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5 Simple Tips For Building Trust As A Leader

Posted by on January 12, 2018

Probably the best leadership book I read in 2017 was The Speed Of Trust by Stephen M.R. Covey. In the first chapter he quotes Jack Welch,”If you’re not fast, you’re dead.” When everyone faces the reality that demand almost always exceeds capacity, we can’t afford to waste any productivity because there is a low trust organizational culture. This Forbes post was well worth the read:

“Developing a strong and successful relationship involves several key qualities. One of these qualities is trust.

Trust is important to your career and your company success, but it’s not something that you can gain overnight. It’s not something you can, as folks say, “fake it till you make it.” It takes time and effort.”

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Important Steps To Improve Daily Productivity

Posted by on January 10, 2018

I have been leading long enough to have gone through at least 5 different major approaches to time management and productivity. It all started with simple lists, then prioritization using planners and now technology drives almost everything. Probably the greatest help for me today is to block some open time in my daily schedule to allow for new inputs and unforeseen opportunities. This Forbes post represents some great tips:

“Productivity is an ever elusive concept to me. I often feel guilty for not doing more, but I know I have to give myself time to find and master the techniques that work for me. I think what it really boils down to: trial and error.”

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Make Civility The Norm On Your Team

Posted by on January 8, 2018

Almost everyone that works through teams believes there needs to be a healthy dose of conflict from time to time that will produce the greatest results. However, when team members are passive aggressive or unload and say something very critical towards another person, all trust can be lost. So the team leader’s responsibility is to establish the core values that will support civility. This post by Christine Portal is helpful:

“We all want to come to work and be treated with kindness and respect. Unfortunately, my research shows that there is rampant incivility in most organizations. I found that 98% of the workers I surveyed over the past 20 years have experienced rude behavior and 99% have witnessed it.”

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The 4 Kinds Of Leaders Who Create The Future

Posted by on January 5, 2018

I have noticed one very dramatic change within the last year of working with coaching executives. In the past they were constantly looking for strategic innovation when they were not squeezing every ounce of productivity out of their process. Today, they are all in some way having to respond to the powerful forces of disruption. This HBR post is excellent:

“Alan Kay, the educator and computer designer, famously declared, “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” But what does it take to invent the future in such a turbulent and uncertain world? How do successful organizations build on their history, even as they craft a new point of view about what comes next?”

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The Best Way To Be More Effective In 2018

Posted by on January 2, 2018

We all get somewhat offended when we are in a room with other people and they all are glued to their device. However, even in a working context our smart phones can make us stupid when it comes to productivity. They become the classic urgent but not important input most of the time. This post by William Vanderbloemen is helpful:

“It’s time for New Year’s Resolutions. I’ll share my big one with you ahead of time: I’m putting down my phone. And if I could give you one tip for getting a competitive advantage in 2018, it would be:

Put down your phone. You’ve probably heard it before, but you may not realize how much your smartphone is sapping your effectiveness.”

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How To Recover From Burnout

Posted by on December 15, 2017

One of the most important things I do as a leader is to monitor the margin I have in all of the life accounts included in my Life Plan. I believe in work-life integration and not balance. This allows me to have a short term deficit in one area as long as my overall margin is healthy. However, when my margin is gone in multiple areas, I am in serious danger of moving into burnout. This HBR post will help you in regaining control:

“You feel exhausted, ineffective, unaccomplished, and cynical. Maybe you feel like no matter how hard you work, you can never keep up. Or that you can’t make your boss happy no matter how hard you try. And you’re beginning to question your professional situation: Am I in the right job? The right company? The right career? I used to feel passionate about going into work but now I dread Monday and can’t wait until Friday. Will I ever feel excited about my life and work again?”

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Run The Race You Want To Run

Posted by on December 11, 2017

There are more voices in the marketplace today that are telling us they have found the secret to success than every before. If you will follow their formula, then you will accomplish great things just like they have done. So you must find your Why and then do the One thing and walk away from everything else. Eventually, I realized I needed to do My thing and this post by Jeff Goins will help you get there:

It was a year ago. I had dozens of people working for me. My business was losing money every month. Everyone thought I was successful, but I was stressed beyond belief. I was racing toward a meltdown. After bootstrapping my company to seven figures, I was now living in the stressful reality of running a company. Was this what I signed up for? Was this what I really wanted? “I think it’s interesting,” one friend said, “that you started a business so you could write more, and now you’re not writing.”

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How To Excel At Both Strategy And Execution

Posted by on December 8, 2017

Some leaders are always coming up with new creative ideas that never seem to make it to the point of driving sustainable results. Others kill it daily on execution but never look up enough to see where the organization is actually going. Both are extremely important and great leaders find a way for their organizations to excel in both. This HBR post is excellent:

“For decades, we’ve often thought of leadership profiles in unique buckets—two popular varieties were the “visionaries”, who embrace strategy and think about amazing things to do, and the “operators”, who get stuff done. We intuitively knew that there must be leaders that span these areas, but in fact, few do.”

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Leaders Prepare For A Period Of Constant Transformation

Posted by on December 6, 2017

We have all known and said for years that change is constant and we must continue to be innovative to improve. What is new is that disruption is now becoming the major threat and without constant transformation we are always at risk for a total failure. There is obviously a major difference in leading innovation and transformation. This Forbes post helps us understand whats at stake:

“According to his firm, at any point, about a third of large U.S. companies endure a severe, two-year decline in their ability to create shareholder value. And of those companies, about a third fail to recover within the following five years.”

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4 Ways To Be More Effective

Posted by on December 1, 2017

Productivity is a very big deal. It’s the difference between working more hours or getting more high priority things done. Over three years ago, I went paperless and have absolutely no regrets. I use Nozbe and find it very effective in keeping the main things on top of the list. This post by Ashley Stahl is simple but profound:

“Ahhh, the true adage, “work smarter, not harder”. While it resonates with most, it can also be confusing and downright infuriating. Maybe you’re already working really, really hard and still aren’t achieving the results you’d like.”

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