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Did you know that fewer than 10% of organisations around the world have clear written values? But values are important because they drive people’s behaviour while they are working on the purpose and the picture of the future. Same its true for the person. Have you personaly thought and have written values? Why not check them out today? See what happens. 🙂
Do your leadership development programs contain as much of a focus on the art and architecture of framing powerful questions as they do on techniques for solving problems?
Most managers would agree that being a manager involves using resources efficiently
and effectively to achieve organisational goals.
People are a primary resource, thus managing the performance of others
is a key management responsibility.
In talking to managers in all kinds of organisations, we have found that many
of the problems and difficulties experienced by managers centre on people and the management of people.
A successful manager has to be a capable leader, a team-player, effective in delegating authority and responsibility to subordinates, a good communicator and much much more.
A short story
“One day, a monk asks a woodcutter, who is hacking away at the tree
How many hours do you need to cut a tree?
Four hours, replies the woodcutter.
And how do you cut a tree in four hours? repeats the monk.
I sharpen my axe for the first three hours and cutting the tree takes me only an hour.”
Training, both on the job and through technical as well as management development
workshops, do play an important role in the moulding of successful managers.
Practicing managers have to constantly strive to sharpen their axes so that they
can be more effective and efficient in their designated role…
100% online bite-size quick and effective training from your desk!
20 lessons in 20 weeks, one lesson per week 90 minutes duration.
Includes, Lectures, Activities, Q&A, Discussion & Task Sheets.
We deliver his particular program as a 5-day in-company workshop!
Content
Someone said, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue.” Every day, we are shaping reality for someone by the words that we use with them.
Wholesome words build people up.
Wholesome words are timely.
Wholesome words provide grace.
Leadership is different from management, and the primary force behind successful change of any significance is the former, not the latter. Without sufficient leadership, the probability of mistakes increases greatly and the probability of success decreases accordingly. This is true no matter how the change is conceptualised—that is, in terms of new strategies, reengineering, acquisitions, restructuring, quality programs, cultural redesign, and so on. Because the rate of change is increasing, leadership is a growing part of managerial work. Far too many people in positions of power still fail to recognize or acknowledge this most important observation. What do you think?
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. Think about it.
What makes you different from other people? What is it that keeps you from doing what you want to do in life? Underperforming? Not enough time? Stress? Fatigue or low energy? Not feeling up to the challenge? Procrastinating?
Did you know that certain good habits are so powerful that they work their way through your whole life, changing everything for the better? That’s the concept of a “keystone habit,” described by Charles Duhigg in his fascinating book, “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business.”
The secret to a “keystone habit” is that you commit to one thing you will do as a top priority. To truly succeed at that one thing means that other things in your life have to line up in support of it. Therefore, focusing on that top priority has a ripple effect that changes everything. Certain habits lend themselves to this keystone effect-when you do them well they start to remake other patterns in your life… go out and do it today!
Idea development it’s all about trust. People collaborate by respecting and trusting each other. The reason we shake hands is to show each other that you don’t have any hidden weapons.
We look each other in the eye to ensure that we can work and perform together.
A spatial ecosystem where people and tools work together across the office landscape for sharing information, socializing ideas, and achieving results that drive growth and profitability.
Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re willing to take risks. You may be the person doing the creative work or leading the creative efforts of others by inspiring insight, ideas or innovation and get people together even when those new ideas are strange, misunderstood, challenging or threatening! #NPx
F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
Innovation requires us to shed either/or thinking and see the whole as inclusive of opposition and open to a third (or fourth or fifth) solution. The practice of crafting allows us to live with and resolve paradox and contradiction.
Unlike the traditional analysis of business thinking— which requires us to break down problems into separate pieces, known facts, and current assumptions— crafting is about synthesis, integration, and possibility. Through what is called abductive reasoning, we can make intuitive connections among seemingly unrelated information and begin to shape order out of chaos.
Nicos Paschali, International Author, Designer & Facilitator of Learning Workshops. Mental Discipline Coach. 
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