Tweet On Fox News Sunday, Sarah Palin noted that President Obama doesn’t have “the cojones” to effectively address the issue of illegal immigration….
Tweet Do you want to be famous? For what? Thomas Edison was the most prolific inventor in history. His style of leadership was…
Authenticity is Great Leadership As I interviewed Jim Hart for the May 10, 2010, edition of Monday Morning Email (http://dld.bz/cNKu), I really resonated…
Doug Lawrence has written a blog titled 7 Questions for your worship point person… at Church Central (http://www.churchcentral.com/blog/7-Questions-for-your-worship-point-person…- ). While reading the post,…
Life is defined by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece. – Nadia Boulanger …
Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. – Henry Ford In reading a blog post…
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. – William James I…
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.
TIP: Plan tomorrow’s activities today. If you wait until tomorrow – the planning time will escape more times than not.
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.
TIP: Define the meeting outcomes first, and then plan how to achieve those outcomes.
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.
TIP: If you have lots of staff or volunteers, then learn to limit your time with those who are not as productive and give more to those who produce. Here’s a chance to use the 80/20 rule. Spend 80% of your volunteer support time with the 20% of the people who produce 80% of the results. Gather the remaining 80% of the volunteers who produce 20% of the results into groups. Support them as a group, not individually. This will give you a major bounce on your results and free up enormous amounts of time. (This is the “Pareto Principle” named after the nineteenth-century economist who developed the 80/20 rule for business.)
