Change, Vision, and Leadership: Let’s Change the World!

What is it and how do we do it?

21st Century Competition: brings the concept of change to the forefront in Business, Education, Entertainment, Finance, Life, and is pervasive throughout all group processes effecting society at large and universally. Change brings stress on all levels but is inherently mandatory in our current society.

Rules for Successful Change Practice:

1. Victory is not certain until the complete change process is complete

2. Leadership must be fully committed to the process of change

3. Incentives are integral for short term wins by removing complacency

4. Effective Communication is Key to change efforts and needs to be clear and focused

 Transformational Leadership:

Conveys Vision; Directs the Movement; Aligns Motives; & Inspires Action

5. Refrain from frustrating employees with micro-managing daily processes

6. Develop and display a keen ability to adapt to the ever changing environments

7. Never underestimate forces that reinforce complacency which maintain status quo

 Old Leadership: Command and control (Not Flexible)

New Leadership: Teams and creativity (Very Flexible)

Adversarial Factors Against Change:

1. Inwardly focused culture 2. Paralyzing Bureaucracy 3. Parochial Politics

4. Low Level of Trust 5. Lack of teamwork 6. Arrogance

7. Lack of leadership at the middle management 8. Fear of the unknown

(Information on these factors  1-8 derived from John Kotter’s, Leading Change)

 What factors implement setbacks in organizational change?

Arresting Supervisors, Incongruent organizational structures, Incentive system, cultural norms, and Long-term peer relationships, HR Systems

Getting Change Projects to Work:

Mid-Level Leadership towards change is critical and enabling this effective Leadership is a Key component to the Change process.

Who do you, he, she, they, I care about?

Myself? Change has to be in one’s best interest or it will be rejected!

Leadership Keys to Change Success:

1. Incorporate a sacrifice into the mission that everyone can get behind

2. Promise higher benefits in return for change loyalty

3. Provide clear vision that makes sense for all involved after completion of change

4. Make ambitious goals look easy to implement

Questions to ask yourself and others involved:

Do you agree with and follow blindly what you are told?

Do you candidly voice your position with charisma and tact?

Did you know that the employees that are candid in an appropriate way climb the corporate ladder faster and earn more money than their peers?

Are you alarmed about the current economic situation we are facing globally? NO

Why not?

Because: Put a frog in warm water, slowly heat it, the frog will stay in the warm water until it boils and they die. They don’t get out when it gets too hot. Why?

Because: They are unable to sense immediate danger due to complacency and by the time they felt like getting out of the hot water: It was too Late.

Keith Miller | The Elite Coach | The Million Dollar Coaching Company | www.EliteProCoach.com | (855) My-Pro-Coach

How to build an Elite Efficient Team

Based on:

Harvard Business Review on Teams That Succeed

http://www.amazon.com/Harvard-Business-Review-Succeed-Paperback/dp/159139502X

There are three (3) types of teams:

Teams that:

1)    Recommend things (task force or project group)

2)    Make or do things (operations or marketing)

3)    Run things (oversee functional activity)

Leadership must Link teams to performance & Don’t let these terms (Teams & Performance) become a cliché.

Needed team skills

Technical or functional expertise to handle specific tasks

Problem solving & decision making skills

Interpersonal skills:

1. Effective communication
2. Constructive conflict
3. Objectivity
4. Active listening
5. Recognizing interests
6. Achievement of others

We need to be accountable as a team (mutual accountability)

“We hold ourselves accountable”

“When teams work together toward a common objective trust and commitment follow”

1. Achievement must be mutually shared
2. Teams need to have a common purpose
3. Shared leadership

How do we get Individual and mutual accountability?

1. Open ended communications and active problem solving meetings
2. Need to establish performance goals that relate to overall purpose
3. Objective measureable goals

Failed teams rarely develop a common purpose

How do we get higher levels of productivity?

