26 Dec
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Year End Challenge

Challenge Yourself, and Your Team!

Challenge yourself!  Below are our 12 “Courageability” factors that impact leadership success:

  • Live and work with passion
  • Document and share your goals
  • Commit to addressing and tracking your goals
  • Understand and leverage your strengths and the strengths of others
  • Communicate with confidence and clarity
  • Manage conflict and understand how it can be inspirational
  • Develop others
  • Effectively delegate
  • Enrich your skill-set
  • Remain controlled
  • Reward and recognize others with regularity
  • Learn to succeed from your failuresWhich 3 do you find most challenging? Make development plans now to address growth areas.

    If you want to lead more effectively, shorten the distance between the future and present. Inspiring innovation and leading change call for more than process– they require the adoption of a cultural mindset.
    Mike Myatt Forbes – March 7,2013

12 Dec
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Do’s and Don’ts Of Success

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
—Winston Churchill

We’ve talked about experiencing failures, learning from our mistakes, and then moving on. It’s something we all experience; what’s also required is that we maintain a healthy attitude and take ownership of our error. 

Additionally, we need to retain the courage to take risks, and when issues arise, honestly assess what went wrong so “it” doesn’t happen again.

Dr. Henry Cloud, clinical psychologist and author, conducted studies and wanted to learn what made people successful in business, life and relationships and provides the following:

10 “doorways” of learning that high performers go through, never to return again:

  1. Return to what hasn’t worked.
  2. Do anything that requires them to be someone they are not.
  3. Try to change another person.
  4. Believe they can please everyone.
  5. Choose short-term comfort over long-term benefit.
  6. Trust someone or something that appears flawless.
  7. Take their eyes off the big picture.
  8. Neglect to do due diligence.
  9. Fail to ask why they are where they find themselves.
  10. Forget that their inner life determines their outer success.Dr. Cloud says: “we don’t need new ways to fail….the old ones are working just fine!”

    All of us make mistakes, even the superstars! We need to recognize what is NOT working for us, and accept when change needs to occur. We don’t always immediately know what those changes may be, but we can immediately know what NOT to continue doing.

    Are you committed to learning and living the “DOs” and DONT’s” of success?

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.–Plutarch

05 Dec
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Are Managers Leaders?

The Number One problem in organizations today is not a “lack of leadership.”
It is untrained people managers.-John G. Miller

We have shared that “Leaders want their organization to LEARN, so it can GROW, Enabling a TRANSFORMATION, Resulting in stronger RESULTS”.  Having said that, is it limited to “leaders” or does it also apply to “managers”?  It does indeed apply to both!

Our intent was never to diminish the skills and values managers provide; as a result, we wanted to share John G. Miller’s findings:

When people describe their boss as a “leader” and are asked to articulate specifically what that person does to “lead”—this is what we hear:

My boss communicated what I should do

     She followed up with me consistently.

     When I got it right, he praised me.

     She told me when I was off track.

     He talked to me—and listened.

     I was trained and coached.

     She spent time with me.

He showed me respect.

Guess what? Every item above is a people management
    skill. It’s what effective managers do, day in and day out,
    with and for their people.

Bottom line, we agree that effective managers ARE leaders!

Are you a manager of people? Then this is what you and all “aspiring leaders” need to know: Effective people management is leadership.
–John G. Miller