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5 Transferable Leadership Lessons

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Leaders are able to sustain themselves and others using key leadership lessons that are transferable to life.

Indeed, when they are facing real life issues, the same principles keep them on track.

Wondering what are these transferable lessons?

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1. Identify your purpose

When you discover your purpose, you will not want to settle for less until then finding out what it is should take up most of your time and is an inherent part of the journey.

If you don’t know what it is, you can always follow your passion because at some point and to some extent you will find your purpose.

2. Find your place of strength

Finding out your strengths is tricky because we have a hard time identifying and valuing what comes natural and easy to us.Discovering ways to use your strengths and actually using them are empowering and will propel you forward in life.

Discovering ways to use your strengths and actually using them are empowering and will propel you forward in life.

3. Trust your instincts

So many times we deny what we believe to be True and what our intuition whispers to us for the sake of people who don’t value us and for situation that destroy us.
When you understand how profitable it is to trust your instincts, you will learn to listen and follow even when it doesn’t look like you should.

4. Think positively

If you think you’ll fail, then you probably will.If you think you’ll have a bad day, you probably will.

So, watch your thoughts, start each day with a positive mindset and note the gradual changes in your decisions, perceptions, and actions.
If you think you’ll have a bad day, you probably will.

So, watch your thoughts, start each day with a positive mindset and note the gradual changes in your decisions, perceptions, and actions.

5. Understand that we all face adversity

We all go through moments of adversity, big ones, small ones, long-lasting ones, short-termed ones, ones that build you up, ones that are meant to destroy you.

Adversity can break you only if you let it.

But if you make it on the other side, your adversity will leave the gift of knowledge and wisdom.

Last Words Of Advice

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5 Essential Skills For Building A Shared Purpose

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Most Millennials and Gen Z require more out of the companies they are affiliated with.

They demand a healthy relationship with their work.

They pay closely attention to their purpose within their role, to their leadership, to what their organization does and most importantly why they do it.

What is Shared Purpose?

Shared purpose is the reason why a company, leaders, teams matter and should bond together.

Shared purpose relates to a personal mission statement, to core values, to personal motivation, to a given motivation.

Shared purpose allows for deeper understanding of overall objectives, clearer expectations of performance and code of conduct, stronger resilience in the face of adversity, job satisfaction on all levels, and better team engagement and alignment.

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5 Essential Skills For Rewarding Networking

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Depending on your communication style, networking can be entertaining or draining…

Some enjoy being the center of attention and others laying low in the back.

Either way, there are a few tips you can use to reap the most rewards of any networking event.

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So Good They Can’t Ignore You By Cal Newport

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The culture that we live in encourages people to live their dreams and follow their passions.

We don’t necessarily have a guideline to live the dream, to exercise our passions and to find the career that best suits us.

It seems that to get a fulfilling job or to do great work, following your passion is definitively not the way to go.

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Why not?

Because following your passions is difficult, rarely successful and dangerous.

Studies have shown that:

  • Passions are not determined at birth.
  • Most people can have several passions that have nothing to do with choosing the right job. Some people don’t necessarily have a passion to follow.
  • Passions for a job takes time to develop. It takes time to build relationships, to become efficient at what you do and see the impact of your work.
  • You become passionate when you master a skill.
  • You become confused and anxious when you follow passion.

What should you do then?

When going after the career you want, you must measure the importance of growing a set of skills and adopt the craftsman mindset.

Indeed, there are two ways of thinking about work. There’s the craftsman mindset and the passion mindset.

The passion mindset focuses on what the world can offer you. It sets you constantly on high alert, seeking for what you don’t like. It leaves you perpetually in a state of confusion.

The craftsman mindset is useful in building the career that you want, irrespective of what type of work you do.

It focuses on what you produce and what you can offer the world. It leaves you with clarity and a love for what you do.

How to acquire the craftsman mindset?

Great work is a combination of creativity, impact and control. This combination is rare but valuable.

Matter of fact, great jobs are rare and valuable. To find them, you need to build up great skills and in turn offer skills that are rare and valuable.

The craftsman mindset is the best way to acquire skills Capital.

To grow a craftsman mindset, you can follow these 5 steps:

  1. Decide what Capital Market you belong to.
  2. Identify the type of Capital you want to pursue.
  3. Define clear goals for yourself.
  4. Get out of your comfort zone and stretch your abilities.
  5. Be patient.

How to gain control using your new found Capital?

Gaining control over what you do is an important part of enjoying what you do and is the hardest part.

Gaining control turns out to be tricky: you cannot ask for more control if you don’t have enough Capital to back it up or you have acquired lots of control that you can no longer evolve in your role.

It serves to have a unifying focus or mission for your career. A mission will focus your energy toward a useful goal and increase your impact on the world. To accomplish your mission, you can take small steps that generate concrete feedback.

