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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Strengthening leadership development with employees
- Within every business lies a network of people who are working to make their employer successful. Because growing business requires more employees, employers need to seek prospective candidates who will align well with their business. Some businesses prefer to promote employees internally; and it can be very beneficial for their company. Keep in mind of three ways a business might want to hire int...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Leadership development for success
- In today's highly competitive world, there is a lot of pressure on leaders to create highly productive organizations. To be successful with this task, leaders will need all of the talent, skills, techniques, and experience they can muster through leadership development. The pressure to succeed can create a real dilemma: whether to "manage" people or to "lead" people. At CMOE, w...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Asking for help
- For many of us, asking for help is a difficult concept. It can require a certain amount of vulnerability. We may feel as if we are admitting a weakness that the world would not have known about, had we not asked for help.Ironically, it's been my experience that people who are able to deliver well-positioned requests for help are seen as very strong individuals. When they demonstrate the hum...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Building future leaders
- As a whole we spend a lot of time filling our minds with various forms of self-improvement.Believe me this is good for us!However, I think what's equally important is the amount of positives that we send to our younger generation.I am certain that I don't have to convince you of the positive results we receive when we "flood" our minds with a good self-improvement book or tape...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Steps to becoming a good leader
- STEPS TO BECOMING A GOOD LEADER: 1. Develop a master plan. What are your goals? What are the organization's goals? How are you going to reach them? 2. Develop a leadership style. To manage people, you need to know how you're going to do it. Be comfortable with the leadership style you choose, and it will lead to future success. 3. Know the risks. Making any decision has its risks. Know the ris...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Stepping into leadership and being the source of your success
- Why is it that we often wait until we have achieved a level of success in network marketing before we feel as though we have earned the right to step into a leadership role? Leadership is NOT a position you acquire as a result of having achieved a certain volume or compensation plan position. It is a place you come from as a declaration that guides your decisions and actions. When you are the sour...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Effective leaders are (#3) communicative
- LISTEN, WRITE, AND ARTICULATE EFFECTIVELY: Leadership positions require effective communication skills. Basic confidence in the art of information sharing is absolutely necessary for effective leadership. Although mastering all of these skills is ideal, it is not always necessary. Creative leaders can develop teams to support them in areas of weakness. One of the strengths of a leader is the capac...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Effective leaders are (#2) technical
- SET CLEAR AND REASONABLE OBJECTIVES FOR THEMSELVES AND OTHERS: Plan? Plan? Plan? Managers need to do their homework. Effective managers know that setting objectives, outlining the steps required to achieve them, and delegating tasks appropriately to each staff person are all necessary components of bringing a project to fruition. The development of a system that maintains these objectives (like a ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Effective leaders are (#1) conceptual
- SEE INTO THE FUTURE CREATIVELY AND PRACTICALITY: Planning day-to-day is obviously important, but a good leader must be able to see the long-range picture, to know the history of the organization and have a sense of the direction in which it is traveling. Effective leaders always have the long-range picture in mind as they plan laterally.RECOGNIZE THE VALUE OF STAFF TRAINING: Like a convoy, ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Leadership training and character
- The vast majority of leadership training available to managers focuses primarily on skill and behaviors: how to delegate, how to communicate, how to manage conflict. These skills are unquestionably important and necessary. However, we maintain there is another important ingredient that has been severely neglected in leadership training, that ingredient is "character." Leadership characte...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Leadership and the dirty work
- The airline, Jet Blue, has been featured in many magazines as a new company that has hard great results and success so far. A lot too has been mentioned about the challenges they face ahead and about the culture they created at the start and are working hard to foster now. One of the many things that sets Jet Blue apart is their focus on teamwork. Here's one example. They have no cleaning crews - ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Being other focused
- In the Wall Street Journal, Franklin Lavin, U.S. Ambassabor to Singapore wrote the Manager's Journal column about some of the things he learned from the late President Reagan while working on his staff.******** PLEASE NOTE ************If you are thinking about moving on from this article because of your feelings about the politics of President Reagan, please don't. The lesson I am ab...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Dream bigger!
- A number of years ago we created a graphic logo based on the phrase Dream Bigger! We produced buttons and t-shirts. I've signed letters and emails with this phrase. It is more than a short inspirational phrase. It embodies a truth for all of us as individuals and carries extra importance for us as a leader.Dream Bigger!In order for an individual to reach their potential, they ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The leadership vacuum
- In today's fast moving, ever changing, and highly competitive world there is a vacuum of leadership. More than ever our government, businesses, religious organizations, and our educational institutions need leaders.This crisis has arisen in part because of the end of the industrial age. With the coming of the information age that we are now living in, many of our institutions have been rein...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Leadership for the successful entrepreneur!
- Why talk about leadership?"Leadership is important whether you a leader of a team or are a sole proprietor with no one working for you. Effective leadership is actually a way of thinking, a way to get things done.Successful entrepreneurs of today MUST possess and exude effective leadership skills!The best leaders are:◦Personable, ◦entrepreneurial, ϊ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Are you a leader in the chrysalis?
