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If you try the best you can
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Category: Leadership (Page 7 of 19)
Leadership starts from the leader’s well-being.
Here’s, according to Roy Bennet (@InspiringThinkn), the 12 steps to Self Care:
- If it feels wrong, don’t do it.
- Say “exactly” what you mean.
- Don’t be a people pleaser.
- Trust your instincts.
- Never speak bad about yourself.
- Never give up on your dreams.
- Don’t be afraid to say “No”.
- Don’t be afraid to say “Yes”.
- Be kind to yourself.
- Let go of what you can’t control.
- Stay away from drama and negativity.
- Love.
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Ami Morin, author of the “13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do“, says that probably the hardest thing is “to not give away your power”.
In this article, she gives us a list of nine ways to keep our personal power:
1. Don’t waste energy complaining;
2. Accept responsibility for how you feel;
3. Establish healthy boundaries;
4. Practice forgiveness;
5. Know your values;
6. Don’t waste time on unproductive thoughts;
7. Avoid language that implies you’re a victim;
8. Make your self-worth independent of other’s opinions;
9. Be willing to stand out from the crowd.
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On December 2014 Bob Sutton, Professor at Stanford University, published the long-awaited list of 12 books (or 13…) recently published books that every leader should read.
This is the list:
1. The Progress Principle by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer.
2. Influence by Robert Cialdini.
3. Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath.
4. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
5. Collaboration by Morten Hansen.
6. Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordon MacKenzie.
7. Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull.
8. Leading Teams by J. Richard Hackman.
9. Give and Take by Adam Grant.
10. Parkinson’s Law by the late C. Northcote Parkinson.
11. To Sell is Human, by Dan Pink.
12. The Path Between the Seas by historian David McCullough.
Sutton suggests also to add a 13th book published in April 2015: Work Rules by Laszlo Bock.
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Successful leaders continue to grow and learn on the job. In fact, an essential leadership attribute is the ability to remain open to new ways of thinking and to continuously learn new skills.
According to the research Learning About Learning Agility by the Center for Creative Leadership and Teachers College, Columbia University, the willingness and ability to learn throughout one’s career is increasingly important as changing technology, markets and methods require new skills and behaviors.
Over the long term, your ability to learn new knowledge, skills and behaviors will equip you to respond to future challenges more than your current skill-set.
Researchers found five tips that enable one’s learning agility:
- Innovate: Challenge the status quo
- Perform: Remain calm in the midst of adversity
- Reflect: Take time for reflection
- Risk: Purposely seek challenging situations
- Defend: Be open and avoid defensive thinking
Read more here
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Sherrie Campbell in a post for the blog “Entrepreneur“ investigates a particular area of life which, if fully developed, may lead to everlasting happiness and success.
Sherrie’s thoughts could be considered as a recipe! You can imagine emotional wealth as a well-prepared dish to impress your loved one and each ingredient needs to be carefully picked!
Here are the ingredients:
1.Confidence is like the salt we put in boling water to cook pasta
2.Resilience is like the cooking pot
3.Keep looking forward is refraining from testing during the preparation
4.Don’t compromise yourself: if you don’t like molecular cuisine, don’t do it!
5.Faith: believe in yourself and your abilities: the object of your desire will be satisfied!
6.Maturity: be patient, and choose no shortcuts (no frozen pizza, pre-packed sushi or home-delivered chinese, please!)
7.Discerning: proportion and quality of ingredients are always better than quantity, just as friends
8.Reality: you cook what you really want: no trendy recipes!
9.Readiness: put your cooking tools on the working board,
10.Self-preservation: you know when to stop cooking and have a sip of wine
11.Value time: or your soufflè will deflate…..
12.Have limits: no red wine with lobster, please!
13.Altruism: you cook for your loved one, not for your own glory
14.True to yourself: see n. 8!
15 Create happiness: it’s not a given, it’s an happiness-generator
For the full article read here
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Coaching is very close to leadership principles. Coaches are leaders who devote their life not simply to the victory at a championship. They help individuals grow and improve.
Thsi is why many companies ask famous coaches to talk to their employees about teamworking, goal-setting, identifying strenghts and weaknesses, learning form experience, fostering humilty and trust.
In this article, Robert Prior identifies 5 NFL coaches who have much to teach to every leader.
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A 2013 survey commissioned by the John Templeton Foundation stressed the importance of gratitude and its benefits in the workplace. Workers feel better when someone thanks them and their mood improves when they thank other workers. Despite this, workers are not very good at expressing gratitude to their colleagues.
A manager can make a real difference by modelling gratitude: according to the Templeton survey 81% of respondents would work harder for a more grateful boss. Here are some tips for how to make your workplace a thankful one:
1. ‘Catch’ your employees doing something right;
2. Be specific and authentic;
3. Recognise that your success as a manager is largely due to the hard work of your team;
4. Help your employees be the best they can by providing them with the training and tools they need;
5. Encourage gratitude sharing within your team;
6. Keep a gratitude journal.
Read more here.
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Mike Brown has tried to figure out how big a brainstorming group should be in order to maximize the number of new ideas. Here are five significant suggestions:
- Having too many participants may result in people sitting back and not actively contributing with new ideas;
- Having too little participants may not let us fully exploit the potential of group – thinking in generating new ideas;
- When participants are especially different and at a good level of expertise in strategic thinking, even two or three people may constitute a fruitful brainstorming group;
- In other conditions, it would be wise to have a group of no more than eight – ten people: in larger groups people often just listen to one person come up with ideas;
- If we have to work with larger groups, a solution would be to create smaller groups, working simultaneously on identical or related parts of the same exercise.
Ultimately, the key is to find the perfect balance between maximizing each participant’s time to contribute individually with the opportunity to hear other people ideas, in order to fully exploit the potential of strategic group – thinking.
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