Review

So Good They Can’t Ignore You is an extremely practical, logical guide to get the career that you want and to be so “good they can’t ignore you”.

In So Good They Can’t Ignore You, Cal Newport believes that you should not pursue your passions in order to achieve career success.

Instead, you should seek to improve your skills and apply yourself in a particular field. By mastering a skill, you will gain in efficiency and gradually become passionate about the work you do.

According to Cal Newport, people who solely follow their passions end up shifting careers when they realize that their career is not what is cracked up to be.

To get a fulfilling job and the career that you want, he suggests 4 rules or principles that are extracted from many successful people lives and that are difficult to implement.

It was very interesting and somewhat refreshing to hear an unpopular opinion. His principles and opinion are not designed for dreamers.

It is however designed for people at entry-level at their jobs, for analytical people who are geared towards efficient performance and who are career focused.

Even if I’m a practical person, I admittedly don’t see anything wrong with pushing people to follow their passions that might get them out of their comfort zone and into their dream job.

I think that there isn’t one approach to success or else everybody would be doing it. Some people are motivated by having a solid plan, others by an unshakable purpose and others by an exciting passion.

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5 Essential Skills For Successful Goal-Setting

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Goal-setting is a powerful leadership skill…

Goal-setting provides you with self-awareness and more control over your life.

Successful goal-setting transforms ideas into action, gives you a sense of purpose and of direction.

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Your goals become successful the moment you become in tune with who you are, with your principles and core values.

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5 Essential Leadership Skills For Effective Communication

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Effective communication is all about receiving and conveying a message, an idea or concept as intended…

Effective communication means adapting your communication style to a specific context.

It helps to avoid misunderstandings, build relationships, instill trust and respect, in being more inclusive.

5 Essential Leadership Skills For Effective Communication

Developing powerful communication skills plays a real role in a leader’s career.

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5 Inpiring Quotes For Leadership Development

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Leadership development aims to provide leaders with the hard and soft skills needed to execute their job within their capacity and within their organization.

Usually, leadership development boosts employee morale, engagement, alignment and productivity.

5 Inpiring Quotes For Leadership Development

1. Leaders demonstrate integrity and instill trust

“Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.” – SETH GODIN

2. Leaders learn continuously

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy

3. Leaders maintain strong communication skills

“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.” – Lee Iacocca

4. Leaders possess good decision-making skills

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt

5. Leaders build healthy relationships

A leader’s attitude is caught by his or her followers more quickly than his or her actions. – John C. Maxwell

Last Words Of Advice

There are several leadership programs out there.

It is important that you find the right one for you to gain the ability to inspire, influence, improve your performance and cope with challenges.

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Top 10 Leadership Assessment Tools for 2022

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The modern business world is getting more competitive than ever before…

There are many challenges that managers face on a daily basis, and it’s important to know how to lead effectively in order for businesses to be successful.

Leadership assessment tools can help leaders evaluate their strengths and weaknesses so they can make necessary improvements.

The following article will provide you with information about what these assessments as well as some tips on how to use them most effectively.

Read on for more!

Top 10 Leadership Assessment Tools for 2022 : Which One Is Right For You?

A leadership assessment tool is a reliable and systematic way to measure the abilities of top and mid-level managers as well as benchmarking their skills against those on the market.

1. SurveySparrow’s 360 Degree Feedback

SurveySparrow’s 360-degree feedback tool promises to allow managers and leaders to collect data on how employees work, as well as their strengths and weaknesses.

Also, this can be used for an analysis of the manager’s personality within a company.

SurveySparrow’s unique survey software boasts features such as anonymity for participants to provide honest responses about how they work with you every day, which will speed up this process.

2. Saville Assessment

For many years, Saville Assessment has been a leader in crafting both aptitude and personality tests.

The former covers verbal, numerical, spatial among several other abilities while the latter assesses your preferred workplace behaviors such as being detail-oriented or collaborative.

3. Gallup Strengthsfinder

Rather than focusing on weaknesses, Gallup Strengthsfinder is a leadership assessment tool that focuses predominantly on strengths.

As a result, this method might create more positive mindsets in which employees feel motivated and engaged.

Ultimately, this can lead to higher morale compared with discussing all the employee’s flaws or shortcomings.

4. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality assessment tool that has been around for over 50 years.

It divides everyone into one of 16 different personality types, these are represented by a combination of four letters:

  • Extroverted (E) – Introverted (I)
  • Sensing (S) – Intuition
  • Thinking (T) – Feeling (F)
  • Judging (J) – Perceiving (P)

5. DISC

DISC is a simplified and intuitive leadership assessment tool.

It’s quick, easy to use with large groups of people, and unlike other similar tools; the focus isn’t on what you prefer but rather your observable behavior patterns.

More advanced versions will ask if different behaviors occur at home or work as well!

6. Enneagram

The Enneagram is a unique assessment that groups people’s traits and behavior into 81 different categories.

