·:[ The Leadership Qualities ]:·
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One of the greatest challenges of a leader is the ability to truly lead themselves.

The newspapers are littered with stories of people in prominent positions who fail to live their lives in a manner that lives up to the true definition of leadership.

Our government is full of people who sell themselves to the highest bidders. But this is certainly a situation that has been around since the organized civilization.

When you have the ability to put a vision into the head of another that makes them take action, you have made yourself a leader.

The key is are you leading based on the highest bidder or are you leading based on sound principles.

Principles based on ethical profits. Profits derived from properly managing resources in a way that utilizes the strengths of everybody in the organization. 

Hiring based on exact specifics of a job, matched to the intuitive strengths of person you are hiring for the position. Not just to put a warm body in a spot needed to be filled.

You may be asking yourself, “John, what does this have to do with personal leadership?”

Well when you reflect on your leadership skills, are you leading by expediency? Meaning taking the shortest path to patch a problem or are you making sound decisions based on principles.

When you lead by expediency, it often cost you more in the long run.

Where by taking that little extra time to make the right decision could save you huge amounts of wasted resources, training and stress filled situations.

Now don’t mistake my above paragraph with waiting for the perfect situation to arise before taking action but a decision made in haste ends up in lot of waste.

If that person across from you while you are hiring gives you an uneasy feeling in your stomach pass. If the person across from is not perfect but you feel they are capable of “getting it” then make it happen.

Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,

John Clark

P.S. Make sure to pass this on to anyone you know who can use this information and make sure to visit http://www.habitbustingsystem.com and start to make this a habitual way of acting today! 

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Leaders are needed in all areas in our communities. We need leaders in our work places, churches and government.

There is a big need for our leaders to create more leaders in their organizations. I am amazed by the stories that I see about companies that have to look outside of the company for an elevated position. You have to question the leaderships effectiveness by this.

What does it say about an organization that can not promote from within?

To me it says that the current leadership is failing to develop leadership skills of the people in it’s organization.

Now don’t get me wrong, not everyone is cut out to lead.

But you should have a system in place to identify potential leaders and then to start developing those skills immediately.

What happens when we identify leaders and start to develop their leadership skills, they go out into our communities and start to lead out there as well.

Here are a few leadership qualities to look for:

1. Forward thinking - looks at more than what is right in front of them

2. Asks what if questions - “What if we try it this way?”

3. Takes responsibility for their own actions

4. Doesn’t make excuses

This is a list that will get you moving towards identifying potential leaders in your organizations.

Here’s to Your Effective Leadership,

John Clark

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There is a saying in real estate that says “You make your profit from your real estate transaction when you purchase the the property not when you sell it.”

You may be asking yourself. “What does that mean and how does that apply to effective leadership?”

Well the premise behind making your profit when you buy your real estate is that you do such a great job of finding a great deal on the property up front that you make a huge profit when you sell it.

Now how does this apply to hiring the right people?

Well…

Businesses waste more money than you can shake a stick at by hiring the wrong people. It is probably the biggest waste of money that a business experiences.

When you hire the right person for a position that person should all ready have the intuitive ability to do the job, So that the learning curve is minimal.

When the right person is hired for this job, the new employee will have the proper attitude for this job because it will make use of their skills in a way that will completely absorb them.

When you hire the right person and they know exactly what is expected up front, they will find creative ways to get the job done.

The worse thing you can do is simple hire someone to have a warm body deal with your customers.

Simple Rule: If the person in front of you is not the right person do not hire them.

If you hire them with the grand illusion that you can change them, you will be sorely mistaken.

One of the questions I like to use is “What was the last personal development book you read?” If they can not give you answer, give them the door.

This may sound heavy handed but with the market place being as competitive as it is today, you have to make this important decision with great care.

This may require some more time in the hiring process but it will save you both time and money in the long run.

Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,

John Clark

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Leadership requires that you build a successful team around you.

One of the major mistakes in leadership is that the leader expects everyone to be able to do everything equally as well.

In the long run this leads to fuzzy expectations and very quickly turns to aggravation for everyone.

The key to building a team is crystal clear thinking and planning for the members of your team and then find the perfect match for the position.

You may be asking, “What is the perfect match?”

The perfect match is the person who is intuitive in the job details. Someone who is very engaged in the task at hand. Someone who is naturally talented at this job.

And attitude is very important. But it has been my experience that people who are naturally talented in the job position have good attitudes.

If you find someone developing a bad attitude, it is imperative to get to the bottom of it quickly and decisively.

