What is Your Genius? by James Ryan, Lotus Development
What is Your Genius? by James Ryan, Lotus Development
Many managers are familiar with personality assessments used in hiring or coaching employees. The vast majority of these assessments measure behavior. Knowing a person’s behavioral style is important. It unleashes vast opportunities to maximize the potential our our associates. I use DISC Index to measure behavior. Many are familiar with the DISC profiles. They are easy to remember and we can sometimes easily peg someone as a D, I, S, or C based on observing their behavior. Myers-Briggs is another well-know behavioral assessment.
A much less well-known model is the Attribute Index bases on the work by Dr. Robert Hartman . I’m proud to be affiliated with Jay Niblick of Innermetrix and co-author of What’s Your Genius. He has developed a unique assessment tool based one the work of Dr. Robert Hartman.
In contrast to the behavioral assessments, the Attribute Index reveals our decision-making styles. Then we apply that style to our external world and our internal self. Hartman broke down these styles into three realms:
1. The Extrinsic Dimension: The Extrinsic is concerned with practicality and doing. Tactically oriented, the pure extrinsic focuses on doing SOMETHING without consideration of the effect on people or the big picture. We might call this the Hand Dimension, characterized by the old saying, “Idle hands are the devil’s playthings.”
2. The Intrinsic Dimension: This is the Heart Dimension. Guided by our hearts and empathy for a person’s or object’s true essence or uniqueness.
3. The Systemic Dimension: This is the Head Dimension. This dimension is concerned with ideas, thoughts, structure, procedures, While they tend to see things in black or white, yes or no, they are also very effective at planning and measurement.
By measuring specific attributes – rather than behaviors – we uncover maximizers and potential blind spots. Armed with this knowledge managers can assign roles and duties more effectively. Self-knowledge allows us to build in support or seek development to compensate for our blind spots.
Hand, Heart or Head? Which one do you prefer and how do you maximize that strength? Read more »
How Engaged Are You…in your business that is? Guest blogger Ladi Terry, Success WORK!
How Engaged Are You…in your business, that is? — Guest blogger Ladi Terry, Success WORK!
How many of you don’t feel engaged in your work organization? Meaning, how many of you dread going into work? Feel when you are there, you’re only going through the motions to get a paycheck? You’re not thriving in your productivity and creativity?
Well, Ladi Terry of Success WORK! offers a solution on how to make your organization more engaging.
HIGH ENGAGEMENT ORGANIZATIONS OUTPERFORM LOW ENGAGEMENT ORGANIZATIONS BY OVER 13%
by Ladi Terry, Success WORK!
Want to know how to get your organizational growth spiraling upwards in this current economy? The answer is so basic and it doesn’t cost a cent. According to a new book From Workplace to Playspace by Pamela Meyer, just released by Jossey-Bass, there is a 52% gap in operating income between high engagement and low engagement organizations. So, quite simply, getting your workforce fully engaged in all aspects of your organization results in increased net income, better job satisfaction and less turnover.
So what does a high engagement organization look like?
First the employees actually enjoy coming to work and are fully engaged in their job. The culture is vibrant and workers thrive in this open atmosphere where they think creatively, question old assumptions and immediately respond to the unexpected. The impetus for coming to work each day is commitment and not simple compliance. Not sounding like your organization?
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6 Tips of Shopping Securely Online: Easier Said Than Done: Guest Blogger Debbie Mahler
Shopping Securely Online: Easier Said Than Done
by Debbie Mahler
*While Debbie wrote this piece during the Christmas holiday season, it is still important to remember these important tips throughout the year, especially with the start of the New Year and everyone trying to sell their wares because you need their products to be more productive in your business or to lose weight etc. Not to take a jab at those of us who sell legitimate products and services online.
I am the Facebook friend that Debbie is referring to. I consider myself to be one of the most cautious folks when buying anything online–if it can happen to me it can happen to you too!
Fortunately, it all worked out for me after going back and forth with the alleged vendor for giving me the wrong product and one I couldn’t use. I did get a refund and new debit card free of charge from my bank.
