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Perseverance - is not just a cliché
Perseverance involves people sticking to their path regardless of the obstacles placed in their way. They maintain their drive, enthusiasm, and determination and know how to handle a crisis in a confident manner.
Effective leaders demonstrate an ability to persevere even if the odds are stacked against them. After all, if certain leaders did not persevere during tough times, we wouldn’t have chocolate “kisses” to give out every year for Valentine’s Day, or ever supported a talking mouse.
Yes, the respective founders of the Hershey Company and Walt Disney Company had to endure obstacles to reach success. They struggled, almost went bankrupt, and had to prove the skeptics wrong. However, they depended on their own efforts and perseverance rather than good fortune. And as you know, both experienced huge levels of success and prosperity, plus made huge differences in the entertainment and candy industries.
Think about your own leadership traits. Are you a role model for innovative thinking and push others to take risks? Or do you resist making decisions for fear of failure?
If you want to become more of a take-charge person or could use a reminder of why perseverance is important, take a look at our development tips.
· Instead of getting frustrated when things don’t go as planned, expect change, ambiguity, and frustration at least part of the time. This is normal. Develop your sense of humor; learn not to take yourself too seriously.
· You need to be able to persevere during the hard times if you are convinced you are on the right course. Before you make a big change, consult with other leaders about the decision and analyze what impact the change will have on the organization (both positive and negative).
· Think positively. Instead of telling yourself a task is impossible, tell yourself that you have reached a momentary impasse and that a solution does exist and will eventually come to you.
· If you tend to change course too often, practice handling ambiguous situations and learn to wait out your anxiety.
· Persistence does not mean banging one’s head on an obstacle until one or the other gives way. It does mean finding and applying strategies that will move you forward. Apply your problem-solving skills and brainstorm possible solutions to the problem. Form a team to help identify obstacles and develop alternatives for overcoming them.
Mega Job Fair - FEB' 2011
Coaching Multipliers: Are You Developing Geniuses or Genius Makers?
For the February 2011 edition of ReVolve, we featured a very special guest writer - Liz Wiseman, President of The Wiseman Group and Author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter. In the book, Wiseman and her colleague Greg McKeown, used a combination of research and case studies to explore the differences between two distinct leadership categories – Multipliers and Diminishers.
Some background on Liz - she advises senior executives and leads strategy and leadership forums for executive teams worldwide. A former executive at Oracle Corporation, she worked as the Vice President of Oracle University and as the global leader for Human Resource Development for 17 years.
In her article for ReVolve, Coaching Multipliers: Are You Developing Geniuses or Genius Makers?, Liz said perhaps the most important role a leader can play is to multiply the talent and capability of their organization. As the business environment becomes increasingly complex and as knowledge sharing is exploding and growing exponentially through electronic networks, she said we need leaders who use their insight to invoke the genius of others and build viral, collective intelligence.
With highlights from her research, Liz explores a very relevant topic for the current state of leadership. Read the entire article here.
Oh wow.. lovely! / B-day blog - 1 year marker!
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Improve Communication Skills
In modern world, students want to focus on communication and personality skills. It must be essential to qualify for the entrance test as well as for getting a interview.It doesn’t mean that good communicator can get a job or to college entry,but the candidate should have bettercommunication to talk with others or in public
Scoring good marks is the essential thing to get into college or job.After entering into college we must take initate to present seminar in class or participate in other college events, so that we may get experience in taking seminar or any kind of presentation.It shows better presentation and communication skills. If you have any mistakes,you can rectify in next presentation.
Communication plays a vital role in getting a job or in college studies. Lack in communication will suffer to get a job.It means the candidates are not taking steps about their academics and future career. Kindly encourage the students to take some classes so that they can avoid stage fear or lack in communication
How to improve our communication skills?
Initially,developing our communication is not an easy task but its not possible to improve within one day.First speak about the improving communication and form a discussion group.Start talking about the general topics later continuing regarding subject titles and current affairs. Try to talk in English in your discussion panel and if essential you can use mother tongue but it is not suggestable by experts.
