Archive for leadership skill development
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
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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
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Hi it’s Ed Oakley. We’ve discovered some significant problems with leadership development Read More→
Effective Questions: An Example with Measured Value
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This morning’s The Denver Post came with a front-page article titled, “Thinking Like a Factory Helps Heal Hospital’s Bottom Line.” It was an excellent article about how the Denver Health Medical Center has saved many jobs and much money by asking the right questions, a critical leadership skill. They asked two questions:
What are the things that keep you from working efficiently?
Are there things you see happening to patients that shouldn’t?
These two excellent questions demonstrate “enlightened leadership” and address efficiency/effectiveness and patient safety/satisfaction. The answers were definitely “in the room,” as was indicated by some of the data. The overall process they were using is lean conversion, which respects people and their value, while using their talent to address process issues.
Peg Burnette, chief financial officer, said that since its Lean conversion (process started) in 2005, the city’s public health system has benefited to the tune of $54 million in increased revenue, money not spent, and expenses cut.
Our people DO have the solutions we need to deal with the challenges we face! Enlightened Leadership Solutions has lots of online tools to help you ask the right questions and deal with the challenges and perspectives of greatly enhancing the effectiveness of your organization.
Hats off to the DHMC leadership team! They are making a difference. And doing so in a tough environment.
The Enlightened Leadership Team
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
Organizational Time Management for Leaders
Posted by: | CommentsJonette Crowley, principal of Enlightened Leadership Solutions, shares an article she wrote about her perspectives on time management that she uses in executive and leadership training.
We’ve all taken various Time Management courses over the years – we
make lists, we prioritize A, B, & C; we plan to do important things not
just urgent things first. Yet the companies that we work for
unintentionally thwart our best attempts to Read More→
The Difference Between Forward vs Backward Focused Leadership
Posted by: | CommentsIn this video less than 5 minutes long, Ed Oakley discusses the importance of focus for any leadership role, and the distinctions and impact of Backward vs. Forward focus.
What examples have you experienced that demonstrate the impact of the two directions of focus? Please share in Comments area (Click on Comments if you don’t see the response box).
To the “enlightened leader” in you!
Ed Oakley and the Enlightened Leadership Team
The Relationship Between Personal Growth and Leadership Skill Development
Posted by: | CommentsThere is a definite relationship between your efforts at developing leadership skills and your personal growth and development. Ed Oakley, co-author of “Enlightened Leadership” and “Leadership Made Simple,” as well as “Making Managers into Leaders(R) Learning Products,” discusses this relationship in this 5:15 video.
Please share your comments and questions below!
Best wishes to the “enlightened leader” in you,
Ed Oakley and the Enlightened Leadership Team
Distinguishing Leadership Skill Development from Management
Posted by: | CommentsWhen we do leadership skill training, it is always important to distinguish the business leadership skills and management skills. Following is a very brief video that does that:
What are your thoughts about this? Please comment below!
Ed Oakley & the Enlightened Leadership Team
Applying Relationship Intelligence®
Posted by: | CommentsJim Cathcart, author and top echelon speaker(www.jimcathcart.com), shares with us this week how we can look intelligently at our relationships and how this simple process can make us more aware of the importance of each kind of relationship we have.
Relationship Intelligence is a registered trademark of Jim Cathcart!
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Enjoy!
