Leadership, Lived

There is so much noise in the world of leadership and management today. Go on LinkedIn and just see the breath of information in your feed - kinda makes my head hurt. There's so much discussion about what leaders should be doing, what makes a great leader, etc. Do a search on Amazon or Google about leadership and management and millions of results are revealed.

One thing for sure, if you are a senior leader or one that owns a business, there are certain fundamentals you must have in place - above all others. And yet, so many other things are discussed - I call them shiny objects - don't actively advocate and address these fundamentals.

Two in particular are these:
1. If you want to grow a business, you must have a reliable, effective management team.
2. You are the cornerstone of your business, business unit or department.

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To be one or the other...it's a simple choice. Just remember, whichever you choose, has a ripple effect. What's yours?

"...after years of observation and working with a volume of diverse leaders in a variety of corporate structures - non-profits, government as well as traditional c-suite, effective executive leadership as incredibly valuable and equally rare." 
- Peter Drucker

In my view, an exceptional leader then...is a highly effective leader...

which an average leader is not.

 

To be one or the other...it's a simple choice. Just remember, whichever you choose, has a ripple effect. What's yours?

"...after years of observation and working with a volume of diverse leaders in a variety of corporate structures - non-profits, government as well as traditional c-suite, effective executive leadership as incredibly valuable and equally rare." 
- Peter Drucker

 

In my view, an exceptional leader then...is a highly effective leader...which an average leader is not.

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This can be a confusing, even negative word. But in the world of emotional intelligence, it may be exactly what you need to learn to do. This is the first of several topics addressing self-management, an element of emotional intelligence and our Smart Management Blueprint  

Our premise: The best managers are successful at managing themselves first!

If you are an HR professional or key decision-maker, please note, "a simple training day" is not going to fix this. Yet many times, that's the choice that's made.

In my experience there are 2 main reasons why: 

1. Key leaders, decision-makers do not understand or appreciate the "human experience" in the work environment.

2. There is a disconnect between how behavior (the human experience) impacts revenue. Therefore the "cheapest" prescription is chosen without being clear on the need and the best remedy to meet it. I call that the spray and pray decision. Let's spray out a bunch of information in a "training seminar" and pray it sticks and fixes things. 

 

Read full text here: https://www.joanncorleyspeaks.com/2016/02/the-one-thing-employee-training-cant-fix.html

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Many business owners tend to take on too much, have a hard time letting go and delegating. Learn 3 reasons why.

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"People don't leave jobs, they leave bosses.'"

This is a very popular phrase that circles around the HR and management community a lot...and in fact has been doing so even during the time I was a recruiter some 25+ years ago. And, in all that time has consistently proven to be true.

However, I'd like to frame this truth in a different way. People don't leave jobs, they leave relationships. Because, in essence, that's what we're talking about. Leaving anyone, boss or not, is leaving a relationship.

What they are leaving is the way they are being treated.

Read full text here: https://www.joanncorleyspeaks.com/2019/11/people-dont-leave-jobs-they-leave.html

"So, what are your current challenges, what do you want to be different?", I asked. His answer, "Building middle management." So I shared with him my newly formed Executive Advantage Blueprint for Smart Management. I walked through each "smart management" building block - some of which, to varying degrees, he had in place...

Here is the link to the full text: www.joanncorleyspeaks.com/2019/08/best…ond-job.html