RapidStart Leadership

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The choice one woman makes while walking alone out in the American southwest can serve as a good example for the rest of us in how to choose the right path to follow. Life is full of choices; how do you know the right direction to take? Watch the video … Finding the Right Direction: How do You Know Which Way to Go? Read More ».

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Why would such a thing be necessary, and what does their example tell … Learning to Fly: Innovation, Risk, and Leadership in the Real World Read More ». But did you know that one of their earlier flights featured a canoe strapped to the bottom of their flying machine?

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RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 5, 2018

In this example from an Antarctic expedition gone disastorously wrong, one leader achieved great feats of endurance and survival to … Leading When Things Go Wrong: Playing Soccer on the Ice Read More ». What do you do when things go wrong?

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RapidStart Leadership

DECEMBER 24, 2016

Set the example. When he befriends the lovely Jovie in a department store and learns that she has a fear of singing in public, Buddy is quick to show the way by personal example. By setting a personal example , he encourages others to follow his lead. When your passion is clear, others may catch the spark. Click To Tweet.

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RapidStart Leadership

MAY 7, 2018

In this example from an Antarctic expedition gone disastrously wrong, one leader achieved great feats of endurance and survival to … Draft Podcast Read More ». What do you do when things go wrong? Leading can seem fun and easy when things are going our way, but it’s when things go wrong that true leaders emerge.

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RapidStart Leadership

JULY 25, 2017

Here are two of my favorite examples. In a second example, when Bratton was still working in Massachusetts, the Transportation Authority had decided to cut costs by buying smaller squad cars. Kim and Maugorgne call what Bratton did in these examples a part of “tipping point leadership.”. Riding the “Electric Sewer”.

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RapidStart Leadership

AUGUST 8, 2017

Find examples of people doing the right thing, describe what they did, and how it makes you feel about the team. • Listen. Help them keep it uppermost in their minds so that every action leads in some way towards making it a reality. Reinforce the values. Look for opportunities to talk about your team’s values.

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RapidStart Leadership

MARCH 30, 2017

And as they echo the good example you set, it makes the people around them better, their teams better, and by extension it makes the community better. When you help someone else advance, give them candid but positive feedback , help them become better versions of themselves, it makes them better.

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RapidStart Leadership

APRIL 11, 2017

If you are the leader, like it or not, you are the model, and the most important thing you can do is be aware of the example you are setting for the others. As they see how you respond to bad news , ethical dilemmas, or criticism , they will begin to adopt your ways. Act the way you want them to act, and over time you’ll see progress.

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The secret of the centurion as a great leader is not what we'd at first suspect, yet it's also something very familiar; the question is, could we do the same? The post The Secret of the Centurion That Made Him Such an Effective Leader appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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RapidStart Leadership

MAY 2, 2017

His actions over 2,000 years ago are a great example of how you can influence your future by the way you react to whats coming at you. Nobody said he was a great mathematician. But he may be the greatest general you never heard of. Scipio Africanus led Roman armies during the Second Punic War from 211 to 202 BC.

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RapidStart Leadership

JANUARY 25, 2018

Leadership by example is one of your most powerful tools of influence. From open-minded respectful debate, to communication skills, to how you respond to crisis , if you see others following your example it’s a sure sign that they think your approach must be a good one. How many twins do you have?

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RapidStart Leadership

AUGUST 21, 2018

“In any leadership interview, they are going to ask about your experience. What if you don’t have any?” Everyone has to start somewhere. Moving up in the organizational hierarchy often involves taking on a formal leadership role.

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RapidStart Leadership

MAY 12, 2020

There's something about leadership we can sometimes forget, a line of paddling geese in a row I saw this morning illustrated that point perfectly. The post Like Geese in a Row – What We Forget About Leadership appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

It sets a positive example for others to follow – isn’t that how you’d want your teammates to respond? • If it happened on your team, as far as the outside world is concerned, you did it. “I I messed that up.”. Taking immediate ownership is the right anwer for lots of good reasons. •

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RapidStart Leadership

MARCH 26, 2019

Can being better followers make us better leaders? Focusing on following may seem an odd way to tackle the challenges of leading, but there’s a power in this approach we can easily overlook. There’s a danger in ignoring it, too.