Groups are more creative and productive when:

1. They achieve high levels of participation, cooperation, and collaboration
2. Real time learning is important for teams to develop faster
3. Continuity of team members builds familiarity
4. Clearly express urgency and worthwhile purposes
5. Clearly express expectations to new team members

Build group emotional intelligence = enhances overall effectiveness

EQ Factors:

Trust among members, sense of group identity, and sense of group efficacy (effectiveness)

Attitude and behavior need to support above factors

1. Leaders need to admit fault when they are wrong
2. Leaders must be available
3. Leaders need to ask for input
4. Open-mindedness, enthusiasm
5. Ability to introduce new methods so team can learn from trial and error

Teams where members feel comfortable making suggestions

New members can:

1. Try things that might not work
2. Point out potential problems

Leadership:

1. Leadership needs to reassure this is safe
2. Essence of a team is shared commitment

Decision Making

1. Not a singular event – It is a process
2. Inquiry process (getting everyone involved)
3. Provide Constructive feedback
4. Variety of options
5. Serious consideration to all view points
6. Know when to bring deliberations to a close

Leaders and managers need to make sure they keep contact with teams to see what is going on and that everything is okay because if contact is lost then teams feel disengaged from management and create their own rules which lead to failure.

The best teams lull their leaders and managers to sleep.

Ways to prevent

1. Performance measures
2. Reward structure
3. Hands on presence from leadership

Keith Miller | The Elite Coach | The Million Dollar Coaching Company | www.EliteProCoach.com | (855) My-Pro-Coach

Overcoming Adversity: (Part 2 of 2)

Conclusion

(I know you’re in suspense!)

Part 1 offered this thought: People don’t live up to their potential because they are told they can’t!

How do we overcome this negativity?

The power of success is within us and we have to understand that we all face adversity regardless of where we come from which is why adversity is a natural occurrence.

1.     Self discipline: develop a mental attitude that controls emotions, sexuality, eating; control what you say by thinking before you speak and focus your mind on positive actions to gain mental peace.

2.    Acquire a pleasing personality that improves your likeability factor.

Personality is within your control and this aspect of the self causes people to like and dislike us.

Personality can be controlled through self discipline in controlling your reactions and the direction of your enthusiasm.

Let other people speak instead of leading the conversation and be careful of the sarcasm that is used during conversation because it can trigger negativity in your audience.

Hint from Napoleon Hill:

Finding fault with the world at large is not pleasing to others and indifference when others are speaking is resented.

Don’t flatter where it is not deserved because it comes off as insincere and you lose trust.

Don’t talk about your problems and communicate on the level of others. (He’s the best).

3.    Most of all: Uncompromising faith in seeing your success out till the end.

Being able to see something where there is nothing is what makes the average great.

Defeat is life’s test to you.

Get rid of all doubts and you will get as far as the amount of faith you have in succeeding.

4.    Always exceed expectations!

5.    Lastly, form an alliance with a trusted co-partner whether your Mom, Dad, Sister, Brother, Wife, Husband.

As long as you have full trust and clear communication your togetherness will provide a compounding of success.

This will get you past your limit and get you to the next level.

I have faith that you will embrace your struggles and choose not to take the line of least resistance.

Keith Lawrence Miller | The Elite Coach | The Million Dollar Coaching Company | www.EliteProCoach.com | (855) My-Pro-Coach

Financial Freedom vs. Financial Security

Do you want a job that pays you a lot of money at the
expense of all personal costs?

Is financial security more important than financial freedom?

Are you willing to advert having a loving family and
discretionary time to labor at a job that might not be interesting or fun in
return for a large sum of money?

Both choices are a personal preference and there is no right or wrong answer.

What is financial freedom?

Financial freedom does not define a high paying job but,
rather, is defined by having an enjoyable life and the choice of the premiere situation
that makes you the happiest at that moment.

Would you enjoy taking a vacation at any moment you desired?
How about waking up each day and deciding what you would like to do that day
and doing it? How does having a family and truly enjoying every moment sound?
How about having a job that you truly enjoy from the people you work with, your
boss, and the tasks that you decide to take on and accomplish? In short, no one
dictates your life but YOU.

This is what financial freedom is and this is the aim of our generation.

There is an old saying that says, “You can’t take it with
you”. This is true, but great wealth has been left for the enjoyment of
future relatives. But, is that always what is best? People tend to not
appreciate money as much when it is not earned and fortune over time does not
bring true happiness.

Money brings power!

“Mo Money Mo Problems”- Maybe?

Does money bring true love, happiness, and respect? Or, are there other
variables involved in garnering this type of adoration?

My personal belief is that we should strive to enjoy the
life we have today, and to set up a pleasant life through financial freedom for
us, our family, and our friends around us.

How?

This is a bigger question that we will cut short by
saying, each of us needs to find our path to financial freedom and there are
multiple paths to this personal euphoria.

The better question is, “What is your definition of Financial Freedom”?

When you define that – set up an action plan to get it and live in your success.

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