However, a lot of times buyers aren’t always as fortunate.
So if you don’t want this nightmare to happen to you anytime….I highly recommend you reading Debbie’s article. Please leave any comments for me or Deb and we will be happy to answer your questions in the box below. If you want Debbie to contact you personally, see the email in her bio.
A Facebook friend commented yesterday that an online site offering discounted software had ripped her off. The rub with her was that the site had a Trust logo, the Better Business Logo, and the C|net Certified store logo and she assumed that this was a trustworthy site. Wrong!
So, if you can’t trust the site offering all these supposed logo’s of trust, who can you trust?
Since the holiday shopping season is about to begin and our tech strategy theme is “It’s a TECH HOLIDAY!” I thought I’d use my friends experience to share some tips on how to shop securely and avoid the rip offs online.
First you have to understand that the trust logos are either purchased or allowed with (paid) membership to organizations.
For example, if I joined the Better Business Bureau for their membership fee, I would be allowed to use the BBB logo on my website and my shopping cart.
Now, that’s not to say the BBB doesn’t verify the person requesting membership! Don’t get me wrong. The problem is that some unscrupulous people can still get the BBB logo and use it until the BBB catches up with them. Or they’ll borrow a logo from another website and just place it on theirs!
The problem is that you have to REPORT the problem you’re having with the BBB in order for them to become aware that the seller is not upholding their end of the ethical bargain, or using the logo illegally.
Trust certificates like those issued by VeriSign and others are paid for also and the certificate issuer verifies that the company and person behind the company is verified to be who they say they are.
BUT! The trust logo is ALWAYS a clickable link that goes to a page verifying you are at the verified users site. Read more »
Blog tease for 2011…..
2011 promises to be a phenomenal year for blogging. All of the stuff you have asked for and what we mentioned this past year will be coming into fruition in the new year. Lotus Writing & Communications is totally stoked about the guest blogging spots on social media, business and other related aspects; book reviews, movie reviews, interviews, business and other writing tips, webinars, teleseminars, e-books, e-courses and tons of fun stuff that will keep you coming back to find the answers to what may be keeping you up at night and is absolutely to long to list.
Keep coming back to check what’s going on the Lotus Writing & Communications blog. If you want us to cover a topic let us know. We’re here to serve you. We help you save time, money and much more. So keep coming back for the update.
Contact us if you’d like to be a guest blogger, want us to review your book or write about you an your business. Thank you for those who have already said, “Yes!” We also appreciate the special holiday gifts too! 
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Got book????
Funny it takes the last day of the 1st decade of the 21st Century to actually mention something about books. LOL.
By the title, I hope you didn’t think that I was running some online viral numbers racket….My viral pals author interviewer & book reviewer Joey Pinkney and Elaine Jacoby are my literary muses for this piece.
Joey, whom I am very well-connected on several networks, posted on Facebook something about wanting to know what his ‘friends’ got to read for the Holidays and proceeded to post on his page and blog. Then remembering a book app invite from my friend Elaine over the holidays on “Which of the 100 books have you read by the BBC?” I decided to post on Facebook and my blogs.
Anyway, Santa, Chanukah Harry, Buddha Bob and the cosmos were very good to me this season in the literary sense. I got 4 books.
3 signed copies:
- Susan Gunelius of Key Splash Creative‘s “30-Minute Social Media Marketing”-I am quoted on pp.170-171. (The 3rd book I am mentioned or quoted in).
- Fellow 2009 “Rock The World with your Online Presence” Winner, Mark Amtower’s “Why Epiphanies Never Occur to Couch Potatoes” and his “Selling to the Government–What It Takes to Compete and Win in the World’s Largest Market”. http://www.FederalDirect.net
Reviews and Interviews for these books will be on my biz blog, Amazon.com etc.
The 4th book: Eknath Easwaran’s “Conquest of the Mind–Take charge of your thoughts & reshape your life through meditation”.
