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Leadership Skills: 10 Ways to Stay Fully Focused when Speaking

23/12/2014 /

Public speaking excellence is a necessary skill if you are a leader. It has always been so. Yet today what you say may be heard by millions worldwide. Your ability to be fully, extraordinarily present in your speeches and presentations is therefore essential.

Below are 10 suggestions

1. Ground yourself.
2. Stand or sit with good posture.
3. Breathe diaphragmatically.
4. Dive into your audience.
5. Take your time.
6. Pay attention with all of your senses.
7. Aim your energy outward.
8. Make eye contact as you tell the story.
9. Trust silence.
10. Move! 

Read more : The Genard Method

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10 Secrets of Successful Leaders

18/12/2014 /

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.” But, becoming a great leader isn’t easy. Successfully maneuvering a team through the ups and downs of starting a new business can be one of the greatest challenges a small-business owner faces.

Here’s a list of 10 tips drawn from the secrets of successful leaders.

1. Assemble a dedicated team.

2. Overcommunicate. 

3. Don’t assume.

4. Be authentic. 

5. Know your obstacles.

6. Create a ‘team charter.’

7. Believe in your people. 

8. Dole out credit.

9. Keep your team engaged. 

10. Stay calm.

Read more: Entrepeneur

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Getting more from your leadership than your technical skills

13/11/2014 /

Scott Eblin, speaker and author of “The Next Level”, in his post on Govexec writes that, at some point in your career, your leadership skills need to trump your technical skills if you want to make the biggest possible impact. Eblin represents this in a simple graph: the higher you rise in leadership, the leverage in getting higher achievements comes from spending less time on your technical skills and more time exercising your leadership abilities. Here is a list of high “leadership intensive” activities he has collected by asking his readers to give their answer to this question: “What is it, given the leadership role that you are in, that only you can do?”.

  • Set the vision
  • Develop my people
  • Get the right people on the team
  • Allocate resources
  • Establish priorities
  • Build the relationships we need to get stuff done
  • Provide air cover
  • Share perspective and information with the team
  • Keep key people informed about what we are doing
  • Knock down barriers
  • Keep us focused on the plan
  • Monitor and measure progress

Read the full article here.

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Post by: Ugo Ferrero

5 Leadership Tips by Abraham Lincoln

02/09/2014 /

Abraham Lincoln gets a lot of credit for being a great leader.
Here’s what he did, why it works and how it can make you a better leader.

1.   Get out of the office and circulate among the troops:
Lincoln knew people were his best source of information. And accessibility built trust.
Guess what? Modern business theory backs him up. These days the management gurus call it “Managing by Wandering Around.”

2.      Persuade rather than coerce:
Does the modern research agree? Yes.
The #1 thing Harvard Business School teaches it’s MBA students about negotiation is “They need to like you”.

3.      Lead by being led:
Looking at the research,  the type of leadership that works in the toughest situations is Lincoln’s method: being democratic and listening.

4.      Encourage innovation:
Reward people for trying new things and don’t punish them for failure.

5.      Influence people by storytelling:
Facts and statistics are great but when people hear presentations what do they remember? The stories.

There’s a lot to learn from Lincoln!

For more: Lessons From Lincoln: 5 Leadership Tips History And Science Agree On

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Self irony: how to fight the Excess of Success

29/07/2014 /

To become a successful individual has never been an easy task, and has always cost many sacrifices and endeavours to those who have undertaken the effort. That’s why those few who succeed in life, and have plenty of proofs of their success, are most of the time inclined to show it off to the rest of the world.

“Once you get at the top, you’ll stay at the top” they think, which is true most of the times. But even if being airy and full of it will never undermine a CV full of shiny stuff, it can cause irreparable harm to what other people think of you. Humbleness is not required to get to success and leadership, but since a successful leader needs to be loved – not just feared – by his team, humbleness is essential to keep being successful and get always more of it.

A practical and effective way for a smart guy to show people he understands the value of staying humble is self irony and understatement: it helps minimizing the person without undermining his role, thus showing to a team that the leader himself is able to grasp the difference between the two. It is also a cunning way to keep a team respecting Leadership without fearing the Leader.

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What We Can Learn From Marching Band Leaders

03/06/2014 /

Marching Band leaders during a parade represent a good example of how a leader should try to inspire others in order to support a particular dream or objective.  This is because every marching band leader, despite having its own particular style, is committed to keep the band members marching in perfect step and with gusto. Effective leadership is essentially about managing to empower others to stick to their mission. In her article, Terry Klass identifies a few ways which may help leaders in this fundamental task:

  • Clearly communicate the dream;
  • Ask for input about the dream;
  • Stay open in case a course correction is needed;
  • Keep everybody motivated.

Read the full article at: http://bit.ly/1icN9CL

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Seven Ways To Become a Better Leader

29/05/2014 /

Some believe leadership is a gift. Others think it is possible to learn to be a leader.

For those who wish to strengthen their leadership skills, Laura Entis provides seven points to help you become a better leader:

1. Do not be scared to fail big

2. Banish self-doubt by acknowledging your accomplishments

3. Do not settle for the standard solution

4. Focus on results, not style

5. Always keep improving

6. Learn to act like an introvert and an extrovert

7. Cultivate generosity

Read the full article here.

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The Twenty People Skills You Need To Succeed At Work

27/05/2014 /

Do you think you’re qualified for a particular job, fit to lead a team, or entitled to a promotion because you have extensive experience and highly developed technical skills? Well, it turns out that while those things are crucial to your professional success, it is imperative that you also have great soft skills, more commonly known as “people skills.”

Jacquelyn Smith suggests 20 soft skills we need to succeed at work:

  1. The ability to relate to others.
  2. Strong communication skills.
  3. Patience with others.
  4. The ability to trust others.
  5. Knowing how and when to show empathy.
  6. Active listening skills.
  7. Genuine interest in others.
  8. Flexibility.
  9. Good judgment.
  10. The ability to persuade others.
  11. Negotiation skills.
  12. The ability to keep an open mind.
  13. A great sense of humor.
  14. Knowing your audience.
  15. Honesty.
  16. Awareness of body language
  17. Proactive problem solving.
  18. Leadership skills.
  19. Good manners.
  20. The ability to be supportive and motivate others.

Read the full article at: http://onforb.es/1bKPpB7

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Posted by: Maria Del Carmen Taschini Otero

Leadership Without Ego

13/05/2014 /

What is true leadership? Can it be taught?

During TEDxESCP, Bob Davids – entrepreneur and visionary – explains the difference between leadership and management and stresses the importance of leadership without ego.
According to Mr. Davids, management implies control and if you push people you cannot predict what they will do.
Analyzing examples of famous leaders like Gandhi, he affirms that if you can lead people and get them to follow you, then you have the skills to be a leader.
But leadership is a gift and cannot be bought.
Leadership without ego is thus the most valuable commodity and the rarest in the planet.

Four Behaviors You Never Want To See In A Leader

06/05/2014 /

Defining the skills and competencies which make an effective leader is difficult.

Nonetheless, there are behaviors a leader should avoid as they do not create value for people.

Jeff Boss, consultant at the McChrystal Group, lists four of them:

1. Complaining

2. Emotional volatility

3. Playing nice

4. Micromanagement

Read the full article here.

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