Tag: Coaching

10 Key Strategies For Entrepreneurial Success

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in BriSights, Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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If you want to create something, go do it. Don’t think too much about it. If you do not want to create something, then take what you are doing seriously.

Starting something new is about your mindset. It is about your thoughts.

‘If you want to believe the right thoughts, you must create the right thoughts. And you create the right thoughts by intentionally feeding your mind positive thoughts and removing, or at least changing, negative thoughts.’

‘As entrepreneurs we don’t always know how things will work out. But if we patiently and confidently work toward the goal, somehow it will work out.’

‘Take special care to remember the challenges you’ve overcome and the things you’ve learned.’

‘Entrepreneurial independence requires you to strike the safe haven of confidence that lies between ignorance and arrogance.’

‘When entrepreneurs start growing their businesses but they don’t grow their Leadership skills, they get buried by the business.’

‘To maximize your effectiveness as a leader, we need to get you thinking like a CEO. And not just any CEO- an effective CEO, one who focuses on the three jobs of a CEO in an enlightened, modern way.’

‘Be courageous and coach underperformers up or out.’

‘To achieve and sustain the success we want as entrepreneurs, we must avoid the ego TRAPS: timidity, resignation, ambition, pride, sabotage.’

‘When things are difficult and you’re feeling beaten down, have faith and just keep going. Things will work out in the end.’

‘Entrepreneurship is an amazing laboratory where we get to practice becoming our best self. Practice the personal keys to become your best self.’

Source

Clate Mask (2024). Conquer the Chaos: The Six Keys to Success for Entrepreneurs

How Great Leaders Empower Employees

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in BriSights, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘Good leaders hear the needs of their employees, great leaders actively listen and care.’

‘Feedback conversations don’t have to occur in an annual review and don’t have to happen constantly. They have to happen in a collaborative and relevant way so that it matches both the work and career goals.’

‘Putting a sound strategy in place doesn’t do much if you’re not following up with with a targeted action plan.’

‘Don’t wait for the annual performance review to evaluate and let go of poor performers.’

‘Organizations and their leaders should worry less about compliance, ranking, and reviews and more about the big picture, creating a culture of coaching and feedback that empowers employees to use their skills and talents to support the company’s goals while also achieving their own.’

‘Performance enablement is a new and far better path toward organizational effectiveness and employee satisfaction than old-fashioned performance management.’

‘Employee goals should be agile and tied to the company’s top-level goals and should cover personal development and help employees strive to do more with their careers.’

‘A plan that suits your organization can open the eyes of everyone, from the newest hire to the executive, to how they can secure more effective training, how the company can reenvision its goals, and essentially how the individual and the institution can serve one another more effectively.’

‘The key to effective use of a people development plan is communication. Maximize effective interactions between managers and employees, and ensure that executives are accessible to all.’

‘Offering feedback in the flow of work helps you address behaviors in real time. Employee will make a better connection between what you’re telling them and how they can improve moving forward.’

‘The greatest leaders enable others to disrupt the status quo and facilitate growth, innovation, and change.’

Source

Doug Dennerline, Jamie Aitken (2023). Make Work Better: Revolutionizing How Great Bosses Lead, Give Feedback, and Empower Employees