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Leadership And The Social Media Technology: A Perfect Combination

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This is a guest post by Sara Jones. She has been actively taking her part in the teaching and educational reforms. Moreover, with her affiliation with UK Education Council, she has been providing assignment help by the platform of Done Assignment to graduate and post graduate level students.

It is known by most of the organisations that the leadership context has dramatically changed during the last two decades, putting terrific pressure on conventional managerial and organisational models. Now, the leaders are confronted with highly volatile and unforeseen situations that challenge long-term strategies. Today’s organisations are caught in a new interconnected world of complex global networks that pursue innovative approaches of co-evolution, with their diverse stakeholders. For these organisations, there are also some disruptive factors in terms of intensifying political issues, economic and environmental challenges that require incessant business model innovation.

Leadership And The Social Media Technology- A Perfect Combination

Turn Challenges into Opportunities

In order to confront with and turn these challenging issues into opportunities, it has been realised by the leaders that they have to establish an extremely creative, active, and supple organisations. Organisations, to effectively accomplish real-time strategic responsiveness, also have to force responsibilities “down and out” to the periphery, to people who are nearer to the market dynamics. Responsibility is interconnected with accountability. Thus, almost every employee in this volatile world must become an authorised leader who can act effectively within the network relationships, which have become a trend for the process of value creation. A horizontal” leadership style is its basic need that furthers global discussion, contribution, and cooperation among stakeholders. In fact, the conventional management model based on linear processes and vertical command and control is ill suited to deal with these challenging issues. [Read more…] about Leadership And The Social Media Technology: A Perfect Combination

Maintain Balance In Social Media

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A little while back I heard a story from a friend of mine that struggled to maintain balance.  The story was about a leader that was dedicated to what he did that he became the very best in his field.  The leader made impressive breakthroughs because he spent so much time working.

His dedication caused to spend long hours at the office.  During that time his children grew up and he and his wife grew apart.  Once his children were grown, they didn’t even feel they knew him.  He was so focused on his work that he didn’t maintain balance in his life and lost his wife and children in the process.  They didn’t die, but he was not part of their lives.  He became a workaholic.

He didn’t maintain balance.  He spent so much time working that he lost sight of what was truly important in life.  He didn’t set aside any time for himself, his family, or anything else important to him in life.  So where did he go wrong?  Wasn’t he dedicated to his work and became very successful?  He failed to maintain balance.

Maintain balance in social media.

Maintain Balance in Social Media

Social media is different than regular work life for most people, but it is just as important to maintain balance.  Within social media there are many platforms.  You can have a blog, be on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google+, etc.  That’s just a few of the many platforms that you can use.  Once you get on a social media platform, there are many things you can do.  You can connect with many people and could spend your whole day communicating with others on that platform.  If you got on every social media platform that exists, you could spend every minute of every day on a social media platform.  It can be a challenge to maintain balance. [Read more…] about Maintain Balance In Social Media

Leadership Done Right – What’s Coming Up?

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Over the last month or so, I have constantly been thinking about what I could do to make Leadership Done Right better.  I have noticed that although I have received a lot of traffic, there is significant room for improvement.  I am very happy with the growth, but I am not satisfied with where it is yet.

I could do a better job creating an environment for more conversation.  These things have really made me think a lot about what I should do to improve Leadership Done Right.  I have come up with a few things I feel will help increase the traffic to the blog.

Fewer Posts, Better Content

Over the past two months, I have written and published a new post everyday.  This has helped develop a foundation for Leadership Done Right.  At the same time, because of the limited time in between posts, it has been very challenging to put together great posts every time.

As much as I try to write quality posts every time, I definitely have room for improvement.  Going forward, I will be reducing the number of posts a week to increase the quality.  Rather than post everyday, I will try to post three to five times a week.  On days that I don’t post, I will either respond to comments or do research for future posts.

