Tips of the week

Leadership Skills

Issues that require decisions are everyday occurrences.

Five ideas to increase your success in decision-making include:

1. Don’t expect to be right all the time.
2. Don’t be afraid of failure.
3. Don’t put off making decisions.
4. Try to keep alternative solutions up your sleeve.
5. Mull before you make a decision…but once you’ve made a decision move on!

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Time Management

We are sometimes responsible for inviting others to interrupt us.

Seven ideas to increase your success in reducing invitations to interrupt you include:

1. Remove the “bait” from your work area i.e. sweets for others to share.
2. Be less willing to make small talk.
3. Stop saying – “Drop by any time”
4. Make yourself less accessible by working with your back to the passageway.
5. Don’t hesitate to tell people you’re working on a pressing priority
6. Stop setting a bad example by interrupting others.
7. Walk with a purpose; move quickly to communicate that you are busy and less inviting.

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Communication Skills 

Compliments are fertilizer for people.  If you complement, people with improve and grow.

Six ideas to increase your success in complimenting others include:

1. Be specific. Broad statements like “great job” are not as effective as specific statements like “I appreciate the fact that your reports are always on time.”
2. Be real. Compliment when the praise is deserved not just because you are in a good mood.
3. Be timely.   Make complimenting a priority.
4. Be daily. Look for opportunities to make people feel good about themselves each day.
5. Be singular. Avoid stringing compliments together.
6. Be genuine. Avoid complimenting before making a special request.

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Time Management

There are multiple tasks commanding your attention.  Identifying your priorities is an essential time management skill to help you work effectively.

Eight ideas to increase your success in focusing on priorities include:

1. Identify a specific deadline for every task you need to complete.  This deadline can be imposed by others or self-imposed.  If a deadline is not communicated; request one.  If need be, negotiate the deadline to ensure it is do-able.
2. Include activities related to larger projects in the above process.
3. Identify the start time required to complete your tasks on time.  Include a buffer for high profile and/or time consuming tasks.
4. Remove tasks that have no deadline i.e. reports that need to be read, articles of interest etc. from your immediate work area.  Store them out of sight.
5. Identify the tasks that need to be completed today…. these are your “A” priorities”.
6. Organize the tasks that need to be started on another day in order of their start date… these are your “B” priorities.
7. Work only on your “A’s” until all of them are complete.
8. If time permits work on the “B” that next needs to be started.

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Leadership Skills

Issues that require decisions are everyday occurrences.

Six ideas to increase your success in decision-making include:

1. Distinguish big from little decisions.
2. Delegate all of the smaller decisions you can.
3. Learn all about a problem before trying to decide it.
4. Get into a relaxed frame of mind.
5. Avoid crisis decisions.
6. Don’t be deceived by logic, most problems are full of emotions.

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Presentations Skills

Some people have something to say and can’t; others have nothing to say and keep saying it.

Six ideas to increase your effectiveness in presenting your ideas include:

1. Be Prepared -. Practice with a tape recorder or videotape yourself.
2. Use personal examples and stories in your speech whenever possible.
3. Relax – focus on your message and not the audience.
4. Maintain eye contact with the audience. – 2-3 seconds per person
5. Use gestures fro emphasis.
6. Use natural humor – there’s no need to be a comedian.

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Time Management

Are you interrupting yourself?

Three ideas to increase your success in minimizing interrupting yourself include:

1. Turn off your email alert.
2. Allow your telephone calls to go to voice mail if they are not the priority.
3. Prevent potential crisis by planning and using time lines.

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Presentations Skills

Successful presentations move people to take action

Four ideas to increase your impact in presenting include:

1. Plan, rehearse and delivered with flair.

2. Use specific skills, like inflection, gestures and dramatic pauses.

3. Continue to improve following each presentation by identifying what to continue, what to stop and what to start. Great presenters may start as poor speakers – but they get better.
4. Identify the techniques of other speakers and mimic them – ask yourself, “Why does their delivery work? How can I use that technique or principle?” Look for the skills they used and make them your own.

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Communication Skills

Informing someone that they have not met your expectations is challenging because if it is not handled properly in can result in defensiveness or resentment.

Six ideas to increase your success in giving negative feedback include:

1. Make sure you deliver your feedback in private.
2. Be respectful of the individual; focus on the problem or the situation, not the individual.
3. Be timely… as soon as possible is always best.
4. Provide facts; avoid judgments.
5. Provide all the details and be specific.
6. End with a question.

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Time Management – Interruptions

Stop interrupting yourself!

Three ideas to increase your success in minimizing interrupting yourself include:

1. Commit to finish whatever you start.
2. Make outgoing phone calls at designated times.
3. Schedule breaks at specific times.

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