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Leadership Truth #9 - Great Leaders Foster Great Followership
For centuries, most of the focus has been on leaders and leadership. There is a new trend over the past decade to also focus on great followership. We are all leaders and followers for some portion of the time. This article compares and contrasts these two roles.

Beginning to Attract Abundance
Each of us has the ability to attract abundance. In fact we do it all the time and are not even aware of what we are doing. When we focus on something, conscious or unconscious, we are attracting that very thing toward us.

A Leader is Born Every Minute...?
Are leaders born or developed? Leadership is not for the lazy. It comes from having a want and a deep desire to excel and bring others along with them.

Empowerment and Other "Programs"
Be careful when management wants to do another "program." Short term bursts of energy may be well intended, but they actually sap the energy of an organization. This paper describes the pitfalls and gives some antidotes.

Designing the Organization
Often how an organization is set up determines its effectiveness. When leaders do a reorganization, sometimes they are not thoughtful enough about what they are trying to accomplish. The result is a mess. This article discusses some aspects of organizational design.

Job Redesign
There are huge books devoted to the subject of job redesign. This short article deals with some aspects of redesigning jobs for a more empowered team structure.

Training People in an Empowered Organization
As organizations move to engage more employees in the business and empower them to take on more responsibility, there is a need for good training. This article outlines some key points to consider when training employees in an empowered organization.

10 Ways Easy for Managers to Empower
There are many, many ways that a manager can empower those in their team. The value comes from enlightened individuals freed up to express themselves through the release of their potential. And you are the one to do it...

Can You Make a Good Living Being a Life Coach?

Running a coaching and consulting company dedicated to helping women achieve breakthrough in their lives and work, I meet thousands of folks each year who want to reinvent, many of whom are considering launching a coaching or consulting practice, or other small business of their own. They long to transition into coaching for solid reasons, and many come with great, top-level experience. This article will explain some points to consider if you are contemplating a career move to becoming a life coach.

Getting Support in Times of Change

As a coach and a psychotherapist, I’ve worked with hundreds of people each year who are going through dramatic change of some kind or another, and are in need of support from their families, friends, colleagues and others. We often discuss what healthy support is, and how it feels when we receive support that gives us the strength and confidence to persevere. What does helpful support look like?

Taking Back Power Back Tips For Restoring Balance and Focus

Since my book published this Fall, I've been inundated by activity around launching it, publicizing it, and speaking about it. I enjoy much of this activity, as it involves marketing and promotion, which I'm comfortable with (it was my professional specialization in my corporate life, and also it fits my "socializer" personality). I also believe in the book's messages, so it's a joy to speak about it. But what I didn't realize was that, day by day, hour by hour, I began to feel less and less powerful, and more and more focused on "outer" events and accomplishments, and things beyond my control, rather than inward milestones.

Please Please Listen to Us
Leaders need to tap into the ideas of the people closest to the work. Unfortunately, due to hubris and a number of other factors, the ideas of shop floor people are given less attention than the ideas of higher level managers. This is a crime, as is discussed in this article.

Develop a Tolerance for Risk
When trying to manage change, leaders often make a huge mistake by not telegraphing a tolerance for risk. This article digs into the issue of risk in making changes and suggests an antidote to this common problem.

Be Empowered Before Empowering Others
We all need to fuel our own tank, to ask for what we need from those around us so that we can feel inspired and empowered and be willing to support others as well.

Do your words promote or demote?
What we say and how we say it can have a powerful effect on other people. If you are a leader, what you say has an even more powerful influence... do your words promote or demote others?

How to Be an Empowered Leader in a Challenging Business Environment
With the economic uncertainties besetting most companies, an empowered leader is needed who can boldly face the challenges in an unpredictable and sometimes scary business environment. An outstanding business leader must not only be capable of being in charge of others, he should also learn how to be in charge of himself.

How to Influence Others to Reach Their Full Potential
A position does not make for a leader, having people that follow because they want to follow makes for an influential leader. Activate these six strategies to empower your people and you will find that you are a sought after leader, mentor and guide who not only positively impacts your organization but is influential in expanding the lives, confidence and abilities of the people you serve.

Reciprocity to Motivate
Give what you'd like to get and use the law of reciprocity to successfully influence your personal and professional life.

Three steps to creating a Pay it Forward Environment
Imagine a world where we all empowered each other. Well all great ideas have to start somewhere with someone, and we can all do our part by not only empowering ourselves, but paying it forward and empowering others.

