Leading and Living With Change
By Michael | March 4, 2010
“The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.”
- John P. Kotter
The rate of change continues at a rapid pace with uncertainty replacing the familiar. As an individual how are you adapting? What about as a leader?
Change impacts us differently; some are energized and flourish, others become almost immobilized and have difficulty dealing with simple daily tasks.
As leaders we need to:
-Be aware of the phases of change.
-Pinpoint which stage you (and your team) are in.
-Inspire yourself and your team to meet change head on.
-Develop a strategy to master change.
-View change as a need to grow vs. being an obstacle.
-Watch for decreases in productivity and job satisfaction levels.
-Communicate frequently with as much information as possible.
The phases of change start when what was known and stable gets disrupted. Expect to be met with:
-Immobilization
-Denial
-Anger
-Bargaining
-Depression
-Testing
-Acceptance
Change can be a challenge and cause conflict. By understanding the phases of change you will feel calmer and more in control. And remember, change is a journey and can provide new and exciting opportunities!
Sincerely,
Michael W. Kublin
mkublin@peopletekcoaching.com
Jan Mayer-Rodriguez
jan@peopletekcoaching.com
“Your success in life isn’t based on your ability to simply change. It is based on your ability to change faster than your competition, customers and business.”
- Mark Sanborn
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Communication and Feedback
By Michael | January 21, 2010
“Communication–the human connection–is the key to personal and career success.” - Paul J. Meyer
In our 2010 Checklist For Success we identified what we felt were critical components for leaders and organizations to succeed. We’ve talked about the need for relationships and trust and now want to begin a discussion on communication and feedback.
(More will be shared in future tips).
Do you have a clear understanding of how your leader and customers wish to be communicated with? Does your staff or your peers have a clear understanding of how YOU want to be communicated with? Does everyone know what is expected of them in terms of what should be communicated when? Is there a high level of comfort for giving and receiving feedback?
Chances are the answer is “no” to at least one of the questions.
Picking the right channel of communication is a key skill for all leaders. To do this well you have to understand the richness of the channel and the type of message best suited for that channel.
Channels of Communication (in order of richness)
Face to face.
Why is this the richest? Think about tone of voice, posture, gestures, eye contact, and body position.
Telephone.
What items do you retain here?
Computer/email/instant messaging.
All you have is the ability to share text although some people try to use smiling faces, phrases in parentheses, italics, or bold type to denote their emotional perspective.
Memos/letters.
This is pretty much one size fits all – everyone on distribution gets the same message.
Bulletins/flyers/general reports.
This is meant for the widest possible audience. You have no idea who might read it.
All channels of communication serve a purpose dependent on what’s being communicated.
Given that, the first thing we suggest is to know the audience and the message of the communiqué. Before it’s delivered identify the reason, the main points and anticipate questions and responses.
Some key questions you can prepare for include knowing:
What is going to happen?
Why is it going to happen?
How is it going to happen?
When is it going to happen?
Who is it going to impact and how?
How will concerns be addressed?
Preparing in advance and anticipating questions (and maybe even resistance) will allow you to deliver your message with clarity and confidence.
Do you have a communication model in place?
We’re here to help!
Sincerely,
Michael W. Kublin and Jan Mayer-Rodriguez
“What is the shortest word in the English language that contains the letters: abcdef? Answer: feedback. Don’t forget that feedback is one of the essential elements of good communication.”