Up until now, you were introduced to tests that take into account surface-level behaviors.

However, the Enneagram goes deeper than this by assessing your personality type!

7. USC’s Leadership Style Self-Assessment

Your self-assessment determines what kind of a leader you are.

The USC’s Leadership Style Self -Assessment is based on this simple idea and shares with you your leadership style, the traits that will help to bring out the best in yourself and team members when everyone’s perception about their own behavior matches exactly!

8. The IHHP Emotional Intelligence (EQ & Performing Under Pressure Assessment)

A new leadership assessment test created by the Institute for Health and Human Potential tests two aspects of a person’s performance as a leader.

The Emotional Intelligence/Quotient (EQ) is one aspect, which is tested through an independent exam given to each candidate separately.

Another part that makes up this test analyzes how well they perform under pressure when compared with others who take it at the same time in order to find out if their first attempt was just luck or not on taking important decisions while managing stressful situations.

9. MindTools Leadership Skills Assessment

The MindTools Leadership Skills Assessment is a questionnaire that consists of 18 questions, inquiring about your different actions and instances in your professional life.

In addition, the assessment details if you are already at the best version of yourself or there’s room for improvement.

10. Princenton MCG Leadership Blind Spot Assessment

Not only did Princeton MCG create an incredibly comprehensive survey to help leaders identify their strengths and weaknesses, but they also provide advice on management for short-term objectives.

Their ultimate goal is to build long-term competitive edges in the process of helping leaders achieve short-term goals.

Conclusion

The most common leadership assessments measure the 4 pillars of leadership:

  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Organizational Awareness
  • Relationship Management
  • Decision-Making Ability.

Our top ten Leadership Assessment Tools for 2021 will help you identify and develop your leadership skills.

With these tools in hand, you can quickly and easily assess the areas that need more attention or development and then set goals to improve them.

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26 Constructive Things That Great Leaders Say

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Words are powerful and can have a long-lasting effect on people…

Great leaders show interest and appreciation in the success of their team.

Indeed, they go beyond and above to motivate their team.

Wondering what are some motivating things that leaders can say? 

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1. What do you need?

2. How can I help?

3. What do you think?

4. Thank you!

5. Please

6. I apologize or I am sorry

7. How are you?

8. I was wrong

9. I don’t know…

10. I believe you can

11. I trust you

12. Tell me more

13. We have a mission statement

14. My vision is

15. My expectations are

16. Here is the plan

17. Here are the objectives

18. What are we learning from this?

19. Help me understand

20. Let’s talk about it!

21. Why don’t you tell us?

22. What do you think?

23. How can we improve this?

24. Let’s find a solution to your problem

25. We did it!

26. Congratulations!

Last words of advice!

It always help to be sincere in your delivery!

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12 Annoying Things That Smart Leaders Say

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Words are powerful and can have a long-lasting effect on people…

Leaders are responsible for employee engagement, for setting goals, giving feedback and reinforce positive feedbacks.

Therefore, leaders have to be careful of the words that come out their mouth.

On one hand, they can say annoying things from time to time.

On the other hand, it’s not always easy to find the right thing to say.

Wondering what are the most annoying things that leaders usually say? 

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1. “It’s my way or the high way!”

Leaders who want everything they way tend to hire talented individuals to do the job but don’t trust them to do so or don’t give them the opportunity to exercise their expertise. By doing so, their team gradually lose confidence and morale.

2. “You’re wrong” or “Why didn’t you do this instead?”

There is more than one solution to a problem and there is more than one way than doing things.

3. “It’s none of your business” or “Stay in your lane”

Leaders who pull rank or hold back information try to retain power as much as they can and wish to establish a certain distance between themselves and their team.

4. “Let me finish…” or Interrupt people while the are talking…

It is important for leaders to actively listen before they speak and to value their team’s knowledge.

5. “I don’t pay you to think!”

By saying that, leaders reduce their team members to mere tools or objects.

6. “I’m not going to do your job for you” 

Team members usually come to leaders for advice and reassurance but don’t require those same leaders to do their job for them.

7. “Don’t waste my time”

Time is indeed a precious commodity but by saying that leaders impeded their team from suggesting innovative ideas.

8. “I don’t have time right now”

Leaders are definitely busy bodies but they make time for what is important.

9. “That’s not important…”

This statement has a tendency of devaluing team members.

10. “I don’t care” or “That’s not my problem”

Helping team members find solutions to problems is part of the job description of leaders.

11. “You are not as good as you think” or “You are lucky to even be here”

If a leader needs to remind a team member how great his or her job is then it is not that great to begin with.

12. “We have always done it that way”

Through that statement, leaders emphasize that there is no room for improvement or innovation.

Last words of advice!

When you have said a few annoying things, you can always recover by:

  • Being aware of your words.
  • Observing the impact of your words
  • Admitting your mistakes.
  • Calmly explaining yourself.
  • Letting go and moving on.

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