Just so you know I scored 42/100 on Elaine’s BBC Book quiz. Would have scored higher if I had finished all those Tolkein, Jane Austen novels, Rebecca and few others. Did see a lot of those movie adaptations, I guess that’s putting my college degree to good use (BA, Telecommunications/Area Studies, Film Studies) to good use. Thought my score was funny since I am a writer.
If you are on Facebook and want to see how you fair in the literary department, here’s the URL: http://bit.ly/hKFORs .
So, what are some of your Holiday reads? What books do recommend this Holiday season? What books would recommend to propel us into 2011? Got book?
I am looking forward to hearing from you….thanks for popping by and replying.
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Oscar Wilde on Success….
- @2007 Elizabeth S. Isaacs
Oscar Wilde on Success
18th/19th Century Irish dramatist, novelist, poet Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) once wrote in a letter:
“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the results.”
So Wilde is saying success is an exact art with all of its twists and turns? And if you can stand the ride, you will have tangible proof of your successes?
Let’s look at this more closely…..Wilde breaks “success” down in three parts:
1. Success is a science, so is this why many men of science i.e. Edison, Franklin, Newton and many others even those in non-scientific fields kept at it, until they got the results they wanted to with their many discoveries?
I really love the story of Edison’s famed reply when asked if he felt like a failure after 9999 tries at discovering the light bulb. He replied, “No, I now know 9999 things that don’t work in making a light bulb in his 10,000 step process (a big shout out to @shelhorowitz for catching it–U ROCK!).”
2. Ah, Edison touched on several of the implied variables or conditions that Wilde alluded to…perseverance, determination, resilience, faith, focus, mission, vision, taking risks, being true to oneself, positive attitude, never giving up…
3-So, if you use any or all these mentioned variables, you will produce some kind of valid results on your journey for success, right?
What qualities do you think makes someone successful? Which ones do you use? Which are you good/great at? Which ones do you struggle with? Which ones do you work on daily—some? All?
I look forward to hearing from you. As always, thanks for popping by.
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Book Review: The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Idea
Book Review: The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Idea
Bestselling authors Bob Burg and John David Mann beautifully weave a delightful tale about Joe, our self-serving protagonist, a true Go-Getter in every since of the word, who is looking for a miracle to help his slumping sales quotas for the 3rd quarter so he can get the honors of getting his firm’s a huge account.
John David Mann brilliantly uses the literary device of a parable to tell this wonderful inspirational story.
His life changes when he takes his boss, Gus’s suggestion about he meets a stoic man name Pindar. Pindar tells him about the ‘the secret’ of being successful and the ‘Five Laws of Stratospheric Success’.
The Five Laws of Stratospheric Success are well-thought out, practical principles that anyone can use in every facet of their life. Each of the Laws coincides with one of the five characters Joe meets along the way. Five vignettes.
What are these five laws?
1-The Law of Value: Your true worth is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment.
2-The Law of Compensation: Your income is determined by how many people you serve and how well you serve them.
3-The Law of Influence: Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people’s interests first.
4-The Law of Authenticity: The most valuable gift you have to offer is yourself.
5-The Law of Receptivity: (The hardest to accept): The key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving.
In order to get the full benefit of the Five Laws, read the book…Once you pick up the book, you won’t want to put it down. The reader stays captivated in reading about Joe’s transformation and the several people he meets along the way and how things come full circle.
So, are a Go-Getter? Or a Go-Giver? …~Check out Amazon.com, to buy your very own copy and decide: The Go-Giver. Also, while you’re there check out Bob & John’s Go-Givers Sell More.
Look forward to your comments….thanks for popping by.
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Powerful Beyond Measure Revisted
One of my favorite personal empowerment quotes by Marianne Williamson (A Course of Miracles, etc.) which is often attributed to Nelson Mandela and was in the movie Akeelah and the Bee and Coach Carter
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
*http://thinkexist.com/quotes/marianne_williamson
Here is Ms. Williamson sharing her poem with us taken from the November 10 Days to Touch 10 Million Lives via www.wisdomfilms.com:
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Creating Yourself…
@2007 Elizabeth S. Isaacs
Creating Yourself
The outspoken famed 18th-19th Century Irish Dramatist, George Bernard Shaw once said, “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.“
That’s great to know that our lives aren’t like the self-help book store scene in When Harry Met Sally or is it?
