Last week I wrote a couple of posts on upgrading your golf game and improving your public speaking skills and perhaps you thought they were interesting yet unrelated subjects. Not so, friends. I just wanted to give you time to digest both topics and allow them to sink in really well. Now I am about to give you an “actionist plan” - way better than your typical action plan - that will make you more competitive than you’ve ever been. Do what I’m doing. Fine tune your golf game and your communications game at the same time.

These two subjects of interest are powerful tools individually. But collectively I call them the Quantum Combo. One reinforces the other. They feed off each other by their complimentary natures and the two together will catapult you forward in ways you haven’t imagined up to this point.

Read Andy Dlugan’s link on how better communication and presentation skills will push you ahead of the pack for leadership opportunities on the job. The golf gatherings for fun with the office mates are gold mines of opportunity. They are also another chance to show off your outstanding communication talents.

Couple this with being able to hob-knob with your boss and his boss and her boss and all of their bosses along with every lateral peer and every subordinate below you in the organization at the next company golf scramble. You can’t help but elevate your career to another level. It’s a can’t miss proposition.

What’s that? Your company doesn’t have a golf scramble? Perfect! Start one and show yourself to be a leader once again. All the other duffers at work are just waiting on someone to do it. So why not be everyone’s hero and start a new company tradition?

June is halfway thru and July is upon us. Make it your business to make the second half of the year more profitable. Be an actionist and join your nearest Toastmasters International club and then sign up for a golf class at your nearest public course. Put the Quantum Combo into play and change your destiny today.