Are your employees looking more and more like they are on a treadmill with no end to the monotony of a daily grind? Do they come to work uninspired and listless about their tasks? Does your company feel like it suffers from a boredom factor in the RED Zone?

Your technologies, products and structures can be copied by competitors. But no one can match your highly charged, motivated people who care.

People are your firm's repository of knowledge and are central to your company's competitive advantage. As a business owner, CEO, or manager, you must empower people around you. Well educated, coached, and highly motivated people are critical to the development and execution of strategies, especially in today's fast paced world, where top management alone can no longer assure your firm's competitiveness—at least according to Ten3 Business e-Coach.

A mere 21 percent of workers are engaged in their jobs according to a study last year by Towers Watson. No doubt the heavier workload and longer hours workers have had to take on a result of the recession have done their fair share of the damage. That's why now is the time for employers to start engaging their work forces. Why inspire? Today's employees want to believe that their work is making a difference in the world.

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