Motivate Your Team - Generate New Ideas

The best way to motivate your team is to find out what motivates each member of your team. Next you design and fashion goals around those motivating criteria. Put some actions steps in place that are motivating and inspiring.

1. Have team meetings with motivating themes. Give everyone on the team a chance to facilitate the team meeting. The meeting should have an up tempo theme.

2. Have contests and games. Maybe money will be the prize or movie tickets or a compliment. Get everyone involved and have fun.

3. Have a brainstorming session with you team to come up with a plan for inspiration .

4. Have a company meeting and give out recognition and prizes. Watch a motivating and inspiring video.

Consistently come together as a team and plan to be successful using everyones input.

To Your Great Success

Mel Richardson
VisionStar Enterprises
1906 Galetown Drive
Severn, Maryland 21144

216-956-3640

Synergy 2+2 =5

2+2 = 5, this equation only takes place when there is synergy. Let me give you the definition of synergy. "The whole is greater than the sum of the individual parts. Here is an example of synergy. If you have Jane making widgets and alone she is able to make 25 widgets and you also have Bill. Bill is also able to make 25 widgets. Jane's production plus Bill's equals 50 widgets.

Now Let's say Jane and Bill decide to work together to produce their widgets. Now you have two people working together towards a common goal. What happens now is an exchange takes place. An exchange of ideas, ability, creativeness, brainstorming, communication, time, energy, excitement, passion, knowledge base.

Each individual brings a different set of variables to the table and they exchange all of the talent and ability the each possess and you know have synergy. Since they have decided to produce their widgets together the final output could be
70 widgets or 80 widgets or even 100 widgets.

The old equation is Jane plus Bill = 50 but since they have joined forces the new equation is Jane plus Bill = 70 or 80 or 100. Thus 2 + 2 = 5. So now you can see how the whole is greater than the sum of the individual parts. Jane and Bill together can produce far more than either could do alone because of a criss cross of information , communication and abilities.

When two or more people come together and they are working together for a common goal you now have a team and teamwork exists. Within a team each member is expected to complete a distinct function. Members have to be able to trust one another otherwise the team cannot exist and function correctly and operate efficiently and effectively. You won't have synergy without these variables. The dynamics of a team is quite interesting. Sometimes members take on roles based on their own individual talents and abilities. You should do the thing that you excel at and doing so will enable you to become energetic, passionate, excited and enthused about the goal. All it takes is for one person to catch on fire with enthusiasm and it will spread like a fire in a dry field. Conversely the opposite is true. One person on the team with a negative attitude is all it takes to destroy the chemistry and synergy that exists within the confines of a well defined team.

To Your Great Success.

Mel Richardson
VisionStar Enterprises
1906 Galetown Drive
Severn, Maryland 21144

216-956-3640

Making the Most of Google Calendar

Google Calendar is a great tool and resource that allows you to keep track of your life and the life of others. The calendar helps you to track of your important life events, and meetings while at the same time giving you the ability to look for different features and events that may be of interest to you.

You can even put the schedules of your family members and significant others right next to yours to view and keep track of. Events can be added quickly and effortlessly. If you chose not to let everyone see your calendar then you have that option by selecting those that see it. This great tool allows you to create invitations, send reminders as well as RSVP's. You can even promote events like seminars and workshops. Google calendar has it all including automatic reminders.

This calendar can be set up to be viewed on a day by day, weekly or even monthly basis, whatever your preference. You can navigate backwards and forwards with some nifty arrows. Your calendar or calendars can be private or public and searchable by other users. If you list an event you can see all of the details such as date, time, location, address, and all of the other items about the event all on your calendar.

To Your Great Success

Mel Richardson
VisionStar Enterprises
1906 Galetown Drive
Severn, Maryland 21144

216-956-3640

Evaluating Google

Let's just take a look at Google and evaluate everything and put it into
perspective.

