Leadership Coaching Club survey

Thank you to everyone who completed our survey for the exciting next phase of the Leadership Coaching Club. I was overwhelmed by your enthusiastic and helpful suggestions.

Despite the short timeline 112 of you responded from five continents. If you provided your email address you should have received instructions for how to download your gift. Please let me know if you didn’t and I will resend it.

We are still analyzing all your ideas, but a couple of things stand out.

First, we get the message that you want practical and useful info and and you want everything to be quick and easy to use. We understand that you are busy and don’t want to be overwhelmed with information or academic details.

Second, people thought that it would be reasonable to pay anywhere up to $87 per month for membership, although others were keen to see a lower cost option so we will do our best to ensure that you are happy with the cost.

Several people were very keen on a lower cost for annual rather than monthly membership, which was something I hadn’t considered, so I really appreciated that idea. A number of people wanted us to include discounts on the 10 Week Intensive or our other programs or products to help justify being a member – either to themself or to their boss.

You had many other suggestions that were helpful and we really appreciate you advice. Thanks again and watch out for more details soon.

An Inspiring Team

Do you ever have doubts that you can cope with everything that’s on your plate? Do you ever doubt that a team can do more than an individual?

If you need a dose of inspitation watch this quick video about Team Hoyt.

Dick and Rick Hoyt are a special father-and-son team from Massachusetts who together compete just about continuously in marathon races. And I do mean special!

Inner Path of Leadership

I’ve just finished reading a book that I’ve been meaning to read for ages:

Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

Synchronicity – The Inner Path of Leadership by Joseph Jaworski is a very powerful, personal and inspiring story about one person’s journey to leading change and helping others to shape the future through their individual and institutional lives.

Jaworski believes that by focusing as much on ‘being’ as on ‘doing’ we can create an environment in which what he calls predictable miracles will occur in our lives, in our leadership or organizational roles and in society as a whole.

Well worth reading.

Setting direction

Crisp: Organizational Vision, Values, and Mission: Building the Organization of Tomorrow (A Fifty-Minute Series Book)

Are you having trouble clarifying your vision and values?

This quick read workbook offers you a simple step-by-step process to work through. You can even do it yourself, if you don’t have a strategic planning facilitator to help you.

One of the Five Key Areas of Leadership Focusâ„¢, Setting Direction and Planning For Action, often sounds easier than it is. But if you don’t get this one right your leadership will be continually tested.

Two more quick tips for setting direction:

  • Read this article for more tips on Effective Strategic Planning.
  • Remember you don’t have to do it on your own. Call us on 61-3-9859 3924 for details of how we can help you by facilitating your direction setting process.

Nailing leadership

“Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.”

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)

Setting direction is one of your five key areas of leadership focus.

Good leaders (both men and women) not only set direction, but hold fast when challenged, through times of doubt as well as through success.

To nail leadership, hold to your chosen direction and demonstrate confidence in your decisions through your actions as well as your plans.