Action versus Activity

Leaders act, commit, execute. What are your thoughts on this article?

http://pajamasmedia.com/edgelings/the-leap-of-leadership/

Know your personal best, so you can be at your personal best

Personal Best: your individual standard of excellence. Your "record setting" performance, a time when you did your very best. You measure yourself by this peak performance.

Start here: "When I think about this, it makes me smile alot."

Goal of Leadership Development

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Ralph Nader

Inspire

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Economic Confidence

What’s economic confidence? It’s feeling your standard of living is getting better. The chart above illustrates economic confidence for people whose development is encouraged versus no encouragement.

Encourage every person you can to continue developing their skills.

Effective Communication for Leaders

Henry Paulson, the US Treasury Secretary with the most significant impact on American's in history, on his biggest weakness.

http://www.tubechop.com/watch/66561

What are his options? How could he have communicated important information in a more effective way?

Smart Work and Smart Cities Pay - National - The Atlantic

Smart Work and Smart Cities Pay - National - The Atlantic

Value

How do you measure value? Economic, community, individual, cultural.

Working Together

Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.

----Henry Ford

Define the moment

“When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment or the moment will define you.”

Good presentation skills lets you define the moment. We’re having a facilitated workshop on good presentations. Your participation would be valuable. Date: Tuesday, April 27^th. Time: 6PM to 8PM in the San Francisco financial district.

For a detailed agenda and more information, please email me at debra.h.bradley@gmail.com.

Looking forward to meeting you in person.

Debra

Courage

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

Winston Churchill

Characteristics of good leadership

Characteristics of good leadership: competent, forward looking, inspiring, intelligent, courageous, straightforward, imaginative.

Imagine if everyone in your organization aspired to these goals?

What kind of a leader are you going to be

The kind who thinks he is the best?

Or will you be one of the very few greats who attributes success to the rest.

It’s on! Improving your presentation skills workshop.

Let’s get together on Tuesday, April 27 from 6PM to 8PM to Create a Vision for improving your presentation skills. Good presentations result from investing in yourself: practicing and learning.

The workshop will be held at the Citicorp Center in downtown San Francisco. Please email debra.h.bradley@gmail.com for details on location, meeting agenda and pre-work. Or reply to this post including your email address to get all the details on the meeting.

Look forward to seeing you.