Stakeholder Management - Get Ready To Get Creative!
Stakeholders are one of the most important elements of any project. By getting relationships with everyone affected right, any manager will have a big positive to work with...

Empowerment – The Rewards are Greater Than the Risk

Employees must take ownership in the success of the organization. This means they must become part of the strategy employed by the company. Acknowledge their presence and contributions, and praise them at every opportunity. But, be sincere. Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, had a favorite method of sending personal handwritten notes to employees who demonstrated some form of success. This is an employee issue that cannot be emphasized enough. Employees want to know how they are doing and they want to be held accountable. Winning organizations continuously build leaders at every level in their organization. Leaders, who actively attempt to mentor, coach and build other leaders gain respect throughout the organization and transfer knowledge, ideas, values and an attitude about success.

10 Steps To Empowered Employees
Getting much more from your people by using empowerment as a tactic, can make a big difference to your business. So often, your people want more and with this, they are able to give more - and this is a great asset...

Support Your Website Visitors through Empowerment

It's amazing how many sites I end up on these days that have still not embraced the interactivity available online. Wake up people!!!! It's 2009 and we've already been through web 1.0, web 2.0, and web 3.0 seems to be taking shape. Ditch your boring, one dimensional website and your "company focused" content and get with the times! The people who are visiting your website are only looking for "what's in it for them." Sooo..... What does your site offer? I understand that you are an expert in the area of YOUR business and not necessarily in web marketing. You may not even have an idea of what is possible online. Alright, enough of the reality check. :)

Empowerment - Ten Tips to Avoid Micro Management

I deal with a lot of leaders that confuse delegation with empowerment. I am often told, "I don't micro manage, I empower my employees." However, when we start digging into specific situations, we often uncover the difference between delegation and empowerment. It is really not that difficult to ascertain the difference. Delegation is simply getting someone else to perform a specific task for you. "Tom, can you move these for pallets for me to make some room for a new shipment coming in tomorrow?" Empowerment sets a little higher expectation that encourages the employee to use their own creativity and innovation.

A New Opportunity for Business Growth
If your company has a potential investor, what would you need to quickly put in place to ride on the waves of the new opportunity for business growth?

Inspiration Is The Foundation For Motivation
Is it possible to motivate someone else without inspiration? The answer to this question is no, inspiration is the catalyst for motivation.

Exploitation as Empowerment: On YouTube and User-Generated Content
Reprinted with permission from the book "A Universe of Interactions" by H. Elwood Gilliland III, edited by Ziva Borlja; this article deals with exploitation and its changing role.

The Art of Customer Service
This blog entry is a response to a topic suggestion by Douglas Hanna. It covers the art of customer service, a subject that is near and dear to my heart.

The Karmic Capitalist: Should I Wait Until I’m Rich to Give Back?
Should I wait until I’m rich to give back? This is a question I have fought with a lot over the years.

Amazing Customer Service is not Extinct!

I am optimistic by nature and my cynical side is often suppressed to the point of being clueless according to people close to me. Amazingly, when it comes to customer service, I am very critical of most organizations. I do pay attention and take note of very small details about the service I and others receive. I have expectations that I be treated like I hope to treat the customers that I serve in my own business.

The 5 “M’s” Necessary for Entrepreneurial Women’s Success
In launching my new Breakthrough Vision Marketing division that offers women entrepreneurs, consultants, writers, and practitioners marketing support to achieve success in their ventures, I’ve discovered some telling statistics about the success entrepreneurial women have achieved thus far, and the challenges women continue to face in creating financial success in their endeavors.

Why Million-Dollar Coaching Promises Should Make You Leery

There are many more ineffective, self-serving coaches who aren’t capable of helping you reach your high goals. If you’re broke, and are told you can go from that to a millionaire in a year because you’re following this one coach’s program (and not doing all the inner and outer work it truly takes to be abundantly successful), then you’ll be sorely disappointed and waste a great deal of time and money in the process.

Companies are Investing in a New Kind of Customer Service.
Moving from customer service to customer relationships is the way to grow.

The 12 Hidden Crises of Entrepreneurial Women

Several years ago I conducted a yearlong research study with over 100 working women across the country about professional crises in women and how we can reclaim our lives to overcome them. I was astounded by the findings, and felt they were so universal and important for women, I wrote a book called Breakdown Breakthrough about these 12 crises, offering a three-step holistic model to break through these challenges once and for all.

