One thing separates true achievers in business (and in life!) from the also-rans, wannabes, and washouts… and it’s your answer to this one question:

Are you playing to WIN – or are you playing NOT to lose?

People who play to win have a different approach to goals, time, and achievement than people who are playing NOT to lose. People who play to win exhibit different behavior, they make decisions differently, and their results are clearly different, too…

These are the people who have that certain “Success DNA” that up til now might have been difficult for you to put your finger on – but you’ve always known when you were in their presence… or worked with them on a project, or had them as your boss, or were lucky enough to have them as your mentor.

Now ask yourself if YOU are playing to win… or are you simply playing NOT to lose? How can you tell for sure? Ask yourself these tough questions…

As a CEO, senior executive, or business owner do you…

• Feel overwhelmed by the tasks and to-do’s you could be - and feel you should be - doing at any given moment in your day...
• Get stuck when trying to figure out HOW to simplify, eliminate, delegate, or outsource the hundreds of things you need to get done each week…
• End up fighting fires and working in “crisis mode” way more than you feel you should given where you are in your business or career?
• Regret being burned by so-called productivity, leadership or goal-setting "gurus" that promised a quick fix...
• Suffer disappointments when trying to implement personal and business “systems” that seem to work for "everyone else..."
• Fear that your business or career is sliding back to where you were 2-3 years ago rather than leaping ahead...
• Find more resistance from your senior team, direct reports, and front line team members about raising their game and contributing more...
• Get the feeling you and your company are spending too much time “spinning your wheels” and not enough on coordinated execution to reach your financial and business goals?

If this sounds like your situation, here are two pieces of good news for you:

1. You’re not alone!
2. It’s not your fault…

In fact, these symptoms are among the most common that you’ll find in 90% of American businesses today. It doesn’t matter if you work for a Fortune 1000 corporation… or if you run a $10 million local business… or even if you’re running your own solo practice as a doctor, lawyer, or financial advisor…

The symptoms are easy enough to tell. The solutions are much less obvious…

Let me point out what you already know is NOT going to help you break through these roadblocks to your personal success and financial well-being. And maybe you’ve tried some or all of these in your organization...

• Hire a consultant to come in and do a “strategic plan” for your company
• Hire a coach (or recently laid off “nice HR lady”) who knows nothing about what you’re up against in running your day-to-day business
• Send your staff to a 1-day workshop and hope they come back as the productivity, leadership, and sales gurus you thought they were when you hired them
• Add 15-20 minute “training sessions” to your executive or team meetings – without much luck, even less enthusiasm, and zero results.
• Buy some training videos that are still sitting on your shelf – and probably still in their unbroken shrink-wrap

After doing any or all of this, many of my clients ask themselves the famous Dr. Phil question – “How’s that working for you?”

And the answers always come back the same…

• It’s not good enough…
• Training doesn’t work…
• Waste of time…
• Waste of money…

Here’s the secret, folks – none of this stuff works on its own.

• Not consultants
• Not coaching
• Not training
• Not workshops
• Not leadership courses
• Not sales training
• Not goal-setting
• Not strategy sessions
• Not meetings, books, videos, or other “employee motivation” nonsense

So what IS proven to impact your personal and organizational results? What’s proven to actually WORK and LAST? What’s the “secret sauce”?

Introducing the Quantum Leap Program…

Since 1996 we have been helping businesspeople just like you break through the barriers that prevent you from being as successful as you would like to be.

"Since our company attended Michael Gidlewski's program classes, our revenues have doubled in just 1 year's time. Michael has been a tremendous asset to our organization." - Carter Trudel, GMI Insurance Services

We’ve been helping both executives and business owners unlock higher levels of achievement, profitability, and results and turn their dreams and goals into reality to create bigger and bigger futures.

Before going any further, here’s a very critical point that may have contributed in the past to you unknowingly sabotaging your own success…

It’s a well-known fact that the #1 reason most people fail is that they never set goals. No goals = no growth…

“Grow or die” is law of nature. Peter Drucker said it best when he remarked, “Either you work hard to obsolete and replace your current business model, product or service OR your competition will do it for you, and to you.” 

And the new twist is that we are now in “Permanent White Water.” The new economy is the new normal and things are never going back to the way they were.

You have to change the mindset and upgrade the skill set of your people so they can operate effectively, increase their confidence level, and keep your shared vision alive to achieve greater goals.

In today’s environment, “lifelong learning” is not enough – lasting financial and entrepreneurial success requires you and your team to focus on learning, unlearning, and relearning.

Key Question: How do YOU stay focused in this state of disruption?

ACHIEVING your personal and business goals and then creating an action plan that WORKS in the midst of your day-to-day demands is difficult at best.

In fact, without a structured program, only 13% of businesspeople consistently set goals and achieve them!

The remaining 87% of businesspeople wonder why they are stuck, what they or their organization may be missing, and how others manage to reach higher and higher levels of sales and leadership success… while people in their own organization seem to be working harder and harder only to achieve the same results. Or worse, maybe your organization is even sliding backwards in terms of revenue, profitability, and team accomplishment!

“I’m amazed about where my time is currently spent. This program is about small shifts in habits, focus, and asking the right questions – which leads to huge leaps in productivity, accomplishment and a sense of control in both my business and my life.” - Peter Kulp, Kulp Tile & Marble, Inc.

