The Harvard Business Review has an article in the latest issue: How to teach pride in “Dirty Work.” This is not a joke!
Here is the essence of the article. Employees in stigmatized occupations can be helped with an array of techniques to cope with or even feel proud of their jobs,
including developing an occupational ideology to confer a [...]
Watch the following video by Don McMillan on how to capture your audience with PowerPoint.
Dr. Z. believes in the power of metaphor or similie (if you like that sort of thing).
Complete the following sentence:
Leadership is like ….
When you master metaphor you will master leadership. You can voice the metaphor during all occasions, people will be bamboozled by your ambiguity, others will salute you as a sage, and you will be [...]
Dr. Z has done extensive research on leadership communication patterns (he listened to leaders talk with each other as they went down a buffet line filling their plates with meat balls and mashed potatoes at a leadership conference).
After this state-of-the-art research fused with rigorous analysis of the data and the composition of the meatballs, Dr. [...]
Are you prepared as a leader to uncoil your authentic self?
Notice that the word “hen” is embedded in the middle of the word autHENtic. Even though hen makes up 1/3rd of authentic don’t be chicken about being who you are.
Practice Dr. Z’s 5 Pathways to Authentic Leadership:
B.U. at work, all the time, with everyone you [...]
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