The Warrior Within
Our days are full – innumerous e-mails to respond to, crises with every phone call, employees with personal problems, disgruntled customers, business goals that haven’t been accomplished … and the personal to-do list is just as long, if not longer. With so much happening outside us and all these thoughts running around in our minds, we can easily get defensive and lose our focus. Our “warrior” comes out with full armor and pulls us away from the present moment. It’s hard to keep our attention on any one thing as our minds swirl with the activities of daily life.
The Apprentice Leader - Making The Most Of Learning On The Job
Leadership is an apprentice trade. You learn some of it in the classroom and from books. You learn most if it on the job. You learn it from others and you learn from experience. Here’s how to get the most out of what you learn on the job.
Improve your Odds of Getting it Right the First Time
Get some training in supervisory skills. Classroom training and reading can give you ideas of how to analyze situations and what practices to try. They can be the basis for your on-the-job experiments in leadership.
Learning To Work With Different Personality Types
In any field, you will find a variety of personality types that work within it. While this can create an innovative working environment filled with talented individuals, it can also cause stress, tension, and bad feelings. Depending on your own personality, you may be able to work with a variety of different types, while others may not. If you have had some difficulty in the past, you can learn from mistakes you or others have made so your contribution to a negative work environment is kept to a minimum.
TREAT PEOPLE WITH RESPECT
