Showing posts with label Standards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Standards. Show all posts

Monday, March 17, 2014

Attitude Determines the Degree of Your Service


Attitude Determines the Degree of Your Service
“Your attitude determine the degree of excellence of
service you perform.”
Jeffery Gitomer, Author, Consultant, Professional Speaker

As I see it. . . . . . . .

Attitude determines the degree of your service

The quality of your business is first established from the vision you have for your business . . . . and values you bring to the business every day.

The quality of your services is determined by your attitude.

That attitude then becomes the bar of excellence that you have established for your business . . . . and means to measure your service and yourself by.

Attitude determines the degree of your service . . . .

The bar that you set for the level of your services that you provide for your customers . . . . establishes the standards for your customers expectations. They become the standards that you and your business will be measured by.

Your attitude determines the degree of your service . . . . and from the foundation of your attitude you will either build your business on bedrock or quicksand.

©2014 Lou Ludwig Motivational Power Quote, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer, and Author

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

People of Character Do the Right Thing


People of Character Do the Right Thing
“People of character do the right thing, not because they
think it will change the world but because they refuse
to be changed by the world.”
Michael Josephson, Attorney, Former Law Professor
Speaker

As I see it . . . . . . .

People of character do the right thing

People of character won’t test the waters to do what’s politically . . . . Or cave in to group think when they act . . . . They do the right thing . . . . and standout.

You will be asked to compromise your position and to go along with the crowd with your decisions making . . . . The people that are doing the asking you to compromise are insulating themselves from the decision making . . . . and from any negative fallout from your decision.

The person that gives in and compromises their position will not be seem as a person of character or a leader. In fact over time they will be seem as weak and lacking character.

People of character do the right thing . . . . and what they do are based on high values and standards.

©2014 Lou Ludwig Motivational Power Quote, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Strive to Do Your Very Best


Motivational Power Quote

Strive to Do Your Very Best
“I was taught to strive not because they were any guarantees of
success, but because the act of striving is in itself the only way
to keep faith with life .”
Madeleine Albright, United States Secretary of State 

 

As I see it . . . . . . .

Strive to do your very best

There may not be guarantees in life . . . . but there are truths in life.

Truth #1 When your committed and determined to achieve your goals  . . . .  You will find a way to successfully achieve them.

Truth #2 The person without goals . . . . has no beacon to guide them and their career will lack a sense of focused direction. Their best never comes to the surface because . . . . they can’t define their purpose and they won’t have a clear target to aim for.

Truth #3 You will bring your very best to the surface when you can verbalize your goals in writing and you make the commitment . . . . to yourself that you will achieve them.

Truth #4 Striving to do your very best . . . . elevates your standards and expectations to a higher plane.

Truth #5 There are no guarantees in life . . . . but you put odds in you favor to succeed . . . . when you strive to do your very best in the things you do.

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Build Your Career on a Concrete Foundation


Motivational Power Quote

Build Your Career on a Concrete Foundation
“Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete
this you will have definitely, given concrete form
to the intangible desire.”
Napoleon Hill 1883 -1970, Author, Speaker  

 
As I see it . . . . . . .

Build your career on a concrete foundation

The stronger you build your career foundation . . . . the more weight it will support on your success journey.

When your foundation is strong it will withstand the headwinds of the obstacles, setback and failures that you encounter on your mission to achieve your goals no matter how serious they are.

You will have the footing on a solid surface to regroup and continue to peruse your objectives.

Your foundation also has to support the weight of greater opportunities and reaching greater levels of success.

A foundation can crumble under the weight of negative conditions as well as from the weight of success when it not on a foundation of concrete.

Build your career on a concrete foundation . . . . of your personal values and by setting high standards in your life and business. Remain committed to your values and standard. And when you’re asked to compromise them stay true to your beliefs and in those moments your foundation will be there to support you.

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Excellences is an On-Purpose Activity


Motivational Power Quote

Excellence is an On-Purpose Activity
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do
not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we
rather have those because we acted rightly. We are what
we repeatedly do, excellence then, is not an act but a habit.”
Aristotle BC 384 – BC 322, Greek Philosopher


As I see it . . . . . . .

Excellence is an on-purpose activity

Professionals set the standards of excellence for their life and for the level of excellence that will be delivered in their customer service.

Excellences is an on-purpose activity that becomes a habit . . . . It sets the bar for the level of services that the professional will continually provide their customers. When excellence is the goal the professional routinely exceed their customer’s expectation and WOW’S the customers.

When the customer service exceed the customers’ expectations . . . .  the professional builds the business relationship on a solid foundation of excellences that earns them a positive reputation among their customers and the business community.

Excellence is an on-purpose activity . . . . that becomes a habit and will pave the path of their success journey on a foundation of bedrock.  That foundation will support the weight of their success journey through the changing and challenging conditions that they encounter.

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Set Your Standards High


Motivational Power Quote

Set Your Standards High
“If you don’t set a baseline standards for what you’ll accept in life,
you’ll find it’s easy to slip into behavior and attitudes
or quality of life that’s far below what you deserve.”
Anthony Robbins, Author, speaker,  


As I see it . . . . . . .

Set your standards high

What you accomplish in life will be a direction reflection of the standards that you set for yourself . . . . Set your standards high.

You will either live your life by the standards that you set for yourself or you will live your life by other people’s standards. Set your standards high . . . . And live a life where you stand out as a person and as a professional.

Build your business model on the principles of being of service to your customers and build it on the foundation of honesty and integrity. When people feel that they can rely on you and trust you they will become customers and do business with you.

Set your standards high . . . . and those standards speak for you and become your calling card.

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Henry Ford Paved The Way


Motivational Power Quote

Henry Ford Paved The Way
“It is better to sell a large number of cars at a reasonably
small margin than to sell fewer at a large margin of profit . . .
It enables a large number of people to buy and enjoy (the car)
and give a large number to men employment at a good wage.
Those are two aims I have in life.”
           Henry Ford, auto executive                


As I see it . . . . . . .

Henry Ford paved the way

Henry Ford was an innovator and created the first affordable automobile in American, a car the people could afford to own.

But he also did something else that was very interesting that has slipped into the pages of history.

He felt that the work force in his automobile plant should be able to afford to own the cars they where building.

At the time the wages for an auto worker would not be enough for them to own a car.

Henry Ford changed the standards for the wages for the auto workers and the work force at Ford became the highest paid in the industry.

Henry ford paved the way for Americans to afford to own a Ford and the Ford work force to own a car that they were building. Henry Ford was a good businessman and the outcome was a win – win situation for car buyers, his work force and his business.

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author