Leadership Development Without Getting Dressed Up! #MondayMorningLeadership #Leadership #WorkInYourPajamas #Learning
Cornerstone Leadership Online Training
Cost and time effective online training designed for especially for new leaders, existing leaders with limited leadership training, or for high potential development.
Our first leadership training course, Monday Morning Leadership Interactive, is based on the bestselling book Monday Morning Leadership.
Participants will:
· Understand the differences and importance in Leading, Managing and Coaching.
· Establish a clear “main thing” focus
· Cultivate a culture in their organization of “no matter what” accountability
· Develop coaching plans for each member of their team
· Provide ongoing and meaningful motivation and recognition to their team
· Create a leadership plan that will guide their personal development for the next year and beyond
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Are You Living in Groundhog Day? #WisdomWednesday #MML #Leadership
Like in the Bill Murray movie, do you get up each day, fall into the same routine day in and day out with little to no change? So many leaders live in Groundhog Day, forcing their people to do the same.
What was the last book or learning experience you invested your time and resources with to become a better leader…truly investing in you? If you have invested in you and your team’s learning in the last month, congratulations you are in elite company. Only 1% of people read or invest in their professional learning on a monthly basis. Sad but true fact!
In Monday Morning Leadership Interactive, the final session focuses on the need to consistently enter into the “Learning Zone”. This month please invest time and efforts into enhancing these three key leadership skill sets:
- Listening – Start today to listen for intent. Begin by limiting distractions and truly listen to your people.
- Reading/Experiencing – Invest in new thinking, new experiences and gain new perspectives. Read and learn at least 15 minutes each day.
- Giving – Giving back to others, your time, your knowledge, and your resources. There is a reason why hearse’s don’t come with luggage racks. Your legacy is what you teach and give back today!
This week enter into and never leave the “Learning Zone”!
Hire Tough #WisdomWednesday #MML #Leadership
Take one minute to write your answers to these two questions - What is the greatest asset of any organization? What is the greatest liability of any organization?
Most will answer “people” to the first question and a variety of answers from operational failures to poor customer service and everything in between for the greatest liability of any organization.
Let me first say “people” are not your greatest asset! The RIGHT people are! And the greatest liability to any organization are the WRONG people in your organization. Hiring and or tolerating the wrong people can do immeasurable damage to an organization.
In Monday Morning Leadership Interactive, it discusses that we can never lower the bar in hiring the best people. If we choose to settle for less than the best, then we are setting ourselves up for difficult situations and discussions in the future.
To that end, how effective is your hiring process and does it consistently deliver the most qualified, best “fit” employees? Do your interview questions get to the real essence of the person you are interviewing? For example, is one of your interview questions, “Please describe the culture at the last 2 organizations you have worked for." And then ask, “What culture do you feel best fits you and allows you to perform at your best”?
These two questions are rarely asked but when answered by a candidate can reveal a lot about what motivates that individual, as well as if can they thrive at your organization.
Begin to hire tough today so you can manage easy, because if you hire easy, trust me, at some point you will be forced to manage tough!
The choice is yours!
The Do Right Leadership Rule #WisdomWednesday #Leadership #MML
As we continue to preview the upcoming MMLI program, the fourth Monday introduces us to the “Do Right Rule”. Do what is right even when no one is watching.
Of course doing the right thing isn’t always easy, in fact at times it is very difficult. Your shadow as a leader casts far and wide, farther and wider than you will ever know. In fact, you can never not lead!
When my son Ryan was 7 or 8 years old and in Little League baseball, his team had just finished playing and all the boys were in the dugout doing what 7-8 year old boys do…messing around! I was putting away equipment and packing up to head out when I noticed the boys were all glued to the chain link fence of the dugout staring out at two of our team fathers face to face at the pitcher's mound about to get into a fight.
I immediately left the dugout to break up the action (the boys were sorely disappointed). Both father’s happen to be high level executives in their respective organizations. I asked them, if they were to act this way in their workplaces, what would happen. Both said major discipline actions or even fired.
I then pointed over to the dugout where all the boys were still plastered again the fence, still holding out hope for some action. I said we have been teaching our sons the fundamentals of baseball all season long and now the only thing they will remember after the season was over is the scene playing out at the pitcher’s mound and two fathers' childish actions.
Ok point made! Do you guard your leadership legacy and integrity even in the most difficult situations? Always remembering to do the right thing?