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is a difference between leading and managing. Most people can’t
explain it, but they realize it when they experience it. Most
organizations are over-managed and under-led. Managers tend
to give directions and react to everything. Leaders have a way
of inspiring and empowering people to go out and become better
versions of themselves. Our Executive
Leadership Training programs will not only teach you how
to tell the difference, we will teach you how to make a difference,
by guiding you through an intensive process of hands on practice
and personal evaluation. The new leadership
skills you will take back to work with you can completely
revolutionize your workplace in less that 90 days.
Are
You a Leader or a Manager?
Take
the leadership challenge. Explore these leadership competencies
and discover the difference between leading and managing.
When
you become a leader, you take on a great responsibility...you
promise to change the world for the better.
If
your reaction to this statement is ‘I’m only managing
an organization, or department, or project, I’m not
out to change the world’, then I respectfully suggest
that you learn to be a good manager, but not a leader.
Leaders
cause positive change to happen, through people.
Managers
control things. That’s it. The world needs great leaders.
It has its fill of managers.
What
is a leader?
If
you feel that you are not sure whether you are truly committed
to becoming a great leader, if you have not yet made that
decision, I would like you to take a look at two scenarios:
SCENARIO
1:
What if you were to make a total commitment to becoming a
great leader? Project yourself ahead 3 to 5 years from now.
You have become a great leader. Visualize what positive impact
you are having on the world around you…
How
has the world benefited from your actions?
What
does that feel like?
What
type of people are you associating with?
Who
are you collaborating with?
Who
else is totally committed to the same cause as you?
What
positive actions are you and these people taking?
How
are other people responding to your successes?
How
worthwhile and meaningful has your life become?
What
does that feel like?
How
are you growing and developing?
How
does all this differ from today?
SCENARIO
2
What if you were to be less than fully committed to becoming
a great leader? Project yourself ahead 3 to 5 years from now.
You are in a leadership position. Visualize how things will
be…
Have
things changed much, or not at all?
Who
are you associating with…perhaps others who are also
less than fully committed?
What
positive impact have you had on the world around you? Less
than you desired?
How
do you feel about that?
How
worthwhile and meaningful has your life become?
How
does all this differ from today?
I
have no doubt that the first scenario is one that you probably
desire, as we all do. The second scenario is one that you
probably want to have no part of.
Many
leaders however get caught somewhere between the two scenarios,
and feel at a loss about what to do. So they reach out to
‘techniques’ to solve their dilemma. I have seen
many leaders get caught up in fads, and I also have had the
pleasure of being associated with leaders who knew the distinction
between WHAT they were attempting to achieve and HOW they
achieved it, and so avoided the fads.
That
led me to crystallize my thoughts and experiences into five
key facets of high performance leadership. Keep these facets
foremost in your mind, and you won’t go astray. By exploring
these areas you will be led to discover insights and above
all take action concerning five key facets of your leadership…
FOCUS:
Developing your leadership focus, understanding its true significance
to the world around you and how truly committed you are to
achieving it
AUTHENTICITY:
Discovering how much you know about yourself as an authentic
leader, your beliefs and values, your strengths and weaknesses
and how others perceive your authenticity
COURAGE:
your level of courage and persistence, your ability and willingness
to identify and stop doing those things that don’t support
your focus, to start doing some new things that will support
it, and to improve dramatically in other areas that will benefit
your focus, both personally and organizationally
EMPATHY:
your ability to listen to and work through other people, to
garner support for your focus, to develop an atmosphere of
collegiality and inclusiveness, and to empower others who
share your focus
TIMING:
your sense of timing in getting things done when they need
to be done. Your ability to get off the treadmill and concentrate
on what matters most to your focus, and to enable others to
do the same
Brian
Ward
Executive Leadership Training - Take the Leadership Challenge
Leadership
Training Quote
"We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not
an act, but a habit."
Unknown
Suggested
Reading:
Training for Managers
and Executives: The Service Pro--Service Leadership
by Rick Tate, Josh Stroup
Leaders
Talk Leadership: Top Executives Speak Their Minds
by Meredith D. Ashby, Stephen A. Miles
The
Art and Practice of Leadership
Coaching : 50 Top Executive Coaches Reveal Their Secrets
by Howard Morgan
Leadership
Training
by Lou Russell
Leader
Effectiveness Training L.E.T.: The Proven People Skills
for Today's Leaders Tomorrow
by Thomas Gordon, Thomas, Dr. Gordon
The
Evolving Role of Executive
Leadership
by Accenture Institute for Strategic Change
European
Executive Training: A Handbook
for Managers
by Alison Alsbury
Leadership
Chronicles of a Corporate Sage : Five Keys to Becoming
a More Effective Leader
by Susan Bethanis
Executive
Leadership: A Practical Guide to Managing Complexity (Developmental
Management)
by Elliott Jaques, Stephen D. Clement
The
Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders
at Every Level
by Noel M. Tichy, Eli Cohen
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