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Are you a finisher? Do you love the feel of completing a task and checking it off your list? Goal completion is a strong human motivator. Yet, writing significant goals that have a positive impact on the work environment can be tough. Here's a framework to consider the next time you begin to ... Views: 3856
A leader is not the one who knows how to tell others what to do and motivate them to follow her. A leader is not the one who stands up for the what he believes in or inspires others to do the same. A leader is the woman, man, tree or eagle who is passionate about what they are passionate about. ... Views: 3842
How many times has this happened to you….you are sitting at your desk going about your work. You look up and you notice ‘Harry’ about to walk past you. You know what you are about to cop so you take a deep breath. He says something to you and you have to respond. All you can do is mumble ... Views: 3840
Rule 1: Say what you want (not what you don’t want)
This is probably the most important rule of NLP. It is very important to remember that EVERYTHING that we say, think or do has an impact on our unconscious mind. It is our goal as NLP practitioners to continually programme our minds with what ... Views: 3836
QUESTION:
I’ve never been in a leadership position before. How do I get my team to trust my leadership? How do I get employees to follow me?
ANSWER:
First, recognize that your fears are perfectly normal and understandable. Every leader and executive I’ve coached during the last 12 ... Views: 3834
What do I mean by “Leadership with a small l”? I wrote about Leadership with a Big L for SelfGrowth.com http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Leadership_with_a_Big_L_-_4_Keys_to_Leading_When_it_is_Your_Job.html - that is being a leader when that is your job and responsibility to set objectives, map ... Views: 3825
QUESTION:
I’m in a new leadership position. I’m excited about the opportunity for advancement, but sometimes I feel insecure about my ability to lead a team. I’m afraid I’ll fail if I can’t get people to trust my leadership. It frustrates me when I wonder why I’m the leader instead of someone ... Views: 3821
LEADERSHIP and POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: Profile of Jack Canfield,
Mega Best Selling Author and CEO, Chicken Soup for the Soul Enterprises, Inc.,
Law of Attraction Expert, featured in the film "The Secret"
By: Howard Edward Haller, Ph.D.
The Law of Attraction has played a major ... Views: 3813
Whether it’s a trainer, teacher, parent, politician or manager, great leaders are hard to come by. That said, being a great leader isn’t something that is unreachable; I believe that the very best and most memorable leaders amongst us should aim to have the following five qualities. ... Views: 3813
I’ve been thinking a lot about what I believe to be the central challenge facing our clients right now, along with the rest of our society. It’s not an original concept by any means, but more and more I come to believe that it is the key to unlocking every success principle in ... Views: 3811
Overall, there seems to be a shift in the corporate mind-set-from status-oriented, hard-driven, personality-cult, top-down leadership to more relationship-oriented, collaborative, communication-based types. According to Judith Glaser, author of The Leadership DNA, as quoted by The Wall Street ... Views: 3806
A good leader has a list of responsibilities to a business
and all people involved should hold them accountable.
A good business leader should see to it that every business
investment he/she might make is treated and evaluated on
the same basis. They are also responsible for the return on ... Views: 3798
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You Most.
by
Bill Cottringer
“There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.” ~ Russian Proverb.
What you don't know about a situation is what usually results in not feeling good about things, especially about the gap between where ... Views: 3794
Be an Effective Manager and Tell Them
To have a successful career in any company you must know how to build relationships.
And the most important relationship is between the manager and their direct reports. The strength of this relationship can have a direct result on the success of a team. ... Views: 3791
What is change? Put simply, change is an effort to improve an organization in some way. This change could take the form of new processes and procedures, upgrades to a new system, changes to the organizational structure, or changes to roles and responsibilities.
Leaders understand that the ... Views: 3790
QUESTION:
I built a good company that was growing, strong and healthy for years. Now, after significant expansion, the company is stagnant. I’m having trouble with staff follow-through. Business volume is down. Sometimes I even have a problem keeping everyone on the payroll busy. Some of that ... Views: 3754
Leaders are responsible for making things happen, on-time and as scheduled. Superiors and subordinates don’t want excuses from their leaders, they want results.
