3 Magic Questions for Improved Human Potential at Your Company

The best way for a company to grow and increase innovation and sales is to hire people who are interested and open-minded in self growth and interpersonal growth. The first step for a company to change from a stagnate, lacking in innovation, flat or decreasing sales company is in changing the hiring and interviewing policies of potential employees by asking these 3 Magic Questions:

1. "What book have you read in the last year that has helped you to become a better person?"
2. " What training, seminar or class have you attended that helped you to become a better person" 
3.  "If you could do anything you desired and make plenty of money and be successful what would you do?"
   The first two questions will let you know if the potential employee is on a path of self-initiative to learn and grow as a person and it lets them know from the beginning that self and interpersonal growth is a value and expectation of the company. So when they are asked to go to a training on better communication skills, they are excited and ready to learn versus feeling like it is a waste of time.
   
   The third question gives you the interviewer an idea of how much soul searching the candidate has done to determine their calling, passion or purpose in life? It also sets up the value that your company celebrates a person's whole self and will help them to live a life of purpose.

The next steps is to incorporate a Human Potential Strategy at your company.

1. Train Managers in Interpersonal & Managing People Skills: Personality, Communication and Diversity
2. Orientation train new employees on interpersonal skills: Personality, Communication, Diversity and Team Work.
3. Train Trainers and Managers to be Dynamic & Creative Trainers
4. Train all employees on Interpersonal Skills (see above)
5. Provide classes on helping employees examine their purpose and career choice.
6. Track employees self growth and  interpersonal development skills using a Learning Management System (LMS) software.
7. Use a 360 Degree Evaluation System: 5 people evaluations vs. supervisor to employee evaluation.
8. Conduct yearly Employee Engagement and Satisfaction Surveys
9. Conduct Exit Interviews
10. Conduct Return On Investment for impact on company bottom line numbers for Development & Engagement Strategies...you can easily look at sales numbers, turnover, customer service scores for example.

Franny Knight, Inc. and the SME People of KC offer a Free Human Potential Evaluation for organizations to help them begin the process of getting 100% engagement from employees: www.frannyknight.com or 816-686-7499. 

Books are my LifeBlood for Following My Dream

I would not be where I am today if I didn't have a ferocious appetite for reading. Books have inspired me past my own limited beliefs, others limited beliefs and given me the courage and inspiration to make a creative and inspired life for myself. What am I reading now you ask? That is such a funny question because I am always reading 4 or 5 books at a time. So here is what I am reading right now that I love!

Crush It! Gary Vaynerchuck (A short read on following your passion no matter what, then taking it and turning it into millions with social media tools - a very getter done book!!!) I am incorporating many of his ideas. Gary turned his father's discount liquor store in New Jersey from a $3 million to a $10 million business using the suggested techniques. What I love the most is his belief that you can be passionate about the most obscure, strange thing and still make money if you are passionate about it.

Keys to Yourself, Venice Bloodworth This book was written in 1952 long before the popular Secret and Law of Attraction books of today. She believes in training your subconscious mind to deliver all that is already yours. She has some very powerful affirmations and ideas that really take me to another level in my belief system and the possibility of making it all happen for myself.

The other 3 books that are not related to passion, living your dreams, training your mind to get what you want that I am reading right now.

Grown Up Digital, Don Tapscott a book about the Net Generation (30 and under) and their positive attributes that are contributing to a massive shift in how we work among other shifts.

Social Media Bible, everything you ever wanted to know on Social Media & Marketing.

The Four Day Win: End Your Diet War and Achieve Thinner Peace, Martha Beck, PhD I'm really fascinated right now with our problem with obesity and being overweight even though we all know what we should be doing - masses of people are unable to win this battle. I believe it is all a subconscious mind problem and so does Martha.

Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change: Joe Tidd and John Bessant I'm wanting to provide Human Capital Consulting Services to organizations and this book is the perfect book for getting my skill set sharpened. Unfortunately its a textbook so very difficult to read.

Following is a list of most of the books I have read that have helped me to stay on the path to Follow My Dream.  Let me know if you would like a recommendation for you with where you are in your life right now.

Your Heart’s Desire, Sonia Choquette

Think and Grow Rich, Napolean Hill

Building Your Field of Dreams, Mary Manin Morrisey

Creating Money, Sanaya Roman

Psychic Pathway, Sonia Choquette

Return to Love, Marianne Williamson:

Alchemist, Coehlo

A Whack on the Side of the Head , Roger von Oech  

Wishcraft, Barbara Sher

Reinvention of Work, Matthew Fox

Recovery of Your Inner Child, Lucia Capacchione

Finding Your Perfect Work, Paul and Sarah Edwards

Creating Prosperity, Shakti Gawain

Find Your Calling, Love Your Life, Marth Finney

Do What You Love the Money Will Follow, Marsha Sinetar:

Hope for the Flowers, Trina Paulus 

Emperors New Clothes

The Lemonade Stand, Emanuel Modu: 

Creating a Life Worth Living, Carol Lloyd

True Work, Justine Willis Toms and Michael Toms:

Crush It, Gary Vaynerchuk

Keys to Your Success, Venice Bloodworth

Law of Attraction,  Hicks-Abraham

Orbiting the Giant Hairball, Gordon MacKenzie

30 Day Commitment fo Follow My Dream. Will You Join Me?

I am starting today making a 30 Day Commitment to Follow My Dream of Being a Successful Human Potential Counselor, Consultant, Trainer and Motivational Speaker. Everyday between October 11 & November 11, 2010, I will feed my subconscious mind affirmations and claims of my Dream and conduct 2-3 hours of activities, mostly marketing, but also getting and providing support to others joining the commitment journey with me every day. Check back here to see the daily log and blog. Join here with me and make your own commitment with comments and/or join me on Facebook: 30 Days of Following Your Dream Commitment Event.