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A Key To Leadership Success – Don't Play The Blame Game
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As a leader you have probably heard some of the best “blame’s” in the world. No one wants to take responsibility for anything unless it makes them look good. This doesn’t merely apply to the people you are leading, but to leaders as well. Playing the blame game is one of the quickest ways to lose credibility among those you are leading and among fellow leaders alike.
One of the keys to your leadership success is to make sure that this whole thing of blaming people is at a minimum. It’s your responsibility to create a culture where people simply fix the problem instead of blaming it on everyone else. There is an old Japanese proverb that goes like this, ‘Fix the problem, not the blame.’
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Leadership - Look Behind You
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Leadership is the lost art of mobilizing people to get results. The first thing you have to do as a leader is turn around and see if anyone is following you. You see the first principle of leadership is that you have followers. Is there anyone there … I mean really there?
Now of course if you are the new VP of Get it Done in the great Acme Widget Company and you’re like the one place I did a gig recently and they actually have a fast track program called Future Leaders you will have followers. But … it may not be because you’re so good. It just might be because you hold a position and nothing more. Let me explain.
We’ll start with the question of why someone is following you. It is for one of these reasons.
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| Leadership - Empowering People to get Results
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Leadership is a lost art in our times anyway. There is talk everywhere about leadership empowering people. I’ve seen leaders who empower people but not many in large organizations, that’s for sure. As a Marine sniper in Vietnam I saw leaders empower us young kids who knew nothing. One leader, Colonel Masterpool, had people that would follow him to hell and back just because of who he was and how he treated and communicated with us.
When I worked for Frito Lay back in the late seventies and into and through the eighties they came along one time, around eighty-seven, maybe eighty-eight and decided they would ‘empower’ our mechanics that worked in the shops of our extensive private truck fleet. They wanted to elevate them, they said, to positions of more responsibility.
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Leadership Skills – Learning From the Best
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There are some leaders that have to lead there team into situations where they can be killed. Yet, their team follows them without question. Who are these people?
Army officers - If ever their were people who need to show the best in leadership skills its them, as it really is a question of life or death.
Let’s see what are the main leadership skills taught and which apply to civilian leadership.
1. Command Total Respect:
You don’t need to like someone you need to respect them
In the army officers don’t have favorites, everyone is treated the same, there all part of the same team.
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Leadership Success - How To Set Yourself Apart From Other Leaders
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To have true leadership success you have to become a leader of leaders. The only way this is possible is to do things that set you apart from the average leader. Of course, this can be much easier said than done in most cases but, there is one sure-fire way to stand out above the majority of leaders.
James Garfield once said, ‘The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.’ If you will apply this one leadership success key in your life you will soar above most of the leaders that you will ever be around. Most leaders today don’t live by a strong set of convictions; therefore, they are easily persuaded to do things that hurt their character and integrity.
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Management: Do You Have A Controlling Personality?
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If you manifest what many consider a "controlling personality" then I'm sure that there is a great deal of stress and tiredness associated with such a state.
That is because "controlling" behavior is generated by a deep anxiety that relates to you "not being in control" of others and your environment. If you think about this for just a moment, the idea that you might feel powerless and vulnerable to your situation inevitably engenders anxiety and with it a need to stem those feelings inside of yourself.
Well, what "better" way than to "control" those factors that are making you anxious, correct? Wrong
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Training Your Employees
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Training your employees, you can also say it's important for large organizations to have a training department. When an employee shifts job, the job requirement changes according to the change of industry, product and lot more. The process now-a-days companies follow is the moment they have a new hire, employees straight goes into a training process wherein they are exposed to the new organization and trained according to their job profile.
Along with this, companies regularly conduct various training classes that relates to employees and companies benefit overall. Managing these at times is a hard core job for a company with employee size above 500. Since you may have employees from different departments falling into the right fit category for a particular training class
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