Do we read all the self-improvement, social media, business and other books and newsletters? Attend all the applicable teleseminars, webinars and events? Working on our whole branding packaging?
All of these are great questions, there is much more to ‘creating yourself’….
Here are just ten of the many ways you can create yourself:
1. As one of my dear social media inspirational viral pals, Chip Esajian, always says: “Be extraordinary”!
2. Embrace and celebrate your uniqueness with the world. There’s only one of you who can do what only you were designed to do.
3. Strive to be the best at what you do. Be the only one who can do what you do.
4. Promise to do what you say you will do and surpass or exceed all expectations.
5. “To thine own self be true”. Be true to yourself even when being of service to others. Don’t let yourself be a doormat to walked on or play the victim.
6. Life’s too short. Don’t hold on to grudges or resentments. Not letting go of the garbage is what often holds many of us back in achieving our goals in being successful.
7. Back to your uniqueness. Stand out. March to the beat of a different drummer….and of course, as my tagline goes: “Work Smart. Be Heard. Be Remembered.”
What are some of things you do on daily or long-term basis to create yourself? What are some of the many ways you ‘work smart. be heard. be remembered”?
I look forward to your comments….thanks for popping by.
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The Vast World is Ours for the Taking….
“You see things; and you say “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say “Why not?”~George Bernard Shaw
The vast world is ours for the taking. For some of us, something happens to our creative and belief system. And we fall short of many of our hopes, goals, dreams and desires.
Why has our belief system changed? What happened to the level of our commitment in accomplishing many of our goals as we did when we were children? Why shouldn’t we be as earnest or determined to accomplish our goals now as we did when we were younger? And some of us just plain gave up, feel hopeless, blame society etc. The list of questions and excuses we’ve told ourselves goes on and on.
How do get what was lost back? How do we regain our power in taking responsibility for our lives. We are our the star, screenwriter, director and producer of the movie we call our lives.
Here’s a brilliant video from the folks at AdCom to further explain these changes to our creativity and belief system and how to take back our power:
How have your dreams or belief system changed? Have you given up? How to you regain the passion and desire that may be missing from your lives?
Feel free to add you comments, questions and other feedback. Thanks for popping by.
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About
When Liz Isaacs isn’t advising businesses on how to be effective communicators in ‘working smart, being heard and being remembered‘ with their writing and marketing communications and being of service to others, she enjoys gardening, cooking, taking walks, reading, traveling and the Arts.
She is also working on four book ideas and several script ideas. Updates will follow on this blog.
She also takes pleasure in meeting people from different cultures. Has a head full of amassed useless trivia. Former autograph collector.
She is a Nichiren Buddhist enjoying doing her human revolution (achieving their highest potential) including new life as a non-smoker (6 months this week). I am a Jewish Recovering Princess. Friends tease me about being a JuBu, an honor I claim proudly.
Interesting facts
Native Louisvillian.
BA, Telecommunications/Film Studies, Indiana University. Avid film buff and sports nut.
Survived the KY Derby 3x-twice from the infield, other the paddock area.
Been to France 2x, Italy, Ireland, Israel and the French part of Switzerland 1x. Saw Barbra Streisand in concert in Ireland in 2007 for 45th bday.
Saw then President-elect Obama 2x on the campaign trail-IU Assembly Hall and the IN State Fairgrounds and was in Chicago at Jesse Jackson ‘s party at the Chicago Hilton Towers on election night.
I have an incredible sense of humor-in fact, my last name in Hebrew means “he laughs”–so who knows maybe I was destined to be a stand-up comedienne–Elayne Boosler eat your heart out bubbeleh.
Funnest job-working at the Tibetan Cultural Center in 1998-1999 prepping for the Dalai Lama’s visit-our group got a private audience with him–Yes Richard Gere is really that cute….enough about moi.
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