Entries Tagged 'Leadership' ↓
March 24th, 2010 — Consulting, Entrepreneurship, Influence Without Authority, Leadership
February 16th, 2009 — Leadership
Top performers are the best kept secret of a winning team. Losing team is not an option today. How do you make your team all stars team? How do you win, let alone survive in today’s reality? |
by roy² |
In her Four Ways to Improve Your Team’s Performance Daisy Wademan Dowling digests New York Times article about Tom Donnelly’s strategy of building a winning team:
Spend as much time with the slowest runner as with the fastest.
Take away performance pressure by adding perspective — and fun.
Accept inevitable setbacks — and move past them quickly.
Let the team’s performance be its own reward.
It resonated with me so much I decided to share my stories too:
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February 12th, 2009 — Consulting, Leadership, Parenting
“What is it that inspires you to do your best work?” – this is the first line of the newsletter email I have just received from Dale Carnegie. Doing my best I can is one of my quests. I kept reading the newsletter. I found simple but powerful recipe to inspire others. |
 by Steven Fernandez |
Managers, Consultants, Parents! Consider adopting it. I tried it and it perfectly works. Here is the recipe:
- Don’t dictate — inspire
- Don’t direct — win people to your way of thinking
- Begin with praise and honest appreciation
- Build morale and earn loyalty
- Ask questions instead of giving direct orders
- Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to
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