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Podcast Episode #63 — 5 Tips For Leadership and Personal Progress

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Hello, and welcome to the Leadership Done Right Podcast, Episode 63: 5 Tips For Leadership and Personal Progress.

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LDR 063: 5 Tips For Leadership and Personal Progress

Hello, hello! This week I was out with some friends and we were doing some off-roading in my truck. I stopped for a moment so we could look at some wildlife in the area.

When we decided to go again, I shifted the car and hit the gas. By accident, I shifted to neutral so I wasn’t going anywhere. I casually said to my friends, “Well, I can’t go anywhere without the car in gear. I can’t go back or forward.” To which my friend replied, “There’s a lot of good lessons we can take from that.” So what are some lessons we can learn from that?

There’s a lot of great lessons about progress. I want to focus this episode on what we can do in leadership to avoid being stuck in neutral. In leadership, we can’t be stuck in neutral. Instead, we need to be progressing to move forward!

Sneak Peek

In this episode, I will share five ways we can move forward in our leadership.

Leadership Tip of the Week

Create an agenda for your meetings and hold to it. The most ineffective meetings I have ever attended have been the ones where there was no agenda from the start. Everyone showed up to the meeting with different expectations which led to confusion, frustration, and ineffective meetings.

The agenda may seem insignificant or be overlooked, but it is extremely important for the success of the meeting. The agenda acts as a roadmap for the meeting. It provides direction and helps people stay on track.

An agenda should include the following:

  • The date and time of the meeting
  • The title of the meeting
  • The end goals, purpose, and specific objectives of the meeting
  • The meeting facilitator
  • The person in charge of taking meeting minutes.
  • The main points/topics that will be discussed
  • The length of time you will talk about each topic

5 Tips for Leadership and Personal Progress

As I mentioned at the start, if we are stuck in neutral, we are not moving forward. That holds us back from becoming the leader we are meant to be. So let’s get down to business and discuss five tips to make leadership and personal progress! [Read more…] about Podcast Episode #63 — 5 Tips For Leadership and Personal Progress

What Do Most People Forget About Effective Communication? Learn here!

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Whether you are a leader, follower, neither, or something in between, effective communication is an essential part of life. You communicate with your spouse, people at the store, your children, friends, coworkers, neighbors, employees, and many others. Communication is a constant part of life. In this post, we are going to discuss what most people forget about effective communication!

Your communication with others will have a positive or negative impact on your life. It can lead to you accomplishing your goals and dreams or frustration and anger.

Let’s Learn About Effective Communication!

Effective Communication - Know your Audience

What’s important is knowing how to effectively communicate with each person. To be an effective communicator, we will focus on:

Why You Should Know Your Audience

Effective communication starts with knowing your audience. To understand why you should know your audience, here are questions you can ask.

Who is your audience?

Your audience is the person or group of people you are speaking with or directing your communication towards. When you talk to your significant other, he/she is your audience. While you speak to a large group, they are your audience. When you write an email or letter, the recipient is your audience.

Why should you know your audience?

To answer this question, let’s consider the following questions. Have you ever gone to a store to learn about a product and the store representative spoke to you as if you didn’t know anything about their product when you actually knew a lot about it? Or, have you spoken to someone that acted as though you knew exactly what they were talking about, but you didn’t have a clue? If you have experienced either of these situations, the person speaking to you failed to know their target audience before opening their mouth.

Find out all you can about your audience before you communicate with them. This is key teachings when you are in sales. Salesman that know their audience and speak to them appropriately are exponentially more successful than those that don’t. This is equally important to all professions and situations. [Read more…] about What Do Most People Forget About Effective Communication? Learn here!

8 Keys to Run Effective Meetings

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When you are a leader, you are required to attend a lot of meetings. You have management meetings, planning meetings, training meetings, project meetings, etc. The list goes on… meetings, meetings, meetings… Sometimes they are very effective meetings and other times they are almost a complete waste of time. So what does it take to have effective meetings?

8 Keys to Run Effective Meetings

8 Keys to Run Effective Meetings

Before getting people together in a meeting, understand the value of people’s time. People are busy and have many important responsibilities they must address on a regular basis. Be considerate of others’ time and the many things they have to do.

Too many meetings are held just for the sake of having a meeting. Often, the meeting purpose no longer exists, but the meeting continues. Some will say, “We’ve always had the meeting so we should always have it!” These meetings are most likely a waste of time because they are not effective. [Read more…] about 8 Keys to Run Effective Meetings

Avoid Derailing The Meeting

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Classic signs of someone derailing the meeting

A little while back, I received an email for an upcoming meeting.  The email had an attached agenda that detailed the topics to be discussed, the attendees, and the desired outcome of the meeting.  Sounds like the start to a great meeting, right?  When I showed up to the meeting, the facilitator gave a brief review of the agenda to get everyone thinking about what we would talk about.  Still on the right track!  What a prepared facilitator!  She did a great job getting everyone prepared for the meeting so it could be a success!  Beware of the person derailing the meeting…

So the meeting should’ve gone perfect from there with every topic discussed and all points addressed within the time frame specified right?  Well, not quite.  We started into the first agenda item and one person asked a few questions about a point that wasn’t really related to the meeting.  The classic start to someone derailing the meeting.  From there, everyone in the meeting began talking about that topic and going into related details.  It wasn’t long before the originally scheduled meeting wasn’t happening, probably no more than 10 minutes into the meeting.  We were having a completely different meeting with the original agenda out the window.

Have you ever sat through a meeting like that?  The meeting facilitator was well prepared with the agenda items.  She also had everything lined out, so that everyone would stay on track.  The problem, however, came down to the execution of the meeting.

Identify classic signs of someone derailing the meeting.

There was an article in the Wall Street Journal titled, Meet The Meeting Killers, by Sue Shellenbarger that discussed five types of people that are always guilty of derailing the meeting. [Read more…] about Avoid Derailing The Meeting

How To Make Your Meetings Fail

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Have you ever been in a meeting that got way off track? Or, have you sat in a meeting that had an agenda that was not effective? Have you sat in a meeting that was a great meeting where a lot was accomplished but you didn’t even need to be there?  These are all perfect ways to make a meeting fail.  There are three things that will make a meeting fail quicker than anything else.

No Agenda

Don’t prepare an agenda so no one knows what you are supposed to talk about.  When a meeting doesn’t have an agenda, you have set up the meeting to fail.  People will show up having no idea what the purpose of the meeting is.  Without an agenda you will not know how much time to talk about each item.  Ultimately, failure to have an agenda will lead to a failed meeting.  [Read more…] about How To Make Your Meetings Fail

What Would You Do As The Boss?

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I read an article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday titled, “Where’s the Boss? Trapped in a Meeting” by Rachel Emma Silverman. The article talked about a study that was done on CEOs. London School of Economics and Harvard Business School did a study of over 500 CEOs from various companies around the world.

What Would You Do As The Boss?

The studies were done to see how they used their time. The results were tracked by the CEOs’ personal assistants for anything the CEO did for more than 15 minutes during the day. Some of the results were very interesting. The average tracked CEO worked 55 hours a week and spent 18 hours in meetings.

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