When the word “leader” is spoken, there are certain names that immediately come to mind including Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Or from the past there are the leaders of Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, Winston Churchill and others. Nevertheless during… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Conversationalist
In Sandler’s Enterprise Selling™ curriculum, there is a diagram that in a simple picture explains how to carry on a conversation starting from a dead stop with anyone you might meet in a business setting. In a magic club setting… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Boundaries and Choices
It has been my experience that many leaders tend towards black and white thinking in their earliest stages of growth and only grow into those able to compromise later in their development. Some of this I attribute to the strength… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Culture
Effective leaders are aware of the power inherent within an organization’s culture. In this series of posters, you get a sense for the varying cultures of the wealthy, middle class, and poor. How difficult it would be to achieve success… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Team Building
There’s a team model that uses the acrostic C.A.R.E. to give it memorability. You can see it depicted in this poster using the letter prevalent in its other name The “Z” Model of team building. A project moves from a… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Collaboration
Beyond cooperation (not stepping on each other’s feet) lies the ellusive world of collaboration where individual units of a team or company actually leverage the strengths of each other to attain greater success. In this poster, only one of the… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: The Should Box
“He shouldn’t be that way.” “She shouldn’t treat me that way.” “It shouldn’t have turned out that way.” “He shouldn’t feel that way.” Some people live out their lives in a cement block “Should Box” – greatly limiting what they… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Independence vs. Interdependence
Too many “leaders” are like the man in the poster – standing on an island and calling for his followers to come over and join him. He got there on his own. Surely they should too. But did he really… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Your Equal
A leader understands that many principles relating to successful marriages can be applied to improve the relationships among his/her followers. In the context of this poster, if a leader is looking for true partners to carry the load, s/he must… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Ego
When a leader interacts with a follower, only one of them will usually get their ego needs met. If the leader enters the interchange to get his/her ego needs met, the follower probably won’t. The leader might try to impress… Read More ›