Sewer Workers: Flushed with Pride

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 [...]

How to PowerPoint – Watch the Video not the slide

Watch the following video by Don McMillan on how to capture your audience with PowerPoint.

The Shortest and Most Powerful White Paper on Leadership Ever Written

Dr Z.’s Leadership Institute staff have been doing extensive and exhaustive research in July and have now developed the quintessential leadership whitepaper.
Okay, we admit it wasn’t the whole month we worked. Would you believe that we put in a full week? If not, would you believe that we spent a full day on it? Okay we [...]

Leadership is like a knife

Dr. Z presents another in his series of leadership metaphors.

Leadership is like a knife:

You need to stay sharp.
You have to make cuts in budgets, people, or roast beef.
You spend a good part of the day just hanging around.

Picture Credit: messen by http://flickr.com/photos/noortje/83464208/

Dr. Z. Leadership Metaphor Power Made Easy

The leadership metaphor for this week is:
Leadership is like a blade of grass.

You often feel insignificant
Even when you are healthy you turn green
You often get stepped on

And here is Dr. Z’s Power Quotation to overcome leadership procrastination:
Don’t let the grass grow under your ass.
Picture Credit: Green blades of grass by http://flickr.com/photos/jcolman/542378377/

Havidol: The drug for leaders who want to have it all.

Are you prepared to HAVIDOL?
Dr. Z. recommends Havidol as the drug of choice for leaders who recognize more is not enough.
Not sure you need havidol, take the ZING self-assessment test. Determine if multitasking makes you feel powerful and other essential questions to determine is you need this amazing drug.
As a caution here is the small print from the website [...]

If you can’t trust Dr. Z., who can you trust?

 
Dr. Z’s Leadership Institute is under attack! Yes, we have reason to believe the Burgundians are ready to turn us over to the authorities just like they did to Joan of Arc so many years ago. 
The Burgundian menace rivals the drama of the Da Vinci Code when the lead character voiced the top movie action line of all [...]

Quotation Corner: Don’t Myth Out On Leadership

Welcome back to Dr. Z’s Leadership Institute Quotation Corner.
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. ~ [...]

Going up: How to craft a dynamic elevator speech.

Dr. Z is adamant: As a future leader, you must have a personal elevator speech plus a little extra that sets you apart.
Be prepared when the door opens on opportunity or if you get stuck between floors with a captive audience – regale anyone trapped behind the door with your unique elevator speech.
A pithy and [...]

The Leader-Talk© Program: The Top 5 Tips on How to Talk Like a Leader

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. [...]