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Newsletter "Gateways". . . to your true potential Leadership: The Challenge
| Managing Through Goal Setting Leadership P These skills, principles, and traits can be
developed. Rate yourself in each area below, identify areas of weaknesses, and then create some goals and action steps to help you develop the successful leadership traits. • Leaders are grounded . They know who they are and where they are going. They set the direction and pace for the organization/department and lead by example. An effective leader helps to create an organization where everyone feels free to be open, innovative, and alive to possibilities.• Leaders provide the vision, values, and strategies to transform their organizations to higher levels of sustained success. Leaders take the company to where it has not been. Leaders are visionaries, coaches, mentors, teachers, students, and more. They are constantly seeking, learning, improving, and stretching their capabilities. They set the example, establish the environment, and implement the processes for everyone in the organization to adhere to the same standards. • Successful leaders have personal and organizational values, which govern their behavior. They lead by values. Balancing the needs of the individuals with the needs of the company by aligning the vision, values, and resources of all concerned. Organizational values are an integral part of your Strategic Plan and the cornerstone for the actions and decisions of everyone in the organization. Those values are driven throughout the organization by your behavior and your example. As a leader, if you engage in behavior which conflicts with your values, you will sacrifice your credibility. The end does not justify the means.
Adapted from Executive Leadership, RAC, SA, all rights reserved. Unless you know what you want to achieve, there's no way to measure how close you are to achieving that objective. Goals give you a standard against which to measure your
progress. The goals you set for accomplishing the company's/department's mission must be in line with the vision and what your company wants you to do. If what you plan to achieve for your job, department, or team
isn't coordinated with the goals of your organization, you'll waste your time and energy. Goals are the foundation of motivational programs. By reaching toward your goals, you become motivated, and by knowing the
goals of your team members and helping them reach those goals, you help to motivate them. The process of setting goals takes time, energy, and effort. Goals aren't something you scribble on a napkin during a coffee
break-you must plan what you truly want to accomplish, establish timetables, determine who will do each action step, brainstorm all the possible obstacles, create a solution for the obstacles, review all of the rewards
and consequences of achieving or not achieving the goal, and implement the goal. Criteria for setting goals. To ensure that goals can be accomplished, follow these guidelines for
setting your goals. Your goals must be SMART.
S - Specific M- Measurable A - Attainable R - Realistically High T - Target Date or Time Bound Example: Your goal is to save money. This is a hazy goal. You could put one dollar in a jar and that hazy goal would have been accomplished. It does not conform to the above criteria.
Instead your goal could be
- Save $100 per month for the next 12 months starting (today's date) to be complete by (target date). This goal is specific, measurable, attainable, realistically high, and has a target date. Happy Goal Setting!
One night a group of nomads were preparing to retire for the evening when suddenly they were surrounded by a bold,
vibrant light. They knew they were in the presence of a celestial being. With great anticipation, they awaited a heavenly message of great importance that they knew must be especially for them.
Finally the voice spoke. "Gather as many pebbles as you can. Put them in your saddlebags. Travel a day's journey and tomorrow night will find you glad and it will find you sad." After having
departed, the nomads shared their disappointment and anger with each other. They expected the revelation of great universal truth. Instead, they were given a menial task that made no sense to them at all. However, the
memory of the brilliance of their visitor caused each one to pick up a few pebbles and deposit them in their saddlebags while voicing their displeasure. They traveled a day's
journey and that night while making camp, they reached into their saddlebags and discovered every pebble they had gathered had become a diamond. They were glad they had diamonds. They were sad they had not gathered more
pebbles. Gather all the pebbles you can find. And you can count on a future filled with diamonds. It is the habitual thought that frames itself into our life. It
affects even more than our intimate social relations do. Our confidential friends have not so much to do in shaping our lives as the thoughts which we harbor. Kids Health™ is a great site for parents, kids and
teens. It is provided by The Nemours Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to children's health and it is the largest physician practice specializing in pediatric care. You can check out this web site at:
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection. Success comes to those who make it happen. You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think.
