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(Influential Leadership) Carefully Consider How You Critique Someone’s Work
When one of your staff messes up, how you deal with it will speak volumes about your leadership to the entire group, not to mention others in your organization. If you roundly criticize that person in anyone else’s presence, you will add a huge dose of embarrassment to the feedback you provide. While your […]
(Influential Leadership) Make Decisions Effectively
In our last post we looked at reasons leaders struggle to make decisions. Here is a clearly defined process to help you make more effective decisions. Six Steps To Effective Decision Making In order to overcome the challenges of putting off decisions, it’s helpful to have a system or process for making complex […]
(Influential Leadership) Be Decisive In Action
Do you realize that every day you have the power to dramatically influence your world? In fact, you do it every day whether you’re aware of it or not. I’m referring to the countless decisions each of us makes every day in our professional or personal lives. Every decision you make affects the quality […]
(Influential Leadership) Be Inspirational
People follow leaders who are inspirational. One of the best ways to inspire others is to accomplish difficult things. People are moved emotionally when they see courage in the face of daunting obstacles. My sister is an example. To experience what I’m talking about, please take 5 minutes to watch the video. It […]
(Influential Leadership) Use Future Pacing To Move Someone To Action
Are you frustrated because you know you have a great solution for someone but they just aren’t acting on it? How can you get others to take action immediately? Here’s the technique we promised in our last blog entry. When trying to influence someone, remember that immediate pain is a stronger […]
(Influential Leadership) Use The Power of Scarcity
How can you get others to take action immediately? It was two days before the monster storm, Hurricane Sandy, was supposed to hit the eastern United States. The storm was tracked to directly hit us (which it eventually did). I went to the grocery store just to pick up a few things at […]
(Influential Leadership) Change Your Mindset About “Selling”
Do you hate “selling”? You need to re-evaluate this if you want to be influential. Most people hate the idea of selling. I was speaking in South Africa, and after the engagement I thought it would be nice to check out the local sites. I stopped in front of a restaurant to peruse […]
(Influential Leadership) Make Impact Daily
It’s easy to come into the office and treat every day as “just another day.” But what if you treated every day, every opportunity, like it was gold! Start each day with powerful questions like these: How can I make a significant impact today? In what ways can I go the extra mile and […]
Quitters Never Win … Or Do They?
In the wake of the Olympics, it’s natural to think about our goals. Are we striving for enough? Olympic athletes set quite a standard, against which so many of us fall short: Always go for the Gold. Never give up. Beat the unbeatable odds. These sound good, but perhaps they aren’t always the […]
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