| | | If you're having trouble viewing this email, click here | | | | | | | One Minute Goal Setting and Making Better Decisions | This week’s newsletter contains two new articles:
A guest post from management and leadership guru Ken Blanchard, author of the One Minute Manager: The Power of One Minute Goal Setting.
Looking for ways to improve the quality and speed of your decisions? Then read How to Make Better, Faster Decisions.
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Dan | | | | | How to Make Better, Faster Decisions | | Bad decisions can ruin an organization and kill careers. Have you been given feedback that you need to improve your decision making? If so, you are not alone. Managers often get poor grades from 360 degree feedback assessments in the areas of quality and timeliness of decisions.
Decision making, like any other managerial or leadership skill, can be improved. The first step to improvement is awareness of a problem, and the only way to uncover any potential decision making blind spots is to ask for feedback.
Read more for tips and techniques on how to make better, faster decisions. | | | | | | The Power of One Minute Goal Setting | | You learned it in Leadership 101: goal setting is the most powerful
motivational tool in a leader’s toolkit. But is your goal setting up-to-date?
In the past, top-down leadership was a way of life, so the leader always set the goals. Today leadership is more of a partnership than a superior-subordinate relationship—and effective goal setting is a collaborative process.
When leaders set goals without involving the employee, people feel left out of the process.
Management and Leadership Ken Blanchard, author of the New One Minute Manager describes how to use one minute goal setting to motivate and energize your employee. | | | | | | How to Become a Better Listener | | One of the most important skills for any manager is listening. Listening demonstrates respect, concern, openness to new ideas, empathy, compassion, curiosity, trust, loyalty, and receptivity to feedback – all considered being qualities of an effective leader.
Listening isn’t rocket science. We are born with the ability to listen, yet somehow managers, at some point in their careers, seem to forget how to use this natural born gift.
Read more to find out how to be a better listener. | | | | | | | | 10 Important Leadership Qualities | | When it comes to learning about the qualities of great leaders, there are endless lists, articles, books, research studies, and competency models to reference. So many, in fact, that it has to be overwhelming to anyone aspiring to learn about leadership and how to become a better leader.
While there are many qualities of great leaders, but these ten stand out to me. | | | | | | | | | You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Management & Leadership newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here.
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