LEADERSHIP SKILLS

Many years of experience in Exploring have shown that good leadership is a result is a result of the careful application of 11 skills that any post leader or officer can learn yo use. With practice, these skills can become a part of the adult's or youth officer's leadership style and will prove helpful in Exploring and all other leadership situations.

UNDERSTANDING THE NEEDS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE POST

Each individual participant of the group has certain needs and characteristics.

1. A leader should understand his or her own needs and characteristics

2. A leader should understand the needs and characteristics of each participant of the group. This helps the leader to deal with each person as an individual, to treat that individual with respect, and to help the person grow.

3. This understanding helps in planning the program and in getting things done.

4. This understanding creates trust and builds confidence among group participants.

Through conservation and informal surveys of past participants, try to find out:

• Why they joined your post
• What they expect from the post's program
• What their major interests are
• What their plans for the future are

KNOWING AND USING THE RESOURCES OF THE GROUP

Resources include all those things necessary to do a job. Resources also include people, because people have knowledge and skills. Knowledge is what a person learns through familiarity or experience - what you know. Skill is the ability to use what you know. Attitude includes the desire to do something - motivation - and the belief that you can do it - confidence.

When the leader uses the knowledge and skills of group participants to get a job done, the participants gain experience and improve skills. They also develop a positive attitude toward using a skill.

• Keep the post's program capability inventory up-to-date and use it in planning.
• Understand the purpose and resources of your participating organization.
• Survey the participants' parents; include them in your program capability inventory.
• Find out your post participants' skill. interests, and resources.

Leadership in Turbulent Times

The 5 Main Values

1. Excellence

I adore this word. My goal is to work at a level of excellence, constantly refining my craft as an author and speaker - while delivering outrageous values to our client.

2. Passion

Without passion, nothing great every gets built. Passion fuels innovation, builds a fantastic team and makes the impossible possible. I want to express my passion in all that I do. Otherwise, what's the point?

3. Self-Mastery

You can't be a better leader than you are a person. So every day, I work intensely on developing my inner life. I read. I reflect. I write a journal. I exercise. And do all those things I need to do to express my best.

4. Beauty

I'm an aesthete. I love beauty in all forms. So I make the time to look for beauty, in both expected and unexpected places. Interesting conversations are beautiful to me; brilliant designed products (think Apple) are beautiful to me. Great food, fresh nature, cool architecture, a strong cup of coffee in the morning and modern art are all some of the things that fill my life with a sense of beauty.

5. Contribution

Leadership is about doing deeds that live on long after your death. I want to do things that will help people awaken to the fact that, regardless of what they do and where they are, they have the opportunity (and responsibility) to show leadership in their work and their life. Few things are important to me than feeling I'm making a difference for people. And doing my part to build a better world.

Doubling Your Productivity in 30 Days

17 Tips To Double Your Productivity In 14 Days

1. Turn off all technology for 60 minutes a day and focus on doing your most important work.

2. Work in 90 minutes cycles (tons of science is now confirming that this is the optimal work to rest ratio)

3. Start your day with at least 30 minutes of exercise.

4. Don't check email first thing in the morning.

5. Turn all your electronic notifications off.

6. Take one day a week as a complete recovery day, to refuel and regenerate (that means no email, no phone calls and zero work). You need full recovery one day a week otherwise you'll start depleting your capabilities.

7. The data says workers are interrupted every 11 minutes. Distraction destroy productivity. Learn to protect your time and say no to interruptions.

8. Schedule every day of your week every Sunday morning. A plan relieves you of the torment of choice (said novelist Saul Bellow). It restores focus and provides energy.

9. Work in blocks of time. Creative geniuses all had 2 thing s in common: when they worked  they were fully engaged and when they worked, they worked with this deep concentration for long periods of time. Rare in this world of entrepreneurs who can't sit still
10. Drink a liter of water early every  morning. We wake up dehydrated. The most precious asset of an entrepreneur isn't time - it's energy. Water restores it.
11. Do't answer your phone every time it rings.
12. Invest your professional development so you bring more value to the hours you work.
13. Avoid gossip and time vampires.
14. Touch paper just once.
15. Keep a "Stop Doing List"
16. Get up at 5 am.
17. Have meetings standing uo.

STAY PRODUCTIVE AND MAKE YOUR WORK MATTER

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LEAD WITHOUT A TITLE

[ Tuesday 19 July 2011 ]

9 smart moves to win in business and life

1. REMEMBER that you need NO TITLE to be a LEADER

Leadership has less to do with the size of your title than the depth of your commitment. I've seen front-line employees, taxi drivers and carpet installers doing their work like Picasso painted. Leadership isn't really  about authority. It's about your choice you can make to do your best work each and everyday,regardless of where you are planted.

2. SHIFT from VICTIM HOOD to LEADERSHIP

No great career, business or life was created on a platform of excuses. Too many people play victim at work. They blame the boss or the economy or the competition or the weather for their less than mediocre results. Leaders Without A Title are different. They get that they have power. It may not be the power granted through a title like CEO or SVP. But they have power. And that's the power to see opportunity amid crises. That's the power to drive positive change. That's the power to encourage everyone on your team and it's the power to step into the person you've always longed to be.

