Visitor, your JANUARY 2020 FocalPoint Newsletter is here

Difficult people. They can make life miserable and stand in the way of progress at your company.

Yet despite the fact that there are difficult people everywhere, they don’t need to get you down, rile up your employees, or keep you from doing your job and achieving your goals.

You need to understand their motivations and how to effectively dial down their “degree of difficulty” to a manageable level. If this sounds like information you need, check out the insights, strategies, and secrets revealed here.

You only get one chance to start strong in the New Year. If you start slowly or poorly focused in 2020, opportunities will be lost.

This makes it critical to give serious thought to the best way to motivate your sales team, and experience has shown us that an effective meeting built around the right motivational theme can play a key role in your early 2020 success.

We’ve reviewed these themes and compiled this guide to help you align your motivation sales kickoff theme to your company’s situation and goals for maximum effectiveness. Use this guidance to jump ahead of the competition in Q1 2020.

Humor may very well be the greatest advantage you can have and it’s good for your health too.

It touches upon nearly every facet of life—90% of men and 81% of women report that a sense of humor is the most important quality in a partner and is a crucial quality for leaders.  

Humor is a life skill that everybody needs and the more you can laugh at yourself, the more approachable and human you’ll be.  What other advantages does having a good sense of humor provide?

You should strive to improve yourself every year – both personally and professionally. If you have bad habits that held you back in 2019, make 2020 the year you break them and realize the success and happiness you deserve.

But can we talk? Breaking habits isn’t easy – especially if you don’t have a plan.

In this article, we give you the practical strategies and tips that will empower you to make the changes in your life that have so far seemed unobtainable.

Blogs and business magazines are filled with productivity tips – so many, in fact, that many professionals don’t know where to start and they never overcome their unproductive routines.

That’s why we have carefully curated the five best – and universally applicable – ways you can squeeze the wasted time out of your and your employees’ workday.

Implement these tips and your entire team will get more done, be happier at work, and your company will be perfectly positioned for growth.