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Terry McKenna
Kure Beach, NC
Helping organizations & individuals realize their potential
Interests: Beach, Travel, Working out, Reading, Personal Development, Pittsburgh Steelers
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#EmployeeEngagement
Studies show that when managers take the time to thank their employees, those employees are more engaged and productive. Simple right? So why do employee engagement scores continue to be so low? www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted 23 minutes ago at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Overcoming Fear
Action is the most potent antidote to fear. The only way to rise above it is to go right through the heart of it. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted yesterday at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Lost Potential
By discounting the price of our inaction and indecision, we sell ourselves out and settle for a life far smaller than the one we are capable of living. All the while dreams retreat, passion wanes, doors close, talent sleeps, and life passes. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted 2 days ago at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Innovation
Often, younger or less experienced employees will be your chief innovators, because they're less constrained by what "usually" works. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted 3 days ago at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Problem Solving
No solution can possibly exist while you're lost in the energy of the problem. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted 6 days ago at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Mindset
Both hope and despair are forms of belief. Both hope and despair are self-fulfilling prophecies. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted 7 days ago at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Trust
Compared with people at low-trust companies, people at high-trust companies report 74% less stress. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Jan 14, 2020 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Routines
Yes, self-discipline is important, however, defining routines and systems is more important than relying solely on self-discipline. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Jan 13, 2020 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Leadership
Great leaders look for decision points. For it is bursts of energy directed at decisive points that break things wide open. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Jan 12, 2020 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Teams
If you give a team the full time that they ask for, or the full budget that they want, or the full number of people that they need, those teams never execute anything of significance. But if you give them less, make things a little more challenging, they'll push themselves.... Continue reading
Posted Jan 9, 2020 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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These Were The Worst of Times, These Were the Best of Times
Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel, outlined when he described what happens to businesses in tumultuous times: "Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them." www.terrymckennaspeakes.com Continue reading
Posted Jan 8, 2020 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Culture
When people have a voice, when they feel like they have influence, when they believe that they are fairly rewarded for the contributions they make, it creates a sense of confidence in the organization, and therefore more reasons to care about the organization and its future. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Jan 7, 2020 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Strategy
Translate your strategy from concepts to targets, from vague strategic intent to a set of specific time-lines. Measure your progress along the way, with the flexibility and adaptability to pivot on a moment's notice. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Jan 6, 2020 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Leadership
Leaders who ask questions and solicit input from those they lead and those around them, are more effective than "dictator, command and control" leaders who just push their demands and requests on others. Here's the formula: Involvement = Buy-in = Engagement = Commitment = Results! www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Jan 5, 2020 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Leadership Inclusion
How can leaders summon their colleagues to rethink what's possible in their fields, to do things that others won't do, if they can't summon a sense that everyone is in it together? www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Jan 3, 2020 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Leadership With Risk
Leaders must be comfortable accepting some level of risk. As the U.S. Naval hero of the American Revolution and Father of the U.S. Navy, John Paul Jones, said: "Those who will not risk cannot win." www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Jan 2, 2020 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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New Year - New You
As you pursue your goals and objectives in 2020, the key to success lies in one-word: Focus. A 24-7, laser-like focus on what you want to achieve. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Jan 1, 2020 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Best New Year
May 2020 be your best year yet. Make a promise to yourself to fully commit to going after those goals in your life that you have been putting off. Make a promise to yourself to pursue all the God-given potential you have been blessed with. If you do, just imagine... Continue reading
Posted Dec 31, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Positive Energy
Positive energy is like a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it gets. The stronger it gets, the more powerful you become. Repetition is the key. The more you focus on positive energy the more it becomes part of your natural state. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Dec 30, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Leadership
True leaders don't complain. Once you complain, you're creating a culture that says complaining is the norm, because the leader not only allows it, but practices it. Emotions are contagious, and as a leader, you set the tone for your team. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Dec 29, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Discovery
"You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself." -Galileo Galilei www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Dec 28, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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People vs. Numbers
Numbers and goals don't drive people. People with a purpose drive numbers and achieve goals. Research clearly shows that true motivation is driven by meaning and purpose rather than extrinsic rewards, numbers, and goals. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Dec 26, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to all of my Blog subscribers. May 2020 be your Best year yet! www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Dec 24, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Brand Beliefs
For companies and brands that aspire to do something extraordinary, what you believe is as important as what you sell. What does your company believe? www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Dec 22, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Your #1-Thing in 2020
What's your #1 thing, that above all else, you want to accomplish in 2020? What are your top-3 things that you'll need to do daily to ensure that you're #1 thing is achieved by 12.31.20? www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Dec 19, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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