Recent Posts - page 24
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Graphic Leadership: Hostage Negotiation
There’s a proven model used by hostage negotiators that can lend some insight into building influence with a leader’s followers. The poster presents the model with the steps representing stages carried out over a period of time. Maybe the horizontal… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: How To Not Motivate
In an attempt to motivate, it is not unusual for leaders with the very best of intentions to turn to a counter-productive approach. S/he challenges the followers to reach for a certain level of performance. Upon reaching that level, the… Read More ›
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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 ›
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Graphic Leadership: Your Lake Of Resources
In this poster you’ll see a boat that has beached itself – driving full-speed ahead out of the lake and up on the sand. Notice the name of the lake. The lake represents the leaders finite spiritual, emotional, financial, physical,… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Your Job To Life Ratio
This poster helps the leader make a crucial assessment in a graphic manner. The oval represents the entirety of your life. Take a moment to draw a rectangle inside the oval to depict through its size how much of your… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Be Present
How easy it is for a leader’s mind to drift to the future or the past never enjoying or being fully present in what’s going on in the present. In its simplest form, it probably happens when a listener is… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Impermanence
As a leader seeks to allocate his/her energy, s/he’s diligent to not give much of this finite resource to resisting the impermanence of life. In his/her effort to pursue security (and who doesn’t) s/he doesn’t seek to find it by… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: The Leader’s Formal Education
While a leader understands the value of a formal education, s/he neither undervalues nor overvalues its contributions to their status as a leader. I have watched people with very strong (albeit raw) leadership skills who were so filled with self-doubt… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Why Do They Like You?
In what I consider to be the most significant posting in this series, I spoke to the importance of dividing your Identity from your Roles. Please click HERE to revisit that posting. In order to accomplish that task, it is… Read More ›
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