When a leader makes a commitment to complete a task or accomplish a mission, follow-through is the guarantee that he provides to ... Views: 3749
QUESTION:
I know I’m qualified to lead our team but I would be working for a boss who is consistently critical. The existing team leader has accepted another job, so the position is vacant. I’m not sure my skin is thick enough to report directly to a superior who meticulously scours every ... Views: 3746
QUESTION:
Even though I have the right training and experience for a leadership position I want, I don’t have enough confidence to apply. Just the thought of interviewing makes my stomach squirm. I have good ideas about how I can make a positive difference as a leader but I’m stalling instead ... Views: 3702
Steve Jobs helped to harness technologies that improve the quality of our lives and the lives of generations to come. He also provided a great role model for leadership success, and we can learn much from his remarkable mindset.
Acquiring 21st Century Tools
Steve Jobs signature products ... Views: 3691
I found out from years of experience and from reading great books that the biggest problem or obstacle in human life is the lack of self-confidence. Fortunately, you can follow almost each of the eight following tips without spending a penny.
1. Spend one hour per day on positive self-talk: ... Views: 3689
I believe that the true measure of a person is not found in what they do when they know people are watching, but rather how they conduct themselves even when they think no one is watching. Are you always cordial and empathetic when you deal with people, especially people who carry no sway over ... Views: 3675
What is leadership and motivation and how are they related to each other?
Leadership refers to the ways of dealing with different people in different situations. There are three main types of leadership. Autocratic leadership; where the leader knows best and makes decisions on his own, ... Views: 3665
What does it mean to live in a person’s strength zone? Every day millions of people go to work and participate in tasks that have very little meaning or value to them personally. They struggle with the monotony of working in a job or position that does not fulfill them. When I often train or ... Views: 3660
Society has trained us over the years to turn down the volume on our intuition. We have become to doubt our intuition so much, that we no longer listen to or even believe in our intuition. Your intuition is that little voice inside you that knows before you even think about anything. What little ... Views: 3646
I get called to fix people problems and I'm really good at that. Most often the person I'm helping has a supervisor or executive team member who has huge gaps in their own management skills. For example here are some of the deficiencies I observe:
• Personality differences
• Stagnant ... Views: 3634
Trust is the fuel that propels teams and organizations to high-levels of success. Yet, organizational leaders today unknowingly do almost everything in their power to sabotage trust.
The primary way in which trust in organizations is sabotaged is by a leader’s communication style. One ... Views: 3631
This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Leadership. Leadership Skills are the tools and traits acquired to facilitate guiding or a directing a group, most commonly toward a shared goal. Todd McDonald is the Official Guide to Leadership. Leadership: Theory and Practice, by ... Views: 3625
We know what organizations think motivates people. But the research says money isn’t an effective motivator. By the 1960s researchers were showing that paying employees a miserly wage or salary is an effective way to destroy their motivation, but once you are paying them enough, any additional ... Views: 3622
During winter Leadership Coaching Sessions, leaders often complain, “Employee morale is so low on gloomy winter days! My team members and direct reports left for the holidays energized and happy. Some of them returned in January exhausted and crabby. Even some of my best performers seem ... Views: 3617
Do you have a super ordinate goal (SOG) for your organization; one that drives you above and beyond basic needs for your organization’s success? Is it at the core of your vision?
Take the Disney Corporation as an example. One of their objectives is to maintain and build the integrity of the ... Views: 3601
Have you ever been in a situation where you saw a leader take a specific action, yet you had no idea "why" or "how" the leader decided to take that specific action? Well, I have too! That's why I decided to study various leaders that I have worked with over 22 years and before long, I started to ... Views: 3600
“Entrepreneurial Leadership & Personal Success in spite of Adversity: Dr. Nido Qubein PART II”
Chairman of Great Harvest Bread Company, Chairman of Business Life, Inc., Chairman of the Miss North Carolina USA program, and President of High Point University,
By Dr. Howard E. Haller
Dr. ... Views: 3573
Some people are effective listeners and some are not. The difference between being a good listener and a bad one lies in the way that you interact with the speaker. A good listener is intimate with the speaker in that he or she listens on a whole different level. An average listener will hear ... Views: 3557
My grandfather taught me many things during his lifetime, and what I learned about being a leader came from observing him. It wasn't until I was a teenager that I realized my grandfather was a prominent person in our community and in neighboring states.
