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If you want your people to be responsible, be responsive to their needs.

Ken Blanchard

If you want your people to be responsible, be responsive to their needs.
KEN BLANCHARD

Need People Responsible
If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.
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Business Leadership Success
Effective team leaders adjust their style to provide what the group can’t provide for itself.
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Leadership Style Team
The only job security you have today is your commitment to continuous personal improvement.
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Commitment Improvement Job Leadership
Empowering means helping teams develop their skills and knowledge and supporting them to use their talents.
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Empowerment Knowledge Mean Skill Team
Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven’t learned a thing until you take action and use it.
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Action Behavior Change Learning Yourself
Life is special when you reach out beyond yourself to be a true servant leader for others.
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Beyond Leader Life Servant Special True
Whether you like it or not, you will leave a leadership legacy.
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Leadership Yourself
Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.
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Change Enjoyment Learning Necessary World
When you touch – don’t take. Touch people only when you are giving something – reassurance, support, encouragement, whatever
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Encouragement Generosity Kindness People Touch
As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.
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Important Leadership Relationship Yourself
Vision is knowing who you are, where you’re going, and what will guide your journey.
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Future Guide Journey Vision Yourself
Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job.
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Business Connection Dignity Feeling Goal Inspirational Job
People who feel good about themselves produce good results.
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Feeling Inspirational Morning People Worth
As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there.
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Business Important Management Presence
We are not just our behavior. We are the person managing our behavior.
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Behavior Person
Beware of putting all your focus into results. While results are important, your people should be your number one area of focus.
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Focus Important People Result Yourself
The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.
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Goal Leadership Organization Vision
Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there.
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Journey Success Vision
For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
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Inspirational Leadership Positive
The best way to develop responsibility in people is to give them responsibility.
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Development People Responsibility
Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It’s not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.
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Attitude Goodness Intention Reaction
Real communication happens when people feel safe.
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Communication Feeling People Reality Safety Thinking
A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.
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Desire Difference Existence Problem
Most companies spend all their time looking for another management concept and very little time following up the one they have just taught their managers.
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Company Management Time
Too many leaders act as if the sheep. Their people are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
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Humility Inspirational Leadership Responsibility
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
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Authority Inspirational Leadership Success

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