January, 2010

Eric Jacobson

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Try These 6 No-Cost Leadership Tips

Eric Jacobson

I had the pleasure of interviewing Leigh Branham the other day. He's the author of the popular book called " The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave ," and he's the owner of the Overland Park, KS-based business called Keeping The People. He said that in research that he has done about the leaders of companies that have won "Best-Place-To-Work" competitions in 45 U.S. cities, that there are six things these effective leaders do that don't cost money.

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Read A Top Leadership Book

Eric Jacobson

During the past few months, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What Is Your Favorite?" When contemplating their favorites, they likely thought about which books were in their minds the best, most favored, most inspiring, most instructional, most relevant, and which ones they might reference frequently.

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Follow These Leadership Tips

Eric Jacobson

Here are a few tips for how you can improve your leadership skills: Think long-term. Too often, short-term gains, no matter how attractive, are not worth it if they could hinder your prospects for the future. Find a mentor. Better yet, find a couple different mentors. Perhaps you work with someone in your business and also someone who is in a business completely different than your business.

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Lead By Volunteering

Eric Jacobson

As the nation honors Dr. Martin Luther King on Monday, January 18, volunteer or make the decision to volunteer in your community. King routinely asked "What are you doing for others," and Monday is the ideal day to ask yourself that question. The federal holiday was first observed 23 years ago and in 1994 Congress designated it as a National Day of Service, inspired by King's words, "everybody can be great because anybody can serve.

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Avoid These 8 Pitfalls

Eric Jacobson

You'll learn how to avoid eight performance evaluation pitfalls in what I think is the best chapter of the book " The Essential HR Handbook ," written by Sharon Armstrong and Barbara Mitchell. If you are a leader and it's time to conduct an employee evaluation, Armstrong and Mitchell caution you to watch for these pitfalls when making your evaluation: Clustering everyone in the middle performance-rating categories Overlooking flaws or exaggerating the achievements of favored employees Excusing s

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Lead With Passion

Eric Jacobson

If you lead with passion you will gain supporters and followers who will feed off your passion. Passion is contagious. Your passion will inspire and excite others to share your vision. And a team that is collectively passionate about what they are doing will have greater chances of achieving success. Show your passion when you communicate with your team in the actions you take, the words you speak and in your written communication.

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Make A Plan

Eric Jacobson

As you establish goals for your team this New Year, be sure to include making a plan as part of your five-step process. Keep in mind that those five steps of goal setting are: Set goal Make plan Get to work Stick to it Reach goal Often, too many managers simply tell their team the goal, but fail to map out the specific steps of the plan to reach that goal.