Tag: Management Performance

How To Succeed In Business

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Business is a game. If you want to win, if you want to get ahead, you must follow the rules.

If you are not playing, you are watching. If you are not creating, you are consuming. If you are not planting, you are reaping. If you are not growing, you are dying.

To stay in the game, according to Molly D. Shepard, Jane K. Stimmler, and Peter J. Dean, ‘Never allow yourself the luxury of anger, no matter how ‘hot’ the discussion gets. Instead, control your emotion so it doesn’t interfere with your message.’

‘When a boss or coworker gets angry, try not to take it personally. Instead of thinking about how you feel, put your focus on the person who is angry and try to figure out his or her motivation.’

‘If you are having a problem with a coworker, don’t let it irritate you until you get angry. Identify the problem and address it with him or her.’

‘Don’t wait for information to come to you. Get out of your office, join a conversation, and get in on the informal network ‘action.’ You never know what you’ll learn.’

‘A true leader routinely assists talented people who work with her to attain bigger jobs, sometimes even surpassing her.‘

‘Be clever in determining who really impacts on your success.’

‘When making your list of possible company mentors- don’t leave out your boss.’

‘When you know in your gut that you’ve received all possible benefit from a mentoring relationship, it’s time to move on.’

‘If your schedule and responsibilities are veering out of control, ask yourself what tasks can be delegated or rearranged to free up more time.’

‘Whenever you can, try to make things more streamlined by changing the way you do something, letting it go, or hiring someone else to do it.’

Source;

Molly D. Shepard, Jane K. Stimmler, & Peter J. Dean (2014). Breaking Into the Boys’ Club: The Complete Guide for Women to Get Ahead in Business

The Impact Of Great Leadership In The Workplace

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
Photo by Yan Krukau on Pexels.com

Leadership is not about what you know. It is not about what you can do for yourself. It is not about your title. It is not about who you know.

Leadership, real leadership, is about how you make other people feel. It is about how you treat other people. It is about what you do for others, not about what you do for yourself.

The question is, according to Tim Irwin, ‘Do you want to make an impact?’

Because leadership is about impact; it is not about power.

According to Tim, ‘The purpose of power is to implement strategies and to reach difficult goals while valuing and respecting the team that accomplishes the goals.’

‘When we have power we must exercise great self-awareness, wrap it in humility, and rein in its deleterous effects.’

‘Effective leaders must be ruthlessly intolerant of any self-deception.’

‘If arrogance is the mother of all derailers, humility is the mother of all safeguards.’

‘Effective self-regulation frees us from the tyranny of our impulses.’

‘Authentic leaders express a personal narrative alongside their vision and goals for the organization.’

‘Inspiring others to give themselves unreservedly to the mission is not a management technique. Effective leadership is far more personal.’

‘Even in our most glaringly candid moments we are reluctant to acknowledge that some of our inclinations are, at least, ineffective, if not dishonorable. Denial provides a safe way to sidestep our tension- or at least it seems that way.’

‘By bringing the issue into the light of the day, you often realize what the right decision is.’

‘Management is positional. Leadership is personal.’

Source:

Tim Irwin (2014). Impact: Great Leadership Changes Everything