7 Ways to Identify Leaders Among Your Employees

Almost every business and organization is looking for ways to find their next great leaders to carry on the business or organizations vision. This task seems impossible to many business owners, leadership teams, and upper management teams, especially when dealing with "millennials." However, you can be the success rate of finding the right person if you can break down what your wanting in your next great leaders. Andrew Cravenho has provided the following 7 Ways To Identify Leaders Among Your Employees

1. Focus on High Potential-Not
Performance
2. Note Level of Engagement
3. Catalyst or Watcher?
4. Are They Accountable?
5. Observe Multitasking Abilities
6. Evidence of Empathy and Emotional Intelligence
7. Remarkable Communication Skills

This is a great starting point for any business leader in developing his or her plan to identify and invest in the young potential leaders of the company or organization. We recommend that you begin to build a training program that will give your potential leaders the tools they need in order to become that leader in your vision. What's your plan for the future leaders of your company? We would love to help you with it.

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What it takes to be a Great Leader

As the political season heats up the next couple of months, we all could use a reminder of what it takes to be a great leader. Take some time to watch Roselinde Torres as she explains the gaps and demands of the 21st century leaders.

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14 Management Do's and Don'ts to Motivate Employees

David Shedd published these 14 Managements Do's and Don'ts that every manager should know and practice everyday. Beware, they are difficult to put into practice in the moment but when you do your team will follow and respect you for it. The 14 Do's and Don'ts are as follows:

1. Don't get angry
2. Don't be cold, distant, rude or unfriendly
3. Don't send mixed messages to your employees so that they never know where you stand
4. Don't BS your team
5. Don't act more concerned about your own welfare than anything else
6. Don't avoid taking responsibility for your actions
7. Don't jump to conclusions without checking your facts first
8. Do what you say you are going to do when you are going to do it
9. Do be responsive (return phone calls, emails)
10. Do publicly support your people
11. Do admit your mistakes
12. Do recognize your team
13. Do ask and listen
14. Do smile and laugh

Which Don't are you doing? Which Do are you NOT doing? What are you going to do today and this week to make you a better leader? The only person responsible for your leadership is you. What are you going to do about it?

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Why Company Culture Matters!

A Beer Company Loving What They Do In The Service Of Others.

7 Best Practices to Boost Employee Engagement!

We know that company culture drives Employee Engagement but what specifically can we do to change the company culture. Michael Stallard identified 7 Best Practices to Boost Employee Engagement they are as follows:

1. Set "Top Five" High Level Annual Priorities. Remain focused on the company goals so that the employees are not overwhelmed.
2. Know Their (Employee) Stories. Not their career stories, but their personal life. Build a friendship.
3. Help People Get Into the "Right Role." Know each persons DISC, Motivators, and Skills to coach them into the right role.
4. Develop the Habit of Emphasizing Positives. Remain positive and your team will rally behind you. There is no place for negativity here!
5. Provide Constructive Feedback in a Constructive Way. Coach your team with love and respect and they will follow you anywhere willingly.
6. Provide Autonomy in Execution. No job is to small or to big for you. Offer help but do not "micro mange" or "helicopter" them.
7. Hold In-Person Meetings and Regularly Check-In. Follow one of the best leaders in history British Prime Minister Winston Churchill by staying in touch with your team. Use whatever means of communication possible but stay in touch in their weekly or daily life. This only takes 5 minutes.

These 7 best practices are simple tasks that cost the company nothing but they will change your culture and drive Employee Engagement overnight. Employees want purpose, their voice heard, and a relationship with the people they spend more time with than their own family. Remember life is to short to be unhappy 40 to 60 hours a week.

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Does Company Culture Affect Employee Engagement?

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7 Essential Leadership Traits!

What essential leadership traits should every leader possess?

According to the 7 Essential Leadership Traits for 2016, by Don Trone, Mary Lou Wattman and Steve Branham, the traits are as follows:

1. Courage
2. Purpose
3. Passion
4. Alignment
5. Adaptability
6. Accountability
7. Resilience

As 2016 begins, leaders have already seen many changes within their organizations and industry and need to apply each one of these traits in order to deal with their challenges. Please share your challenges that you have faced and what traits or solutions you used to overcome those challenges. The best kind of learning are actual challenges and solutions that your peers faced, just like the articles uses the Apollo 13 CO2 scrubber challenge.

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5 Barriers that Kept Microsoft from Beating the iPhone!

Does your company's changes fail on a consistent basis?

Many companies fail at change because the company does not take into account the organizations culture. The organizations culture includes both the business side and the company's emotional side of the decision. According to Professor Quy Huy article, Five Reasons Most Companies Fail at Strategy Execution, Microsoft failed at beating the iPhone not because of lack of resources but because of its organizational culture.

Huy's identifies 5 barriers that most companies face when dealing with change. 

1. Mistrust and low sharing of useful and timely information

2. Low receptivity to effortful change

3. More talk than action, then misaligned action

4. Mechanistic action

5. Complacency

The key to success in any change within an organization is a good plan of action and an even better culture. To build a better culture, a company needs to figure out how to communicate with each other and DISC provides that common language between all employees. 

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