Some tips to be follow in improving communication as given below
Be confident on your thought
Speak only in English
In discussion, talk only about your topic and conclude the topic with some related message or quote.
Don’t hesitate to speak in front of public
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Floating coffee grinds and … feedback
I’m an avid coffee drinker. For a long time, I made coffee the standard way – measuring out coffee grinds and water. Last year, I became spoiled when I received a Keurig one-cup coffee maker for my birthday. I no longer have to worry about measuring coffee grinds; I put the K-cup in the dispenser and within seconds receive a fresh cup of coffee. No work or mess to clean up.
When I started at TBC, I noticed the company had a standard coffee maker – the type where you measure out the coffee grinds and water. I didn’t think it was a big deal to make coffee in the typical way again; after all that is how I used to make coffee. Still, when it was my turn to make the coffee, I could not remember the correct ratio of coffee grinds to water. The result? Extremely bitter coffee. But I learned from my mistake and became better at making coffee.
However, all was not what it seemed.
I made coffee the other day and I didn’t think twice about it, until the next day when a coworker asked who made the coffee the day before. While I was surprised someone would inquire about coffee from the past, I still anticipated a compliment of some sorts. So I smiled and said I made the coffee.
The coworker did not smile back, but instead asked, “Did you notice the coffee grinds floating around in your coffee cup?”
Hmm I did notice it, but I didn’t think it was a big deal. Some cups of coffee have a few floating coffee grinds, others don’t. I never really thought about it before.
He then playfully joked the coffee was more like eating coffee grinds than actually drinking coffee. To back up his point, he informed me when he cleaned out the coffee maker there were clumps of coffee grounds on the bottom.
My ratio of coffee grinds to water was a complete fail.
We eventually found out the reason for my coffee disaster. When I made the coffee, the coffee filter was not placed properly in the container, therefore not all the coffee grinds made it through the filter, and it was not brewed efficiently. The end result was floating coffee grinds in each cup of coffee. Yum.
I was a bit embarrassed but also grateful that my coworker told me about the issue. Without that feedback I might have made coffee the same way, which may have produced plenty of coffee grind snacks, not exactly the coffee experience we all would like.
Feedback is so important. Without feedback, we all operate with blind spots, which can get in the way of performance.
Now with the awareness I received from feedback, I know how to make a better cup of coffee.
Signs you are a bad boss
The article states that many bosses are simply clueless about their own appearance and behavior to their employees. Here are a two of the five signs the article points out with a bit of our commentary mixed with it.
Most of your emails are one-word long: If you’re in the habit of answering emails with a simple “yes” or “no” – you could come off as unapproachable and possibly alienate your employees. You may definitely be in the doghouse if you only answer the emails with a “y” or “n”, because while you may view your “y” as yes, the recipient may view it as “why”. Talk about confusion.
Okay, we’re not asking you to compose a novel in your emails, just make sure your message is clear to the recipient. Also, remember that a simple “thanks” goes a long way.
Lack of face-to-face time: Technology is great. However, if the last time you talked to your employees in person was before Christmas, it might be time to talk with them face-to-face. After all, managers gain trust from their employees through face-to-face time.
So put the BlackBerry down and go talk to you employees – in person. Get to know your employees. Ask them about their backgrounds, experiences, education, and so on. Be willing to share this type of information about yourself.
Additional TBC Commentary
Here are the other three signs the article listed: yelling, your employees are out sick a lot, and your team is working overtime but still missing deadlines.
This article also caught the attention of TBC founder Dr. Daniel Booth. He had a few more poor management practices to add to the list.
#1. Failure to set compelling goals, keep them current and make sure employees are bought in and aligned. We all want our work to be personally meaningful and in this climate it is equally important that we know our work is important to our organization.