If the situation can be improved get it going quickly, if it can not be improved, termination is called for.

Another trouble with leaders is that they hold out that a miracle will come and change the persons attitude. It just puts off the inevitable.

Leadership is very challenging but rewarding when done properly.

Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,

John Clark

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Here are four key areas that supervisory training can help individuals and businesses get better at what they do, faster, reliably and affordably. There are numerous online providers, off-the-shelf, or customized solutions, by third parties or for in-house application, contexts and use to tap into and utilize for your organizations’ training needs in this arena. Management and leadership skill, soft-skills, HR, interpersonal type mastery can now easily and readily make its way into your grass-roots employee levels and front-lines.

For newcomers in and to the supervisory role, there are lots to learn and master, like taking charge, with confidence, credibility and self-esteem. The position and task is often misunderstood or not grasped in its full scope and nature. It is more than being an intermediary or dutiful-manager. It requires leadership, competency and a complex, multi-faceted skill-set. It is not about power-mongering and big brother type policing, ruling with an iron fist form the top. Neither is it a popularity contest. Supervisory training seen holistically will prepare individuals in this role, supervisory teams to cross-collaborate and liberate the position, to so much more than business lead! Individuals can now set their own paced, self-learning goals that will get you up to speed fast and shoot you up the learning curve, benefiting the organization greatly.

There will assuredly be many an important question to ask/asked of you during the first week at and in this new ‘job’  or role. Paperwork and documentation, conflicting priorities, more meetings and interaction, reporting to and working with management and from the other end with and for employees, operations, customers, earning respect and credibility in and through your new role and added responsibilities.  Supervising others, even peers and friends, whom you have worked alongside up to now, how to get fast and consistent results, achieve personal excellence, growing as a leader, cutting through red tape and layers of bureaucracy basher, enabling and minimizing resistance to change and motivate others to do more  and give their best effort.

Errors and assessment techniques, minimize weaknesses and maximize strengths of operations, team, work-groups for optimal performance and results, policies, enforcement, discipline, appropriate leadership style  and so much more. Employee development, delegation, not meddling or intervering, intervening when/where it is not required, business metrics and measurements, reporting and financials, basics of an effective performance evaluation , feedback and coaching, dealing effectively with problem areas and people, administering discipline, management communication: skills for projecting authority and getting cooperation from others 9top-down, bottom-up, laterally speaking, both personally and professionally) and most importantly staying focused, positive and results-driven, through mobilizing, motivating and exercising influence with and through others – all evidence of a full, well-rounded, all-rounder.

The learning will not cease with a course or module or two, on-the-job, skill-refining, performance measurement and personal SMART goals can all help this process along and make the training count even more!

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Most supervisors realize right away that all of a sudden they have turned into coach, cheerleader, and “strong shoulder” there will be good and bad (worse) days, getting along with others (or not) ,  new expectations, conflicting priorities, as well as many other demands that you might not be able to satisfy. Supervisory roles require special skill sets and hands-on specialty, niche skills-training is the best way to put principle into practice and lead/live by example.

Moving into a new supervisory position can be challenging, but preparing for it and getting the skills you need, through on-going, first-hand and hands-on learning, peer-group feedback can make it that much smoother and more successful. To the benefit of not only the individual, but also the company at large, peers, subordinates, even the customers your organization is serving.

Principles are put into practice, learning made concrete, useful and prepares you to address even a crisis with confidence and conviction. Better equipped to get, have and keep a/your team motivated, productive, and on target.

Skills and insights to lead, maturity and leadership does not happen overnight. With the right type of training, you can act, think and do, go about your daily supervisory and managerial responsibilities, with confidence and conviction, boosting creativity, streamlining, productivity and results improvements, process interventions, problem-solving, caveats and errors to avoid, how to do and not do things, treat others, equally, fairly, evaluating performance, giving feedback and coaching, motivating others to increase productivity, without being treated at arms-length  like “the boss.”

Visibility and respect, leadership skills development to become a more full-rounded business professional and competent manager, decision-maker and people-motivator, on the front-line, in the battle trenches if you will. Becoming more persuasive and powerful.
Working on inspiring, motivating, coordinating, synergizing, optimizing your work-groups talents, dynamics, maturity, cohesion, even stress levels, adjusting your own personal leadership style accordingly to accommodate the needs of the whole.

Delegation and work-style can be brought to life and fruition with the right type of supervisory training, making promise, potential and opportunity come to its fullest potential, is now within easy reach.

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