It Takes Teamwork to Make a Company Dream Work
Almost everyone works in a team, but very few ever seem to achieve happiness and success from it. This always amazes me. Let's face it; if you want to be a successful engineer, you study engineering. If you want to be a successful cook, you study cooking. And if you want to be a successful person in a team, you must study success in team building.

Establishing Family Boundaries
The word ‘boundary’ is one that we hear often these days, but it was not always that way. In fact the concept of establishing boundaries within families is a relatively new; and certainly one worth taking time to implement.

Intelligent Disobedience
If you've ever seen a guide dog working, you'll know why they're the best example of empowered working you can find. It's because they are trained to disobey intelligently. Find out more here.

Marketing Strategies: Are You Proactive Enough?
Are you reacting to your circumstances or creating them? Learn how to switch that focus! This article gives you some great tips on how to be proactive.

Razban Golden Rule 1: The 10% that Changes 90% in Empowering Managers
The 10% can over come 90% concept is desribed here as a trusted way of empowering managers to succeed.

Goals For Starting an Online Business - Simple Steps to Success
Why are we so reluctant to set goals? Do they intimidate us? Are we are afraid that we will fail to reach them? Goal setting is one of the most important tools of the successful.

Want to stress less and enjoy life more? These simple stress management strategies will get you started.
We all have stress, but how we handle that stress can greatly affect our physical and mental health. In fact, a few simple changes can mean the difference between a long, happy life and a short, miserable one. Here are some stress management strategies to help you on the journey.

Should Leaders Have Friends at Work?
Relationships are essential, the core of the commercial world yet it's not uncommon for executives to avoid 'friendships' with co-workers. They often fear that having personal relationships in the workplace might compromise their ability to make tough decisions. So should Leaders have friends at work?"

Bosses Gone Wild

The reason people follow any leader, especially in the business world, is due to trust. The only way to develop trust is through communication - talking to people with respect to gain their respect. Respect is a key ingredient in developing trust. Trust is gained when people think their employer cares about their welfare and recognizes the role each plays in creating a profit. People have to think that the company not only cares about their problems, but that the company will make every effort to solve them.

21st century wellness
21st Century Wellness means having the ability to take responsibility for your life in every sense of the word. It is an integrated concept of body, mind, heart and soul.

Do Over
When somebody pushes your buttons, instead of a knee-jerk reaction, take a deep breath and take control of your response. It doesn’t matter whether you burn the toast, miss the deadline or find out you have cancer, how you react is your call.

Buying a franchise during recession
In this article Nick Strong looks at the dinamic of franchise purcvhasing and recruitment during times of economic growth and during the downturn. Nick explores how, even in times of economic challenge, business format franching can offer benefits to both franchior and people buying a franchise.

Fail in Favor of the Customer
I talk to lots of companies about who they hire and how they train.

Making the Case for Change
People are often afraid of change and shifting the status quo. This article covers why you may be afraid of change and what you can do about it

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

Do you have someone that you look up to? Is this someone that you would like to emulate? Someone that you feel has achieved the type of success that you would one day like to achieve? What if that person wanted to take you by the hand and show you the ropes, the steps that he/she took to get where they are? Well, if they did, you'd be mentored. Mentoring is the key to big-time success. The way that shortcuts are learned about, potential mistakes are avoided, and many contacts are made.

Words of Power
Words have power – words spoken with clear intent and emotion carry more power than just random words on a page. Many businesses try and create their business plan or marketing material by just copying what someone else has done. They take the words, shuffle them around a bit and then label it with their company name.

The ingredients of strong leadership and what really counts
Learn about what really counts as a leader when you are striving to achieve tough goals. Sue Stockdale uses her own experience from polar expeditions to explain how using a transformational style can be really effective in both business and the world of adventure.

Forgiveness - Letting go in order for you to be able to give again. Forgiving = For giving

It is a way of releasing yourself from the need for the person you feel hurt by to do anything to make you feel better. And there’s no requirement that you forget, but simply forgive, as in let go of the holding on of the pain, and the holding the other person responsible for your happiness. See them as having done the best they could, even if it was very worst for you. It was still the best they could do. And let go. See that you too did the best you could at the time. See my article - "How to let go and move on from regrets"

Are You Empowered at Work?
12 Steps for Professional Women to Gain Strength, Power, and Confidence at Work

Leadership Branding (Redux)
Since you began your small business, franchisee, or investment how focused have you been on your unique brand of leadership – be it, direct or indirect approaches? To lead others around you is to express and assert your influence. Influence is about applying your ability to persuade via facts or education.