- Let's get this straight at the outset?Leadership skills can be found in their droves on an Internet search. Lists? dozen of them; and if you want to define yourself and tick the box by a pre-set, ready made standard based on what 'experts' in business and the church think, then go right ahead and look because I am not going to reproduce it here and encourage you to pigeon-hole yourself....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Leadership and power - being the boss doesnt guarantee either of them
- Some people mistakenly associate supervisory positions, or seats of power, with leadership. They presume that these two things are synonymous. While this may be the case sometimes, leadership and power are wholly separate. In reality, the boss may not have all of the power, and in fact, may not be capable of handling it, even if he did possess all of it. What do I mean? What is leadership, and wha...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The seven mistakes to avoid when organising your student leadership program
- How do you measure the success of a training or teaching program? There are many measures you can use including; focusing on learning outcomes, behavioural change, student engagement and even efficiency of delivery.An effective leadership program can achieve all of the above and more. As you plan your training program for 2005 following are some mistakes that I have seen some schools make w...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Birth order - understand how it affects your personality
- "Know thyself" is a powerful principle that leaders, managers and effective people intuitively know.When you understand your own strengths and preferences you are in a position to maximise those strengths and compensate for any weaknesses either by working differently or surrounding yourself with people with different strengths.Most of us have a dominant birth order persona...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - C4 leadership: taking your leadership (and your life) from good...to explosive!
- Chances are if you're interested in this post, you're looking for a few tips to take your leadership and/or your life, up a notch or two. Read on for a few things that have really helped me make my leadership more explosive after first defining what C4 is.First what is C4 the explosive: C4 is a high quality, very high velocity military plastic explosive. Your life and your leadership should...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Are you the most powerful leader you can be?
- As someone who teaches, manages, parents or influences you'll probably already be aware that powerful leadership is not just about the boss, it's about the team, irrespective of whether that team is in the classroom, in the office or around your home.In a driven world of instant access and fast everything the view of leadership being top down has become dated, and dare I say it, dangerous....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Using your intuition
- "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure." -Nelson Mandela, Inaugural Speech, 1994Intuition is divine guidance. Sometimes it is known as a "hunch." Whatever you choose is call it, intuition is a mighty powerful lead that directs you to take immediate action. Do you follow your intuition or do you allow doubt and reaso...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Leadership
- Webster's defines leadership as : "1. the office of position of a leader, 2. capacity to lead, 3. the act of instance of leading, 4. LEADERS." Dale Carnegie, founder of the Dale Carnegie Institute and teacher of leadership skills, defines leadership as a mixture of traits and skills that can be learned and honed. John C. Maxwell, founder of INJOY and professional speaker on leadership, a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Two leadership traps: how to avoid them and how to get out of them (part 2)
- Here's how to get out of, or avoid, the "I need ... " trap. It simply involves changing what you think and what you say in very simple ways.In my working with leaders worldwide for more than two decades, I've noticed a character trait that the most successful share: They focus consistently on understanding and supporting the people whom they lead.For instance, you could say, "You nee...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Two leadership traps: how to get out of them and how to avoid them (part 1)
- You've heard of the Peter Principle: "People are promoted to their level of ultimate incompetence". But what the Peter Principle doesn't tell you is the nature of the incompetence. For the most part, it's leadership incompetence.A human resources director told me, "Brent, we hire people for their skills and knowledge, but we fire them or fail to promote them or promote them for their leader...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - In leadership, the eight ways of right action (part 2)
- In Part 1, I said that leaders who can't have people take right action are ineffective, and I listed four of the eight ways of right action. In Part 2, I'll describe the remaining four ways.Action must be:(5) LINKED TO NEED. The people's needs are their reality. If you are an order leader, you clearly do not have to know their needs. You simply exhibit a my-way-or-the-highway attitud...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - In leadership, the eight ways of right action (part 1)
- The ancient Greeks had a saying: "When Aschines speaks, the people say, 'How well he speaks,' but when Demosthenes speaks, the people say, 'Let's march against Philip!'".To get the best results as a leader, the people you lead should be saying in one way or the other after you speak, "Let's march!"When you speak to people as a leader, it's not what you say that's really important, wh...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - F2 leadership
- People don't leave jobs; they leave bosses. -- AnonymousCongratulations. You're the boss. That means either you own the company; you are related to someone who owns the company; or someone thought you had the technical expertise, experience, or potential to be the leader. One of these applies, or you know something regarding moral turpitude about the boss. However you got here, here you are...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Listening like a leader
- Our studies of the most effective people in corporate America show that the top 2 percent are effective not because they executed best practices well. They did not make the most phone calls or have the best processes. They simply understood the truth about trust:People do business with people they like.They like people they trust.They trust people who have a detectable level o...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
- As the 'Great And Powerful Oz' once said to Dorothy, "Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain!" and as you know, appearances can be deceiving they are also one of the first things people judge others by. For instance, you recall the old saying 'Never Judge A Book By Its Cover?' well guess what ? we still do!I know that might not sound too politically correct, but deep down ...