Leaders Inspire by Example
Team members act like their leader – despite all attempts to train them otherwise. Changing them won't succeed unless it is preceded by the leader changing his or her behaviour.
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Getting teams to share the workload and become more self-sufficient shifts the team leader's role and focus. Leaders spend much less time personally solving problems, and invest their time in making sure the right problems are being solved.
Read article »Leaders Help People See Beyond What Is to What Could Be
Successful entrepreneurs are leaders with vision who predict the future by inventing it.
Read article »Leaders Have Great Expectations
Consistently held expectations become self-fulfilling prophecies. Leaders see people as they could be – as eagles in training.
Read article »Leaders Handle Performance Problems
Leaders know that poor performance is like a highly contagious disease. The longer it goes unchecked, the more everyone suffers.
Read article »Leaders Go First
Team members act like their leader – despite all attempts to train them otherwise. Changing them won't succeed unless it is preceded by the leader changing his or her behaviour.
Read article »Leaders Give People Space to Grow
Leaders treat each person in their organization as an individual with his or her own unique aspirations, strengths, and characteristics; and then work to put people in the best place for them to thrive and succeed.
Read article »Leaders Foster Individual Passion for Change and Improvement
Strong leaders harness the passion of the monomaniacs on their team to bring about change.
Read article »Leaders Energize and Inspire
We are either part of the energy problem or part of its solution. There is no neutral zone. We are either net takers or net contributors of energy to others. We need to ask those we're trying to lead or influence about our energy leadership. Highly effective leaders energize others. That energy mobilizes people to action.
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The Leader’s Digest: Timeless Principles for Team and Organization Success
If you’re looking for a book that illuminates the topic of leadership in a useful, readable, and lively way, this is it. - Warren Bennis
View book/ebook/CD »Just Go and Do It
Don't wait – initiate! Leaders don't wait for something to happen or someone to tell them what to do.
Read article »Inspiring and Energizing with Strong Verbal Communications
Effective leaders that inspire, energize, and arouse people to improved performance, can stand in front of a large or small group and express themselves with a clarity, conviction and credibility that stirs their audience or group members' feelings and emotions.
Read article »Innovation Needs a Culture of Trust and Openness
If we want more experimentation and learning on our teams or organizations, we must establish an atmosphere that builds self-confidence and trust.
Read article »Honesty and Integrity Build a Foundation of Trust
Honesty and integrity are key ingredients in developing trust. Trust is a key element in establishing credibility. Our credibility is at the center of our ability to influence others and provide strong leadership. Examples of characteristics that are the hallmark of strong leaders — sincere, truthful, trustworthy, reliable, principled, and genuine.
Read article »Harnessing the Power of Teams
Today's highly effective teams have a broad ownership and participation in the team's tasks and how everyone works together to achieve them. Team members and leaders share responsibility for the effectiveness of the team. One of the best indicators of the strength of a team is the "We to Me" ratio.
Read article »Growing Others into What They Could Be
A leader sees people as they could be, seeing beyond current problems and limitations to help others see their own possibilities.
Read article »Good Feedback Benefits Both Giver and Receiver
Feedback can be destructive when it serves only one's own needs and fails to consider the needs of the person on the receiving end. Good feedback takes into account the needs of both the receiver and giver.
Read article »Goal Setting Can Limit Our Flexibility and Learning
Goals define what you want to have, not what you want to become. Goals are, however, targets that help us immensely in moving from a general vision to a specific set of priorities and actions.
Read article »Getting it Together: Integrating Customer Focus
Change direction from internal to customer focus, functional to horizontal management and management-centeredness to total involvement.
Read article »From Phase of Life to Way of Life
We need to be careful about what we wish for – the popular goals of security, stability, and predictability are deadly. The closer we get, the more our growth is stunted and learning reduced.
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