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Our teleseminar on ‘The Manager’s Mission: How to take all the complexity out of management and replace it with simple success’ was a great event with participants registered from across the globe, who raved about all the ideas, information and tips that were packed into such a short seminar. I hope you didn’t miss it.

If you did miss it, or if you just want to listen to it again to catch any details you might have missed, we will soon have the recording available for instant download.

Click here for details.

How to take all the complexity out of management and replace it with simple success

Your Invitation to a free Leadership Teleseminar

Join me as I interview the author of Success with Simplicity, David Brewster, for a free live teleseminar next week. You’ll discover:

* Why management doesn’t have to be so complex and how to make managing people look (and feel) easy, even when it isn’t
* The secret to dramatically improving your performance as a leader and manager and feeling better about what you do by understanding the role of reality and the control continuum
* How to apply the three critical dimensions of the Manager’s Mission so you can relax and start managing ‘in the zone’ from tomorrow
* The top 3 mistakes 99% of people make and how you can avoid them.
You can get more details, and register here right now.

There are only a limited number of phone lines available for the teleseminar so don’t delay your registration.

If you are not sure what a teleseminar is, it is simply a seminar by phone. All you have to do is dial in to a special phone number that you receive when you register. And you can join us from where-ever you are located, whether you are in Bourke Street or the bush, on Fifth Avenue or an island in Fiji, all you need is a phone. For more details about teleseminars read our Frequently Asked Questions.

A free eCourse on the Secrets of Mentoring has been added to the Leadership Skill Center.

If you are interested in mentoring you are welcome to enrol.

Let us know what you think of it.

Thank you to everyone who entered our special prize draw at the Office 2006 Exhibition.

I am pleased to announce the winner was:

Ranjith Panangala of Foil Tech

who will receive a complimentary place in our next Leadership Coaching Club” href=”http://leadershipcoachingclub.com”>Leadership Coaching Club starting in September, valued at $999.

Congratulations to Ranjith.

And thank you again to everyone who visited our stand and attended the Learn! Lead! Succeed! Seminars. It was great to meet you all.

Thank you to everyone who came to our seminar on The MAGIC of Leadership or dropped by our stand at Office Expo yesterday. It was great to meet you and hear about your work.

The Office Expo runs for two more day at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre, and if you register yourself as a visitor you will receive free entry to the seminars, which feature some of Australia’s leading speakers and would typically cost at least $35 each to attend.

Take advantage of the free registration on the website now and save. I hope to see you there. And remember to come up and say hello.
The program for the remaining two days is:
Monday 22nd May: 12pm - 8pm
1.30pm - 2.15pm
Everyone Needs a Mentor
with Kerrie Mullins-Gunst
3.00pm - 3.45pm
Creating Customer Service to Make People say “Wow!”
with Winston Marsh
4.30pm - 5.15pm
Change Navigation - 5 keys to successfully navigating life and business storms
with Helen Macdonald
6.00pm - 6.45pm
The Art of Influence - How to get what you want from others
with Paddy Spruce

Tuesday 23rd May: 10am - 5pm
11.00am - 11.45am
Powerful Presentations - How to sell yourself and your ideas with impact
with Paddy Spruce
12.00pm - 12.45pm
Seven Things You Can Start Doing Right Now to be a Better Leader
with Kerrie Mullins-Gunst
1.30pm - 2.15pm
The Magnetic Employer - Creating a magnetic workplace where workers are truly happy!
with Helen Macdonald
2.30pm - 3.15pm
How to Turn Your Customers into Evangelists
with Winston Marsh

Full details of the exciting leadership seminar program that I am hosting at Office 2006 are now available here.

When you register yourself as a visitor to Office 2006 you will receive a free ticket to these seminars. Take advantage of the free registration on the website now and save.

Articles on the different roles leaders need to play, Leadership Role Playing, and the different ways people approach change, Managing Change by Choice, Chance or Crisis, have been added to the Free articles section of the Leadership Skill Center website.

Have a look at the other free articles and information for leaders, mentors and managers while you are there.

Great news!

Along with three of Australia’s finest seminar presenters, Paddy Spruce, Winston Marsh and Helen Macdonald, I will be presenting seminars on leadership and mentoring at the International Expo on Office Products and Services, Office 2006. It will be held from 21-23 May at the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre (Australia).

We have put together a fantastic program of free seminars so I hope you can call in and take advantage of this opportunity. If you pre-register online you can even save yourself the $15 entry to the Expo.

Do come up and say Hello to me when you are there.

You can now download our podcast ‘4 Leaders’ through iTunes, as well as listen direct on our site. If you don’t already have iTunes installed it is a free download available here.

If you do not want to subscribe through iTunes, but you just want to listen you can click here:

Do let us know what you think of it.

Grab a coffee and take ten minutes to listen to the latest tips and tools to help you mentor, manage and lead, in our first ‘4 Leaders’ podcast.

This show revisits one of the topics we are constantly asked about: Just how do you make sure your people do all of their job, not just the bits they enjoy. It features seven things to focus on so your people do what needs to be done, not just the interesting bits of their job.

After you have listened, please share your own tips for getting people to do all the things they need to do as part of their role, by posting a comment.

In late October we were awarded a prestigious grant by the Telematics Foundation of the Victorian Government to make our leadership programs available to a global audience via the internet and related technologies. Very exciting!

Since then we’ve been burning the midnight oil building the infrastructure that will allow us to work with you - wherever you are located - in new and exciting ways.

It’s not quite ready yet for unveiling but if you want to be the first to hear all about it subscribe to our newsletter, Leading Well, or to the RSS feed for this blog.