Why good employees leave your organization?
Talented employees leaving their jobs is an alarming development for most organizations. This article explores the empowerment of managers in arresting this trend.

Creating Synergy With Others
Do you find that you tend to use "forced action" in your work? Do you feel like it's more of a struggle than a pleasure to work? Do you like to be "in control?" Find out some easier ways to joyfully accomplish your goals.

Business Profile: Jabu Bags
Jabu Bags founder Megan Yarema talks about why she began her company, the challenges she faced, and her advice for other entrepreneurs.

Moving from Mediocre to Magnificent
To stand out amongst the plethora of businesses that exist, you have to be strategic. It's just not ok to be good, you need to be great. This article will help you step into your greatness.

Never Have a Plan \"B\" - EVER!
Don’t ever let anyone, including yourself; talk you into having a Plan “B”. Now, I’m sure, if you’re a dreamer like many of us all, you’ve, no doubt, been lectured, ad nauseam, as to the sensibility, even necessity of the “backup” plan. And, quite honestly, it seems pretty logical and reasonable – but is it?

Leadership Insight: Stump the Dummy
A game for the entire organization to play. And many do play it regularly. Stump the Dummy goes something like this: “How are you doing with that Smith file” says a senior level manager to a mid level manager. Or the company president asks a unit executive “where are we at with the remodeling of the meeting rooms?” Or the mayor asks a department head about the pothole on main street.

Seven Essential Principles for Managing Power and Politics

There are seven essential principles for managing power and politics in organizations. They are based on the philosophy of Niccolo Machiavelli, the classic theorist in the field. Not even skilled and relatively sophisticated people can succeed in management -- and be seen as leaders -- without internalizing these principles, although they may have minor short-term successes. In the long run, they will be undermined because they can't build and keep alliances, protect themselves from the grapevine or influence top management.

Sam Walton: A Charismatic Leader
Sam Walton of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has been quoted as having said it takes just seven days for new employees to start treating customers the way they are treated at work. All the customer service skills and training in the world can be undone in only one week if an employee is treated poorly by his or her co-workers or boss.

6.3.2 Group empowerment: For-profit and NGO training activities

The new approach to skill development tends to be more overtly political in that its primary focus is to support collective action among groups of the poor and, particularly women, in order to achieve specific economic, social and political objectives. Self-help associations (SHA) have become one of the main institutional mechanisms for achieving this. There are two main types of SHA- work-related (i.e. trade or occupation) and community-based.

Recommendations for future research - Factors Impeding the Poverty Reduction Capacity of Micro-credit: Some Field Observations from Malawi and Ethiopia
In light of the conclusions drawn above, there is a need for further policy and action oriented research and in-depth investigation. First and foremost, there is a need for extensive empirical evidence to verify and ascertain the capabilities of micro-credit in reducing the depth and scope of poverty.

Women and Micro-credit

Since the establishment of the Grameen Bank as a micro-credit delivery model, many programmes have rushed to replicate the relative success and in doing so, a lot of attention has been given to female micro-credit borrowers. Women were specifically targeted because they make up the majority of the poorest of the poor in the rural areas and are responsible for the social and economic welfare of the family.

4.5 Improving the performance of public services and formal sector enterprises: Working Out of Poverty

In many developing countries, pay and conditions in the public services have deteriorated badly over the long years of austerity associated with structural adjustment and the debt crises. This has seriously damaged morale and performance, led to the loss of some of the most talented public servants to the private sector, increased the risk of public servants resorting to “charging” citizens for services by demanding under-the-counter payments, and weakened confidence in the function of government.

3.6 Securing incomes: Working Out of Poverty

Societies at all levels of development face the challenge of organizing systems to provide security against contingencies such as sickness, accident, death of the main breadwinner, disability, old age, maternity and unemployment that make individuals, families and communities vulnerable to poverty. Through solidarity and fair burden sharing, social security systems contribute to human security, dignity, equity and social justice. They are also a foundation for political inclusion, empowerment and the development of democracy. Half of the world’s population is excluded from any type of social security protection, with the rate of coverage varying from almost 100 per cent in some industrialized countries to less than 10 per cent in the poorest developing countries.

Customer Service Excellence
This article focuses on the importance of customer service and how you can obtain it for your own customers.

Promote Fun -- Promote Profits
This article suggests that by creating a "fun" work environment, you can also create better customer and employee satisfaction.

Kenya’s Own: Kimani Wanguhu Envisions Empowerment!
This post was originally posted by Benin Mwangi on Kenya Imagine. It is actually the interview thatWilson Kimani Wanguhu and myself did about his brainchild-Kenya Empowerment News. And by the way, you can expect to see more collaboration between our two sites in the future-so stay tuned, eh?

