The Leadership Boost

 Someone said: At first they will ask Why you’re doing it. Later they’ll ask HOW you did it. A study by Leadership IQ[1], a global leadership training and research company, shows that half of management hires fail within the first 18 months as a result of people failing to establish the strategic priorities, committing cultural gaffes or not making an impact quickly enough. A new poll conduct...

  Boost Your Leadership, Every day Boost:  Verb - a source of help or encouragement leading to increase or improvement./ Noun - help or encourage (something) to increase or improve./ In a HBR article Deborah Rowland writes “Too many business leaders today are out of touch with the employees they lead. Edelman estimates that one in three employees doesn’t trust their employer — despite th...

 Jack Hanson said: Build up your team, to build up yourself. Having motivational strategies are absolutely necessary for the team to keep moving forward and keep performing at  a high level. No, it's not because you can speak well and give motivational speeches, but because you have taken time to develop and focus on some strategies that build and maintain team morale. It forms part and...

 Gilbert Amelio, the American technology executive, said:  “Developing excellent communication skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can’t get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn’t even matter.” Team...

   Episode 52: The Leaders Motivational Strategy – Ensuring your teams professional development Harvey S Firestone said: The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. Keeping your team members motivated byt ensuring their professional development is important for a few reasons. One. Your team members are retained longer.  The average expense of replacing...

   Episode 51: Leaders Make Turnarounds Happen Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. Tom Peters. A high performing team is creative, innovative, and empowered; able and willing to take appropriate action to support your organizations objectives. Sometimes, you as the leader, will need to motivate the team for a turnaround in some areas du...

   Episode 50: Leaders Get Everyone on The Same Page Someone said: You can’t write a story together if you’re not on the same page. When all the team members are on the same page there’s no blame game going on; There’s focus; There’s no hidden agendas; Success becomes the agenda. As a leader, you need to assess where your team members are at in their conversation. Listen carefully to Who...

   Gwen Moran: Companies devote an enormous amount of time and effort to building the best teams. But if a team can’t overcome setbacks and challenges, those resources might be wasted. You can make your team better able to deal with setbacks. Here are a number things you can do: Build an atmosphere of security. If the team members feel safe to share their opinions and make mistakes they...

   Episode 48: Leaders Build Team Chemistry David Albert DeBusschere was an American professional National Basketball Association player and coach and Major League baseball player. In 1996, DeBusschere was named as one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history. DeBusschere was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. He Said: “The best teams have chemistry. They communicate wi...

   Episode 47: Leaders Manage Team Expectations Charles Kettering: High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. Being on the same page ito expectations for the team is crucial. Setting and clarifying these expectations from the onset is your best start. First manage them on an individual basis. I-I meetings with each team member ensures that they are clear on...

 Hiring the best is your most important task. Steve Jobs As part of building a high-performance team, its important to not just hire employees, but to recruit team members. Team members need to be closely aligned with team culture, team values, and team mission. Knowing your team culture, will give you clarity on what is the right fit for your team and organization. A recent article in Forbes...

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common goal. Andrew Carnegie. A successful team needs a clear goal, and as a leader, you will give them a clear goal up front. From this the team members are able to clarify what are meaningful outcomes. The clearer the goal or objective of the team, the clearer their direction will be, and the clearer their focus for their efforts and for working...

 Men become great when they allow values to take root within their souls and live by them. – Lincoln Patz Excellent team values could for example be  1. Listen to each other  2. Sharing - knowledge, information and experience  5. A responsibility culture not a blame culture  6. Our work is ‘customer’ -focused 7. Striving for continuous improvement  8. Behaving with in...

   Steve Jobs: Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people. Nothing reveals the heart of a leader like building a team. A leader who doesn’t value a team or the team members will never build an effective high performing team. They are too focused on themselves.  You cannot be championing your own cause and hope to build an effective team....

 Did you know that over $60 billion is wasted every year on ineffective training and development activities that don’t make a difference. It’s not working!   Why? Your traditional training methods offer … 1. Managers are being force-fed formulaic, one size fits all, put-in-a-box, copy-cat methods of leadership development in the name of best practice. 2. There is mostly an emphasis...

 Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure. James Altucher American entrepreneur. This week we have been looking at the most prevalent expectations of employees as research has shown.  We’ve seen they want their managers to be leaders who acknowledge and praise, who are culture builders, who are strong leaders, who are accountable, who spread the power i...

 Herb Kelleher: Your people come first, and if you treat them right, they’ll treat your customers right. When you have a people first mindset/ a strategic engagement mindset, you know it’s people first; projects second (Bruno Zheng Wu), you also know it’s not about the efficiencies of the organizational structure or systems in place. You know it is based on the effectiveness of your employees...

   No person will build a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. Dale Carnegie

 At the end of the day we are accountable to ourselves - our success is the result of what we do. ~ Catherine Pulsifer Good leaders hold their team or employees accountable to the values, measurable's and outcomes. But, in the same way, to build that culture of integrity and mutual respect, you, as the leader, need to be accountable to the same measures you have for your team.  You need...

  John Maxwell: The leader knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

  Episode 36: The leader builds team and organizational high performance culture on purpose and by design. Culture not driven by the leader on purpose and by design will be a culture by default – it designs itself, and when it does you are taking a risk, and then it usually gravitates to the worst behavior you, as a leader, are willing to tolerate. Culture is designed by the leadership d...

  The best source of development for an employee is when the manager is a mentor.

Episode 34:  Don’t worry too much about awards or rewards; words go a long way.

 Hi this is The Leadership Boost, boosting your leadership into high performance,  with your host Shaun Smit.  Episode 33 Title: The Leaders Communication James Humes said: The art of communication is the language of leadership. A survey of employees expectations revealed that consistent, meaningful communication from their managers /leaders, was high on their priority list. As a le...

Episode 33 Research indicates that workers have 3 prime needs: interesting work, recognition for good work, and being let in on things going on in the company. Brian Tracy Employee engagement is a paradigm, a new mindset of leading, for managers. One of the big reasons we have the problem of low employee engagement globally is because of the old mindset of what people want and need and how to lead...