Engage Your Employees. Strategic Leadership. How You Can Keep the Board Room from Being the Bored Room. Board meetings are a total pain. They can also be some of the most powerful get-togethers for your company. The difference between the two is how you approach the meeting itself. Before you say "I never present to the board" and stop reading, allow me to expand the definition of a board meeting. A board meeting is any meeting where a group of impartial outside observers of your organization get together to discuss your business with you in a candid and long-term focused way.
Board meetings can be with your advisory board if you're an entrepreneur, an executive steering committee if you're running big projects, or any other assemblage of brain power that is willing to focus on improving your business. Now keep reading. Most board meetings suck. The good news is you can make board meetings productive, insightful, and enjoyable. The hallmark for overpreparing is the board book. News flash - the board doesn't read it.
Next is the agenda for the meeting. Why folks? The Fix. BLOG.EAGLELEADERSHIPCONSULTING.COM: The 4 Ways. How to Lead Without a Title : The World. 5 Leadership Lessons: How to Lead a Fierce Competitor Company. Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation. This week’s Resource Recommendation – Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation By Sally Hogshead We buy products because we are fascinated in some way. We enter professions, pick jobs and choose friends (and mates) because of fascination. We pick movies, television shows and books because of . . . fascination. This book arrived in my mail courtesy of the author. When I met Sally more than a year ago she was working on this book. We talked about it. I was fascinated. The book is divided into three parts: Fascinate or Fail – a discussion of what fascination is, why it is important and more. The Seven Fascination Triggers – a chapter on each The Fascination Plan of Attack – a way to use the knowledge in this book to consciously and strategically build greater fascination.
It’s a logical sequence, and, personally, I am so glad the last section is there. As I read this book, I knew I would be recommending it to you, so I tried to categorize it in some way. Would you like a copy? Twelve Leadership Questions for 2010. If you're like most business leaders, you spent much of 2009 feeling down and just about out—an often-inescapable result of the worst recession since the Great Depression. Odds are, you grappled with numerous challenges, uncertainties, and "don't want to, but have to" decisions. As one weary bank CEO confided, "We're barely hanging on, just trying to survive. " He wasn't alone, either. Many executives and leadership teams shared similar sentiments with me. 10/21/09: Midweek Look at the Independent Business Blogs.
Independent business blogs are blogs that aren't supported by an organization like a magazine, newspaper, company, or business school. Those people provide lots of great content, but they don't need any additional exposure. In this post, every week, I bring you posts of quality from excellent bloggers that don't get as much publicity. This week, I'm pointing you to posts on how to build a culture of fear, the misuse of technology, two posts that look at what happens when crisis hits, and challenges that develop leaders. From Leadership Tangles: How to Build a Culture of Fear in 3 Easy Steps"Leaders, follow these three easy steps if you want to ensure that tough issues are never raised, that you don’t receive early warning signs, and that employees are seen and not heard. If you follow these steps faithfully, you and your executive team will hold all the power.
Wally's Comment: It's not that hard. From Compensation Force: HR Technology... Executive Suite Group News. Joe and Wanda on Management. Unleashing Your Leadership Potential. John Baldoni - HarvardBusiness.org. Next Level Blog. Mountain State University LeaderTalk. By Dr. Elisebeth VanderWeil Many people who are interested in and practicing leadership get really excited about change. Some have defined leadership as initiating and guiding change. "Change is constant" has become a mantra in many organizations and leadership conversations. Let's consider for a moment what a leader or organization would look like if change was a defining characteristic: • procedures and policies would always be out of date; indeed they may never be completed• creativity and innovation would be high, but products and outcomes would be unrealized• career and group development would be trapped in the realms of "storming" and "forming"• trust and collaboration would be "thin" • nerves would be as frayed as those of the proverbial long-tailed cat in a roomful of rocking chairs Change is only one iteration on the developmental path of growth and evolution.
It is during quiet plateaus that opportunities for sustainable development, innovation, and growth are realized. Bob Sutton. All Things Workplace. Leadership is a Verb. Jon Gordon's Blog | Developing Positive Leaders, Organizations and Teams. October 24th, 2011 Posted in General | 7 Comments and 23 Reactions I know I’m getting older when I step on a regional jet and the pilot looks like he just graduated from high school. Truth is, I want a pilot with experience not someone who learned to fly on the Sony PlayStation. : ) Yet, while I desire a pilot with experience it occurred to me that experience is not always a good thing. In fact sometimes experience can be a curse. Such as when your experience in business causes you to focus on the good ole days; when everyone was making money; when everyone was successful; when life was easier; when you didn’t have to go after business, it came to you. I’ve noticed that in this economy a lot of people are inflicted with the curse of experience.
The good news is that there is a simple antidote to the curse of experience and it is to Think Like a Rookie . Rookies don’t have experience. I recently spoke at a national sales meeting for a Fortune 500 company. -Jon Read the First Two Chapters Here. Seth's Blog. Leading Blog: A Leadership Blog @ LeadershipNow. This is a post by David Dotlich, Chairman and CEO of Pivot Leadership.
He is a co-author of The Unfinished Leader: Balancing Contradictory Answers to Unsolvable Problems with Peter Cairo and Cade Cowan. To be a leader today in almost any organization means you are daily, if not hourly, bombarded with problems and challenges that don’t have clear-cut “right” answers. Or, even more confounding, there are many “right” answers, depending on your perspective. Such challenges include meeting contradictory needs (for example, tending to your “stars” while building the team as a whole), delivering quarterly results while investing for the future, maintaining consistent standards and policies while accommodating unique customer requirements, or staying focused on results while adhering to your company’s purpose and values.