More Conversation

In addition to writing and publishing posts here on my Leadership Done Right, I publish links to each post on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Pinterest.  The posts on these other platforms has generated a lot of conversation.  While I have done a pretty good job responding to comments here on Leadership Done Right, but I have not been able to respond to all the conversations on the other platforms.

I fear that by not responding to comments, I may unintentionally be turning people away from Leadership Done Right.  By reducing the number of posts, I will have more time to respond to questions and comments. [Read more…] about Leadership Done Right – What’s Coming Up?

Overcoming The Leadership Blogging Challenges – Part 2

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The other day I did a post called Overcoming The Leadership Blogging Challenges.  The post was based on the question:

Brandon, I liked the article. However, I’d like to know how you overcame the difficulty to be a consistent blogger. Hearing your personal experience relative to the topic is like a breath of fresh air and sets your blogs apart from the rest. What problems did you face when starting out this webpage/blog? Did you have to do a little self “reprogramming” to be consistent? Were there any tools you used that helped? Thanks.

In my previous response, I only addressed the challenges of being a consistent blogger.

What problems did you face when starting out this webpage/blog?  Were there any tools you used that helped?

When I started out my blog I faced many challenges.  Before I started writing posts on my blog, I decided I would set up a framework.  This helped me to know exactly what I should do to be successful.  There were three areas that I set up my framework.  They were the following:

1. A framework for my post material.

From the very beginning I decided I would focus on leadership.  That focus would be divided into five topics: leadership in the news, leadership theory, great leadership blog posts from other bloggers (Top 5 Weekly Leadership Blog Posts), and weekly wrap up of Leadership Done Right posts.  Each of the topics would allow me to address a different aspect of leadership. [Read more…] about Overcoming The Leadership Blogging Challenges – Part 2

Overcoming The Leadership Blogging Challenges

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Recently, I received a comment on one of my blog posts asking for some insight on how I started out as a blogger. The question went as follows:

Brandon, I liked the article. However, I’d like to know how you overcame the blogging challenges to be a consistent blogger. Hearing your personal experience relative to the topic is like a breath of fresh air and sets your blogs apart from the rest. What problems did you face when starting out this webpage/blog? Did you have to do a little self “reprogramming” to be consistent? Were there any tools you used that helped? Thanks.

He brought up some very important questions that each blogger must ask him/herself when they start out blogging. If you want to be an avid blogger and gain a following, you must know how to answer the questions he asked. When you first start out blogging, there are many challenges you will encounter. If you want to be a blogger, you must set your goals before you even start so you know the direction you plan to go.

How do you overcome blogging challenges to become a consistent blogger?

I have been blogging for the past two years off and on. I started out blogging when I was in the MBA program at the University of Nevada – Reno. At that time, I had to blog for a class I took from Bret L. Simmons. The blogs we wrote were responses to case studies and articles we read.

I posted blog posts as often as we were required to in the class. By the end of the class I had gotten a few followers for my blog. I then felt obligated to continue blogging. I wasn’t very consistent at that time though. I would blog for a few weeks and then miss a few or sometimes even a month.  I was very sporatic.  [Read more…] about Overcoming The Leadership Blogging Challenges

Sense of Accomplishment

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Recently, I’ve had a much harder time posting blogs and keeping up-to-date on social media.  For those of you that wondered what happened, I just finished the Master’s in Business Administration program at the University of Nevada – Reno. Completion of the MBA program has given me quite the sense of accomplishment.

The last month of class and finals was very intense and required all my efforts.  Now that I am completely done, I should have more time to blog.

Obtain Your Own Sense of Accomplishment

For leaders to gain their own sense of accomplishment, they must do the right things. One leadership topic that comes up all the time is the importance of setting and accomplishing goals.  Goals are very important because they give us direction in life.  They set us on a path that leads to future accomplishments.  As a part of setting goals, one aspect rarely discussed is what to do upon completion of the particular goal.  After you accomplish a major goal, you may experience a let-down period.  After working hard for a long time, you may wonder what to do with yourself.  Once you complete a goal, there are three things you can do to move forward.

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