What are the Necessary Elements You Need, as a Leader, to Attract, Motivate, and Keep the Most Talented Employees?
The Gallop organization discovered that the employees who rated the questions below more positively , had a company with much higher levels of productivity, greater profit, higher retention and more satisfied customer service.
To build a productive, collaborative, positive climate, the questions below will guide your actions toward retention. Find a way to keep your pulse on how your employees are “really” doing, will take some tact, and even some investigation. Those on their way out won’t as readily or honestly share how they’re doing. They won’t want to tip you off. Be creative, but not sneaky in your effort to learn the answers to…
Read the rest of the post hereCan Leadership Expertise be Trained, Acquired? pt 2
In pt. 2, guest bloggers from my LinkedIn community share their expert opinions on this subject in this post:
“Leadership is a combination of learning and who we are at our core. It is the required learning basic knowledge and skills while developing and fine-tuning abilities. At a deeper level, that is the real question. We could get into a nature nurture discussion.
However, here is the major issue today. Leaders in today’s workforce, especially senior leadership are boomers. They are used to leading the way they have been led to for nearly 3 generations. And, many are somewhat autocratic in…
Read the rest of the post hereCan Leadership Expertise be Trained and Acquired? pt 1
In my effort to learn and participate in the social networking site, “LinkedIn”, the number 1 business social networking site, I asked a question to one of the 13 groups I’m part of, and received 15 responses from the “Executive Reform Movement” group. I’ve answered this question as well as asked two from the group to be my guest bloggers today, and with their permission, I’ve posted their responses on pt. 2. After reading them, let me know what you think.
I asked this because it is my passion to provide training, support, and coaching to those leaders that “fall” into…
Read the rest of the post hereMONDAY MORSELS for Leaders-What Made 3% of the Yale Graduating Class of 1953 Worth More Than the Remaining 97% Put Together?
With one perfectly honed skill, the skill of goal setting, the 3% become extremely wealthy. Below is the case study from 1953 that magnifies the imperativeness of effectively incorporating three steps in the goal setting process to be successful:
In 1953, Yale University did a study on goal setting. They went to their graduating class and asked them three questions:
- “Have you set clear, specific goals?”;
- “Have you written them down?” And;
- “Have you created an action plan to accomplish them?”
They learned that only 3% had done all three steps. Then, they went back to this same class 20 years later and interviewed the surviving members. They learned that…
Read the rest of the post hereThe Indomitable Spirit of the Leader
Where do you acquire your inspiration? Do you take your challenges and frustrations and amalgamate them into laser like focus, and a clear, unstoppable vision? For me, keeping my eye on role models with the kind of extreme challenge I live with regularly, is one way. I have a heroic esteem that after contemplating on their stories, cascades into a belief that says to me regularly, if they can do it, with their issues and problems, there is nothing that I will allow to stop me! So, when I’m coaching a business owner who’s struggling with the normal issues that every business owner I…
