Transformational Leadership is the Key to Success

     “A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”

John Maxwell

What does it take to achieve career success and demonstrate the type of transformational and collaborative leadership that is so needed? It use to be that you came to work motivated to demonstrate your leadership and make a difference. Now you find yourself checking the clock more than you ever have throughout the morning just waiting for the lunch period.  What happened? Let’s be honest. You are experiencing one of the most challenging work environments of your career. 

 Organizations are experiencing an unprecedented rapid pace of change and the uncertainty about the future seems to linger like a dark cloud over most people within the organization. As a result, some leaders feel you are in the fight of your life to hold on to all that you have worked so hard to achieve. 

You are still doing your best despite the often negative environment to create opportunities for success for you and those you may lead. Yet, it can be difficult to implement a plan of success when you don’t know from one day to the next what unknown situation may surface that will cause you to shift your plan. If you are not careful, it can become easy to get caught up in the doom and gloom of not knowing if your efforts are having the desired effect. So what steps can you take to transform your mind and your actions to ensure you remain focused and successful? 

First, you must always remember the reason you were initially so passionate about taking on the responsibility you now hold.  What did you want to transform when you got first got your current assignment or role? In order to get to the next level of success you must identify what you initially hoped to accomplish and then measure the gap in where you are now with those leadership goals today? (more…)

The Power of Influential Communication

” 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.”

Gilbert Amelio

Have you ever experienced a time when you needed someone’s agreement on a decision that you knew would vastly improve the results of your team, department or organization? Think about it. You enter the conversation with confidence because you really believe in your ideas. You also have a belief that the other person  has the same level of passion to achieve success. Then it happens… you discover that you and the other person so critical to the success of your ideas are not in alignment on the direction to take to reach the goal. The next words you speak will determine your ability to influence the other person to take the direction you desire. (more…)

Creating Your Path to Success Through Your Leadership Skills

“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”
- Oprah Winfrey

To get where you want to go in life and business, you must make the proper preparation to ensure you have the desired arrival to your destination. Your communication and ability to demonstrate leadership influence are two key skills leaders must never stop striving to improve. Too often, leaders can get comfortable in their current environment.  (more…)

Collaboration: The Leadership Skill of the Future

“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.”  ~Charles Dickens

Too often, senior leaders are focused on protecting their turf by relying on a leadership style of using command and control tactics instead of seeking opportunities to influence the behaviors of others by teaching collaboration.  They seem to have forgotten the basic management principle that you are only as good as your people make you. (more…)

The New Workplace Demands A Collaborative Leadership Style

  “No one can whistle a symphony.  It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” – H.E. Luccock

The hierarchal  style of leading organizations is dying out.  New leadership skills must be learned in order to keep up with the vertical organizational structures of the future. Leaders are struggling with how to create a collaborative culture that is focused on the long term success of the organization.

This article discusses the leadership solutions that will assist leaders in accelerating their learning curve  of using collaboration techniques to reverse the lack of teamwork that exists in most organizations. (more…)

Leadership Behaviors that Create Future Success

” A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” John C. Maxwell

Leaders have a tremendous amount of influence over what they want to happen in the workplace. The problem is most leaders struggle with leading through influence. Too many leaders are still trying to lead by position power. (more…)

Collaborative Leadership Influence: The Secret Ingredient to Business Success

“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. ”
Napoleon Hill

Do you find  the steps leaders must take to be effective can often be a long arduous process? Too often I observe current leaders relying on their position power, rather than their ability to use collaborative leadership influence to achieve the desired business results. As leaders, we must understand the power we have to use a collaborative approach versus a command and control approach is well within our control. (more…)