Kenya’s Own: Kimani Wanguhu Envisions Empowerment!
This post was originally posted by Benin Mwangi on Kenya Imagine. It is actually the interview thatWilson Kimani Wanguhu and myself did about his brainchild-Kenya Empowerment News. And by the way, you can expect to see more collaboration between our two sites in the future-so stay tuned, eh?

Kenya’s Own: Kimani Wanguhu Envisions Empowerment!
This post was originally posted by Benin Mwangi on Kenya Imagine. It is actually the interview thatWilson Kimani Wanguhu and myself did about his brainchild-Kenya Empowerment News. And by the way, you can expect to see more collaboration between our two sites in the future-so stay tuned, eh?

How does microfinance help the poor? FAQ
Experience shows that microfinance can help the poor to increase income, build viable businesses, and reduce their vulnerability to external shocks. It can also be a powerful instrument for self-empowerment by enabling the poor, especially women, to become economic agents of change.

Staying Healthy Over the Holidays
The holidays should be a time for fun and enjoyment. Too often, however, they are stress-filled and expensive! Here are 10 empowering tips for maintaining your health this holiday season.

Employee Empowerment

Empowerment has nothing to do with fatuous statements like “Our people are our greatest asset”. Almost all companies who say such things treat their employees badly, keeping them constrained and confined in rigid roles, supported by limiting job descriptions and masses of bureaucracy. Yet, empowerment is a relatively simple process (in theory, if not in practice). here is a simple 6 step guide.

Leadership empowerment: what is it and how do you do it?
There is a significant amount of talk about the need to empower staff, but what do people mean by 'empowerment?' This article defines two different types of empowerment, and revealing the benefits. It also gives a quick snapshot of one way to implement it in the workplace.

Creating Synchronicity in Your Life
Synchronicity is the coming together of two of more events at just the right time and place. Find out how to take control of your life in order to start creating more synchronicity and to move towards a more compelling positive future.

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The Choice for Change
You can't change your past but you can change how it impacts on your future. The choice for change is always yours. It's never too late for a brighter future!

It Pays To Be Happy At Work
Productivity can be affected by numerous factors - but happiness? Read on in this article from Forbes Women on how your happiness can affect all aspects of your career.

Time Out
If you would like to improve the effectiveness of your meetings, this brief article will give you a way to do that.

Real Motivation
All leaders seek higher motivation within the workforce because it means greater productivity. Most leaders try to create higher motivation by trying to make workers happier with bonuses, pizza parties, or numerous other extrinsic motivators. It has been known for over a century that real motivation is an inside job.

Five Habits That Have a Very Negative Effect on Success

In a world filled with disputes and struggle, there also lies a ton of favorable circumstances and range for employment development and abundance set up provided you are knowledgeable of the success formula. However, more frequently than not it has been established that people are unable to accomplish our aspiring heights of success because we take all the essential steps that could be explained as traits that can have a very negative effect on success. Let us over the next few paragraphs go over the five dominant traits that could be catastrophic to your success unless you are able to nip it in the bud. The following are five dominant aspects that could be a great hindrance as far as your journey to success is concerned.

Empowerment at Work
The word "empower" has potency and strength. It's used frequently these days — some say "overused." It's also misused.

Empowerment: The Ticket to a Fulfilling Life

Self-empowerment is another name for the same concept, which is building up one's character and soul. The route to being successful, triumph and happiness is lead by strength and empowerment. The Route to Empowerment The path to empowerment is a long one and en route, you may face tons of obstacles and mountains. However, all of us have heard the phrase that "nothing is impossible" and surpassing these obstacles is no exception to the truth.

The To Do and Did It Lists
Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed? Do you spend a lot of time trying to get all your activities organized? This article focuses on variations of the popular To Do List for organization and empowerment.

Start your business in Johannesburg but hire your advisor in Cape Town
Small business development is a crucial part of government's strategy to reduce unemployment and increase black economic empowerment.

Changing the Way You Think Can Empower You
What is the real meaning and purpose of self empowerment and why do you need to have it?

Empowerment Opportunities - Find a Company That Has Some
Empowerment opportunities are all over the Internet but you truly only come in contact with a few that are worthwhile.

Avoiding the dis-empowerment traps
Stupidity and idiocy are the great dis-empowerment traps. Ensure you don't get caught in either in 2012.

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