Archive for Leadership Development
Help us make a difference to organizations and their people
Posted by: | CommentsWe have a plan to help one million managers/owners and their organizations in 2011. We’re confident that to the extent we succeed, we’ll make a big difference to many organizations, their employees, and their families — even the economy! Maybe it will help you, too.
How are we doing this?
We’re giving away our powerful proprietary leadership tool, the Framework for (Enlightened) Leadership™ Worksheet and a 20-minute video on how to use it effectively.
Our goal is to give it away one million times and to invite people to duplicate it, watch the video, and use it all they want. You might be personally familiar with the power of the Framework for:
- turning around struggling projects or groups
-leading organizational change
-aligning dissenting groups toward common goals
-innovative problem-solving
-resolving challenging conflicts
-engaging employees for new levels of effectiveness
-inspiring performance reviews(organizational and individual)
-continuous empowered improvement
-breakthrough negotiation in tough situations
How can you help?
You can help by giving it away physically or by emailing it to key people throughout your organization, to friends who own or manage businesses/organizations, to your associations, to the leadership team of your place of worship, etc. It won’t cost you anything and it can make a big difference when someone gets the power of the tool.
The Framework Worksheet is attached as a pdf file on this blog post. Just click here to download it onto your computer. It will open in a new window.
To access the accompanying video, simply go the web address on the Worksheet, or click HERE.
We’ve got a long ways to go to reach one million giveaways, so we’d appreciate your sending the PDF file or the link (http://budurl.com/framework251) to at least TEN PEOPLE who could use it. Or you could duplicate and pass out the hardcopy Framework Worksheet. Whatever is easier for you.
We’re grateful for your help, and we’re excited to giveaway one of the most powerful leadership tools we know!
Here’s to making a difference in 2011,
Ed Oakley and the Enlightened Leadership Solutions team.
Listen to the MMIL AUDIO that can change your life.
Please leave comments below.
Ed Oakley & the Enlightened Leadership team
This Leadership Perspective Will Change Your Life!
Posted by: | CommentsFirst of all, I’ll gladly put my reputation on the line with that title.
Today I led a webinar for over 400 people in one industry that was the first in a series of 5 called Turning Managers into Leaders(The client preferred that over our trademarked Making Managers into Leaders).
We started out the webinar in a way that I’ve never done before, and it was a big hit – very empowering. It was called “Seeing Yourself and Leadership Differently.”
It reminded me of just how powerful this particular learning segment is.
So, I got to thinking as we’re close to announcing our special offer for new memberships that you might really appreciate experiencing the content that was so well received. This content has been a huge impact for so many people, just like it was for me personally decades ago when Kurt Wright of Clear Purpose Management introduced it to me. I’ve never seen it anywhere else.
We’ve pulled an audio segment of it right out of our Making Managers into Leaders paid membership files to share with you.
This process and concept can change your life and WILL be empowering. It will be worth far more than the 25 minute you’ll investment to listen to it. Our members can even download this and all our other content to their iPods or other mp3 players.
Take advantage of it now – while it’s here. No guarantee we’ll leave it up.
Listen to the audio now. Share it with your team members.
Helping you bring out the best in yourself,
Ed Oakley & the Enlightened Leadership team
ps: please share your comments below.
pps: we appreciate you! 
Important leadership & team content you can apply immediately.
Posted by: | CommentsWe’ve received some great feedback, including some suggesting we should show some sample content from our Making Managers into Leaders Institute, our online learning portal. Great idea!
First, Ed Oakley will share one more important aspect of effective leadership skill development.
Then, we will share one of our weekly learning videos, that you can use with your team as a team-based learning opportunity. Think about the value of every team member, one at a time, getting this kind of feedback. Talking about a team-building exercise!
IMPORTANT: Because the following video is in our “members only” area, you will need a password to watch the 8.5 minute video. The password is “feedback360” without the quotes.
Watch: “Getting Awesome Feedback without Costly 360 Assessments” now.
You’ll need a password. It is … feedback360
As always, we’d appreciate comments.
Ed Oakley and the Enlightened Leadership team
How to Optimize Your Team-based Learning & Development
Posted by: | CommentsEd Oakley follows up his conversation about how much more effective team-based learning is compared to trying to learn on our own with an important component of successful team-based learning.
This video addresses the importance of very deliberately focusing the team effort on what the greatest opportunity is – and how to determine that opportunity.
Please share your comments below!
Ed Oakley & the Enlightened Leadership team
Transcription
Hi, it’s Ed Oakley. In my last video, I discussed both the importance of developing and mastering your leadership skills – especially right now with all the changes and everything going on with the economy – and doing so as a team. If you haven’t seen that video, I encourage you to watch it – it might even be better if you watched that one first, as this video builds on the learnings of that first one. You’ll find the link just beneath the video.
Today, I want to talk about an important aspect of team-based learning Read More→
Problems with leadership development processes…
Posted by: | CommentsDeveloping your leadership skills is critical to your ongoing success and prosperity, so it is important that you understand some significant problems/challenges/issues with leadership development processes. After 23 years in the leadership development business, we are just realizing the impact of some of the issues.
It is also important that you begin to consider solutions for you and your organization. Feel free to share the video with your colleagues, and please leave your comments below:
Please share your perspectives below!
To the total health of you and your team,
Ed Oakley and the Enlightened Leadership team
TRANSCRIPTION
Hi it’s Ed Oakley. We’ve discovered some significant problems with leadership development Read More→
Distinguish Yourself or “Perish!”
Posted by: | CommentsTo thrive in these economic times, it is critical to Distinguish Yourself. Listen to Ed Oakley’s perspective in this brief 4+minute video.
What are your thoughts about this? Please comment below.
The Enlightened Leadership Team
Employee Engagement – Business Leadership Development
Posted by: | CommentsEmployee Engagement might be even more important this year. Ed Oakley discusses why and invites you into the conversation:
Employee Engagement practices can be quite important in your leadership skill development. Please share your thoughts about what is important to you in keeping YOU engaged. Share your disappointments and your gratitude below (comments).
Our best,
The Enlightened Leadership Team
What are your Biggest Challenges?
Posted by: | CommentsToday I sent out a survey which asks you to share your
toughest challenges with us. You can see the survey HERE.
Please help me improve on what I am doing by taking a few minutes
to answer the questions. I will be choosing a few each week and
posting my feedback here on the blog. The responses we get will
aid me in creating better content for you in the coming weeks and
months!
If you are visiting us for the first time, please leave your name
and email to the right and we will gladly send you
the first few chapters to my book, Leadership Made Simple. You
will read about:
- An introduction to the Framework for Leadership™
- The “Hard” part (management) vs. the “Soft” part (leadership)
- List of challenges you may relate to
- Measurable successes
- Right questions (Effective Questions™)
- Forward Focus vs. backward focus
Thanks for reading and check back with us later this week when
I answer the question you have about your biggest challenges.
Ed
PS: I’m just starting to get the hang of Twitter and Facebook.
You can follow me here
A System for the Soft Side of Leadership
Posted by: | CommentsSitting beside a Cisco Systems manager on the way to Sao Paolo,
Brazil recently reminded me how our Enlightened Leadership work fits
so well for people who are highly educated in a focused area. I’m
talking about areas of formal or informal education like science,
medicine, manufacturing, engineering, business and others during
which process they probably did NOT learn much about bringing out
the best in people!
These bright, talented people have systems and processes for
accomplishing many aspects of their work, Read More→