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Consider your most important decisions. If you’re always sure that your ideas are on target, you’re flirting with arrogance and carelessness. Conversely if you’re constantly questioning your actions, you likely lack conviction and/or confidence to push the start button. In either case, I offer this question: Who is your Sounding Board?
Time is our most limited resource. Your supply is limited. The demand for your time is not. What happens when the demand for your time is greater than your supply?
How often are you frustrated by the lack of thought, imagination, ingenuity and creativity that you receive from those around you? Let’s explore the answer to the ever frustrating question: Why Can’t My People Think for Themselves?
Role awareness is a personal success component that can be assessed, measured and quantified. After utilizing this insight for both clients and candidates for over 10 years, I’ve grown to value its importance to executive success for both leaders and the people they lead.
Why is “grit” worthy of pursuing? We’ve all observed how some people pursue success more effectively than others. Through the ages, researchers have shard theories about the right stuff needed to pursue success. What’s different about high achievers? How can you get some of it for yourself?
If you are leading an organization, employee engagement is something you want to get or work to improve. And with that as a goal, leaders set out to get more engagement as if it’s like getting more office supplies. So before you hire consultants to do surveys and install new engagement systems, please proceed with caution. Avoid making employee engagement the latest management flavor of the month. Let’s get a better handle on this elusive intangible.
Your 2015 Window of Opportunity is open: Summer vacations are complete. Labor Day weekend has passed. Thanksgiving is 12 short weeks away. Your window of opportunity for making the most of your 2015 is open now.
Consider the business meeting you have regularly. What Percent of the time are YOU the smartest person in the room? What about your social gatherings?
Most of us know what the term “Lip Service” means. We’ve all been guilty of serving it up. And we’ve all experienced the frustration that comes with being “served”. If you really understood what Lip Service can do to both your reputation and personal power, you’d avoid serving it up at all costs. Let’s take a closer look.
While it is not always clearly understood or communicated, every job has it’s “currency”. Yes, you receive a pay check or an electronic equivalent. That is the currency that you receive. But what is the currency that you must provide to assure that you continue to receive that your pay?
Once upon a time, there was a senior executive named Jim. Jim had a highly successful, 34 year career; all with the same large company. Jim’s career path was one of steady and consistent progress up his company’s corporate ladder. He eventually became a Vice President. Through out Jim’s career he witnessed scores of other execs come and go. But Jim, somehow had remarkable staying power. What was Jim’s Secret?
Successor Development: Whose Job is it? All too many leaders struggle with proper prioritization of their own management succession. Have you ever had these thoughts about job succession? “Who has time to think about grooming a successor? I’ve got work to do!”
If so, you’re not alone. You’re in good company. Or are you really in bad company? Procrastination with succession is a common, yet costly state-of-mind. What’s behind it?
Remembering Abraham Maslow: Most of us studied Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in college. His insight is intended to make us better managers and leaders by recognizing and responding to the evolving needs of our co-workers. If we understand that the lower level needs are prerequisites for moving up the pyramid, it is a leader’s responsibility to assure that unsatisfied lower level needs are not obstacles to higher levels of performance. How many of today’s leader’s have abandoned Maslow’s wisdom in favor of the next managerial shiny new object?
Virtual workplace arrangement can be liberating. You eliminate unproductive commuting, enhance work-life balance, minimize distractions and allow you to produce great work. But when it comes to consideration for your next promotion, visual absence does NOT make hearts grow fonder.
What are the negatives of of staying too long in a job? How can workers address them? How should leadership address them?
This blog now has a new name. SMART Leadership is now “Leadership Breakthroughs”. Why the Change? What’s in it for YOU? Might you discover some “Breakthrough Ideas”? Read more.
Now You Would You Characterize Yourself?
Would you say you’re more open minded? Or are you more opinionated?To be fair, we all have opinions. And, we all like to think of ourselves as open minded. How often do you hear anyone admit to being closed minded?
When it comes to saying no, we can agree that it’s an important ability. We all have limited resources. We can’t afford to simply say yes to requests for our time and money. But what about others’ ideas? How often are you quick to dismiss them with a diminishing NO or even a BUT? Has saying no to other people’s ideas become a habit? As a leader, how often do you quash your followers’ brainstorms? How many creative solutions are you missing?
We all have times when we could use a pep talk. Pretending that we don’t is unproductive self-deception. Let’s stop pretending. Allow me to ask: How do You Go About Finding Encouragement?
Why Don’t People Like Mondays? In the working world, it’s one of these two reasons. Or both.
Leadership is about:
Looking at the status quo to determine what needs change.
Having the courage to commit to closing that gap.
Taking action to engage others in the cause.
Too Busy To Save Time?
Many of us are buying expensive phone upgrades without investing time to learn and appreciate some of their valuable features. I’m here to help you save both time and frustration and enhance your smart phone efficiency. It doesn’t take a genius.
As with Covey’s 8th Habit, I’ve discovered another “C” that is so essential to success that I’m compelled to publish this addendum.
I’ve been using a caricature to enhance my personal branding. Now that I’ve had years of fun with this, I’m wondering: “Is it too much of a fun thing?” Is it time to move on? I’d love if you could weigh in with your vote and/or comments.
With all of the incredible brain power that we humans possess, we’re still prone to making really bad decisions.
It’s one of my favorite sayings. It applies to a myriad of situations. Here are my Dirty Dozen examples of things you could do, but probably shouldn’t.
Does it really make sense to buy a personalized professional service the same way you buy copy paper? It’s surprising how many don’t understand that an Executive Coaching engagement is NOT a transaction. It is a relationship.
360⁰ Surveys can be a valuable tool for collecting and sharing constructive feedback for leaders. Like any tool, it needs to be used properly. With improper, misinformed use, you can defeat the purpose of the tool.
Sometimes Good To Great’s compelling first line is true: “Good is the Enemy of Great”. Sometimes the reverse is true. In any case, I am hereby officially OFF the Good To Great bandwagon. I’ve found a new one. My ride was “good”. But there’s better.
In sharing this recent personal achievement, I hope to, in turn, inspire YOU.
Delegation Reluctance: There an old adage. If you want something done right, you’ve got to do it yourself.
As long as you believe this is true, it will be. It’s one of several common excuses for NOT delegating.
What is so special about 168? Until you are aware of the number’s significance, it’s nothing special. It can only have value for you when you understand the simple math behind it and what the components represent.
Everyone Needs a Coach Once again I have proven that all of us can benefit from coaching. As a sometimes
What changes need to occur as managers advance from front line responsibilities to managing other managers to executive leadership to the C-Suite?
As long has you harbor your self limiting beliefs, they are self fulfilling prophesies. And you are blocking your advancement.
Cub’s management is actually giving us some leadership lessons as they execute their turnaround from their long-time losing legacy. Is it possible that they are creating a textbook turnaround that will be studied for ages? OK, that sounds just like an over-optimistic Cub fan. But hear me out.
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