Here's How the Quantum Leap Program Works

The Quantum Leap Program combines five proven methods in personal development today:

1. Small group workshops
2. Multi-sensory perception (reading, listening, writing, discussion)
3. Spaced repetition and ongoing reinforcement
4. Progressively higher levels of accountability and “do it now” attitude
5. Convenient and easy to use training modules

When you invest in The Quantum Leap Program, you and your team will participate in a year-long process with in-person half-day work sessions conducted monthly.

Click here to download the 12-month program outline

“The best thing about Quantum Leap is the ongoing reinforcement of the goal achievement process and the concrete daily, weekly, and monthly tools to take action and do it.” - Steve Bauer, The Referral Academy

How Powerful is The Quantum Leap Program?

It really doesn’t matter what we say about the power of the Quantum Leap Program – it’s much more important for you to see what CEOs, business leaders, executives, and entrepreneurs say about their RESULTS:

	"I am happier and my business is more profitable. Discovering and defining goals has always been a real challenge for me. Michael Gidlewski's program has taught me how to clearly define what's important to me, and how to chart a course and stay on it. I now run my business instead of it running me." - Avery Manko, The Manko Company
	“WOW! Excellent tools to help with clarity, but even more important, gaining personal insight into the ‘Why’ of my goals AND a systematic approach to make sure they happen.”                             - Dennis Carroll, Premier Personal Training
	“Mike has a unique ability to ask the right questions and keep my team focused. The workshops reinforce strong leadership and sales practices and the entire Quantum Leap system opens the door to a brighter, bigger future for my company and for me personally.”                    -- Scott Messer, Sales Evolution
	“Michael’s Quantum Leap program has given me laser beam focus on my goals and my High-Payoff Activities. It’s not that I don’t get off track anymore – it’s that I now have the strategies and systems to get back on track much more quickly and reliably. This has made a huge impact on our business growth.” - Karen Trudel, GMI Insurance
	“Quantum Leap is an action-oriented, bottom-line driven program that shows you EXACTLY how to unlock your potential and how to translate your goals directly into RESULTS. This could skyrocket anyone’s success.”  - David Newman, Do It! Marketing
	“Creative environment to refresh our direction and commitment. The monthly modules and ‘real world’ tools we use between sessions make all the difference. This is not a learning program – it’s a DOING and results program. I’m so glad I invested in this experience.” - Peter Schmidt, Fairfax Compliance

Quantum Leap unleashes the power of clarity. You’ll finally be able to decide exactly what you really want in every area of life! The Quantum Leap Program is a synthesis of the best ideas and strategies on personal management and effective leadership ever brought together in one place, in one simple, easy-to-use plan…

After completing The Quantum Leap Program, you will:

• Create and prioritize your specific personal and business goals
• Separate the truths and myths of personal motivation
• Organize your day (finally!) using a bullet-proof system that works in the real-world context of interruptions, emergencies, and surprises
• Focus your time; effort and energy on High Payoff Activities (use just this one strategy and watch your income soar!!)
• Implement the formula for proactive management
• Make the most of your productivity accelerators
• Keep 10 new commitments for lasting personal productivity
• Track and measure your progress daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly
• Personalize and apply the 80/20 Pareto principle
• Plan your business and personal life with Positive Expectancy
• Eliminate self-limiting beliefs that may be holding you back
• Deploy the 12-step Goal Maximizer Process
• Leverage the Power of the Slight Edge
• Bring all areas of your life into greater balance which results in a happier and healthier lifestyle
• Develop an action plan to systematically achieve your goals over time

This program is not for everyone or every organization. In order to ensure your lasting results, we insist that every participant is serious about changing their approach to their work and their lives.

Here are some indisputable truths to think about as you consider whether you and your organization are ready for Quantum Leap…

• No one ever becomes truly great by accident
• You can create the life you want – or keep living on “autopilot”
• Before you can lead others, you have to discover yourself
• Change is inevitable but growth is optional
• You choose your path – you can complain, struggle, or achieve
• You can work on what’s urgent or work on what matters most
• The world steps aside for people who have a clear idea of where they are going and how they plan to get there
• Hoping and planning and dreaming are important… only action creates results

Your next step…

Here’s the hard truth: In today’s world, being “good” ain’t good enough. Meaning, whatever innovative and exceptional things you’re doing today are going to become table stakes in the future. You MUST keep raising the bar – but you also need to deliver results short-term.

And if you’re massively successful, your biggest threat comes in the form of complacency and arrogance because success today means you know what USED to work.

If even 10% of what you’ve read here makes sense, we should talk.

It boils down to the power you’ll have with an "Everything is possible, Nothing can stand in your way, Do things your own way AND Have fun doing it" approach to your business and personal life.

Clients that have gone through the program – and keep coming back to it year after year – say that the biggest difference shows up in a sense of total control over your fate, total confidence in what you're doing, and a remarkable liberation from the stress and problems that weigh down most others you and your team compete with.

Guess who’s going to win – every time – under those conditions? 

You’ll see opportunities where you once saw obstacles. And you’ll erase the boundaries of what (and how much) you can achieve in the future.