3. INNOVATE or STAGNATE

To Lead Without a Title is to leave everything you touch better than you found it. Mediocrity happens when people refuse to change and improve all that they do. Look what happened to some of the big car companies because they slowed down their devotion to innovation. The competition ate them for breakfast. And put some out of business. The best leaders and the best enterprises have a hunger to improve. It's such a deep part of their culture they know of no other way to be. And that's the edge that makes them great.

4. BECOME a VALUE CREATOR versus a CLOCK WATCHER

Success comes from the value you add rather than from the busyness you show. What's the point of being really busy around the wrong things? Leadership is a game of focus. Focusing  on fewer but smarter activities, the ones that create real value for your teammates, customers and the world at large.

5. PUT PEOPLE FIRST
"The business of business is people" said Southwest Airlines founder Herb Kelleher. We have a ton of technology yet less and less humanity. Yet let's remember that people do business with people they like, trust and respect. So built your team. Meet your customers. Deepen human connections. Threat others with respect. And put people first.

6. REMEMBER that THOUGH TIME BUILD STRONG LEADERS
Look at any exceptional leader and you'll find that they stepped into their leadership best during a period of crises versus calmness. To Lead Without a Title is to hunt for opportunity amid every adversity. Every setback has the seeds of an opportunity. Companies like Apple, Google and amazon were built because their people leveraged disruptive time into brilliant wins. And because their people refused to give up when faced with difficulty.

7. GO TO YOUR LIMITS
The more you play out on the edges of your limits and take intelligent risks, the wider your limits will expand. The more you leave your comfort zone, the bigger your comfort zone will grow. Each day at work, do the things you know you must but are scared to do. That's how you grow, built you leadership capability and access more of the leader within you. There's zero safety in staying within what called "The Safe Harbor of The Known". That's just an illusion that bankrupts too many businesses and breaks too many human beings.

8. LEAD YOURSELF FIRST
How can you lead other people if you haven't first done what it takes to lead yourself? Get to know your values. Think through what you want your life to stand for. Become physically, mentally and emotionally strong. And have a remarkable good relationship with your family. What's the point of becoming super-successful yet being alone?

9. GIVE BACK a LEGACY
Success is good. Significant is even better. Sure profit and peer recognition and doing great work is mission-critical. But even more important than that is what you give -  and all you leave behind. "Even the longest life is pretty short. And all that matters when you get to your last day is the difference you've made and the people you've helped." So as you Lead Without a Title and step into your leadership best, stay focused on adding value. And making an extraordinary contribution.

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DECIDE FOR YOURS!!

Sorry for being late in updating the blog..Today lesson in morning briefing is:

WHICH ONE ARE YOU..YOU DECIDE!!~

The WINNER is ALWAYS PART OF THE ANSWER

The LOSER is ALWAYS PART OF THE PROGRAM

The WINNER always HAS A PROGRAM

The LOSER always HAS AN EXCUSE

The WINNER SEES an ANSWER FOR EVERY PROBLEM

The LOSER SEES a PROBLEM FOR EVERY ANSWER

The WINNER says, "IT MAY BE DIFFICULT BUT IT IS POSSIBLE"

The LOSER says, "IT MAY BE POSSIBLE BUT IT IS TOO DIFFICULT"

When a WINNER MAKES A MISTAKE, he says, "I WAS WRONG"

When a LOSER MAKES A MISTAKE, he says. "IT WASN'T MY FAULT"

A WINNER makes COMMITMENTS

A LOSER makes PROMISES

WINNERS have DREAMS

LOSERS have  SCHEMES

WINNERS say. "I MUST DO SOMETHING"

LOSERS say, "SOMETHING MUST BE DONE"

WINNERS are A PART OF THE TEAM

LOSERS are APART FROM THE TEAM

WINNERS SEE THE GAIN

LOSERS SEE THE PAIN

WINNERS SEE POSSIBILITIES

LOSERS SEE PROBLEMS

WINNERS BELIEVE IN WIN-WIN

LOSERS BELIEVE FOR THEM TO WIN SOMEONE HAS TO LOSE

WINNERS SEE the POTENTIAL

LOSERS SEE the PAST

WINNERS are like a THERMOSTAT

LOSERS are like THERMOMETERS

WINNERS CHOOSE WHAT THEY SAY

LOSERS SAY WHAT THEY CHOOSE

WINNERS USE HARD ARGUMENTS but SOFT WORDS

LOSERS USE SOFT ARGUMENTS but HARD WORDS

WINNERS STAND FIRM ON VALUES but COMPROMISE ON PRETTY THINGS

LOSER STAND FIRM ON PRETTY THINGS but COMPROMISE ON VALUES

WINNERS follow the PHILOSOPHY OF EMPATHY: "DON'T DO TO OTHERS WHAT YOU WOULD NOT WANTED"

LOSERS follow the PHILOSOPHY, "DO IT TO OTHERS BEFORE THEY DO IT TO YOU"

WINNERS MAKE IT HAPPEN

LOSERS LET IT HAPPEN

WINNERS PLAN AND PREPARE TO WIN

the keyword is: PREPARATION :)

conclusion: "BE A WINNER NOT A LOSER!!~"

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