#2. Failure to collaborate with the team. Giving lip service to participative management doesn't cut it. Collaboration doesn't mean consensus on every decision. It's an attitude about employees' capabilities and motivations and an intention to harvest those ideas whenever possible and practical.
Conclusion
Here’s a tip - solicit feedback from your group members about how you can improve your own performance. 360 Feedbackcan enable managers to identify weaknesses that need to be improved as well as strengths that can be leveraged.
Listen carefully to the feedback - it may help you go from "bad boss" to "good boss".
If you want to see the complete WSJ article click here.
Sources: Daniel Booth, Ed.D., Founder, The Booth Company, WSJ
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Lead under pressure
Each week, chefs compete against each other in culinary challenges in extremely high-pressure situations. Some chefs yell, flame out, and make rookie mistakes, and others maintain their cool and cook some fantastic meals full of creativity and inspiration.
Competing to win tons of cash and the title of ‘Top Chef’ can bring out the worst in certain chefs. Interviews with these chefs reveal their bad behaviors and pushy attitudes toward other contestants were due to the competitive atmosphere. However, it could just mean these chefs act like a jerk under pressure, and who wants to work with that?
The need to work well under pressure is not just reserved for kitchen competitions; it is a fact of life for many organizations.
Working under pressure is tricky. Emotion, pressure, and passion, can easily be used to excess. Many leaders fail to understand how to apply pressure effectively, and often their efforts can undermine employee motivation.
Most work requires cooperation with other people so mistakes are bound to happen among teams. Leaders who push too much and are overly critical of mistakes might fall the risk of alienating people. On the flip side, leaders who are too easygoing or are overly tolerant of mistakes may be perceived as too forgiving of below average work.
The solution? Understand when to use push and pressure tactics in the workplace.
Pressure is an important tactical skill that should be used to communicate urgency, importance, and accountability. Effective leaders must push occasionally, and it is important they learn how to do that successfully.
Here are few tips:
· Pressure is a skill that should be used sparingly and strategically. Are you comfortable using pressure at strategic moments? Experiment using pressure and get feedback about its impact on your peers.
· Help peers maintain timelines for achieving goals so that extreme push is not needed as the deadline approaches.
· Monitor how others perceive you when you are excited or expressing passion about a particular idea or action. Sometimes passion becomes confused with excessive drive or aggressiveness.
· Look at your goal setting and planning processes to see where you can stress the importance of achieving goals.
· Study ways to critique work that are constructive rather than perceived to be destructive by others.
How do you lead under pressure?
How to get a job in job fair or interview? Explain
After finishing the school life,the students are entering into college which they are interested.They can select the college and course based on the mark which we scored in public examination.Students in college are so jovial and not interested to learn and work.If a student study based on the interest, it will increase their ability and performance.Most of the parents are not allowing to study on his / her interest.Student who are educating based on the interest will create good future.
Before going to campus interview or company walk-in,the guy must ready with all the document required. If you are in confident, you can face the interview very easily or it will be tough. Be prepare for the question arise in the interview panel.Take your interview in easier way so you can get a job.The questions may vary for technical and non-technical job profile.
Strong knowledge in your subjects and resume preparation will leads to get a job in company interview as well as in career fair.
All the best for all the job seekers !!!
MISS PEACH OF THE KELLY SCHOOL
First class production all the way. We shot 4, 1/2 hr holiday-themed specials in Toronto. A fella named MARTY SHORT was one of the voices - - debuting his Ed Grimley character voice as an intellectual turkey who's song and dance skills ultimately save him from the Thanksgiving table.
Debbie Grover played the live on-camera Miss Peach herself, and Second City veterans (Robin Duke, Mary Long, Ben Gordon) portrayed several other voices live-in-studio while we puppeteered. We of course did many of the voices live as well. Sammy Cahn wrote the theme song and Ed Sharlack (Mork & Mindy) co-wrote the specials.
I'll see if I can post some PEACHY excerpts in the near future.