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How To Increase Emotional Intelligence On Your Team

Posted by on September 21, 2018

The subject of emotional intelligence is moving its way to near the top of the priority list for all great leaders to master. From my perspective it includes how clearly we see ourselves and does that awareness align with how other people see us as well. This post by Michele Markey was well worth the read:

“Companies place a lot of value on the abilities and skills employees bring to the workplace, but it’s important that we focus on being human as well. People naturally desire to connect and interact with other members of their teams, and successful businesses have figured out they must have employees who not only bring their intellect to the job, but also their emotional intelligence.”

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Five Great Leadership Practices

Posted by on September 19, 2018

Leadership is a life long journey where we reinforce the basic principles we already know and constantly add new ones that will help us be more effective. This Forbes post hits on all of the critical practices that should be in the tool box of every great leader:

“Who is a leader? Although the concept of leadership keeps evolving over the years, one thing stays true: We’re all leaders. You don’t need 10, 20 or 100 people on your team to be a leader. You’re always leading at least one very important person: you. And if you’re ready to hit your biggest goals and put your life and business on the fast track to success, you need to be more than just a good leader. You must learn to be a great leader.”

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How To Overcome 6 Major Decision Making Obstacles

Posted by on September 3, 2018

This Fast Company post was very timely for me because I have been dealing with a major decision. Almost every issue discussed in this article, I dealt with in some form or another. At the end of my struggle, I was focused too much on potential long term consequences rather than the short term next steps. Confirmation will come later but now is the time to move forward:

“Deciding on key investments in your company over the next year may seem like a wildly different thought process than deciding where to take your family on vacation. However, a recent study published in the journal Science indicates that your decision-making approach for each may be similar and based on your willingness to take responsibility for others.”

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How To Spend Time Wisely And Get Things Done

Posted by on August 31, 2018

I spend more time and research on productivity than any other leadership discipline. The reason is I find myself with more inputs every week and therefore it becomes even harder to get the most important work done. This applies to how I spend both my personal and professional time. This Forbes post did not disappoint:

“The CEO of a Fortune 500 company with an overloaded schedule and a college graduate procrastinating about starting a business each get 168 hours per week to spend as they see fit.

Some people are able to accomplish a lot from Monday to Friday (or to Sunday if you count weekends) while others struggle to get much done at all.”

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How To Deal With Disappointment

Posted by on August 29, 2018

Great leaders are always taking risks and experiencing failure. The reason they have this ability is because they have learned how to process their failure quickly by learning form their mistakes and then trying again. You cannot lead others if you do not possess the courage to move on from disappointment. This HBR post was very helpful:

“Someone once said, “Expectation is the root of all heartache.” The quote recognizes that when we experience disappointment, our hopes and expectations are out of line with reality. We all feel this way from time to time. Some of these disappointments will not make much of a difference, but there are also disappointments that can change the course of our lives.”

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The Most Successful People Do These Four Things

Posted by on August 27, 2018

I passionately believe that every person is a leader and the most important client you have is yourself. Until you accept this responsibility to lead yourself and own your personal character development, you will never reach your potential. It is also no longer effective to lead only from positional authority at work and this Forbes post tells you why:

“I would argue that at one time leadership, in the traditional sense, was linear, one-dimensional and strictly focused on a managerial approach. In business, the term “leader” was used to reference someone in a position of authority, without consideration of the many attributes that we now find important in our great leaders.”

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When Is Teamwork Really Necessary

Posted by on August 24, 2018

It has always amazed me that when we tend to correct a bad situation, we over react and go to the other extreme. The top down directive leadership of the 80″s gave way to today’s highly collaborative meetings that in many ways are even more ineffective. At least with positional leadership everyone knew what to do. Today we talk too much and actually work less. This HBR post is a must read:

“Most leaders assume that they need to foster teamwork among the people whom directly and indirectly report to them. Teaming is now seen as the workplace equivalent of motherhood and apple pie — invariably good. The problem is when leaders try to drive the wrong kind of collaboration on their particular teams. The result: wasted time and unnecessary frustration.”

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Management Today

Posted by on August 22, 2018

There is a lot of confusion and even tension between the disciplines of management and leadership. Both are extremely important but distinctly different. Management is where execution lives and therefore must be incredibly effective for any strategy to be successful. This Forbes post is an informative read:

The idea of management comes from the military because that was the first time in human history a diverse group of people who did not know each other were organized to work together towards a common goal. That structure gave us a few principles:

Hierarchy
Command and control
Incentives for achieving the goals
Division of responsibility based on function
Centralized decision making

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New Practical Techniques On Planning And Productivity

Posted by on August 13, 2018

Once I finally died to the use of multi-tasking all during my day, things began to get a lot better. The idea of knowing when your most productive work can be done and the blocking of that time for deep work is transformational. Leaving at least 20% open time for new daily inputs now gives me the time to shift priorities as well. This Fast Company post was great:

“How many hours do you work each day? If you’re like most of the U.S. working population, you probably think you get a solid eight hours in. That’s 40 hours a week. Around 1,800 a year (minus 2 weeks’ vacation). Not too bad. The problem with this kind of thinking is that just because we’re at work for eight hours a day doesn’t mean we’re doing eight hours of work.”

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4 Mind-Set Shifts To Greater Productivity

Posted by on August 10, 2018

I live in this space of personal productivity every day just like the rest of you. I want to leverage the latest technology and sustain the necessary discipline to stay focused. However, the sheer volume of daily inputs has forced me to walk away from any idea of wiring up my entire day. This Fast Company post was very practical:

“High-potential employees are those who have exceptional decision making, technical, and analytical skills, according to the study. However, these workers still have trouble staying focused on the right priorities, struggle to meet deadlines, and fail to communicate or avoid surprises in their workday or responsibilities.”

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