- Source Unknown
“The two words INFORMATION and COMMUNICATION are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.” - Sydney J. Harris
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Checklist For 2010
By Michael | January 9, 2010
| “You can’t overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I’ve made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can’t over-prepare in business!” - Chris Corrigan Happy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful holiday season and are now ready to jump into 2010. Below is a checklist we recommend reviewing, sharing, and implementing. 2010 Checklist: Vision and Mission Statements Make sure your written vision and mission statements are clearly communicated and shared with your organization. We suggest you post them in public areas. Goals and Tasks (Click here for Tips For Goal Setting) Ensure ALL goals and tasks support your vision and mission and are meaningful to those that must execute them. Metrics Institute milestones and target dates so you have the ability to track progress. Strengths and weaknesses; revisit both from individual and organizational perspectives. Understand and share the strengths of the organization and link them with goal achievement. Development plans (individual and organizational) Document developmental goals; include training needs and target dates. This could include cross training, on the job training, in-house training or outside coaching and development. Career Planning (Click here to learn more) Know your career intentions, timelines and growth areas. Reward and recognition system Clearly link your reward system with goal attainment and results. Communication model Understand how to best communicate with your team and organization and ensure others understand what is expected of them. Coaching opportunities Sarah E. Needleman wrote in the WALL Street Journal Aug 25, 2009 that individual and corporate clients say the one-on-one counseling is critical for career success, especially during tough economic times. Give thought to how you or your organization could benefit. More about coaching. . . Succession Planning Build bench strength within your organization. Every position should have 1 or 2 individuals identified as possible replacements. Also, groom your replacement. Should an opportunity come your way you don’t want to be held back if you’re viewed as indispensible in your position. Include in your checklist time for you. We’ve mentioned it before but even if it’s only 15 minutes a day, allow yourself some quiet downtime. All of us possess the traits and characteristics required to be successful leaders; use the checklist to help you best apply them. Let us know if we can help and we welcome your ideas for adding items to our checklist. Sincerely, Jan Mayer-Rodriguez
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PeopleTek Leadership Coaching and Development
By Michael | January 1, 2010
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PeopleTek Leadership Coaching and Development
By Michael | December 9, 2009
| Starting in January 2010 The Leadership Journey I (our banner 12 session program) - One will be facilitated via conference accommodating all time zones - Another will be classroom facilitated in Phoenix, AZ The Leadership Journey II (our 9 session program for Journey graduates) All PeopleTek programs are delivered with a 100% money back guarantee! Note: All sessions must be attended and homework completed for the guarantee to apply. |
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98.1 percent of Journey graduates say they eliminate wasted time
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Passion Leads To Results
By Michael | December 3, 2009
Passionate action is a state of being that leads from your strongest feelings to constructive action.”
- Doug Gray (author, coach, speaker and leadership trainer)
Knowing what you’re passionate about and making the time to experience your passion is critical for success both personally and professionally.
Making the time and having balance can be difficult. Let’s look at the Balance Wheel and key questions written by Doug Gray in Passionate Action – 5 Steps To Creating Extraordinary Success In Life and Work.
Your wheel should consist of 8 parts:
- Personal Growth
- Significant Other
- Health
- Friends/Family
- Recreation
- Money
- Career
- Other (something critical and personal to you)
Now rate your level of satisfaction for each category on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being extremely happy and satisfied with that category.
How balanced are you?
What categories are you satisfied with? And those you’re dissatisfied with?
Your categories may not be balanced and don’t necessarily need to be. What’s important is that you recognize all imbalances and decide if you’d like to change the balance.
Here are some questions which may help:
What will this cost me if I do not change? Compared against:
If I make this change how might it improve my life?
What will I regret if I do not make a change? Compared against:
How might this change make me feel?
How are my familiar habits limiting me physically, emotionally, mentally or spiritually? Compared against:
What else could I accomplish if I made this change?
What are my beliefs preventing me from doing physically, emotionally, mentally or spiritually? Compared against:
How will my family and friends feel towards me if I make this change?
What is lost if I don’t make this change now? Compared against:
What is gained if I don’t make this change now?
These questions are worth investing the time to realistically assess where you are now and where you want to be. Re-visit your areas of dissatisfaction – were you just having a bad day when you rated each category or are there areas in your balance wheel you’d like to change?
You’re in control! What can YOU do to increase your passion, have a better balanced wheel, and improve results?
