Leading Today

Honoring Leadership Style Makes a Difference Many books I read about leadership in the early 80s stressed the importance of Leaders matching the thinking and communication styles of their various employees instead of expecting ALL THEIR EMPLOYEES to match their Leader's style. The challenge for the Leader is to be extremely flexible when working individually with their various employees and consistently when working with all the employees in larger groups or meetings. How to do yourself yet flexible when necessary is one trait that many authors wrote about being important to necessary. Books about teaching shared the same message Books about sales did as well. Situational Leadership was one of the books that focused on this issue by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard. Using my own THINKING STYLE MODEL: M.I.N.D. Design that I created based upon my studies of many accepted models from the 60s, 70s and early 80s I created this chart to illustrate how various known to f...

Leading with a little “l”  F or over 50 years in the United States one of the key issues in business, industry, government, in fact, all workplaces has been the change from boss to manager to leader.  Many writers and researchers including John Gardner and Warren Bennis have tried to define and explain the differences among the three.  During the past 30 to 40 years the emphasis has been particularly on the movement or switch from managing to leading. The result of all the interest, research and writing has been the development of extensive training programs on Leadership, Leadership Skills and Leadership Styles. Organizations have spent millions of dollars on this training. Most of the training has been based on research of famous and infamous leaders: Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma and Indira Ghandi, George Washington, Sit- ting Bull, Martin Luther King, Catherine the Great, Queen Victoria, Margaret Thatcher, even Attila the Hun.  In each  ...

Cornerstones of Productive Leading People who have successfully lad the efforts of others in business, industry, education, government, the military, sports, entertainment can all be found to have acquired or developed the majority of the 12 Cornerstones of Leading . We all can! These were discovered through  several different   exercises done with participants and students in my workshops, training programs, executive development  programs, community leadership programs and retreats and master degree courses from 1980 to around 1995.  1  Commitment When we are Productively Leading we  need to be COMMITTED to our purpose and goals and to win over the commit- ment of our people. 2  Control When we are Productively Leading we  need to have control of the resources and earn the trust and respect to control the actions of our people. 3  Consistency When we are Productivel...

Productive Leading PRODUCTIVE LEADING SKILLS & STYLES People can  learn  and continually  develop skills  and  styles  of leading whether they are  supervisors, team leaders, department heads, leaders, CEOs. Leaders at all levels have the responsibility to develop the future leaders among the people who they work with. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 4 PRIMARY LEADING STYLES  can be learned and developed into 16 effective  LEADING STYLES  that any leader can use to fit situations and the thinking styles of their people. MEDITATIVE – INTUITIVE – NEGOTIATIVE – DIRECTIVE – – – – – – – – – – – – Among the many skills and traits that leading requires to be a Productive & Valuable Leader there are a basic 12 learnable and developable skills. 12 Cornerstones of Productive Leading each of these can continually be developed and added to other needed skills.   Skills of Leaders that are needed often are situ...

Leading Today - Sample Programs from 37 years Leading Today - Sample Programs from 37 years  Sample Programs Attila to Zorro - Leading Styles You Can Develop NOAH HAD IT EASIER© Leading Those Who Don't Want to Be Led LEADING THE UNLEADABLE, UNMANAGEABLE & UNBOSSIBLE © "Everyone A Leader In The 21st Century" ..... Leaders are born! People can be taught to be Leaders! Situations make Leaders! Yes!, Maybe!, it Depends! All 3 answers are correct in different situations at different times for different people and groups. All of us can learn to develop 'good to great' leading skills and to understand a variety of Leading Styles to enhance our own natural style of leading. All of the CP3 colleagues have been teaching leading/leadership skills and styles for many years through :  keynote speeches,  breakout sessions,  workshops,  training programs and  college courses on Productive Leading coaching/co...

Welcome to my new BLOG focused on helping you develop skills of leading in your workplace, whether business, education or government. My background in teaching people about Leading Skills and Styles. In 1980 the late Walt Denero, founder of the J.W. Fanning Leadership Institute at the University of Georgia asked me to be a speaker for two Leadership Programs in Georgia. Leadership Rome Leadership Cartersville I did a 3 hour session on how to develop creative thinking in your people as a Community Leader. 8 years later I looked back and realized that Walt had begun a career for me in Leadership Development. By 1988 I was doing programs as one of 8 consultants (4 internal staff + 4 external consultants) for the UGA Institute for Government for the Management Development Division asked to present around the state individually or in pairs around Georgia doing their 3 Leadership Levels Level I General Supervision Level II Teamwork in the Workplace Level III Upper...