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Motivate Yourself for Success with these Books, Workbooks, and CDs. Values-Based Life and Leadership Strategies that Really Work.

Proven strategies for goal-setting, personal motivation, leadership development, and life success. You will learn how to:

  • Dream bigger and think more creatively.
  • Confront your fears with courage and determination.
  • Stop procrastinating and use your time more productively.
  • Overcome inner barriers holding you back from being your best.
  • Be more effective as a leader – and as a parent.
  • Achieve your most authentic goals.
  • Become the person you are truly meant to be.

SparkStore.com is your best source for books, CDs, and other resources for personal motivation, leadership development, and success coaching and training. Values-based life and leadership strategies:

Motivation: Be your own Success Coach by applying the strategies in these books and CDs to your work and your life.

Leadership: Learn how you can be a more effective leader at work, at home, and in your community.

Goal-Setting: Stop cheating yourself with anemic goals and dreams!

Team-Building: Learn from the greatest leaders in history and fiction how to motivate your team for achievement.

Wealth and Money: Achieve your financial goals by living your values.

Spiritual and Emotional Strength: The ultimate benefit of values-based living is the emotional equanimity and spiritual peace that you gain.

 

Ten Great Reasons for your Employer to Pay for your Spark Plug PLUS Dues

Reason #1: Winning players build winning teams
The best leaders appreciate that the essential first step to building a winning team is helping the individual team members develop the skills and attitudes required think and act like a winner. And there’s no better way than membership in Spark Plug PLUS.

“We adopted The Twelve Core Action Values as one of our educational offerings in the belief that helping our people be more successful in their personal lives would also help us cultivate a more positive workplace environment.  In this regard, it has met our every expectation.  I have heard nothing but positive comments from program participants, and believe this initiative has reinforced the principles that we stand for.”
Todd Linden, President and CEO, Grinnell Regional Medical Center

Reason #2: Unique curriculum and innovative strategies
The Twelve Core Action Values is not just another generic motivation or customer service program. Over the course of a membership year, PLUS members receive dozens of unique strategies for personal motivation, leadership development, and personal success.

The Twelve Core Action Values is like graduate school for anyone who has been through the other leadership or self-development programs now on the market.”
Susan Frampton, President, The Planetree Alliance

Reason #3: Because motivating your team takes more than a pep rally
Spark Plug PLUS gives you a huge array of resources for personal motivation and leadership development. The systematic and multifaceted approach of Spark Plug PLUS assures a sustained and lasting impact.

“I've been a student of The 7 Habits since 1989, and have been trained in facilitating this course. I’ve found that the resources of Spark Plug PLUS and The Twelve Core Action Values really are like a graduate curriculum for The 7 Habits.”
Freddi Steele, Spark Plug PLUS Member, Flagstaff, Arizona

Reason #4: Spark Plug PLUS develops latent leadership talent
In today’s complex world, organizations need leadership in every corner, not just the corner office. Spark Plug PLUS members have access to a large and growing library of leadership resources to guide and motivate their personal leadership development.

The Twelve Core Action Values is a great way to cultivate and nurture leadership talent at every level of an organization.”
David G. Altman, PhD, VP, Research & Innovation
Center for Creative Leadership

Reason #5: The Twelve Core Action Values has a proven track record of helping organizations cultivate a more positive and productive culture
From Florida to Alaska, from Connecticut to Arizona, Joe Tye and The Twelve Core Action Values have helped leaders in business, healthcare, and education foster a more positive and productive organizational culture.

The Twelve Core Action Values has been… one of the factors earning Griffin a place on Fortune magazine’s roster of America’s 100 best companies to work for each of the past six years.  But more important in my view has been the influence that our commitment to The Twelve Core Action Values has had on individual employees.  I’ve heard from many of our people who, as a result of this training, have made impressive personal changes.”
Patrick Charmel, President and CEO, Griffin Hospital

Reason #6: Spark Plug PLUS give managers great team-building resources
The steady infusion of great ideas, and the motivation to put them into practice, will help you be a better leader. Spark Plug PLUS Members receive resources such as Joe’s books Leadership Lessons and The Great Commanders on Success.