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“Of course there is danger; but a certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.
I believe the risks I take are justified by
the sheer love of the life that I lead”.
Charles Lindbergh
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PeopleTek Leadership Training and Development
By Michael | November 23, 2009
The Leadership Journey I (our banner 12 session program)
1/13/2010 - Session 1 for conference facilitation
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The Leadership Journey II(our 9 session program for Journey
graduates)
Stand out against the competition! Know your strengths and leverage them to help you and your organization remain strong.
Learn how to help others build trust and communicate more effectively resulting in increased productivity and improved relationships.
Leadership Journey I - click here for program details
You will:
- Understand what it is you want to create to become a stronger leader
Increase individual and team accountability to increase business results - Learn to better handle difficult situations and conflict
- Obtain new listening and communication skills
- Improve teamwork and enhance business relationships
“The Journey provided the overall ability to step back, assess current roles, and provided amazing diagnostics via the tools/instruments regarding productive leadership behaviors for myself and others. We were able to implement changes immediately”.
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Leadership Journey II - Prerequisite: Leadership Journey I
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You will learn how to enhance critical leadership behaviors and eliminate unproductive behaviors ensuring you successfully achieve your business and personal goals.
Topics include:
Work Expectations
Managing Change
Communication Styles
Trust
Interpersonal Influence Inventory
Coping and Stress
Time Mastery and Setting and Understanding Boundaries
All PeopleTek programs are delivered with a 100% money back guarantee!
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What our customers have told us:
96.3 percent of all sponsors say Journey graduates increase levels of responsibility in their career
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Leadership Journey I and II attendees may take the entire program over and over until they “get it” at no additional charge (even 10 years later).
Click here to register today! For more information contact
Mike Kublin
President PeopleTek Inc.
888-565-9555 Ext.711
Direct: 954.916.4190
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Take your organization to the next level and enroll in a program today!
Enroll today!
Or call 888.565.9555 ext 711
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Can you Afford NOT To Invest In Your Organization?
By Michael | November 2, 2009
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Our next program kicks off November 17th. Click here for program details
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LEADING FROM YOUR STRENGTHS
PeopleTek’s new webinar program specializes in helping you build relationships by understanding strengths and differences.
”Leading from Your Strengths” is both a workshop and a profile.
Through a quick and simple online assessment, you will immediately receive a comprehensive, objective, personal and motivating report, where you will gain tremendous insight into your natural strengths and how those strengths are operating in your life.
Your profile will specifically address your natural strengths in the way you solve problems, process information, manage change and face risk.
The Leading From Your Strengths Profile will provide an abundance of information and just by reading your report, you will gain insights into how you prefer to give and receive communication, and how you are naturally motivated according to the way you apply your strengths to your daily life.
Your report will be reviewed during a 1.5 hour workshop where you and other participants work with an Executive Coach to further explore the report. This review will uncover what the results mean to you personally and how the findings relate to other people in your life – your team, your leader, your spouse or significant other.
And, you will identify actions to take to further leverage your strengths or make adjustments if you are already over-using a strength.
This program is being offered at a special introductory rate!
Nov 11, 2009
11:30am – 1pm EST
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Classes will be limited to 14 participants so enroll today.
Click here to register for our new webinar!
Prior to the workshop you will receive the link to take the online profile.
This class is an outstanding team builder and arrangements can be made for a team to go through together.
For more information contact
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Virtual Programs Division
PeopleTek Inc.
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Leadership and Follow Up
By Michael | October 9, 2009
| “Most people don’t follow up very well, if at all. Good follow-up alone elevates you above 95 percent of your peers. The follow-up is the hammer and nails of your networking tool kit. In fact, FOLLOW-UP IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS IN ANY FIELD. - Keith Ferrazzi Do you consistently follow-up? As a leader in an organization this could entail many things. You could follow-up on project tasks, goal achievement, new hires, promoted individuals and delegated assignments. |
Keith Ferrazzi recommends following up within twelve to twenty-four hours after you meet someone new.
