10 Effective Ways Leaders Can Influence Others Through Nonverbal Communications. For eleven years now, since retiring from the FBI, I have been working with business executives from all over the world. My principal objective has been to share with them how nonverbal communications can be used to enhance interpersonal communications and to change perceptions. 10 Not So Obvious Barriers to Effective Leadership. Want employee engagement? Start recognizing small things.
Employee engagement is an urgent matter.
Recognition offers a quick fix. Before inflicting major change initiatives, why not simply recognize and reinforce examples of where you want to head? Recognition provides an easy to implement and low-cost way to engage employees and shift your culture towards new values. Recognition provides a low-cost way to engage employees and shift your culture towards new values As Rachel O’Connor of the global management consultancy Hay Group observes, “When done well, recognition is a form of feedback that tells us we are doing something that is contributing to the organization’s success. I Learned Lifelong Leadership Lessons in My First Job. This is a little story about how I learned the right way to manage people.
My First Job: Age 13 or 14 When I was a kid, if I wanted something (like a slot-car, or a pellet gun), I could wait for my birthday or Christmas and hope my folks could afford to buy it for me, but beyond that it was pretty much up to me. So I pulled weeds, sold garden seeds or Christmas and greeting cards door-to-door, sold grapes on the roadside, delivered newspapers as a back up for friends who had paper-routes. Typical kid stuff for that day. But those little jobs never brought in much money for the amount of work, so I decided to get a “real” job. There was a plant nursery about a mile from my home, and they occasionally hired teens to water plants, move stuff, mix soil, plant seedlings into nursery cans, and similar nursery work.
Lesson One: Treat Everyone Nicely. The day I started, the Mr. Mr. Lesson Two: Continuous Improvement Mr.
Five Management Lessons I Learned Through Trial and Error. Being a manager is not something I particularly enjoyed.
That’s not to say I wouldn’t jump at the opportunity to work in an environment where I had the responsibilities of being in management, but I don’t think anyone with their head on correctly actually wakes up looking forward to telling employees what they are and aren’t doing correctly. This is especially true if you happen to be the messenger that delivers this feedback from the business owner (not a situation I’m in today, but one I have some experience with).
Of all the lessons I’ve learned working in environments ranging from small businesses to local government and even enterprises, there are five basic principles on which I’ve formed my own personal management philosophy around. Some of these tips come not from working in management, but from being managed by someone else and recognizing what exactly did and didn’t make them a good manager. People Hate Being Told What They’re Doing Wrong. Leadership Is a Conversation. Artwork: Adam Ekberg, Arrangement #1,2009, ink-jet print The command-and-control approach to management has in recent years become less and less viable.
Globalization, new technologies, and changes in how companies create value and interact with customers have sharply reduced the efficacy of a purely directive, top-down model of leadership. What will take the place of that model? Part of the answer lies in how leaders manage communication within their organizations—that is, how they handle the flow of information to, from, and among their employees. Lessons from Semco on Structure, Growth and Change - Supervisory Leadership Article. Semco is one of the most interesting companies on the planet.
There are no job titles and no personal assistants. People set their own salaries. Everybody shares in the profits. That sounds like a recipe for disaster, or at least chaos, but Semco has grown consistently for the last twenty years despite being located in one of the most volatile economies in the world. The story of Semco and its majority shareholder, Ricardo Semler, is often told something like this. That makes it seem like what Semco did was based on a clear strategy, and that you can follow a similar strategy with good results. Getting Results. Lessons Learned from Seth Godin. “Busy does not equal important.
Measured doesn’t mean mattered.” – Seth Godin There’s a hidden message in this post – it’s your free prize inside. Whether you find the free prize or not, this post will make you think. About your life.
References to read. Engagement and motivation. Viv McWaters. Thoughts on leadership April 10th, 2012 Everybody has a view on leadership.
I’m wary of anyone who says they have figured out the 5 things that great leaders do or the 7 things that great leaders never do etc. The internet is full of these sorts of posts. It seems no matter what else we say, we humans like lists, and we like them even more when someone else does the work for us.