Blog entries tagged 'effective'

Building Successful Relationships

DrErica

all need to be needed, by someone. Husbands and wives often complain about the drudgery of caring for their "needy" spouses, but are then devastated if that "needy" person dies or leaves them. Added to the mix of this relationship confusion, is the disjointed and mixed messages we have received from our caretakers and others in our developing years.

Self-reflection and self-understanding is essential toward creating successful relationships in an [...]

Recession Anxiety: Making it Work For You

drlaurie

Educate your team. Every business goes through high and low cycles. Emphasize the importance of focusing on the word "cycle" in all corporate communications. No matter how bad the news reports, a recession is only a cycle.

. Use Recession Anxiety as a motivational tool. Empower your team with incentives that reward innovative approaches to managing during tough times. Instead of letting recession anxiety run rampant, take charge by reas [...]

bus stop

ac111999

w and the elite who overcome the stop will be be on the bus (building unbelievable skills) to the successful America.

All I needed to know about Leadership, I learned from my Cat

SpeakerAB

e struggle of wills between the two-legged and four-legged animals, it occurred to me how often Sundae's persistence prevailed. She is laser-sharp about her goal, even relentless, in pursuing it.

The same is true in effective leadership. As the leader, your team looks to you for guidance and direction of the goal - you must be single-focused and laser-sharp clear about where and how to complete the task or mission. And, you need to be able to communicate it in a way that pe [...]

Managing the Email Avalanche

SpeakerAB

risk losing sight of what is important and create a cycle of unending urgency that can never be resolved.

And that's just email -- add IM, iPhone and Blackberry capabilities and you have an entire office reacting instead of planning purposefully for the future. What type of impact does that have on your office? Is your frustration increasing while less and less work gets done? Worse yet, are your team members burning out because they feel compelled to respond to [...]

Effective Management: Keys to Being a Successful Leader

nfulbright

The ability to bring people together to accomplish a task is a difficult talent to master. It takes a combination of acquired skills and experience to guarantee the success of anyone in a leadership role. An incompetent manager can have a devastating impact on an organization. A leader with the knowledge, experience and insight necessary to ensure a high performing and profitable organization is hard to come by. In a recent Gallup survey, it was found that 25% of U.S. [...]