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RapidStart Leadership

OCTOBER 3, 2017

I’ll use myself as an example. So, if we can get a good pattern of activity going involving Cues, Routines, and Rewards, eventually we don’t have to even think about doing it any more, it just happens. We take the decision out of the loop and go straight into execution of the thing we need to do. Putting it on Auto-Pilot.

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RapidStart Leadership

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

By example and instruction, Mrs. Green was teaching her daughter what high standards and good preparation looked like. If she became the only one capable of performing that function, then she risks being stuck in that role forever. Where’s the upward mobility in that? The key here is to look at what was happening with her daughter.

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RapidStart Leadership

DECEMBER 27, 2016

In his book “Bringing out the Best in People” author and clinical psychologist Aubrey Daniels gives the example of a production team at a Kodak factory. Get Grandma on your Team. You can use Grandma’s Law in a team setting as well.

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RapidStart Leadership

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The broad array of stories, experiments, and real-life examples makes the reading captivating even as he translates how principles discovered during research apply in the real world. That’s when you begin to harness the brainpower of your best people. Originals – The Takeaway. Adam Grant’s Originals is full of revealing studies like these.

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Read on for an example of what I’m talking about, and three things to be sure to include if you want to strike the right chord with your team. Now the question becomes, how do you get them there? The way you communicate the vision to to your team can make or break their ability to actually achieve it.

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RapidStart Leadership

JANUARY 30, 2018

As an example, towards the end of the tour, we talked about my future. He wanted to know my goals and see how he could help me reach them. Periodic reviews and professional feedback were not “check the block” with him; he used the time as a genuine opportunity to help me improve my game.

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RapidStart Leadership

MARCH 23, 2017

When you delegate a task, emphasize the importance of sticking to team values and ask to hear back about people who set a good example. . • Ask the key influencers on your team to help identify and reinforce the right kinds of actions, just as you are. Use symbols and tokens. There is power in an image or a name.

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

We may tend towards introversion, for example, but that doesn’t mean we lack the ability to speak up or work effectively with groups when we need to. Carl Jung, the Swiss psychologist who first popularized the terms, said “There’s no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.”.

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Make sure you are a living example of the things you talk about. If you are looking for a collaborative, cooperative team of innovators, then talk about it, and get their input on how to make it happen. Double-down with non-verbals. Words are valueless if your actions don’t back them up. If you expect respect, then show respect.

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RapidStart Leadership

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Sometimes, you pitch in to help – it sets a good example, demonstrates that you believe the work is important, and helps get the job done. Are there problems to solve? Are they doing the job correctly? Look for people who are doing it right, and offer some positive reinforcement.

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RapidStart Leadership

JANUARY 10, 2018

For example, reading one of the books from this selection exposes how real leaders solved difficult problems in very different environments. Read something different. A variation on this can be to read books from very different environments. Exposure to the unfamiliar can trigger new ideas in your own focus area.

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RapidStart Leadership

JANUARY 31, 2017

Our father’s personal example, calmness in adversity, and positive attitude imprinted on us how to solve problems and keep going. Personal example is the most effective teacher. Set a positive example, make them a part of the leadership process, teach them all that you can – not just what to do, but how to think.

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

In Leaders Eat Last , Simon Sinek gives another great example of this. The result: they affirmed their identity through their actions, and believe even more strongly that they are who they say they are. Protecting the Family. Bob Chapman was president of a South Carolina-based manufacturing company.

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RapidStart Leadership

JANUARY 2, 2017

You can see my daily goals on the example Goal-Setting Worksheet. And in March I’ll extend to race distance and do more training in the hills. When you break your goals down to the point where you know exactly what you need to do each day, it is easier to be successful. Piece of cake!

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