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To Compete, Become Empowered, Not Embittered
There are two common responses to marketplace competition. You can focus on others in your sector and take yourself and your company away from the success and happiness you desire. Or, you can keep your attention on your company and your path to becoming the best you can be. The second response offers a self-disciplined approach that will position you to face the reality of how you can make effective changes, improve your business operations and enjoy the fruits of your intentional labors.
Support Team Members with Praise and Recognition
The desire to feel good about ourselves and the efforts we put forth constitutes a very real human need. As a leader, it’s crucial to understand this need, change your perspective and behavior and offer the praise and recognition your team members appreciate and need to continue advancing. Positive reinforcement offers a far more effective leadership strategy than negative conditioning.
Mentor Your Team Members to Think for Themselves
When you invest in your team members and their ability to think their way through a given situation to a successful solution, you help them to help themselves. This grows their abilities, lessens their dependence on you for answers, strengthens your business from within, and improves your company’s performance.
Empower Your Team for Greater Freedom and Success
Countless businesses thrive under the day-to-day leadership of their managers and team members, with the owner providing general oversight, direction and new ideas. As you release your fears and build an empowered team that can handle daily operations, this can be your reality, too.
Leave Professional Baggage at Work and Thrive
When people bring their professional baggage home, their personal lives are affected in very real ways. The ripple effects can extend far and wide —alienating children; damaging and even destroying marriages; and causing others to become angry, frustrated, and unhappy. Perhaps you know a spouse, child, or friend who’s unable — or simply lacks the tools — to manage their professional lives effectively.
Caring Attitudes Elevate Service and Satisfaction
Developing the powerful habit of truly listening is the first step in becoming an effective communicator and creating more successful professional and personal relationships. If you’re endeavoring to build a successful business or increase the effectiveness of your team, I encourage you to begin with the foundational competency of listening.
To Listen or Not to Listen: That’s the Challenge
Developing the powerful habit of truly listening is the first step in becoming an effective communicator and creating more successful professional and personal relationships. If you’re endeavoring to build a successful business or increase the effectiveness of your team, I encourage you to begin with the foundational competency of listening.
Are You a Leader or Boss? There’s a Big Difference.
There’s a vast difference between leaders and bosses. Leaders collaborate, guide, influence, inspire, mentor and support others to foster movement in a desired direction. Conversely, bosses master over others and are often controlling, domineering and use fear and intimidation to get more out of the individuals they oversee.
Deal with Bad Apples Before They Spoil Your Business
The efficient, effective and smooth flow of information is critical to consistently meet and exceed the wants and needs of customers, foresee challenges and opportunities and overcome obstacles. It’s also essential to the production and delivery of high-quality goods and services in a timely manner. When communication is limited or even impossible because of personality conflicts, businesses weaken from within and the effects become far reaching.