Life is a promise; fulfill it. – Mother Teresa
In previous posts, I have encouraged you to plan your day by planning your work. In order to accomplish the most, it is important to put everything into logical order, however, do not get so focused on the order of your day that you don’t notice the big experiences that come into your life. There are two Greek words for time that apply here:
Tags: Leadership Skills, team conflict, Transformational Leadership
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves. – Francis J. Braceland
Plan your work, and then work your plan. It might be a commonly repeated statement. It’s repeated because it is true.
Plan your work. Plan your planning and study time. Plan your recreation time. Plan ahead.
Tags: Leadership Skills, team conflict, Transformational Leadership
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. - Epictetus
Developing effective systems is crucial to leadership success. Know how to run an effective meeting.
Hugh’s rule #1 for Conducting Effective Meetings:
Purpose – Don’t hold a meeting if you do not have a defined purpose for the meeting. Know what you want to achieve and state those outcomes for the participants.
Tags: Leadership Skills, leadership systems, team conflict, Transformational Leadership
Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. – Henry Ford
Leadership skills you employ in this area are important to the transformation of staff or volunteers into workers, critics into advocates, and detractors into supporters. Learn to define, recruit, delegate, support, nurture, and facilitate. The Transformational Leadership model enables leaders to get the right people, tell them what is needed, let people complete their tasks, and celebrate the results. After all, professional leaders lead. If we did everything, we would be called professional doers. Leaders lead. This means getting out of the way.
Tags: Leadership Skills, team conflict, Transformational Leadership
Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight. – Anita DeFrantz
Your foundation is first your values, then your goals. Goals are crucial to success. Goals in your mind are not goals, but only dreams.
Write your goal. Print out the goal. Punch the goal sheet. Put it into your planning notebook. Read your goal daily.
Tags: Leadership Skills, team conflict, Transformational Leadership
Knowing the Score Means Knowing What You Want
Build a strategy beginning with your core values, your vision and mission, and your long-term strategic objectives.
You’ve got to think about “big things” while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. – Alvin Toffler
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves. – Francis J. Braceland
Patience is the companion of wisdom. – Saint Augustine
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. – Ovid
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. – Rene Descartes
Anxiety is caused by a lack of control, organization, preparation, and action. – David Kekich
Well done is better than well said. – Benjamin Franklin
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. – Carl Jung
We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own. – Ben Sweetland
When a choral conductor spends months on rehearsing music with a choir, they don’t want to have a bad instrumental ensemble to accompany them. It is essential, therefore, to hire the best players possible.
