Get your brain in motion
Vala Afshar, Chief Digital Evangelist for Salesforce, author of many books, provides 5 good examples of Easy Work, together with 5 examples of Hard Work.
Which ones do you prefer?
Easy work:
1) complaining
2) pretending
3) blaming
4) judging
5) resenting
Hard work:
1) inspiring
2) learning
3) teaching
4) trusting
5) empowering
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The Diplo calendar 2019 realized by Stefano Baldi presents a selection of quotes for better living and better working.
All the quotes are about animals and their behaviours, their instincts and the complexity of their social dynamics.
Here is the selected quotation for the month of February
Trust in God,
but tie your camelMuslim Proverb
In their engaging book “The truth about leadership“, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner take a fresh look at what it means to lead.
The book is based on thirty years of research and illustrates 10 timeless leadership principles:
1) Believe in yourself
2) You have credibility
3) Your values drive commitment
4) You have vision
5) You know you can’t do it alone
6) You give trust before you get trust
7) You welcome challenges
8) You either lead by example or you don’t lead at all
9) You are a great learner
10 You are motivated by love
Read the full article here
Image source: Pixabay – Jerzy Gorcky – CC0 Public Domain
At first glance, some might say this article is not related to leadership skills. In my opinion it is actually the opposite: the author explains 7 fundamental differences between “happy” and “unhappy” people that reveal how attitudes and the way we see the world and the others are decisive to succeed in whatever we do. Succeeding is not just a question of method: first of all, you should have the right approach to daily life and see things the good way. This is the reason why this psychology-oriented article gives good hints about leadership.
The author talks about seven differences in particular (my short comments in brackets):
1. Your default belief is that life is hard (as a consequence, every task will seem impossible)
2. You believe most people can’t be trusted. (this way you won’t be able to delegate)
3. You concentrate on what’s wrong in this world versus what’s right. (this will cause a lack of motivation: why should I get things better if everything around me will always be wrong?)
4. You compare yourself to others and harbor jealousy. (the good leader is never jealous, he appreciates and knows how to exploit for the best other people’s qualities instead)
5. You strive to control your life. (planning, planning, planning!)
6. You consider your future with worry and fear. (this way you’ll remain paralyzed in the process of decision-making)
7. You fill your conversations with gossip and complaints. (those who always complain are just losing time instead of how to solve the problems that caused the complains…)
Read the full article here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201306/what-happy-people-do-differently
image: Wikimedia (public domain)
Randy Conley, Director of Client Services and Trust Practice Leader at The Ken Blanchard Companies, is deeply interested in making employees more engaged and interested in their work.
In his article The One Indispensable Ingredient for Employee Engagement published by http://switchandshift.com, Conley observes that there is an epidemic of workers who are uninterested and disengaged from the job they do.
There are many excellent strategies that deals with this challenge, but according to him only one strategy can be good: trust!
The TrustWorks! ABCD Model® provides that framework and illustrates the four elements of trust that leaders need to focus on building high-trust relationships:
Read more on http://goo.gl/FKWlD
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