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Light Your Fire

"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." -- Vince Lombardi

This isn't always true but is true enough often enough. It may not be true if you are the boss' kid, the only one who knows how to drive the truck, or if it's your ball and you will take it and go home if they don't let you pitch. Other than that, think of it as Lombardi's immutable law of continuing employment. Oliver Wendell Holmes even knew the source of the fire, "Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing."

You probably won't want to take the getting fired up thing as far as John Wesley did. He is the one who said, "I set myself on fire and people come to watch me burn." Even so, John W. Foster's point is definitely worth keeping in mind, "One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire." Turning into a torch like Wesley is going a tad too far; but keeping a match handy to light your own fire might be pretty cool, so to speak. Being a genius certainly can't hurt your chances of avoiding the employment ax, if it falls.

If you don't happen to have a promising future as a genius, Napoleon Hill offers some useful advice, "The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat." You need to have a strong desire to succeed, a lot of Lombardi's enthusiasm. As Publius Terentius Afer pointed out, "There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly."

Winston Churchill hit the same nail on the head, "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." And Robert Schuller drove it home when he said, "Do what you can, where you are, with what you have." Schuller could have easily added, "And do it enthusiastically." Should you be thinking that the fire you need exceeds your capacity, the popular Anon. has a parting thought just for you, "If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse."

Executive Leadership Training – Solving Destructive Team Conflict

Jan 25, 2012
Executive Leadership Training Strengthens Leadership Skills 3 Ways

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When you’re building teams, it’s inevitable that team conflict will occur. Team conflict could be good also it can be destructive. In your executive leadership training, you need to learn to be aware of distinction between good and destructive team conflict and just how to solve conflict that’s destructive. Team conflict is nice when there’s a diversity of ideas and concepts. This usually results in better solutions and final results. However, there’s team conflict that’s destructive towards the productivity and effectiveness from the team. This destructive team conflict happens once the conflict is disturbing they reaching its goals. Left unaddressed, destructive conflict could escalate to the stage where it features a major negative effect on they. Therefore the question becomes, what’s the best strategy you are able to take when destructive team conflict happens?

It’s natural to consider the philosophy of depending around the conflicting parties to operate the issue out among themselves. In the end, we are all grown ups, right? The issue that way is the fact that although it sounds good theoretically, used it really does not exercise that simply. The truth that the conflict has increased to the stage of impeding team progress implies that the parties don’t have the ability to settle your differences without intervention or leadership training and development regarding how to resolve the conflict.



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A leadership Programme Could Help You Succeed In Business

Jan 25, 2012
What Is A Leadership Programme?

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Leadership is a very important quality in anyone who wants to work in a business environment. The ability to manage people and take the lead in building the kind of company you want is one of the most important skills you could ever learn. If you want to succeed in   business and are looking to develop strong leadership skills which will see you rise quickly through the ranks of management, you could benefit from using a leadership programme.

What Is A Leadership Programme?

A leadership programme is a programme which has been specially developed in order to improve inherent leadership skills and to teach new skills which will help individuals succeed in the role of a leader.

Some of the things that a leadership programme will teach you include:

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1 B-t-B - By the Book

The operating problems and employee conflicts are festering and have been growing for several weeks. Steve Brown is the assistant manager of the Southland Discount City Store and has avoided any repercussions from downtown so far. But things are getting out of hand.

Besides various other duties, Steve works closely with the cash activities where most of the problems and conflicts are. The difficulties relate generally to scheduling and assignment of employees and to a somewhat higher than usual error rate at the check-out registers. These problems are affecting employee attitudes and the number of customer complaints is increasing.

"This thing is getting contagious," Steve says in response to the store manager's question. "I have followed the book to the letter on this one and it is not improving. It worries me but I don't know what else to do. If it were up to me, I'd sit them down and tell them the facts of life. It would either straighten up or we would have some new faces around here. It is not my call, though. I think we should give it a little more time. Maybe it will settle down without our doing anything drastic."

The manager leans back in his chair and says, "Steve, the issue is what you are going to do about the problem."

In a sincere voice, Steve says, "Given everything involved, I am bumping this one up to you." Handing a paper to the manager, Steve continues, "Here is the thing in a nutshell. The policy book says to send a problem like this up the line. Here is the I-R-627 on the thing. I have been as complete as I can. I think we better play it safe with this one."

The manager glances at the form but does not read it. Instead, he says, "I still want to know what you are going to do about the problem."

Steve has a frustrated expression as he collects his thoughts and says, "I want to help you out with this one, but it is out of my area. It needs to be handled either by Personnel or the training types. I think it is important for the store for me to stay within my authority. People getting outside their areas is a problem you have, as you know better than any of us."

With only a little more intensity, the manager says, "It will help me if we handle this in-house. Why don't you take this one by the horns and shake it a little? If you get any flack from downtown, I will take care of it for you."

Steve thinks a long time before he says, "I wish I could. I have played this one by the numbers and can't afford to run the chance of its blowing up on me. I don't want to end up the goat."

The manager's frustration now shows. "Steve, I asked you nicely to take care of this problem. Are you going to force me to write this up? If that happens, it will go downtown and there is no predicting what will come of that."

Steve is slow to respond. "I don't want that any more than you do. It won't help taking the thing out on each other. Give me a couple days to work on it. There has to be some way I can help you get this little thing worked out. It is just not that big of a deal. Let me get back to you on this one."

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