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Success Strategies – Step Up And Be A Leader
Leadership demands respect, and has nothing at all to do with ‘like’. It took me a long time to realize that ‘respect’ has nothing to do with ‘like’ and, likewise, ‘leadership’ does not have to go hand in hand with ‘telling people how to do something’. It has everything to do with empowering them to do things for themselves.
To be a leader, we need to first start respecting ourselves. We need to are absolute best at home and at work and give both of them the level of respect that they deserve. More importantly, we all know that we can not expect respect from others if we don’t respect ourselves.
As a child, we don’t so much expect, we naturally assume, that our parents will be our leaders. At school, we look to our teachers to be leaders. As adults, in every single one of our daily transactions, there is an expectation of leadership from the many people that we come into contact with.
We expect the boss to lead the company. We expect the shop assistant to ‘be in charge’ for us so that we can select and pay for our goods. We expect the bank clerk to lead us through our financial transactions.
Every day we expect leadership in others. But what of the leadership we give to others? If we expect those around us to be in leadership for us, shouldn’t we shoulder some of the responsibility of leadership too? Shouldn’t we be demanding that we are also a role model?
So, the next time you are standing in line at the bank, or cussing the traffic warden for leaving a ticket on your car, ask yourself this: Do you stand in leadership for yourself and others in every area of your life?
If you are fulfilling your duty as a leader, congratulations, I can guarantee that your life and your business are thriving right now. But if not, before you point and accuse other people, remember that that you are no better than them, and people you know are pointing at and blaming you.
This article was edited and distributed by Mark Walters on behalf of Mandy Swift, who was the original author. Find Out More : Secrets Of Success
Good Foods For Memory – Feed Your Brain
There are plenty of good foods for memory as many people do not realize that you can change your diet to improve your memory. Many people don’t realize that your brain actually keeps growing even when you are an adult. These neurons can constantly be making new connections and changing over time. There are foods that you can eat that are good for you body and can also benefit your brain as well.
Vitamins and minerals are very important for your brain and three very important vitamins are vitamin B6, vitamin B12 and Vitamin C. Some foods that contain plenty of these vitamins include beef, potatoes, beans, liver, seafood, citrus fruits and cranberries. You can also find many fortified foods like fortified cereals that contain plenty of vitamins and minerals.
Keeping the blood and circulatory system healthy is also important as your blood delivers oxygen and nutrients to the brain. Iron and calcium are important to the circulatory system and it has been found that an iron deficiency in children causes a poor performance in school.
Many times you can take supplements for additional minerals but without a healthy diet these supplements will not help your memory. It’s important that you eat a variety of foods on a regular basis rather than falling into a rut and eating the same things most every day.
Free radicals can be very damaging to the brain and foods that are high in antioxidants will get rid of these free radicals by binding to them. You can reduce age related memory loss from foods with high antioxidant concentrations. A few examples of foods with high antioxidants include red wine, tea, green vegetables, berries, grapes and whole grains.
If you think that your memory is lacking then you should look at your diet and start incorporating more foods that boost the memory. Exercise is also very important for brain health. You owe it to yourself and those close to you to keep your memory and your brain active.
Leading The Better Life In A Positive Way
Having a positive life full of meaning is indeed possible even in this digital age we now live in. Certainly, our lives are more full than ever but one will find that being able to look at life after being married and what life was like before that — in its positive aspects, of course — can be a way to have just a bit of that old life while also living the good new life in many enjoyable ways.
As an example, think back to when you were a decent musician, fairly skilled at playing the guitar. You may have even had a nice gig going in terms of a band when you met the lady of your dreams and gave it all up. It’s possible, though, to get a little of it back as long as you address the needs of your family first. Once you do that, feel free to pull out the old Ibanez electric guitar and jam on occasion with some friends.
Keep in mind an important word when it comes to all of the above; priorities. You’ve got to have them if you hope to lead a good life made up of many positive aspects that marries just a bit of what you once had in your old life with the far greater rewards you’re gaining in your new life. This means making a plan and sticking with it by figuring out what’s important and what’s not so important and then taking care of both in their own order.
