Everyone has Gifts and Talents Do you know what your gifts and talents are? Have you acknowledged them? Do you know how to properly utilize and maximize your skills? Do you know how to augment your weaknesses? You have a unique set of gifts and talents! Yet many people have heads that are filled with… Read more »
Posts By: John Ruh
Important – Last 30 days of This Year + Looking forward into Next Year
Leader-to-Leader December is usually a very tough month due to fewer working days, the holidays and all the personal things one must do. However, speaking leader-to-leader, here are three things I think we all need to do: Take care of business…all the day-to-day tactical stuff and wow our clients in the here and now. Do… Read more »
3 Simple Steps for Annual Business Planning
We absolutely/positively must complete this year well (take care of business), get our strategic initiatives (continuous improvement projects) completed, and design a super game plan (be it individual, departmental, or company), so we can enroll the support we need to have a successful next year. It takes time to do this well, so let’s start… Read more »
What is Your Continuous Improvement Budget?
What is your continuous improvement budget for your company? What is your continuous improvement budget for your department? What is your continuous improvement budget for yourself? Perhaps the single most important thing you need to do in order to at least survive and ideally thrive in any market is to make change and continuous improvement… Read more »
The Three Key Best Practice Programs All Companies Need
1. Have a clearly stated game plan built on your business culture. Why? No one can successfully play any game if they don’t know the rules or how the game is to be played. Culture is the foundation of any business or life for that matter. Business culture needs to be put first and foremost… Read more »
Now What?
As a leader what must I do to make sure this year ends on a high note? Here is my answer to the above. (Feel free to share yours.) Outline “Must Do” Continuous Improvement Initiatives and support them right. We must all change or die. That sounds dramatic but our jobs, our departments and our… Read more »
Why Should My Business Run DISC Profile Assessments?
Many businesses could drastically improve their performance by running DISC profile assessments, but most people are unaware of how much they stand to gain. The DISC assessment is a tool designed to help describe an individual’s behavior patterns, and it’s one of the leading ways to improve internal communications and processes. To date DISC assessments… Read more »
Consciousness and Golf or You vs Your Self-Image
Golf is an ideal environment to examine your self-image in full operational mode. It is a slow game that gives you time between shots to hear the voices in your head. (Don’t worry, it happens to everyone.) It may tell you to use a 7 iron when the “book” play is to use a 5…. Read more »
What Makes Up a DISC Profile
Many businesses already see the value in assessing their employees’ personalities and behaviors with a DISC profile. But many forgo these assessments and the many benefits they add to their business because they simply don’t understand what a DISC profile is. Let’s take a closer look at what exactly goes into a DISC profile and… Read more »
Global DISC Behavioral Profiles – Research and Statistics
By: John Ruh A research white paper done by Bill J. Bonnstetter, Dave Bonnstetter and Ron Bonnstetter, PhD examines 10 different countries and their DISC profile makeup. They sampled between 1,000 and 74,000 people per country and charted the percentages of the disc profile population statistics that fall into the D, I, S, or C… Read more »