Leadership & Development
Return on Investment is a key focus for not only for learning and development professionals but also for the senior management within the organization. This article explores the steps that can be taken to ensure that people development initiatives produce tangible results.
Live life with purpose; inspired leader
I believe you know that you know when you can first, face the person in the mirror.
”You already have the know-how. You have that gift. Learn how to use it.”
It is incredible how much control you have over what you're capable of achieving and what you will achieve by just defining what you want.
Attitude is what holds you back from the success that you really want, not abilities.
To achieve success, go back to the basics
How about hugging the hearts and squeezing the minds of your team members?
One of the greatest gifts you can give this year is to commit to being a mentor.
To think that my mind is constantly filtering the good and the bad, shaping and making me into the person that I am, is mind boggling to say the least.
If you start asking yourself what you really want and start trusting your instinct, your life will make more sense and will have more purpose.
You are the sum of the choices that you make in your life and you can choose to be the best you that you can be, or you can choose to fail every day. It's up to you.
"The most prestigious awards, I have observed, go to those who render service to others."
They just don't have the same big picture outlook I have
"Unfortunately only a few of our superintendents have any leadership training - and that mainly from seminars and workshops, so it's fragmented - most supervise by the seat of their pants, relying on their own personal experience of how they were supervised themselves in the past."
When I asked what his greatest challenges were he told me: "My biggest challenge is finding good people."
“If you give your team an experience that they're proud to be a part of, they will turn around and give the same to your clients!”
If I could do it all over again, the most important thing I would do differently is to move more quickly to assemble the team I wanted to lead the organization with me ~ Jim Locker
How do we measure successful Leadership?
When we spend time with leaders who find a great deal of meaning and fulfillment from their work, we see a couple of strong contributing factors. You can think of the formula as: Fulfillment = Core Talent Used times Helping Others, or F = CT x HO.
Food for thought dressed with a little humour
Food for thought dressed with a little humour
Food for thought dressed with a little humour
As a woman in business, consider this question: Do you play to win? Or do you play to lose?
Canadian comedians use the almost infamous, "How’s she goin’?" To which the reply might be, "Oh, gettin’ by..."
There are of course, many other benefits to introspection; however the first step is recognizing you want more in your life and are willing to do something about it.
I suggest sailing with personal/professional development locked in your GPS[1]. How do you define personal development? Are you ready to break your norm and let go of past behaviours?
Crystallize Your Thinking - Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Dedicate yourself to its attainment.
When I first spoke to (J) about LMIC he was justifiably jaundiced and reluctant to invest further in employee development, but upon hearing we guarantee measurable results he agreed to a meeting.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass.
Businesses want to grow, but are not eager to hire new staff. Growing companies need effective training and development. The only solution is increased productivity, leadership and empowerment. The reality is companies are looking for a more cost-effective and convenient way to develop their people than sending them off to conferences for days on end.
