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Why companies win by building relationships

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To make a difference for your customers you need to help them improve performance and achieve their goals. Building solid relationships will not only help customers improve their performance, but will also increase their commitment to you. Leadership Trust goals performance relationships success value'

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Six Principles of Persuasion for Leaders

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Nobody listening to you makes it difficult, or even impossible, to achieve your shared goal. If you are going to be rewarding your employees with tangible items, set up a system where the reward is limited and certain goals need to be met to achieve them. People find comfort in commitment. Principle #4 – Consistency.

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It’s the people

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Here are three quick tests you can take to determine whether, for you as a leader, it’s really about your people: Commitment to the organization: Why do your team members work for your organization? Career goals: What goals are your team members working towards in their current position? Do they believe your vision?

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Guest Post: 10 Secrets of Effective Leaders

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Set clear goals. Set goals that are clear, reasonable and attainable. And stay committed to helping your team members achieve them. By analyzing the details, you’ll have the right amount of knowledge to set and attain achievable goals. That way your team will be inspired to follow suit. Grow your skills.

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The executive leader of the FUTURE: Trusted Steward

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Guest post by John Blakey Stewards inspire trust by re-defining the purpose of business to deliver in a new way—triple bottom-line goals—and then putting themselves and the organization in service of those goals. The triple bottom-line creates a vacancy for … Continue reading →

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Trust and Job Satisfaction

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Talk in terms of ‘our’: our vision, our values, our goals, our plans, our actions, our achievements. They also trust that team members will do what they have committed to do. Create an environment where people will take risks and reward them for their efforts. Make sure people see themselves as part of a larger vision.

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Managing projects effectively

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In general, a project is defined as an activity or endeavor that has a definite start and end date, and is done to achieve certain goals or objectives. A good project manager must also possess the ability to communicate clearly, solve problems, handle interpersonal conflicts, and plan, as well as secure commitments.

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