Leadership Tools
4 Factors For Getting The Right Person For The Right Job
This month’s Conversations With Leaders program was held March 11, 2010 with leadership expert, Robert H. Holland, CEO of TEC Detroit, also known as part of Vistage International, a chief executive leadership and network organization.
The interview was full of rich content on how managers and executives in an organization must participate in the selection and hiring process to ensure the right candidate is selected for the right position.
Bob spoke about the four critical factors any hiring manager and their boss’s manager must consider in the candidates they are reviewing for an open position. The four factors are Experience, Talent, Culture and Time Span. Of these four factors, Time Span is the most critical and Experience the least critical. Bob’s provides a great overview of this concept in the interview. He also made some great recommendations on the preparation the management team must do to avoid the high costs of a poor fitting hire.
Be a Leader – Confront Reality – Reason #78
Are you taking the difficult, I-don’t-want-to-deal-with-it issues head-on?
No longer brushing them under the rug but instead placing the issue square in the center of the table for discussion. It means not shying away and instead being genuine and direct about issues that may be affecting people’s hearts and minds. Jim Collins in his book, Good to Great, states, that good-to-great companies infused their decision making processes with “the brutal facts of reality.”
He further shares that Pitney Bowes executive Fred Purdue was quoted as saying “My job is to turn over rocks and look at the squiggly things, even if what you see can scare the hell out of you.” Are you talking about the ‘scary squiggly things’ that might impede your or your organization’s future? Claim your copy of my ebook, 101 Reasons To Be A Passionate Leader: Why Developing Your Leadership Is Critical Today!
Living CONFIDENTLY! Coaching
Title: Living CONFIDENTLY! Coaching
Location: via Webinar
Link out: Click here
Description: Check out our 8-week group coaching program empowering you to live confidently everyday! ONLY a few seats left – Register NOW!
Date: 2010-03-15
What Is Your Little Voice Telling You?
Only a few hours left to register for this course… I signed up and
encourage you to do so too!
Will your “little voice” says YES to this
Master Your Little Voice Bookinar <– Take a look
Please go there now and read through the curriculum to
preview the material. This transformational (really!)
4-part teleseries with Blair Singer starts tomorrow Tuesday, February 9th.
All recordings and notes will be available if you can’t make
the calls live. The deadline to register is Monday, February
8th at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. Get registered now
to get a headstart with the PDF version of the book so you
can prepare for Module 1.
Learn how to …
Master Your Little Voice
Hope to see you on the call!
Master Your Little Voice – Every Leader Must Know How To Do
The “Two Truths” About Little Voice Mastery
Thank you for reading this blog post…
… because I think I do know these two things about you:
1) You have a “Little Voice” deep inside you
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2) That “Little Voice” doesn’t always support you
Isn’t that true? I know it is true for me and sometimes that “Little Voice” starts talking at the most inconvenient times. Do you know what I am talking about? Whether you feel it’s true or not, take a moment and read the “Open Letter” my friend,Blair Singer has written for you …
Click your mouse to learn more here:
“Little Voice Mastery”
The training Blair does is masterful. I attended training with him last October and was really impressed with his content and his commitment to others learning what they need to be their absolute best.
Unleashing Your Leadership Power: Study Guide Now Available
We often think that people are born to be leaders. We think that certain people have this innate set of qualities that distinguishes them from the rest. We may have a desire to be a great leader but feel that we don’t have the right competencies.
What if I told you that anyone who has the desire can become a leader by taking a step by step approach? Yes, if you be willing to invest the time it takes to go through eight simple steps you can grow into the leader you want to become.
How do I know this? I am like you. I wanted to make a real difference in people’s lives, I wanted to inspire others. And I wanted to be successful. But I didn’t want to sacrifice my personal life. I wanted to feel fulfilled both at work and at home.
Are You Focused on Your Strengths?
“Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong… And yet, a person can perform only from strength.” – Business guru Peter Drucker (1909 – 2005)
“Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong… And yet, a person can perform only from strength.” – Business guru Peter Drucker (1909 – 2005)
As many of you who already subscribe to my Leadership Power Tips know, one of my favorite books is Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton. When coaching my clients, we talk a lot about Strengths and seek to gain clarity on what theirs’ are. I just completed reviewing my Strengths after reading Strengths Finder 2.0, the upgraded version by Tom Rath. The goal of Gallup Management and the authors “was to start a global conversation about what’s right with people.”
Leadership and Change
We all have heard the saying – The only thing constant is change – and yet for so many people change is very difficult. I wonder… is it because we really don’t believe this; because we have a fear of the unknown; because we hate to see a good thing come to an end? When is it we embrace change?
Over the last 18 months, I coached many employees, managers and executives in a very dynamic environment where growth was happening very fast to, unfortunately, where decline rapidly took hold and seemed to spiral out of control. After hiring almost 70 people and watching them enthusiastically take on the launch of a new program, I was several months later laying off all the people I hired plus many more. I witnessed hope, contribution and commitment and then despair, fear and anger.
Are you bored with your current role?
Well are you? Now be honest!
I have come to learn that when I begin reading a lot and when I begin seeking out training courses, I am ready for a change. And usually a big one! That is how it has been for me since March of this year. I have been actively involved in several training courses and have read… let me count…11 books. Wow, I even surprised myself by how many I have read in a few short months time. I will have to share with you which ones are the best… check out TheLeadershipResource.com/Leadership-Books.php
Are You Modeling Self-Empowerment?
When was the last time you said “I don’t know” in front of your employees? (Out loud so someone would hear it.)
When was the last time you shared something new that you learned? (Not acting as if you had known it all along.)
As a leader, we must model self-empowerment. This is a small step to creating an environment where not knowing everything and learning are accepted. I love hearing bosses tell their employees what they learned from a customer, co-worker or another employee, or what new tool they are using to improve their effectiveness. Employees then begin to wonder what they should be learning.
Just recently, I have begun learning sign language so I can more effectively communicate with the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. It is very exciting to be learning a new language and also very humbling to have to ask people to slow down and repeat the signs so I can understand. It shows my vulnerability; yet persistence. One of my employees has already come to me to discuss what she should be learning and figuring out what would be the next opportunity for her. She said you have me thinking in new ways about my own job.
