Leadership Success Tips 5 of 10
Leadership Success Tips
© Copyright 2009 by RJ Ritchie All Rights Reserved
5) Successful Leaders take time for their team and for those they love
Successful Leaders take time to care for their team and those they love by checking in as much as possible, sending notes, making calls, grabbing a cup of coffee together, or taking the time to make memories together by going out on the town, taking a trip, volunteering on a cool project, or seeing a comedian to laugh together. This will show those you care about you care. I once saw a poster that said “You show how much you care by the way you listen”. A good leader takes time to listen to your team and even more so to those you care about. Do little things like going by each office and saying “good morning, I appreciate your contribution to the team.” Perhaps a pat on the back or a high five will go a long way in your team feeling included and valued. Take time while you drive to go down the list of those closest to you and call them to check in and encourage them. Tell them you where thinking of them and acknowledge a positive outcome of something they did.
© Copyright 2009 by RJ Ritchie All Rights Reserved
5) Successful Leaders take time for their team and for those they love
Successful Leaders take time to care for their team and those they love by checking in as much as possible, sending notes, making calls, grabbing a cup of coffee together, or taking the time to make memories together by going out on the town, taking a trip, volunteering on a cool project, or seeing a comedian to laugh together. This will show those you care about you care. I once saw a poster that said “You show how much you care by the way you listen”. A good leader takes time to listen to your team and even more so to those you care about. Do little things like going by each office and saying “good morning, I appreciate your contribution to the team.” Perhaps a pat on the back or a high five will go a long way in your team feeling included and valued. Take time while you drive to go down the list of those closest to you and call them to check in and encourage them. Tell them you where thinking of them and acknowledge a positive outcome of something they did.
Leadership Success Tips 1 of 10
Leadership Success Tips
© Copyright 2009 by RJ Ritchie All Rights Reserved
1) Successful Leaders are always learning
Grow or die. Successful Leaders know the importance of consistent personal leadership development. The key is daily discipline of acquiring leadership knowledge and consistently sharpening leadership skills. Congratulations if you are already developing your leadership skills and leadership knowledge on a daily basis. Perhaps you are just starting your pursuit of leadership development, If so than congratulation to you too. Here are some ideas you can use to start your daily discipline of leadership development. You can read a couple of pages of a good leadership book before you go to sleep at night or first thing in the morning. You can listen to Leadership material via books on CD’s or on your mp3 while you drive or perhaps during your lunch break. You could watch a DVD on the subject or attend a leadership training seminar. Once you start you will notice the difference immediately by the way you lead and by noticing the way others lead. It is important to remember that Leaders never “arrive” rather they are always learning.
© Copyright 2009 by RJ Ritchie All Rights Reserved
1) Successful Leaders are always learning
Grow or die. Successful Leaders know the importance of consistent personal leadership development. The key is daily discipline of acquiring leadership knowledge and consistently sharpening leadership skills. Congratulations if you are already developing your leadership skills and leadership knowledge on a daily basis. Perhaps you are just starting your pursuit of leadership development, If so than congratulation to you too. Here are some ideas you can use to start your daily discipline of leadership development. You can read a couple of pages of a good leadership book before you go to sleep at night or first thing in the morning. You can listen to Leadership material via books on CD’s or on your mp3 while you drive or perhaps during your lunch break. You could watch a DVD on the subject or attend a leadership training seminar. Once you start you will notice the difference immediately by the way you lead and by noticing the way others lead. It is important to remember that Leaders never “arrive” rather they are always learning.
Communication
Communication – To Hear or Not to Hear…
© copyright 2009 by RJ Ritchie all rights reserved.
“Communication is not received when making someone listen. Communication is only received when someone is willing to hear. The key is communicating in a way that your team will hear you. It’s been my experience that hearing first is reciprocal.” - RJ Ritchie
During my college years I had the same room for my Psychology classes. On a wall in front was a poster that read "You show how much you care by the way you listen." I found that to be true. I can recall many times having lunch with a member of my team where I chose to listen and was thanked for the best lunch ever. I didn't say a thing. I maybe asked a couple of questions but that was it. I learned a lot about the importance of listening which was returned to me when I had something important that I needed my team to hear and in those cases they really heard. I am reminded about the saying that we were made with one mouth and two ears. Perhaps so we can listen twice as much as we speak. I also learned the importance of a one hour lunch. I learned more about an individual on my team in one hour than in a years worth of planned meetings or projects that where focused on work. I can recall a lunch I had while I was part of a team and my team leader took me to lunch with the goal of getting to know me better. That’s how it was billed. What it turned out to be was this leader listening to the people behind him the whole meal. Now it’s possible that I was boring him to death or he really didn’t care one bit about getting to know me. I tried something to see if it was me or him. So I threw in a couple of funny sentences like “so I then walked into the bank told the teller to hand over all the money and walked out, and that’s how I bought my first car.” His response was to nod and murmur as if to agree like he really heard me. Unfortunately, I found out that was his usual mode of operation. As a result he had lost a lot of respect by his team and when it came time for us to listen to him, well, we reciprocated.
© copyright 2009 by RJ Ritchie all rights reserved.
“Communication is not received when making someone listen. Communication is only received when someone is willing to hear. The key is communicating in a way that your team will hear you. It’s been my experience that hearing first is reciprocal.” - RJ Ritchie
During my college years I had the same room for my Psychology classes. On a wall in front was a poster that read "You show how much you care by the way you listen." I found that to be true. I can recall many times having lunch with a member of my team where I chose to listen and was thanked for the best lunch ever. I didn't say a thing. I maybe asked a couple of questions but that was it. I learned a lot about the importance of listening which was returned to me when I had something important that I needed my team to hear and in those cases they really heard. I am reminded about the saying that we were made with one mouth and two ears. Perhaps so we can listen twice as much as we speak. I also learned the importance of a one hour lunch. I learned more about an individual on my team in one hour than in a years worth of planned meetings or projects that where focused on work. I can recall a lunch I had while I was part of a team and my team leader took me to lunch with the goal of getting to know me better. That’s how it was billed. What it turned out to be was this leader listening to the people behind him the whole meal. Now it’s possible that I was boring him to death or he really didn’t care one bit about getting to know me. I tried something to see if it was me or him. So I threw in a couple of funny sentences like “so I then walked into the bank told the teller to hand over all the money and walked out, and that’s how I bought my first car.” His response was to nod and murmur as if to agree like he really heard me. Unfortunately, I found out that was his usual mode of operation. As a result he had lost a lot of respect by his team and when it came time for us to listen to him, well, we reciprocated.
Things They Don't Teach in School
Posted by RJ Ritchie @ www.rjritchie.net
Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!
Rule 2: The world doesn't care about your
self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up,it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!
Rule 2: The world doesn't care about your
self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up,it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
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