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Over the years I had become increasingly interested in leadership. I had discovered many of the books written by a leadership expert named John C Maxwell, and I found the Global Leadership Summit. I became an avid reader of Johns books, attended many of the GLS events held at a venue near me in Stafford, England
One approach would be to find out what does a person want enough that they are prepared to fail, to get there. Then I would want to make sure that to build a confidence culture that they had a safe, well-informed place to fail.
Having a common language for personality, for motivation, for IQ and emotional intelligence can really help us to understand what’s going on around us in a team environment, and to see the other people and the things they do through their eyes, to understand their intentions in the light of their experience, and to understand the things that motivate them and inspire them to succeed.
The overall objective of the business may be to make widgets profitably or to provide a great service and make a meaningful difference in some way for your clients. To have a thematic goal makes it possible for the team to come together around a particular aspect of that objective for a season. Here, successful leadership is about “intentional alignment in terms of results”.
Accountability for leadership development commitments is most effective when there is detail to the development actions. Some people use Objectives and Indicators of Success, others use Objectives and Key Results. I use a methodology based on identifying the “Next Exciting Win”, doing something NEW.
In the 15 invaluable laws of growth by John Maxwell, the second chapter is called “The Law of Awareness”, and states: “You must know yourself to grow yourself”. The key question in that chapter is “How to find your passion and purpose” and is a great read in the context of this question. It takes the reader through the journey to explore what would you like to do and asks the question: “Can you do what you would like to do?”.
Earlier this year I was approached to become a Director of the Global Leadership Network UK (GLN) and having accepted the appointment I had a “conversation by email” where we explored my background and some leadership related topics. The discussion that ensued is reproduced here in an unedited format. (Note that the Global Leadership Summit […]
Earlier this year I was approached to become a Director of the Global Leadership Network UK (GLN) and having accepted the appointment I had a “conversation by email” where we explored my background and some leadership related topics. The discussion that ensued is reproduced here in an unedited format. (Note that the Global Leadership Summit […]
Earlier this year I was approached to become a Director of the Global Leadership Network UK (GLN) and having accepted the appointment I had a “conversation by email” where we explored my background and some leadership related topics. The discussion that ensued is reproduced here in an unedited format. (Note that the Global Leadership Summit […]
Every summer an international Leadership event is held at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Chicago, Illinois, and this is called the Global Leadership Summit (GLS). It started in 1995 as an annual training event for leaders to come together to learn from other leaders who are at the top of their game. Some […]
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