A Coach's Diary

Only Secure Leaders Give Power To Others If leaders want to be successful, they have to be willing to empower others. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. Theodore Roosevelt To lead others well, we must help them to reach their potential.  Scarcity mindset is one in which we feel a need to fight others to make it to the top.  In reality, if you give some of your power away to others, there is still plenty to go around. Leading well is not only about enriching yourself - its about empowering others.  We have to shift leadership models away from 'position power' to 'people power' which is giving people leadership roles so that can contribute to their fullest capacity.  When you don't empower others, you are creating a barrier that, if it remains long enough, the people will give up and stop trying, or they will lea...

A Leader's Potential Is Determined By Those Closest To Him Nobody does anything great alone.    No leader can do everything great, so its important to have great people around you who can compliment you.  Mother Theresa once said, "You can do what I cannot do.  I can do what you cannot do.  Together we can do great things." The leader finds greatness in the group, and he or she helps the members find it in themselves. Warren Bennis 1 - Do they have influence with others? 2 - Do they bring a complimentary gift to the table? 3 - Do they hold a strategic position in the organization? 4 - Do they add value to me and to the organization 5 - Do they positively impact other inner circle members? There are three kinds of people in an organization when it comes to leadership: 1 - those who get it almost immediately and they're off and running with it; 2 - those who are skeptical and not sure what to do with it; and 3 - another third who start...

Leaders Touch A Heart Before They Ask For A Hand When it comes to working with people, you have to engage them on a human level - to make a connection with them.  The heart comes before the head.  You can't move people to action unless you first move them with emotion.   Great leaders work at connecting with others all of the time, whether they are communicating to an entire organization or working with a single individual.  The stronger the relationship you form with followers, the greater the connection you forge - the more likely those followers will be to want to help you. "People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." Even in a group, you have to relate to people as individuals.   "I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as forty-four individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of whom wants to live, each o...

Who You Are Is Who You Attract Who you attract is not determined by what you want.   It's determined by who you are.   You draw people to you who posses the same qualities you do.   Its important to identify important qualities that you would like in the people on your team. My People Would Have These Qualities: -  Energy and enthusiasm -  Passion -  Competitive -  Visionary -  Appreciate 'The Law of Process' -  Desire to grow Then, identify which of these qualities that you possess.  If you possess theses qualities, then you will continue to attract these kinds of people.  If there is a disparity between these qualities and who you are, you know where you need to begin to work to improve the type of people you are attracting. Attitude is one of the most contagious qualities a human being possesses.  People with great attitudes tend to make people around them feel more positive, while people with negative attitu...

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership - John Maxwell Chapter 8 - The Law of Intuition Leaders Evaluate Everything With a  Leadership Bias Leaders know have to read their instincts and follow their intuition in making decisions.  Sure, they pull together facts and do their research, but at the end of the day, they always trust their instincts in their areas of strength.  Leaders look at things differently than others do - they look at everything through a leadership bias.   People are intuitive in their area of strength. Leaders make decision based on their instincts and intuition.  They make decisions based on facts plus instinct plus other intangible factors, such as employee morale, organizational momentum, and relational dynamics.   Colin Powell says that his practice is to make a leadership decision after gathering only 40 to 60 percent of the information has been obtained, and then he uses his experience to m...

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership - John Maxwell Chapter 7 -  The Law of Respect People Naturally Follow Leaders Stronger Than Themsleves Followers are more attracted to leaders who are better leaders than themselves.  Leaders think in terms of the direction they desire to go and who they want to take with them.  Followers can sense a strong sense of conviction from a leader and are attracted to that.   To become a leader of leaders, you must gain respect. Ways You Can Gain Respect 1 - Natural leadership ability 2 - Respect for others 3 - Courage 4 - Have success 5 - Loyalty 6 - Add value An easy way to measure your level of respect is to look at who you attract. "One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you." - Dennis A. Peer -   You should also see how your people respond when you ask for commitment or change. When people respect you as a person, they admire  you. When they r...