Perhaps you’ve got a baby now and you are some sort of enthusiast when it comes to nature photography and the like. Well, rather than leaving the significant other and the baby back at home while you go out and indulge your enthusiasm — which is a sure way to eventual disharmony in a home — put the baby in the Eddie Bauer convertible baby seat, grab the wife and the cameras and head for the wilderness.
Of course, those surrounding you don’t need to share completely in every single thing you do, but it’s important to remember that you need to do your part when it comes to looking out for their wants and needs before addressing your own. In this regard, maybe you’ve always meant to clean out the garage of all its clutter, for the sake of the family. It may be a good time to pull out that portable space heater you’ve had for a while and get out there and clean the garage up.
In actuality, keeping the best of what he once had while also joining it completely to what you now have — if looked at positively — is eminently doable. Keep in mind that you always want to have things you can count on in your life, such as the love of a family and your love for them. It can help you grow as a person while also helping you to better plan out your life just a bit more than you once were capable of doing.
Having your cake and eating it too needn’t be all that difficult, especially these days when there are so many tools that exist for helping one plan out his or her life right down to the color of socks to wear on any given day two years from now. There are plenty of fine ways one can go about keeping just a bit of one’s own life even in the face of the new, and better, life that can come from family and marriage.
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Leadership Communication And How To Engage Employees
When we think of leadership communication most organizations focus on information tools. These include intranet sites, staff magazines, CEO blog, Town Hall meetings and so on. Whilst all these employee communication methods are to be applauded, they inform employees about what is going on. To truly engage employees in the process of change, for instance, a merger or acquisition, a re-organization, financial results or corporate social responsibility, leadership communication methods need to be designed to actively engage employees.
The fundamental difference between employee engagement and information is the former focuses on changing employee behaviour to support the achievement of business objectives. The latter is about providing information to employees about what will change, when and why.
These following 5 tips illustrate how you can ensure leadership communication will achieve desired business outcomes.
1. The first tip is to establish whether the tools and methods you are currently using as a leader to communicate with employees are engagement strategies or information tools. So gather all the tools used and identify all the methods used, their frequency, intended audience, whether they are one way or two way communication vehicles and review the key messages.
2. The second step is essential for leadership communication and it is all about creating the “Aha!’ moment for employees, that is when they finally understand exactly why the changes are being introduced, how the change will impact them and what they can do to ensure the change is successful.
3. This third step is about conducting focus group research to find out what employees actually think about a particular topic and then what information you have to counter their views and to create a change in how they think. The objective is to find out what information will make employees stop and say, “Aha! now I get it”. Once you have the answer to this it is easy to design engagement strategies that will focus employees on the change to the organization and the work that they do.
The use of focus groups is useful as they allow issues to be discussed further and often they reveal issues or ideas which you would not have considered prior to the group session. I recommend that focus groups are generally held for one and a half hours duration and in groups with no more than 8 – 10 participants. The role of the facilitator is to lead the discussion but leave the actual dialogue to the participants, and then to steer them back to the main issue if employees have gone off on a tangent or to ensure that all the topics that you need to cover within the allocated timeframe are covered. The benefits of a well facilitated focus group are that they will identify the key messages for your leadership communication strategies as they relate to a particular business issue.
4. This fourth step is all about what you do next with the outcomes of the focus groups. It is important that you have identified clearly what employees actually think about a particular issue and the reason for that opinion. If that opinion needs to change then you need to identify specific data that is based on facts to successfully create a paradigm shift in the thinking of employees. Once you do this you will create the “Aha!” moment.
5. The fifth step is to take the key information that you have gathered from the focus groups and then identify a business issue that you feel certain your transformational leadership strategies can impact. The advantage is that by making use of that information you are then able to create a personalized leadership communication approach that will be measured against business results.
Once you have gathered all this information you then need to design leadership communication strategies that engage employees around the one central message. Many of these employee communication strategies will actively involve employees in some aspect of change by designing communication methods that will require employees to participate. These engagement strategies are then supplemented by communication information tools.
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