Leadership Management

The Ultimate Leadership Guide is a new concept introduced by Simon Teague – a UK manager. It offers a completely a new approach towards personal development. If you take a few minutes to think about how we’ve been going about achieving personal growth in the leadership arena  in the past 10-20 years, you’ll realise how broken it is:

• Volumes of Leadership Books
• Expensive Management Books
• Leadership Seminars and Classes
• Leadership Coaching
• Leadership Consultancy

These are many different methods – but if you’ve noticed – they have one of two things in common. They’re either extremely expensive (£1000 and above), or they take 100+ hours of invested time in reading. Time is extremely valuable, so do we really have to waste time like this? If you’re wondering why I think its waste, read below:

A standard 400 page leadership book, will only contain 2-3 pages of pure principles and key messages. If you’ve read any leadership book, you’ll realise that the vast major of the material is merely ‘padding’, comprised of examples and repetition.

The Ultimate Leadership Guide allows you to effectively read one leadership book in just 3 minutes. Which allows you to effectively gain the knowledge of one book everyday. It also allows for effective ‘re-visiting’ which is really going to cause your gains to take off in a big big way!

So check out the Ultimate Leadership Guide today. I hope you’ve enjoyed this review.

Haven’t updated this blog for some time, so I thought it time that I at least directed you to some great leadership resources, if I don’t have the time to be creating it myself. I figured that way at least I’m helping the leadership community.

Leadership Resources – This is a post from leadership -blog.co.uk that lists 240 great websites that he’s been on! What a list!

Leadership info - A lovely little leadership site I discovered from Google a while back.

Institute Of Leadership and Management - An active organisation that I have alot of respect for.

So there you go. A few good leadership resources to get you going on . I’ll be writing plenty more leadership articles in the coming months – I just have many different commitments at the moment that are unfortunately more pressing than writing!

Here are some helpful leadership links that I’ve stumbled across. They’re just a variety of websites – they might not be directly leadership related, but they can help you in your leadership role to no end!

Leadership Resources 1
Leadership Resources 2
Leadership Resources 3
Leadership Resources 4

These links point mainly at my user profiles on those sites – It’s the sites themselves that are interesting. Try a couple out, become a user and see whether you get any results!

Enthusiasm and inspiration are very powerful motivational states. What’s even better is they’re completely free! Those 2 characteristics are the difference between employees who look good on paper, and those who turns every project they touch into gold. So if you’ve ever wished to learn how management can inspire and motivate people to work with you effectively. Read on!

1. Talk to their Dreams. It’s an unfortunate but likely fact that many members of your workforce do not genuinely want to do the task you’ve set them. Perhaps they want to run their own business, or get married. Whatever their wishes, they all have their own dreams and if they’re organised, maybe a grand plan as to how they’re going to achieve them. What you have to do is show your team mates individually that their current task will take them one step closer towards their dreams.

Easier said than done? Well let me give you a few examples.

If a worker’s dream is to run their own business; don’t let them become demotivated by the fact this isn’t what they want to be doing. Instead, emphasise how working on this project will actually help them in the long term. Emphasise how they’ll learn so much from this, that when they do start their own business; they’ll already be learned in many areas on how to run one. If someone’s dream is to become a high flying career person, then you can mention the transferable skills they’ll gain from this task and be able to put on their CV for their next promotion. If the person wants to work for charity then you can point out that by learning from this experience they’ll have more to offer a charitable organisation in the future. It’s a simple technique that requires little thought and carries huge benefits.

All work gives experience, and all experience can help your workforces future career; you simply have to word it so that you show how important a step this job/task is on the path to fulfilling their dream. Once they see their current task slotting in to their grand plan, your workers will take care of the rest.

Enthusiasm and inspiration are very powerful motivational states. What’s even better is they’re completely free! Those 2 characteristics are the difference between someone who looks good on paper, and someone who turns everything they touch into gold. So if you’ve ever wished to learn how a manager can inspire and motivate people to work with them effectively. Read on for part 2!

2. Appeal to their competitive nature. Humans are competitive beings. Naturally we have to compete for partners and resources, but we also have to compete for the best education, the best job or even the last brownies in the shop! Everybody has a competitive spirit to some extent, and this can be used to motivate an employee into performing well. As a manager, you simply have to set the challenge. Give the individual a high standard to try and meet, or compare them with another whom they wish to beat.

Back in my sixth-form college I remember a conversation with my business studies teacher very well. The exam results from the first round of examinations had just been released and it turned out I had achieved full marks on my business paper. My teacher called me to his desk and said to me quietly;

“I’ve seen your results. Fantastic! Just fantastic!. About 3 years ago there was a girl in my class who also did brilliantly in her exams. She wasn’t that nice though – a bit arrogant and up herself y’know, but she ended up getting full marks in her whole qualification. Shes the only person to have ever to have done that here, but I really think that you could do it too, and not be arrogant. It’d be good to have, y’know, a decent person who’s managed to do it.”

What a perfect thing to say. My teacher had set me a challenge to try and complete. Was I now going to slack off in class and get complacent on the back of one good grade? Definately not. I was going to try and beat that girl.  I badly wanted to get full marks without being ‘arrogant’ about it. And so for my 2 year course I tried very hard in that class and came out with an impressive grade. Who was I to prove him wrong in thinking I could do this? He gave me a good reputation that I didn’t want to let down, and he also gave me a chance to prove I was better than this unpleasant person. It was a perfect combination of challenges that had one great result = dedication on my part.

• Give your employees a good reputation to uphold
• Compare your employees to their rivals
• Set your worker a tough goal to meet, but enough praise to show that you believe they can reach it

If you set your own employees challenges such as these, you will fill them with a sense of purpose and clear focus that would only come them accepting a competitive challenge and striving to succeed at it.

Enthusiasm and inspiration are very powerful motivational states. What’s even better for managers is that they’re completely free! Those 2 special characteristics are the difference between employees who just look good on paper, and those who turns every project they touch into gold. So if you’ve ever wished to learn how <strong>leadership management</strong> can inspire and motivate people to work with you effectively. Read on for part 3!

3. Show your own enthusiasm. The last and most important point is that you cannot expect to enthuse your team mates or subordinates if you are not enthusiastic yourself. People tend not to follow hypocrites. Besides, for the task in hand, you want everyone to be enthused towards the common goal, and that includes you. Of course nobody is there to highlight why you should feel inspired to work on this task, so you’ll have to motivate yourself, using the other tips here on this blog.

If you really find yourself so apathetic about the current task that that you cannot enthuse yourself, then how can you expect your colleagues to be driven towards the goals you have set them? Increasing your skill as a manager is a genuine, not superficial, process. Enthusiasm is contagious but so is shallow behaviour covering up apathy or the simple desire to manipulate. If you’re in the situation where you have to pretend to be enthused; you really need to think about changing your career because you will never feel happy on your current path.

Provided you are genuinely enthusiastic within yourself, you will find this will infect the culture of your team; spreading through your colleagues at a dizzying rate. And provided you talk in terms of their ambitions and set a personal challenge, you shall begin to see enthusiasm bubble out of your collegues like champagne from the bottle!

In Summary:

1. Talk to their dreams

2. Appeal to their competitive nature

3. Show your own enthusiasm