Business leaders take your cue from fashion models. Lead, then step back and let someone step forward. The natural flow of movement is one of stepping back to allow steps forward, and stepping forward when those we lead step back.
Feb 17 2012
The Dance Sequence of Leadership
Feb 08 2012
How to Visualize it Done
The best emails I get in my business consulting company are those with one word-DONE. How many times have you waited painfully for someone to complete a task for you?
Next time you ask someone to perform a task, visualize getting an email the next day saying done. Now that you are dreaming of having it done, make sure that vision comes to fruition.
How? State your expectations and train those around you to just get it done by being unambiguous about it. It is always good to be clear about what you expect, in what shape and form and by when you want it done.
Enjoy seeing results now.
And return the courtesy — when you’ve completed something, email back “done” .
Feb 01 2012
3 Keys to Create Business Order out of Chaos
1-Know what order looks like.
2-Accept where your business is today and become more and more consciously aware of what needs to change.
3- Create a strategy to move one small step closer to order and voraciously implement it daily.
Jan 24 2012
4 Things a Business Consultant Can See
1-Perception of your business, just by walking in the door.
2-Your value system, just by how she is greeted and how people interact.
3-The heiracherial structure based on where people are seated.
4-CEOs purpose based on what they speak mostly about.
Jan 20 2012
5 Goals of an Energetic Business Presentation
Have you ever been to a business presentation that put you to sleep? Where the presenter read from the slides? Here are the 5 steps to give an energetic presentation that keeps your audience’s attention and interest and leads to a next step:
1. A story to engage your audience
2. An overview of what you intend to share with them with 3 key points
3. Visual slides to support and dramatize your speech
4. Gifts you are giving the audience for listening to you
5. A call to action – the next step you want your audience to take
Jan 18 2012
4 Keys To Making Good Business Decisions
CEOs and executives have a lot of responsibilities. Knowing how these responsibilities fit in the big picture is crucial to make business decisions and prioritize your time.
Therefore the 4 table of contents for any task are these:
1. Purpose – Why is this important?
2. Vision – Where do I want this business decision to lead me>
3. Strategy – How am I going to get to my vision?
4. Commitment – Am I committed to work and empower my team to get there?
Jan 16 2012
4 Steps to Actualize Your Vision
How is it that some great leaders have visions that outlast even them?! Think of the great visionary Martin Luther King. He had a dream that has put our President into office. Think Ghandi. He had a vision of a place he never saw — modern day India. Now, as for you, if you have a vision, here are the four components that actualize visions and can have that vision become even greater than its dreamer.
Here is how to achieve great results:
1. Know why you want to achieve that vision.
2. Know what it looks like when it is all done. Be crystal clear how it looks and feels with a painted picture in your mind.
3. Think through the steps to get you there
4. Be 100% committed to achieving your vision.
Jul 06 2011
The Fight
It was all about a big, cardboard box. The two young children were playing with it when the question arose, whose was it. Forgotten was play and the fight began. ”It’s mine.” “No, mine“. Luckily, their mother was in relax mode that day, and she wisely stayed an objective observer. “You do realize you’re fighting over a cardboard box, right?” she asked.
The box was not the issue at this point, it was about winning the fight, which is why the fighting continued. So the mother intelligently distracted her children, “Dinner time.” She helped each child disconnect from the stakes and get on with life, off to the dinner table.
Don’t think we all grow up. Even in the business world, within your company, you might have to play the part of the intelligent interloper betwixt fighting parties, and you must stay the objective outsider.
The next time you see your employees fighting over a petty thing remember to point out how meaningless the stakes are in the fight. Yet, true learning will come when they too are relaxed and calm and can see the pettiness in the realm of the big picture. At the moment, in the heat of the argument, try to distract and refocus your team.
Remember it’s not about who is right, but about doing what’s right with wisdom.
Jul 04 2011
Finding Sunshine in Your Business
Like the sun smacking on the water, exploding with a splash of sunshine
As the sun shadow follows me as I run along the water
And until the sun sneaks behind the beautifully shaped cloud hiding it’s light
Then you are forced to wait with patience until the light shines directly on
you again
Will you doubt the light exists then?
Will you remember it’s glow
Or would you wish, as I do, to share it with others and have the light follow you and me all the days of our life.
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