Take a quick look around your office. What do you see?

If you're blessed with great leadership and managerial skills, you see eager, motivated people happily doing their best because it's important to them.

But if you're an ordinary human being like most of us, what you probably see are a bunch of folks just going through the motions.

I've been where you are now and I know exactly how discouraging it can be. You work hard and do your best but somehow things just get off track.

What's worse, you know if you can see your employees' lack of excitement and commitment, your bosses are going to see it, too.

And put the blame squarely on your shoulders.

What went wrong?

You know for a fact that a number of your people looked like real All Stars when they were hired: the kind of employees who aren't just great producers, they make everyone around them better, too.

Today, though, they're just a tad better than average and nowhere near as focused, eager and committed as they were when they arrived.

So what happened?

Chances are they ran head-on into one of a number of common “Performance Barriers” -- situations that drain the life and enthusiasm out of even the best employees and leave them with their wheels spinning.

It's a lot like those great little cars you probably had when you were a kid. You wound them up and they raced across the floor until they hit a wall, at which point they just lay there buzzing loudly but going nowhere at all.

Now, once that happened, you had to redirect the car to get it moving again.

Same thing in your office.

In short, you could use some help and that's exactly what I'm offering.

Get things back on track, FAST!

Chances are you didn't learn the skills you need to deal with unmotivated employees in school.

If you had, you would already have been promoted about six times and be facing a whole different set of challenges.

And your workplace is living proof that you can't acquire them by simply going to work every day and trying hard.

Which is why I'm holding a LIVE teleseminar on 12-17-09, titled, "How to Motivate Employees".

When I first gave this program at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business two years ago, I was amazed at the response it got.

Attendees -- all of whom were experienced managers -- kept coming up to me to say how excited they were by this or that suggestion.

And you know what?

I continued to hear from them for months with stories about how well my strategies had worked and what a difference they were seeing in their employees.

In all modesty, I have to say this topic has been a huge hit.

Simple and straightforward, I'll explain how to discover what's holding your employees back, then give you easy-to-use tactics to get them excited and motivated again.

For example, I'll let you in on:

• What Apple's Steve Jobs, Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines and Richard Branson of Virgin have in common and how you can put that special trait to use to keep your people enthusiastic.
   

• Whose opinion every employee values most and how getting that person's input can help get your employees recommitted to great performance.
   

• How your top producing employee may be undermining the performance of your entire team and the simple one-step secret to stopping the problem in its tracks.
   

• Why fairness isn't all it's cracked up to be and why falling into the fairness trap can de-motivate employees and short-circuit their desire to perform.
   

• Who managing is really about (hint: it's not you) and why flexibility is your most important asset.

As a manager myself (for 24 long and highly educational years), I know what you're facing.

So I've made this teleseminar simple and enjoyable.

I talk about real-world situations you'll recognize right off, and offer solutions that will have you saying “YES, I have to try that tomorrow!”

And because I'm on your side, I don't just talk about roadblocks managers or employees sometimes create themselves.

I also cover strategies for dealing with problems that stem from bad decisions by people at the top of the organization – things like poorly thought out compensation strategies that end up creating bad feelings.

And “Peter Principle” promotions that turn great employees into dreadful bosses.

Plus, we'll take a long hard look at the baggage many employees bring with them.

You know what I'm talking about:

• the workaholics who pride themselves on their 70 hour weeks but don't accomplish any more than the employees who watch the clock
   

• the perfectionists who produce beautiful work while turning blowing deadlines into an art form
   

• not to mention the young workers of the “trophy generation” who have received so much false recognition (for everything from brushing their teeth in the morning to eating their veggies at night) that they don't “get” the relationship between real performance and reward.

In short, this teleseminar gives you everything you need to get to the root of motivation and productivity problems and solve them for once and for all. In fact, it's so powerful I GUARANTEE it unconditionally.