvement practitioner, it’s important to understand the core terms. This video provides an overview lexicon of core process improvement terminology so that learners can address these terms accurately and consistently.

Regardless of the specific process improvement approach one might use in their own business, there are multiple tools that are common. This video introduces those core tools and explains their use to equip learners for effective process improvement work. As you build familiarity with these tools and practice using them, you’ll be building your own process improvement efficiency.

Process Improvement requires the right context and organizational support in order to be effective. This video explains what the authors call the “process ecosystem”, which helps to enable process improvement efforts. 

Process ecosystems are more than just high-level concepts. They can be put in place with careful attention to organizational, people and operational practices and mechanisms. This video provides practical tips to establish your own process ecosystem to ensure the success of your process improvement efforts.

Once you have a basic understanding of process improvement concepts, principles, tools and approaches, it’s helpful to understand different types of approaches for managing these projects across the organization. This video introduces multiple process management models to give new practitioners a broad foundation, depending on their needs

Kaizen is a specific process management approach that allows teams to make process adjustments in a short amount of time. This video introduces the idea of “Kaizen events,” and provides practical tips for conducting these types of group projects. The video includes suggestions for different roles on a Kaizen team, so all participants can contribute meaningfully.

The concept of “agile” is a specific approach to work-flow management as well as a general principle of rapid responsiveness to customer needs. This video addresses both definitions of agile in relation to business process improvement.  When considered as part of an overall business change effort, agile process improvement can yield multiple process adjustments in a short amount of time. 

Dashboards and data charts are a key way to measure and monitor ongoing improvements and the results of various process change tests. This video includes descriptions of dashboard best practices and provides suggestions for common data charts. With clear visual reminders and monitoring tools in place, you’ll be able to keep track of your process improvement efforts and ongoing successes. 

Designing Effective Dashboards And Charts 

Knowledge Management is an important aspect of ongoing process improvement efforts across the organization. This video provides best practices for capturing process improvement insights, approaches and results, and for disseminating outcomes to stakeholders. Besides technical information storage and archiving, the video also includes ideas for sharing process improvement information across roles and teams.

Everyone fails at one point or the other but only those who manage to rise again reach their goals. Failing Forward is about developing the right attitude towards failure to gravitate towards success. Learn the 15 ideas that can transform the way you think and act.

Do you wish you could rise from the ashes like the proverbial phoenix and reach for the stars? Author John C. Maxwell makes it possible with this guided approach. Stay tuned to know how failure can help you become better and not bitter.

What tilts the probability of success in your favor? Is it your background, wealth, connection, or something you have brushed bitterly away? Learn from Mary Kay Ash's story as she battled the odds in 1950s America. Did she prove her detractors wrong or capitulate in the face of challenge? Let's find out.

The Difference Between Achievers And Average People

Setbacks are not failures. Keeping a positive attitude helps perceive them as a learning experience. To do this, one must accept failure and commit to persist.

Did you know that there’s an average failure rate even successful people have to face before they hit gold? Armed with a new definition of failure and this inspiring story of Truett Cathy, you too can rethink your approach to difficult circumstances.

Viewing failure as something inevitable but not permanent, something that can change enables perseverance. Allow yourself to make mistakes to normalize failure.

Be serious about the job at hand but don't take failure personally, says Maxwell. Study the seven traits common to achievers, and you will see a pattern. Hone these characteristics to bounce back after facing defeat. Also, try this four-step process to break the negative thinking loop.

Don't take failure personally. Keep going even after failing.

Here's a story of resilience, of how easy it is to give up at the cusp of success. Samuel P. Langley and the Wright brothers set out to do the same thing: fly. Use this reflection exercise to overcome your fear of failure.

Being resilient becomes more crucial if failure is a possible outcome. Writing down fears and their reasons help in accepting, tackling, and persisting with efforts.

Owning up to your mistakes prevents future failures. In this case, four monkeys have a key lesson to impart. Find out how to break the self-defeating pattern of contributing to your own obstacles.

Take responsibility for your mistakes, review how your action or inaction affected the course of a past failure. Acknowledge how you could have changed the course of events to modify future behavior.

