Nov 17
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Playing leadership games is a popular technique that has been used in many leadership training camp or courses. These games are usually more interactive, as compared to other mind teaser games like chess or solitaire. To some, these leadership games might seem nothing more like a kiddy’s playground, but in actual fact, these leadership games are a good estimation of how good a leader you will be or how compatible you are as a leader. Read the rest of this entry »
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Nov 16
Tips for Setting Team or Organizational Goals and Priorities
- Ensure you’re following the three keys to effective goals and priorities: 1) Follow-up; 2) Follow-up; and 3) Follow-up.
- Continuously communicate how your strategic imperatives connect to your vision, values, and purpose. Read the rest of this entry »
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Nov 14
The art of clear thinking is a learnable technique that will help you to sharpen your mind and allow you to cut through rhetoric and evaluate the reasoning (if any) behind the words.
To initiate this process, I want to show you six common fallacies, which blur accurate analysis of ideas.
Learn them and apply them every day. Read the rest of this entry »
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Nov 14
You may have been selected by your executive to initiate and see through some change program in your organization. Or you may have decided that the time has come to make your mark by dusting off the cobwebs in your workplace. However your change role came about, you have a challenging task ahead of you.
Consider this sobering thought. In spite of the importance of successfully implementing workplace change for maintaining your business’s competitiveness, most change initiatives fail to deliver the expected organizational benefits. This failure occurs for a number of reasons: Read the rest of this entry »
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Nov 13
As a leader in your organization, do you add muda or subtract it?
Muda is a Japanese term for waste. One of the prime tenants of the Toyota production system, to which much of that company’s outstanding quality and profitability can be attributed, is to reduce muda. The organization is built on constant striving to identify and eliminate anything that does not add value for the final customer. The Toyota processes are now used worldwide, often called LEAN processing. Read the rest of this entry »
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Nov 12
by Don Blohowiak
“Think outside the box!” Heard, or passionately proclaimed, this odd imperative recently?
The trite “think outside” commandment confuses many people.
Some folks don’t understand the metaphor at all. They don’t know what their “box” is supposed to be.
Others decode the vague, over-worn phrase as: “Ignore our policies and procedures. We know they aren’t very good. But, frankly, management cannot do any better. So you’ll have to –while, of course, we hold you accountable for strictly adhering to current procedures.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Nov 05
The comments and questions from many of my workshop participants and coaching clients often reveal that their basic concept of leadership is about being in charge - i.e. obtaining a position of power, having the most information, and giving orders. The classic boss. From this viewpoint, effective leadership requires having the answer to any question brought to you by someone lower in the hierarchy so you can tell them the right thing to do. What leaders do is make decisions and give marching orders. Read the rest of this entry »
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Oct 27
By Linda Feinholz
There are a lot of techniques we can bring into our business from other areas of life. Each has the capacity to significantly shift the way we’ve been approaching business. For instance, once a year, every year, I have a personal day “off” - off from business, off from play, and off from my normal activities. It’s Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of self-examination.
I make it my commitment to stop my automatic way of living and being with others. I try my best to look honestly as what my challenges have been, how I’ve dealt with them and what I’d prefer to do differently going forward. Read the rest of this entry »
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Oct 21
No one in their right mind wants to fail, we all would like to think that we strive to be the best we can be. So why is it that some people seemingly fail over and over again. In order for us to avoid the pain of failure the most logical way is to find out why people fail and avoid it like the plague. Read the rest of this entry »
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Oct 20
Only about 10 percent of managers work purposefully to complete important tasks, according to a 10-year study of managerial behavior across a variety of industries. The other 90 percent self-sabotage by busily engaging in non-purposeful activities, procrastinating, detaching from their work and needlessly spinning their wheels. Read the rest of this entry »
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