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit. Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again. Not much happens without a dream. And for something great to happen, there must be a great dream. Behind every great
achievement is a dreamer of great dreams. I am sure that
if every leader who goes into battle will promise himself that he will come out either a conqueror or a corpse, he is sure to win. There is no doubt of that. Defeat is not due to losses but to the destruction of the
Soul of the leaders--the "live to fight another day" doctrine. Success is the accomplishment of predetermined goals…so set your goals high.– Anonymous
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quotes, and material in this newsletter are copyrighted. © 2003. No part can be reproduced or redistributed in any form without specific written consent from copyright holder(s). All rights reserved worldwide. How Does Controlling One's Attention Contribute To Safety In The Workplace? One of my favorite
quotes from Tom Peters is his statement that after 25 years of consulting, everything he's learned can be boiled down into five words: Attention is all there is.
What you put your attention to, is what you get. Try to wake people up to the fact that all of us have attention patterns that are somewhat restrictive, that are useful in certain circumstances but mismatched in other kinds of situations.
Generally people who are very good at focusing their attention and blocking out distractions also miss things in their environment. When you're driving, for example, you're looking straight ahead and you don't see
things on the side. On a safety level, that can be dangerous. Try to show people where they're good and where they need improvement, and give them some specific exercises and techniques for broadening their
effectiveness.
You've fired an
employee. Next thing you know, you're getting obscene e-mails and phone calls from people you don't know who say they met you in a chat room. Sounds made up, but it's not. It's called cyberstalking, and it's a new
technique used by disgruntled employees to "get even" with their former employers or colleagues. In some cases, cyberstalking can be just an annoyance. In other cases, it can result in bigger headaches like
"denial-of-use" attacks. If your company or a particular employee has been the victim of a cyberstalker, here are three tips for stopping the harassment:
1. Make a log. Keep track of every occurrence by writing down the date, time, and a brief description of what happened (for example: June 21, 2003; 3:35 p.m.; obscene e-mail).
2. Gather evidence.
Try to trace the attack back to the harasser. In the case of e-mails, this can be done by following the sender information back to the Internet Service Provider (ISP) and asking or subpoenaing the ISP to match the sender with its customer data, as well as to verify its connection logs. Chat-room situations are more difficult to pinpoint, but can be done with help. A well-trained Information Technology (IT) department should be able to handle most tracking situations. However, some companies have turned to private detectives with experience in Internet evidence gathering.
3. Determine a course of action.
Once a case has been built, decide whether to seek legal action such as a civil suit or criminal charges. Sometimes the best way to stop a cyberstalker is to call him or her on the phone and say, "We know who you are, and we know what you're doing." Be forewarned: Unless a cyberstalking case involves fraud, computer crime, or a threat of physical violence, most law-enforcement officials stay away from the situation.
– Adapted from Network World Did You Know?
Increase Employee Worth And Their Results By Encouraging Risk Taking Benefit:
When they see that taking risks—and making a mistake—is acceptable, they'll be more willing to work on solutions without fear of failure. Ask Every Employee To Write A Personal Mission Statement When Employees Set Standards
One day,
watching game films with the assistant coach, Heck complained about a negative grade the coach gave him for a play that Heck thought was OK. "Andy, I don't think you're an average player," the assistant coach said,
stopping the film. "Do you want me to grade you as an average player so your mark will be positive? Or should I grade you as a great player, in which case your performance on that play was a minus? You choose."
Heck chose "great player," and Holtz says, "He immediately elevated his personal standards." Heck became Notre Dame's team captain and enjoyed a solid professional career with the Chicago Bears. Holtz believes the
coach's question that day—and Heck's choice—launched that success. Suggestion:
Challenge employees to set their own standards. Their motivation to succeed will be stronger than if they try to reach goals others impose.
Source: Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Success, by Lou Holtz,
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