Small to mid-sized companies, which employ 75 percent of Americans, implement drug-free workplace programs only 5 to 10 percent of the time. Here’s how to help convince management of the need for a drug-free workplace program and the steps to set up such a program.

While most senior executives realize learning is critical to achieving meaningful change, many don’t realize what it takes to achieve the level of learning necessary to make the difference between success and failure. True change can only be achieved through a process of targeted learning that does two things: sells the desired change to the people who have to make it happen; and teaches those people (and gets them to adopt) the new behaviors required to make the change happen.

Track every action that relates to the area of your life you want to improve, advises Darren Hardy, author of “The Compound Effect.” Simply carry around a small notebook and a writing instrument. You’re going to write it all down. Every day. Without fail. The biggest difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people are willing to do what unsuccessful people are not.

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Robert Vetere, author of “From Wags to Riches,” explores the human-animal bond and looks at moving from extrinsic motivation to intrinsic motivation for both dogs and people. In the business world, he says, intrinsic motivation is widely believed to be the key to employee engagement and one way to ensure people get the highest degree of satisfaction from their work.

Don’t just follow the Levels 1-4 of the traditional analysis model—wield them.

Training is child’s play if you have the right system.

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Understand the difference between managing and coaching.

Few of us would want to go back to high school, but there are some lessons we were wrong to leave behind.

Learning is a social process, so consider social media to support your training process.

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