If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.
Mary Engelbreit
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Any growth process includes the inevitable stumbling blocks. Leadership growth is no different.
Brian Evje, Management Consultant in the Organization Effectiveness practice of Slalom Consulting, in the past few months, has worked with several leaders who were navigating significant new challenges in their roles. The differences between those who managed these situations successfully and those who didn’t often showed itself in their responses to these very common blocks to leadership growth:
- Believing that it can’t happen to you
- Ignoring the usefulness of mistakes
- Refusing help
- Not asking for the right things
- Not letting your team do its job
- Lack of functional credibility
- Lack of leadership process credibility
- Not enough courage to let go of yesterday’s tools
- An inability to face the power dynamics of leadership
- A good memory. Too good
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Google maps is a versatile service that can be used for many purposes. Here is an example applied to the Diplomatic network of Italy. The map includes all the Italian Embassies, Consulates and Permanent Representations in the world.
http://bit.ly/ZB89J6
Every flag in the map offers a link to the mission website containing useful information.
If you think you’re leading and no one is following you, then you’re only taking a walk.
Afghan Proverb
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K.I.S.S. matters more than ever!
The third annual Global Brand Simplicity Index released last week surveyed 6,000 customers in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America to determine “perceived points of complexity and simplicity.” You can read the survey but here is the point (to be simple): Simplicity equals revenue.
“…people equate complexity with lack of trustworthiness”. the more you can KISS them by keeping your messaging-including your emails – clear, transparent and relevant, and KISS them by keeping it simple for them to take the next step toward completion of the sale, the more you can expect to sell. (Howard Belk)
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According to Kiran Bir Sethi, the founder of the Riverside School, if learning is embedded in the real-word context, the children go through a journey of “awareness”, where they can see the change, “enable it”, then “control it”, and finally to lead the change.
Interesting and easy-to-use tool developed by Enzzzoo
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. Al Bernstein
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David M. Dye is President of Trailblaze, Inc and shares twenty years experience teaching, coaching, leading, and managing.
In his article he explains how a leader can be helpful to his team without solving problems for them. He provides 3 important steps:
1) Remove obstacles
2) Get them the resources they need
3) Help them think
The team members will come up with their own solution.
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The theme of Diplocalendar 2013 was inspired by Mark Twain’s quotation that: “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them”.
Diplomats, like many other professionals, must read, understand, synthesise and make sense of newspapers, magazines, emails, official reports and so many other things related to their daily work. But there is so much else to read both for pleasure and to deepen our knowledge.
The selected book suggested for the month of March that supports professional development and is relevant to management in diplomacy is Edward De Bono’s Thinking Course
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