“Being in a leadership position that is supposed to keep 40 employees motivated to do their best, I depend on Spark Plug and Spark Plug PLUS to keep me motivated and focused to accomplish that goal. Once I started forwarding Spark Plug to the Nurse Manager group in my organization, they not only would send me thank you replies, but remind me if I forgot.”
Larry Anderson, Pharmacy Director, Yavapai Regional Medical Center

Reason #7: Joe Tye will be Your Values Coach
As America’s Values Coach (and increasingly the Values Coach for the world), Joe will help guide your goal-setting and decision-making using The Twelve Core Action Values as your values template.

“In more than 25 years of fast paced global business involvement… Joe Tye and Spark Plug PLUS have been one of the most significant factors to assist me in taking time each week to slow down and make certain those around me are being treated with respect and appreciation due them, as well as still challenging them to strive for the most they can offer.  Joe has been a compass for me now for more than 10 years.”
Paul R. Staman, President and CEO, Tripletail Ventures Inc.

Reason #8: PLUS helps you recruit and retain the type of people for whom values really matter
Spark Plug PLUS members are like Chief Recruiting and Retention Officers. Their commitment to values shines through in their attitudes and their actions. They are magnets who attract like-minded people – people who take values seriously and make sure that those values are reflected in attitudes and actions.

“THANK YOU for the Awesome ideas I pick up from Spark Plug PLUS!  The Return on Investment pales is tremendous.  I'm an SP+ Lifer.”
Paul Schwend, Jacksonville, Florida

Reason #9: Joe’s Never Fear, Never Quit philosophy is the ultimate success formula for any entrepreneurial, sales-oriented business
The two prerequisites for success in sales and entrepreneurship are courage and perseverance. You need to courage to take action and the determination to keep taking action even in the face of rejection, obstacles, and setbacks. Nobody has put more thought into practical strategies for courage and motivation than Joe Tye, author of Everyday Courage for Extraordinary Times and the international bestseller Never Fear, Never Quit.

“I find the coaching strategies in Spark Plug Plus inspiring and empowering. Whether as parents, employees or executives - we all take leadership roles.  True leaders seek to continuously sharpen their saw by learning from mentors like Joe Tye, who have blazed their trail and achieved success. The Twelve Core Action Values in Spark Plug rest on sound principles that are central to my very core. ”
Pat Rachel, Spark Plug PLUS Member, Tennessee

Reason #10: The Twelve Core Action Values will help you achieve your organization’s valued outcomes
Want to promote outstanding customer service? When your people appreciate how living The Twelve Core Action Values (including Mission, Enthusiasm, and Service) can help them be happier and more effective in their personal lives, great customer service will be an automatic byproduct. Need to enhance productivity? When your people recognize how The Twelve Core Action Values (including Vision, Focus, and Awareness) can help them be more effective managers of their own time and money, high productivity will be an automatic byproduct.

“Membership in Spark Plug PLUS is something I do for myself. It gives me something I don't find elsewhere... ready access to valuable insights on living a thoughtful and purposeful life; a network of people to share ideas and challenges; special resources that show me the best of the motivational thoughts around today.”
Dawn Mancuso, Executive Director, AAMS, Alexandria, Virginia

Bonus: Spark Plug PLUS membership features a large and growing library of motivational resources including books and workbooks, CDs and online recordings, special reports, and newsletters
Joe is a prodigious producer of unique and innovative resources for personal motivation and leadership development. The wide array of resources that he creates for Spark Plug PLUS members helps them be more effective and successful in every dimension of their work and their lives.

“One of the major reasons I am renewing my membership is that Spark Plug PLUS is so accessible.  The CD's sent with the coaching letters, and the CD packages available to members, have made it much easier for me to access information about the core values, leadership, true wealth, and other SP+ concepts.  My life has truly changed over the last year, and I want to continue with the change.”
Sandi Ryan, Des Moines, Iowa

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