Great leaders, top performers and high achievers are constantly receiving requests for their time. Their success and ability to get things done is like a powerful magnet ... drawing more and more requests toward them. Learning to be SELECTIVE in what you say YES to is a key time management and productivity skill that highly effective leaders MUST master. Saying "NO" can be difficult, particularly with respect to requests for things you LIKE to do or from people you feel you "OWE" some time to. But remember this .... Saying "NO" to anything is saying "YES" to something else ---

  Great leaders are great role models.  People watch EVERYTHING you do .... they hear everything you say.  Be the one to SET THE STANDARD for others to follow.  

Feedback .... in the world of business, is the breakfast of champions.  Feedback "feeds" us -- it's at the top of the food pyramid for learning and professional development. How often do you ASK for feedback? Feedback can be humbling, it can be eye-opening, it can bring awareness to us of things that we're simply "blind" to .... but, if we don't ask, we usually don't receive it -- particularly the constructive form.  Many or most people will give us positive feedback, but very few will give us honest, candid feedback focused on ... how we can improve ... on who we can get better ... on things we SHOULD change or do differently.

Excellent leaders inspire their team members by routinely planting seeds ....

• Seeds of inspiration,
• Seeds of encouragement,
• Seeds of confidence in them,
• Seeds of kindness,
• Seeds of understanding,
• Seeds of care, and
• Seeds of service TO them.

Seeds of inspired leadership planted and cultivated with trust blossom into amazing fruits of performance.

What kinds of seeds are you planting?

 

Get your week off to a GREAT START .... Try one, some or all of these things today:

• Refrain from participating in "gossip" -- Move away from situations and exchanges where someone is talking negatively about another person.  Don't let yourself go there....
• Encourage a work colleague -- Particularly someone who appears to be visibly struggling with something.  Give some words of encouragement to lift them up.
• Fulfill a recent promise you made to someone -- It's probably been on your mind or sitting on your "to do" list undone.  DO IT today.
• Avoid complaining ...