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The Value of Vision Series – Ken Blanchard

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Ken Blanchard. An organization without a clear vision or goals is like a river without banks—it stagnates and goes nowhere. What are America’s key national goals? Once you have a clear and compelling vision, you can establish goals that help people determine what they should focus on right now.

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Change Your Habits

Great Leadership By Dan

Goal Alignment – Once strategic clarity is reached, leaders must constantly assess the degree to which projects, goals, tasks are aligned to your organization’s declared strategy. Also, leaders must ensure that all staff proactively commit to their performance and values goals.

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The Power of One Minute Goal Setting

Great Leadership By Dan

You learned it in Leadership 101: goal setting is the most powerful motivational tool in a leader’s toolkit. But is your goal setting up-to-date? Read a guest post from management and leadership guru Ken Blanchard, author of the One Minute Manager over at About.com Management and Leadership: The Power of One Minute Goal Setting.

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Ditch Lofty Outcome Goals and “Hit the Glove!”

Leading Blog

We may feel exhilarated when we set a big goal, but that soon gives way to anxiety. While we all want to get better, lofty goals don’t always help. There is a way to set goals and achieve them. He did it by getting his pitchers to scale back their goals from lofty to bite-sized, from outcome to process. How It Translates.

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One Minute Mentoring

Eric Jacobson

Ken Blanchard You'll also learn why developing effective communication and relationships across generations through mentoring can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike. Bestselling author, Ken Blanchard, Ph.D. Blanchard coauthored the legendary, The One Minute Manager. It doesn't have to.

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Conflict Without Casualties

Lead Change Blog

Listen in as Nate Regier and Becky Robinson discuss the Compassion Cycle, an elegant model for balancing empathy, care, and transparency with boundaries, goals, and standards. Susan shares how we can all achieve optimal motivation to accomplish the goals we set for ourselves. Learn more and register here.

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Leadership Styles–The Three Ds

Lead Change Blog

The Situational Leadership Theory Model— developed by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard describes four leadership styles. Specifically, the leader describes—the goal, plan, and deadline. Goal —Your goal is to make all the customer service reps fully proficient in using all aspects of the new software. .