The world is brimming with leadership tips and techniques for you to consider. Some days, it seems like everyone who’s spent more than a week in a professional setting has proclaimed themselves experts on leadership. In other words, there’s plenty of information out there. The issue is figuring out how much of it is worth considering.
The leadership tips and techniques that really matter share a handful of characteristics. If you encounter guidance that measures up to these standards, it’s definitely worth taking the tips seriously.
Career Tip - A Return to Basics
Business Management, Career advice, Employment, Recruiting No Comments »Today I want to encourage you to keep your eye on the ball. Get back to the basics. Focus on the fundamentals. Remember what really matters. Identify the simple principles and actions that are crucial to your success at work and at home. Simplify, Focus, Execute - Jon Gordon, author of The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work
If you’ve been working for any length of time in any capacity or industry, you have likely faced stressful points that make you want to scream. But as you’ve been working for any length of time, you know that a “pillow” is the only one who can take those screams, in a calm and supportive way.
What we get from these experiences is a chance to step back and reflect on what’s happening and how much we really control what’s happening. No, I’m not speaking in riddles; but I am making a point.
Restructuring - A Career Opportunity
Business Management, Career advice, Job Search, Recruiting No Comments »Restructuring is tough, usually because it’s imposed change. We are rarely in control of the process. If we decide to stay, we ride it out, and are relieved when the ride ends. As you have decided to say, this means your employer has the right to expect you are all in. By that I mean that you will keep to the rules around post restructure. These rules are:
· No harking back to the “good old days” - and no saying “that’s not my job”. It just might be now!
· No saying “that’s not how we used to do it”
Establish a culture of innovation and prosperity by being “nice.” At the end of the day, successful organizations are fun places to work. Employees should feel like its fun to come to work. If Sunday night feels like dread and stress…your culture is wrongheaded.
Upscale clothier, Jack Mitchell, author of Hug your people shares why positivity is good for productivity and profits. His opinions were outlined in a recent Gallup management journal where he identifies four criteria for hiring “nice” people.
First-they have to be open, honest and have integrity.
Today thousands of managers are sitting at their desks both puzzled and annoyed at the three-letter-word that keeps getting thrown at them by their young workers. Baby Boomer and Traditionalist leaders describe this word as sounding, as one manager told us, “like nails on a chalkboard.” What, you might ask, is this word? And, if you’re a Generation Y-er, you might ask, “Why is it driving you crazy?”
“Why.” It seems like such a small, innocent word. However, it is actually a loaded term that has different meanings depending on which generation you belong to. In this article, we’ll spell out what “why” means to both the older, seasoned managers, and the young, new workers. And, we’ll give you the tools to overcome your distaste for “why” and embrace it to your managerial advantage.
The spectacle of a captain less mega oil tanker aimlessly adrift in the Arctic’s environmentally
sensitive waters with millions of gallons of crude oil spewing forth into the pristine backwaters is almost unthinkable. Who can forget the images of oil coated waterfowl fighting for their lives after the Exxon Valdez spillage?
A few survived: strength, luck, and help from human care providers.
The parallel with leaderless leaders? Leaderless leaders?
This time of the holidays before we are headed into a new fiscal year let us not forget to try and plant our feet firmly on the ground because 2010 will be a great year on the Internet for many leaders. It does not take much of a leader to see what he or she can be thankful for.
There are so many leaders around the world and the energy they bring to the world. But this is not about the worlds leaders this is about you being a leader.
People are persuaded to say yes to your product, service, idea, initiative, approach etc based on the quality of your proposition and a positive impression about you. But how does one ensure this positive impression and enhance personal credibility?
Here are 3 ways:
10 Ways to Improve Your Team’s Performance and Gain Back Your Personal Time
Business Management, Time Management No Comments »Are you having trouble getting your team to meet company goals? Is your team lacking energy, creativity and motivation? Are you stressed, overwhelmed and feeling the need to work long hours just to hold your department together? It doesn’t need to be that way you can take control of the situation. You can get your team working effectively towards a common goal and you can gain back your personal time.
Work is important and you want to exceed company expectations but having control of your time to pursue personal interests is just as important. You want to be there to see the kids grow up and have time for that significant other (Yes honey I meant you and not golfing)… but you also want to have time to shave a few strokes off that handicap as well. Whatever your interests are you need to find balance. Work on implementing these 10 steps and you will improve your teams performance and gain back your personal time.
We’ve all heard the phrase a “flash of inspiration” or a “flash of brilliance”. I don’t know where those phrases came from exactly, but they create a perfect metaphor.
Think about the flash from a camera (or if you are old enough, from a disposable flashbulb).
Some spark or electrical charge provides the impetus for the flash to go off. At that precise moment the camera takes a picture, capturing the moment more effectively and more vividly because of the flash. Once the camera has created the picture (with the help of the flash) you can look at it and eventually, if it is a good picture, you will share it with others.
I’m suggesting that we think about our ideas - our “flashes of brilliance” - the same way.
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