How to grow leaders – a quick guide for orchard owners
1. Select good seed or stock. Choose people with natural potential for the generic role of leader.
Look for tell-tale signs that the spark of leadership is within them.
2. Prepare the soil. Check out your corporate culture. Does it grow or stunt leadership growth? Plough up yesterday’s paradigms and mindsets about management.
People who are newly appointed in management positions. The way that your organization prepares, processes, and acculturates this person to their new job leads to success and failure. What is your organizations process for new managers? How were you prepared when you were promoted? Unfortunately many companies just promote then drop new managers into their … Continued
People join companies, and leave managers… Be the reason people stay with your company Leaders use Create-Learning’s Exponent Leadership Process to develop the professional, organizational, and emotional skills to be the manager that people look to as the reason to remain with your organization. As a result of this process, you will be able to: … Continued
Renee Descartes knew that clear and distinct ideas are all we need to develop a foundation of knowledge. Clear and Distinct ideas, guidelines and expectations are what is needed for change within yourself, your team, your organization. The problem of change is that many people do not know what is expected of them. Leadership makes … Continued
Great team dynamics include; Identify a leader Establish roles & responsibilities + discuss what each person ‘brings to the table’ Establish a set of goals & objectives Establish an agenda for managing time to complete the task/meeting Establish a method to determine how they will reach agreement Establish ground rules for their meetings Proper & … Continued
The theory I ascribe to (in an ideal system, which it not a true system) leadership compensation is based upon time frames. The higher your ranking in the organization the longer your time frames for goal completion are. Additionally the longer the time frame the greater your leverage has to be as a leader. This … Continued
Part of Leadership Process & Leadership Coaching is focusing on accountabilities. Accountabilities of people, teams and of me as the facilitator. These accountabilities are in-line with Goal Setting, time frames and learning agendas. By breaking these accountabilities in Micro-Decisions based upon a Macro-Learning agenda success is found! Develop an accountability plan and use a method … Continued
Inspirational thought on JUST BE: Do I ever permit myself to simply Be and do nothing? What’s your Point of You? From the Points of You Facebook Recently I had breakfast with a friend Dr. George Hole. While speaking about existentialism, epistemology, and the Philosophy of Coaching. In this discussion George and I explored “Nothingness”. … Continued
What by when? The most important step for team members is to answer that question. What is going to be accomplished and by when plus FOLLOW-UP! There are myriad goal setting processes out there. I have personally fallen for Tom Foster’s QQTR Quality Quantity Time Frame Resources Whatever is used you as a leader … Continued
Tools and Techniques for effective team leadership. Whether you have the title of leader or not you can learn something. 3 Reasons Your Leadership Sucks…and how to improve it. View more presentations from michael cardus. With the idea of leadership being a philosophy of the individual, many individuals have a limited idea of what and … Continued