Dr. Jan Hoistad
PART I—Top Leadership Skills: Stop the Energy Leaks So You Start Preserving Your Passion and Profits!
In this article I’m going to cover 2 KEY elements—these are ESSENTIAL CHANGES to make or Leadership Skills you need to develop if you are going to make big picture business changes in your life in the coming months.
They will make you a better business owner or leader within your company or group.
For each of the leadership skills I’m going to identify the Leadership Skill “challenge” so you become more conscious of behaviors that are very common – and you are most likely doing them too.
- These are behaviors that will keep you from making the changes you desire.
Preserve Passion & Profit for Y-O-U: Before You’re Put on a Performance Plan, Put Yourself on a Leadership Development Plan
What’s the Plan…It’s a Leadership Development Plan!
Listen to this true story—I love this guy! On March 28th, 2012, Minnesota Public Radio’s The Daily Circuit Show morning show aired the topic BAD BOSSES. (MPR’s Kerri Miller must be a fly on my office wall, because I hear so many stories of bad bosses and unhappy workers!)
So, this guy calls in to say he was the owner of a company that had been losing money for 5 years. Having worked for other companies and having put other managers on performance plans, he decided to put himself on a performance plan to see if he could turn things around. He put himself on a 60 day performance plan.
Leadership Training: Are You a Leader Always In Training—In Your Life & Your Business?
What Is Leadership?
You may quickly dismiss the word “leader” or leadership training as applying to someone other than yourself—certainly politicians, corporate heads or trailblazers, or someone like a Steve Jobs. These are people who obviously stand-out, they may have charisma and big ideas.
We look to leaders, we challenge and scorn them, yet we all admire and often follow a leader whose values and vision tap our desires or our own greatness. A good leader role models, articulates and invites us to be our very best.
How to Create an Exit Strategy That Reflects the Way You Want To Begin
There are many reasons you may NEED to leave a “job” or a company.
Sometimes you’ve just outgrown the work.
You have an uncaring or toxic boss or co-workers.
You work with people who are not like-minded peers.
You’re not challenged; there is no place to grow.
As a result you feel brain-dead and exhausted.
You’re under-valued, over-worked, underpaid.
You’ve lost touch with any deep desire to make a difference.
You’re just trying to “survive” each day.
There are many reasons you may find it difficult to do so.
Surround Yourself With People Who Will Expose You to New Opportunities—To Be Propelled Toward the Big Picture Business & Life You Want
Esperanza Spalding is a 20-something jazz musician who has played with Stevie Wonder, opened for Prince and entertained at the White House, all in a very young lifetime. Listening to an interview on NPR’s Sunday Morning show I was awed by her timeless wisdom when asked what she had learned about navigating a life and a career.
Here are some small bits of BIG PICTURE Wisdom Esperanza shared that we can all learn from, along with some questions to ask yourself this week: