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Strategies for Effective Leadership – There are specific ways of thinking and acting that are common to successful leaders in every type of business organization.
Formula for Strategic Planning – Your ability to analyze each situation accurately and then to make high quality decisions based on your analysis is the true measure of your ability as an executive.
Communicate with Power – Your success in business and in the world of work is largely determined by your ability to communicate effectively with other people. The very best leaders have developed their capacity to bring out the best in people who report to them.
Superior Selection Skills – All success as an executive will be as a result of having chosen the right people for the right jobs. Problems on the other hand will be as the result of having selected or assigned the wrong people to the wrong jobs for whatever the reason.
Building Teams – All work is done by teams. Your ability to assemble and manage a high performance team of motivated individuals is the key to your value and effectiveness as an executive at every stage of your career.
Meeting Management Magic – The meeting is the essential tool of management. Virtually everything you accomplish you achieve in interactions with one or more people. Get more accomplished and assure greater results after the meeting than ever before.
Boosting Employee Performance – The best employees today are more demanding and more in demand than ever before. They are indispensable to your success and to the success of your company. Your ability to create a peak performance environment for them will earn their loyalty and commitment to you and your company more than any other factor.
The Pursuit of Personal Excellence – The average person uses less than 10% of their potential. Men and women who accomplish extraordinary things are not necessarily extraordinary people. They are people who learned to get more out of themselves in achieving their goals and their lives.
Key functions of Managers – The best managers have taken the time to identify the key skills required by their craft and have worked on themselves to develop those skills. Incremental improvements in each of the key result areas of management can lead to dramatic increases in your effectiveness.
Motivating for Maximum Results – Understanding how and why people perform and behave the way they do is essential for your effectiveness as an executive. By motivating others you can dramatically improve performance and results.
Becoming a Master of Change – We are living in turbulent times. The rate of change today is the greatest that it has ever been in all human history. With the explosion in knowledge and technology, as well as competition, change is inevitable and unavoidable. You goal is to be a master of change rather than the victim.
Effective Decision Making – Excellent decisions are the foundation of virtually every great success. All of your abilities to think are measured by your abilities to make good decisions. This one skill alone virtually guarantees success for managers.
Dealing with Difficult People – A person who keeps an incompetent employee in place is also showing themselves to be incompetent. Your ability to deal with those that are not capable of doing the job in a competent and timely fashion is also an essential part of leadership.
Negotiating Strategies and Tactics – The ability to negotiate is a learned skill, like riding a bicycle. The techniques taught in this chapter, once applied on a regular basis, will make you more effective in all interactions with people, at home, and at work.
Delegation – the Key to Leverage – Delegation is an art and a science. It is a skill that you can learn through practice. Remember, if you want something done right… you have to delegate it properly to someone else!