If you meet somebody on a plane, send them an e-mail later that day. If you meet somebody over cocktails, send them an e-mail the next morning. He also provides the following tips for flawless follow-up:
Put the name and e-mail address of a new acquaintance in your database and program your calendar to remind you in a month’s time to drop the person another e-mail, just to keep in touch.
Remember-and this is critical-your follow up shouldn’t remind them of what they can do for you. It’s about what you might be able to do for them. It’s about giving them a reason to want to follow up.
Always express your gratitude.
Be sure to include an item of interest from your meeting or conversation-a joke or a shared moment of humor.
Reaffirm whatever commitments you both made-going both ways.
Be brief and to the point.
Always address the thank-you note to the person by name.
Use e-mail and snail mail. The combination adds a personalized touch.
Timeliness is key. Send them as soon as possible after the meeting or interview. Many people wait until the holidays to say thank you or reach out. Why wait? Your follow-ups will be timelier, more appropriate, and certainly better remembered.
Don’t forget to follow up with those who have acted as the go between for you and someone else. Let the original referrer know how the conversation went, and express your appreciation for their help.
“Make follow-up a habit. Make it automatic. When you do, the days of struggling to remember people’s names-and of other people struggling to remember yours-will be a thing of the past”.
How effective are you with following up with your colleagues? With new acquaintances? How effective is your leadership team?
Rate yourself now and start making changes today!
Sincerely,
Michael W. Kublin and Jan Mayer-Rodriguez
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“The follow-up factor correlates with improved leadership effectiveness among both U.S. and non-U.S. executives”.
- Marshall Goldsmith and Howard Morgan
“Executive coaches report steady demand for their services despite the recession. Individual and corporate clients say the one-on-one counseling is critical for career success, especially during tough economic times”.
- Sarah E. Needleman, WALL Street Journal Aug 25, 2009
Learning
Leading
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PeopleTek® was founded on the belief that within all of us are the traits and characteristics required of successful leaders creating successful organizations.
Our unique individual and team programs, called Journeys™, inspire leaders of all levels to be confident and attain greater results personally and professionally.
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Organizational Success Requires Relationships
By Michael | September 24, 2009
“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions”.
~ Margaret Wheatly
Organizations are only as successful as their leaders. We’ve talked about maximizing collective strengths, understanding and appreciating each other’s differences, and having clearly defined vision, mission, and goals. We’ve also talked the need for a successful leader to have courage.
A short recap is that leaders can not allow themselves or their organizations to be paralyzed by fear and to be truly effective leaders must:
§ Live ones dreams
§ Document and commit to personal and organizational goals
§ Understand ones strengths and the strengths of others
§ Communicate
§ Address conflict
§ Develop others
§ Delegate
§ Relinquish control
§ Reward and succeed
§ Build and develop new skills
§ Build and enhance relationships
The nature and speed of work that is required in today’s market does not lend itself to developing relationships or for allowing time to develop the necessary skills, but relationships are essential for achieving success.
The Center for Creative Leadership conducted a survey of 300 managers and executives from around the world asking if the definition of leadership had changed in the past five years.
84 percent responded that leadership had indeed changed, primarily due to having more complex challenges causing hardships for their organizations. Interestingly, the flip side was that they were impacted positively by forcing greater collaboration, improving work processes and increasing work boundaries.
A tip to help you stay on target with building relationships and achieving results is the TRUST acronym:
T – Think
R – Relate
U – Uncover the needs
S – Sell the solution
T – Take action and close
This is a simple strategy frequently used by sales teams but may be applied to almost all industries. Use it and you’ll be on your way to building (and sustaining) strong relationships!
We’re here to help you increase the success of your organization – contact us today!
Sincerely,
Michael W. Kublin
and Jan Mayer-Rodriguez
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“Good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning”.
- Warren Bennis
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