Doctors, lawyers, and teachers were ... Views: 3547
In this day and age, everyone sells. From the receptionist who answers the telephone to the accounting clerk who deals with a client’s billing inquiry, everyone sells. It is vitally important for each person to understand a few of the important relationship skills used by top professionals. ... Views: 3540
Many people think that leaders are born, not made and that if they aren’t officially a Manager, Director, Executive Directory, Vice President, President or CEO, that they are really a leader.
I beg to differ. Leadership is a set of specific behaviors that can be learned.
Here are seven ... Views: 3534
Extraordinary times, like the ones we are currently living, tend to bring out the best and the worst in everyone. Tendencies, beliefs, and even decisions get easily polarized because there are forces at hand that push us to make tough choices—about relationships, work, finances, health, and ... Views: 3513
How often do you say something like the following to yourself?
I’ll be happy when:
• I change and become the person I want to be in my life
• I get a new home or car or boat or new toy
• I win the lottery
• My boss learns how to supervise me properly
• I can be friends with everyone I meet
• I ... Views: 3511
Throughout time, great leaders have always had vision. Vision is one of the most important elements to being a champion. The Ancient Writer states it this way, "Where there is no vision, the people perish….” Vision keeps us on track. It even shows us where the track is. So, if vision is ... Views: 3481
The Effective Leader works at building up and maintaining a series of Leadership Competencies which they use to do their job. By ‘competencies’ we do not mean ‘natural’ attributes, personality styles or skills. Competency is something, either natural or learnt, which is practiced and used ... Views: 3480
A born leader. We hear that statement frequently, but what does it really mean? In the corporate world, is every boss a leader? And is every leader a boss? The short answer is “no” to both questions.
Let’s look first at the definition (the noun) of the two words. According to ... Views: 3472
In modern behavioral terms, “introvert” is used to describe individuals who are most comfortable in the inner life of the mind, come across as more reserved, and are less likely to seek numerous or large interactions.
They represent approximately half of the population. In the workplace their ... Views: 3457
Effective team building is about bringing people together, helping employees collaborate and encouraging positive workplace behaviors such as empathy. We tend to focus our team building efforts on groups rather than indivicuals but I've noticed over time that many organizations could build ... Views: 3454
QUESTION:
I have a career in a large corporation. I’m paid well and my job is important . . . to everyone but me. I live for weekends. By Sunday morning, I’m already dreading Monday morning.
I want to start a new business but I’m too afraid to take the risk. I’ve investigated over a dozen ... Views: 3451
Truly Great Leaders expect maximum productivity from everyone!
In High Performance Teams absenteeism is very low, productivity is high, and people are busy doing what they should be doing to contribute, they are entirely relaxed about the leader and see him or her as part of the team, rather ... Views: 3451
At a recent corporate storytelling workshop for Microsoft, I was asked a question that I hear frequently: “How do I open my speech?” Several others in the room agreed that the first two or three minutes of a speech are often the most awkward.
Is it that way for you, as well? Do you have a ... Views: 3441
This Part I of a two part article about US Senator Inouye provides an insight into the groundbreaking proven research about overcoming adversity and the relationship it has with "Leadership and Adversity" has received extensive endorsements and enthusiastic reviews from well-known prominent ... Views: 3438
There are many theories on what leadership is. People love to give flowery language and fiery quotes that seem more motivational than instructional. Listing endless adjectives about leaderships is not defining leadership or even describing leadership. It actually shows how hard it is to say ... Views: 3437
An Image of a Change Agent - by Michael Wash
The questions that this paper begin to address are the following:
- What are the appropriate development experiences for me as a change agent?
- Where do the experiences that are available now fit? How do they link together?
- Is there an ... Views: 3430