Exercise 1 – Create Voluntary Change

Exercise 2 – Understand Your Influences

Exercise 3 – Understand Your Strategic Beliefs

Exercise 4 – Outline What You Need To Do To Get What You Want

Exercise 5 – Document Your Vision

Exercise 6 – Unlock Your Internal Keys To Success

Exercise 7 – Explore Where You Are Today, Why You Might Not Be Going Where You Want, And What Can Be Changed

Exercise 8 – Create Your Own Recipe For Clarity

Exercise 10 – Evaluate Your Current Focus Skills

Exercise 11 – Improve Your Focus Skills

Exercise 12 – Get Clear on Current Conditions

Exercise 13 – Develop Your Strategic Plan

Exercise 14 – Determine What to Say and How to Say It

Exercise 15 – Give Value and Do More Than is Expected

Exercise 16 – Document What Is And Is Not Working Well

Exercise 17 – Describe Your Hope And Great Goal For The Future

Exercise 18 – Examine the Behaviors You Most Value

Exercise 19 – Understand What You Are And What You Want To Be

With most of the world falling into an emotional funk about the economy, its time for leaders to stop focusing on problems and start thinking about solutions. Ultimately, the free market will have to provide the permanent solutions for our economic challenges. Until that happens, we are going to have to create strategies for ourselves and our businesses that will allow us to weather the storm and thrive! Because the economy can’t be changed by any single person or organization, it creates a lot of individual and organizational fear and concern. We tend to feel helpless in the face of such huge challenges that seem beyond our control. A huge part of our individual success will hinge on the perceptions we have about our ability to be successful, in spite of hard times. Perception is reality, even if its not the truth and our perceptions are the engine of our action and the results we get. That is why perception matters!

Organizational perceptions about the economy may become the most strategic factor in how well any business will respond to the economic downturn. Companies that are able to move beyond the obvious problems and move toward positive solutions and identify new opportunities are going to have a competitive advantage over businesses frozen in fear about the future. Every leader should understand that the organizational perceptions of their team must be addressed. Leaders must proactively involve themselves in communication strategies that promote healthy perceptions about their businesses, their products and their future. Simply put, leaders have to take on the challenge of persuading their teams that the world is not coming to an end and that opportunity continues to exist, even in the worst of times.