Failure, like success, is an inside job. Learn an effective way to deal with external factors impeding your progress. This video takes inspiration from tennis player Roger Crawford's incredible journey.

Learn to control what you can and let go of the things beyond your purview. Try journaling to deal with factors beyond your control.

Carrying baggage from the past is not a pleasant experience and can become a stumbling block to progress. Maxwell presents Sister Frances Cabrini's life as an example of this. Skill up to bid the past adieu with this four-step exercise.

A thought exercise that acknowledges painful past events makes way for forgiving and allows moving forward.

A sea captain-turned-failed-businessman finds his true passion. It has nothing to do with his past profession or the ventures he undertakes thereafter. Are you also looking for a similar purpose? Start by making this strength-weakness list.

To change your circumstances, sometimes you need to actively change yourself. Make a list of strengths and weaknesses to identify what needs to change.

Maxwell teaches a new thought process in this episode: thinking about others first. A sports analogy makes it clear that individual glory does not convert to wins. Finally, it is about being less self-centered and more concerned about others around you.

You can lift the whole team's performance by helping others. Being selfless can make you more purposeful.

The outcome is affected not just by your actions but also by how you carry yourself through tribulation. Maxwell has a word of advice for those hard times. Biblical character Joseph's story holds a moral worth following. Find out what it is.

By simply writing down a setback and learning from it opens up the mind to the possibility of a good outcome. This attitude helps overcome setbacks.

The true story of surgeon Joseph Lister demonstrates why you need to be bold in your decisions to gain ground. Indeed, there is a lot at stake and it is not safe to risk so much but choose a time when the odds are stacked against you. Here's how to plan for risk-taking.

If you have achieved all your goals or not achieved them at all, chances are you might be playing it too safe and need to take greater risk for bigger gains. Plan to risk more by thinking of your next major goal and jotting down a plan to achieve it.

Learning from past mistakes and setbacks is a talent. By being open to admitting a shortcoming, you can avoid repeating an error. Find out how this newspaper editor failed to rectify himself in time and jeopardized the whole establishment.

Identify the following when facing a setback: What caused it? Assess if it is a failure or mistake. Look for the bright spot. What are the learnings? Can it be turned into a success? Who can help? What's the next step?

It is not enough to know your strengths, the weaknesses have a big role to play in your success too. Take the great Greek warrior Achilles for instance. Despite his valor and might, one weak spot brought about his downfall. Here's a checklist of reasons for failure and how to rectify them.

People fail due to poor people skills, lack of focus, inability to identify their true goal, weak commitment, cutting corners to meet targets, knowing how to shape talent, poor research, and a lack of goals.

It took more than a couple of failed businesses to get R.H. Macy down. Trace his success story as Maxwell imparts a valuable lesson on perseverance. If you are looking to hone a similar kind of resilience, follow this three-step method.

Mental preparation to face hardships on the way to success builds resilience. Prepare to face the problem by writing down your dream and what you are willing to stake to achieve it. Then assess what could go wrong in the plan.

The Singapore saga sounds like a fairy tale, but it is true. Thanks to the vision of one man who propelled a nation mired in troubles and shaped it into a coveted destination for business and travel. Also, find out what FORWARD stands for.

Failure is unavoidable, but that should not hinder planning the goal and working towards it. To fail forward, persevere through hurdles to move past mistakes.

How does one persuade another to do as per their bidding? How do we get persuaded to do things? In this series, Brian Ahearn, Principal at thoughtLEADERS LLC and one of the few people certified by the author Dr Robert Cialdini to teach his psychological methodology—takes you through six scientifically proven concepts that lead to eliciting the elusive "yes" from people across the spectrum.

How Long Can You Stay On The Treadmill?

How Long Can You Stay On The Treadmill?

How Long Can You Stay On The Treadmill?

Episodes

1. No Grit, No Glory

2. Shine The Spotlight On Effort

3. How Long Can You Stay On The Treadmill?

4. Calculate Your Grit Score

5. Do You Have A Clear Top-Level Goal?

6. Why We Quit

7. Interest, Practice, Purpose

8. Hope Is The Cement

9. Build A Culture Of Grit

10. You Can Be A Genius