Leadership skills -"Leading People to be Highly Motivated and Committed"
Contents of Leadership Skills Book - whats, whys and hows
- common sense leadership theory dictates the how-tos of all leadership skills
- the Natural Law of leadership, the only way to manage people
- three human characteristics dictate how people react to workplace events and conditions
- 18 human values, using leadership skills to create values-based culture
- supporting subordinates, your leadership skills in action
- boss' role in training, rules, discipline, orders, tools, procedures, planning, rewards
- how bosses increase the degree of difficulty of work
- 6 powerful rationales for changing performance
- orders, most often the weakest leadership action
- coaching to improve performance, errors are our friends
- chain of command the enemy of leadership skills, open door the solution
- responsibility, who and for what, values
- eleven valuable standing orders create a culture of commitment
- anti-robot rules for bosses
- values-based self-control as the organizational control model
- proper assignment of authority, the fix to the enemy of bureaucracy
- preaching to the choir, how to stop
- control through being a servant
- listening, the most important of leadership skill
- what you need to hear
- coaching after listening
- "Don't Shoot the Messenger" leadership skills procedure
- listening as the doorway to subordinate commitment
- lack of follow-up negates the power of listening
- using questions to determine
- deficiencies in the boss' support
- status of learning to have high motivation and commitment
- the Values being used to perform work
- compliance with the eleven valuable orders
- GOTYP, "Go Out To Your People" with your leadership skills
- the natural stream of workplace problems
- problem detection techniques
- procedure to address corrective action after GOTYP
- GOTYP leadership skills get everyone detecting and correcting problems
- inspecting for well-trained, industrious, strong and independent superstars
- aiding individual superstar development
- apologies establish the boss's support role
- boss as the necessary brake to change, not the accelerator
- group meetings, most powerful irreplaceable indispensable leadership skills mechanism
- to receive and respond to employee questions, complaints and suggestions
- high credibility only possible in front of a group
- specific rules/guidelines for meetings
- answers in the heat of battle, unnecessary and dangerous
- allowing subordinates to put in their two cents
- causing people to take charge of their workplace
- creating a Value-Based Culture
- handling detractors by listening
-diseases common to the workplace and leadership skills to solve them
- bad morale, negative attitudes
- stress, personality conflicts
- assumptions, emotionalism, ego/prestige
- leadership skills also cover
- peace of mind, admission of error, peers as friends
- dealing with bosses, boss-junior friendship
- unions, change, bureaucracy, committees
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