Tips of the week

Leadership – Managing Others

Management requires learning how to motivate others.

Four ideas to increase your success with managing others include:

1. Provide positive feedback own its own… not as an introduction to what needs to be done in the future.
2. Focus on facts, not on judgments.  Be specific; avoid any generalizations.
3. Be willing to change your thinking.
4. Remember people work better in a climate where fun is encouraged.

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Leadership Skills

Become an outstanding leader by working continuously at developing your skills

Three ideas to increase your success with leading others include:

1. Follow through with any promises or commitments.
2. Recognize others’ contributions; celebrate achievements; acknowledge effort.
3. Provide positive and negative feedback separately otherwise the positive feedback may only be perceived as “the warm up”.

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Time Management – Increasing Your Productivity

Distraction foils productivity.  Develop the focus to get it right! The following questions will help you identify where you should be focusing your attention.

Three ideas to increase your success with increasing your productivity include:

1. Consider who you need to contact and then do it.
2. Identify which meetings you need to attend and which you can skip.
3. Identify those who need to be on your team and enlist them.

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Leadership – Build Your Patience

To improve the quality of your life, train yourself to be more patient.  Patience leads to greater success, better relationships.

Five ideas to increase your success with building your patience include:

1. Ask yourself… is impatience in your best interest right now?
2. Remind yourself of the importance of respect and tolerance.
3. Use positive visualization.  Picture yourself acting and re-acting with patience.
4. Use positive self-talk.  “I’m working on increasing my patience.
5. Place notes reminding you to be patient all around you.

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Motivating By Giving Up Control

“Giving” in order to “receive” is a strategy to apply in creating a motivational climate. Allowing others to exercise some control creates an environment that builds self-worth.

Three ideas to increase your success with motivating by giving up control include:

1. Give choices whenever possible. For example:

• on activities to accomplish a goal
• on the order of actions
• on the deadline
• on the time line
• on the team members

2. Ask open questions as opposed to directive questions… allowing others to suggest the solutions.

3. Demonstrate that you are open-minded…. receptive to new ideas and approaches.

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Managing Others

Getting work done through others requires specialized skill and effort.

Four ideas to increase your success with managing others include:

1. Try to create complete jobs where there is a sense of ownership from start to finish.
2. Give background information and strategic direction whenever you assign tasks.
3. Sell change; demanding it can lead to sabotage.  The approach to take is always to outline benefits to the individual.
4. Allow people to find their own solutions by posing effective questions.

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Developing Your Leadership Skills

Your leadership skill could be your greatest asset.

Four ideas to increase your success with leading others include:

1. Be a work in progress.  Those who think they have arrived have the furthest to go… continue to learn.
2. Listen and look for opportunities to grow as a person and as a leader.
3. Work hard at understanding others intentions, feelings and ideas.
4. Be authentic.  Sincerity is intuited.

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Time Management – Increasing Your Productivity

To increase your productivity and improve your value, the following questions will help you identify where you should be focusing.

Four ideas to increase your success with increasing your productivity include:

1. Ask yourself what really needs to be done and then do it.
2. Ask yourself what does your organization really need and then recommend it and/or implement it.
3. Work with action plans.  Know what you want to accomplish each day/week/month.
4. Consider what decisions you need to make and them make them.

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Leadership – Build Your Patience 

The ability to give a process time is not always naturally inherited.  Waiting for outcomes can be unduly stressful for us as we journey with the ever-increasing speed of modern life.

Six ideas to increase your success with building your patience include:

1. Recognize that an attempt may not be entirely successful but it will always provide a learning opportunity.
2. Use waiting situations as conscious opportunities to cultivate your patience… i.e. waiting in line or in traffic.
3. Guard against acting on impulse.  Practice taking more time even when you know you don’t need it.
4. Take at least one minute to gain perspective and consider the big picture.
5. Deal with what is real as opposed to what “could happen”.
6. Avoid picking up the bad habits of impatient people who surround you.

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Communication – Listening Skills – Tip of the Day

Watch for the non-verbal clues.  What is their face telling you?  What are their hands telling you?  What is their posture (stance) telling you?  Then ask questions to confirm your perception.

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