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The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan
Webinar | TrainHR | George Bradt | August 15, 2013
Learning From The School Of Rock’s Community-Focused Approach To Inspiring Passion
The art of leadership begins with figuring out what inspires the people you lead – what buttons ignite their passions, what chords touch their souls.
School of Rock CEO Chris Catalano believes that “music is fundamentally a part of the human soul, it is the universal language of mankind.” In an interview, he told me that his schools’ performance-based approach can inspire students and change peoples’ lives.
The importance of leaders going beyond mere words to meaning and emotion cannot be underestimated. Make sure your stakeholders understand and embrace the sub-text of your true feelings and desires to imbue in them a passion for purpose that they can share with others as Charley Shimanski did at the Red Cross.
How Leaders Can Address The Elephant(s) In The Room
Think in terms of three different types of issues and ways of dealing with them (or not):
1. Ignored: Tackle head on or defer
2. Imagined: Talk about to make disappear
3. Insistent: Deal with it or stay stalled
For Leaders: Why Getting Too Comfortable is the Path to Discomfort
When onboarding into a new leadership role, it’s essential to converge into the organization before you can help it evolve, earning the right to lead before you try to lead. But that’s just the beginning. At some point you have to evolve yourself in order to lead the organization beyond unconscious competence to a new level of excellence.
How Army Intelligence Techniques Apply To Business Leads
I recently spoke with Amnon Mishor, who took what he learned as an Israeli intelligence officer and applied it to finding business-to-business prospects for his company, Leadspace. It models an organization’s “ideal buyer profile and then find look-alikes across numerous sources, including social networks, contact databases, web sites and even [an organization’s] CRM.” Mishon describes it as a “super lead qualifier on steroids.”
Onboarding: How to Get New Employees up to Speed in Half The Time
Webinar | TrainHR | George Bradt | July 23, 2013
Lifeway CEO's Secret Ingredient? Attitude
Can you easily describe your leadership attitude? This might surprise many, but attitude is more important than you think. After all, attitude is the pivot point of BRAVE leadership.
Lifeway CEO’s Secret Ingredient? Attitude
Can you easily describe your leadership attitude? This might surprise many, but attitude is more important than you think. After all, attitude is the pivot point of BRAVE leadership.
As I’ve written about in previous columns, BRAVE is an acronym for behaviors, relationships, attitudes, values and environment. While you can certainly choose where to play, over the short-term your environment is a given. Underlying values are discovered, not created. But you can actively choose your attitude – how you will win: strategy, posture and approach. Those choices directly impact how you relate with others and those few behaviors with the greatest impact.
Inspiring and Enabling Evolutionary Innovation from Middle Managers
The bottom line is that innovation is not an optional exercise. Darwin’s lesson is that survival of the fittest is about those best able to adapt. Adapting requires innovation. You can’t stand still. If you’re not adapting and innovating, you are falling behind your innovating competitors. If you fall too far behind, your very survival comes into question.
So give your people permission to innovate by asking them to solve known problems. Put in place protocols that make it as easy as possible for people to innovate. And inspire a passion for innovation, problem solving, or at least, contributing.
Taking Over From The Founder: Three Tips For Zynga’s New CEO
Here are three tips to consider when taking over from a company founder:
Think and act like an interim steward, caring for and managing the business until someone else’s turn to take the reins
Honor and respect the founders, and what they and their team have built
Stand on their shoulders and propel the organization forward