great managers

Great Managers Are Made Not Born Ep 224 Office Gossip

Great Managers Are Made Not Born should be the mantra for any organization. Creating great managers through training and education leads to a more successful company and happier employees.

Office morale is one area that is seldom focused upon and yet office morale is a huge part of company culture.… Continue reading

What does it take to win at life?

What does it take to win at life?

To win in your career, your income, and your relationships, you must possess 3 things: – An abundance of confidence – Daily inspiration and motivation – The right insights, ideas, and instruction

What is it we all want in our lives? I… Continue reading

Great Managers do not micro-manage

Great managers do not micromanage their employees and they have learned through their Mental Prosperity training to instruct and monitor.

When you are one of the few great managers and you have jobs to do it is very easy to overlook the instructions you need to accomplish the task. A course in Mental Prosperity, Learn to Win success training makes good managers great.

I was working with a car dealership a while back and the dealer hired me to ‘motivate’ his staff, saying sales were not progressing as they should. Well, my first question in my mind asked, sales are not progressing as they should? Who said they should and why, but I did not ask the dealership this. Instead I asked what they were doing to move sales ahead and they explained their current motivation. It was basically what all sales companies do and that was incentivizing the sales process.

When I asked what that meant they said, every month we offer the lead sales person a new prize or gift if they finish atop the leader board. I then asked, over the last several months, how many of your 23 sales people have won? They told me it was basically the same three people over and over.

Interesting, isn’t it?  What is your thought on this right now? Is that a good thing or not? Here is my in-post poll: The fact that the same 3 sales people are always winning the monthly sales board is because: A: They are using the wrong incentives B: Those sales people have been there the longest C: Those sales people are just the best sales people D: fill this in for yourself  😉

Just an interesting poll. If you would send me your answers I would love that! steve@stevesapato.com

But when I delved deeper into the why here is what I found; Continue reading

You will never get the right answer until…

You will never get the right answer until…

I have been training and teaching people for over thirty years and I still struggle with some of the most basic concepts of communication. Maybe you do to. One of these areas is, I struggle with getting the right answer to questions… Continue reading


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Steve has been a professional trainer for corporations for decades. His mentorship and leadership for numerous businesses have allowed him to create an atmosphere of success that pervades everything he does. His humor and creativity embodies a desire and hope in his audiences to become all that they want to and can become.

His newest book is ‘Become The GO-TO Person For Your Success’ takes Professional Networking to it’s highest calling and teaches you how to become the success you have dreamed of.

Featured on CBS/Atlanta for his expertise on Bullying and for his no-nonsense approach in his seminars on Bullying.