Google is an awesome internet search engine as well as a vehicle for advertising online including the use of google ad sense. Some estimates put Google as the largest United States organization with over 15,000 employees . It has expanded into web-based email, online mapping and other products and services. There is a non-profit area of Google which is Google.org and it was established with an initial fund of one billion dollars. It was founded for a good cause and that is to combat the issues of climate change, global public health, and global poverty.

During it's time in existence Google has acquired some smaller companies one of which was Pyra labs which is also the creator of blogger, the free blogging site that allows you to set up your own blog, again at no cost.

If you have been paying attention to the news you know that Google acquired YouTube for an outstanding amount of money, somewhere in the area of 1.65 billion dollars.

Google has also partnered with other organizations to fulfill different goals and objectives, companies such as Sun Microsystems and Time Warner's AOL.

The large majority of Google's revenue comes from advertising. Advertising revenue in 2005 alone was over 10 billion dollars and over 100 million dollars from other licensing and other revenues

To Your Great Success

Mel Richardson
VisionStar Enterprises
1906 Galetown Drive
Severn, Maryland 21144

216-956-3640

The Art Of Coaching

Have you ever wondered how some of the best athletes in the world continue to get better year and after? What about some of the most successful individuals in the areas of marketing, sales, and business, how do they continue to perform at exceptional levels and outperform everyone else consistently?


The answer is very easy. They have coaches that help them set up game plans to hit their goals. A Coach can help you discover things about yourself you may not have been aware of. They help you tap into your creative genius to bring about the desired results. Coaching helps you reach your full potential and take your game to the next level. It also serves as a mechanism to improve your performance, and at the same time provide avenues of continued growth and development. Coaches are ruthlessly results oriented and they help to hold you accountable.

The primary function of coaching is to bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be.... A coach should assess your performance by reviewing the situation as it stands today. Next you and your coach should sit down and define achievable realistic goals, explore several ideas by brainstorming, and then put a plan of action into place with needed follow up.


Initially you might think you don't need a coach, but I would suggest you think again. Anyone that has ever achieved any level of greatness in any endeavor has had a coach. Michael Jordan arguably the greatest playeer to have played the game of basketball had a coach. Tiger Woods has a coach. Professional athletes can have a variety of coaches for different areas such as conditioning, health and nutrition, free throw shooting, blocking, batting, passing and defense, depending on the sport.


You would do well to do the same. Sometimes a life coach can help you maximize your potential in the various areas of your life, such as the mental, physical, spritual, social, career, and family.


Get a coach today and raise the bar and go onto the greatness you were destined for.


To Your Great Success.

Mel Richardson
VisionStar Enterprises
1906 Galetown Drive
Severn, Maryland 21144

216-956-3640

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Take A few moments and reflect on
the things you are thankful for.


Happy Thanksgiving.

To Your Great Success

Mel Richardson

Use Podcasting As A Marketing Tool

What is podcasting? Well podcasting is an audio show or file or submission which is basically put together by web pages. When people search for various information and they land on your site or page it becomes available to them by way of streaming audio or downloading onto their computers.

There is a tremendous market for podcasting it stands in the millions. Podcasting is so great because it allows individuals to focus on and actually click on the items they are interested in. Podcasting helps you to target a specific market or niche. In terms of cost effectiveness it will save you a lot of money because it is not on the same vein as traditional radio. This happens because you don't market to the masses but rather a specific targeted market thereby reducing your costs. It's basically niche marketing focusing on those individuals that are more likely to purchase your product or service.

To make your podcast the most effective you want to keep the message short and get right to the point. This does not allow the listeners attention to drift off. Also understand that today's customers are better educated, more intelligent, and more aware of the different product offerings and services. They know if what you are advertising is on the up and up or if you are trying to pull the wool over their eyes


To Your Great Success

Mel Richardson
VisionStar Enterprises
1906 Galetown Drive
Severn, Maryland 21144

216-956-3640