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8 Leadership Traits Necessary for Your Professional Success
What’s the difference
between leading and managing? Do you have to be able to do both to be successful? Can you lead if you have no authority?
There are shelves full of books on leadership, and no matter what approach they take or how they describe leadership,
as jazzy or challenging or visionary or as a new science, they all focus on just a few consistent and important traits of
leadership that are necessary for success.
In this presentation, the eight most important traits of leadership
are discussed, and steps you can take to develop your personal leadership skills are identified. This information can focus
your professional development efforts on those areas that will have the most impact and help you become recognized as a leader
in your organization.
What Is Emotional Intelligence and How Will It Improve My Career?
Think about
the successful people you know. Their ability to relate to others plays a significant role in that success. And the work on
Emotional Intelligence (EI) supports that observation. It shows that we are hired for technical expertise and then get promoted
and are successful, in large part, because of relationship expertise, part of what is known as Emotional Intelligence.
The notion of EI can sound complicated, but by learning a few key concepts and applying them to your everyday interactions,
you can vastly improve your ability to manage relationships, become better-known in your organization, demonstrate your ability
and creativity, and gain recognition and success. And most likely you will increase your satisfaction at work and reduce tension
because everyday relationships will improve.
This presentation lays out the key concepts of EI and demonstrates
how to apply them to your own behavior and relationships.
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Steps for Better Team Performance and Decisions
Team Leaders often complain that some team members
aren’t motivated or aren’t meeting their responsibilities. Team members don’t seem to work well together
and reach good decisions. Performance is mediocre. Team leaders feel they have to become micromanagers and take on all the
work themselves or things just won’t get done.
This is a path toward your own downfall, but there are specific
steps you can take to be more effective as a team leader.
These Eight Steps for Better Team Performance and Decisions
are very practical approaches that you’ll be able to implement immediately. You’ll gain a greater understanding
of the team dynamic and identify ways to improve it. Ideas include:
• putting your team
together:
• facilitating discussions;
• focusing on goals;
•
being persuasive;
• resolving disagreements in ways that lead to more thoughtful decisions.
The benefits of a different approach are that:
• your time can be put to better
use than doing all the work yourself;
• tension will be reduced;
• team
accomplishment will reflect positively on everyone, especially the team leader.
We are all required to work in
teams now, so understanding how to be a good team member as well as team leader is important to our own professional success
as well as the success of the project and the organization.
Get
What You Want:
Ten Steps to Improving Your Negotiating Skills
Leaders and managers negotiate constantly, but often are disappointed with the results. They think they’ve “lost”
something and blame an unsuccessful outcome on themselves. By understanding the negotiating process as a particular type of
communication, you can better understand the dynamic and plan for the outcome you want.
Taking these Ten Steps
to Improving Your Negotiating Skills will give you answers to important negotiating questions:
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What principles of negotiating are consistent from one situation to another?
• How can
you prepare to negotiate on a difficult issue, personal or professional?
• Do you really have
to be a tough negotiator and use harsh tactics to be successful?
• What is a successful negotiation
anyway?
• Can you really have a win-win outcome? Doesn’t somebody have to lose something?
Many people find negotiating very difficult. This presentation will make it easier because you’ll hear about:
• steps you can take to prepare for a negotiation;
• ways of presenting
your needs that don’t antagonize the other party;
• what to focus on as you go through the
process;
• how to meet the important needs of the other party that will help you meet your own
needs as well.
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