Tactics to dominate in the workplace and get the recognition you deserve.
Your leadership skills greatly influence your performance as a leader. You certainly can use your unique talent and strengths to get started as a leader. But if you want to be effective in delivering results, you need to increase your ability to lead. Leadership skills […]
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When leaders and managers are compared, leaders are often glorified. It is as if leaders succeed without possessing excellent managerial skills. But let me tell you, you cannot be a good leader if you are not a good manager.
Self-development skills help leaders succeed. Leaders who pay attention to personal mastery or self-growth find it easier to lead others
Personal branding and personal development are not the same even if some gurus insist. Personal branding can be part of personal development. But there are those who think that personal branding is the shortest and surest way to success. You can make a mark in
Is public speaking a skill? I am often asked this question by students. I will try to answer to encourage my readers to invest time in public speaking. One purpose of this website is to help you develop your public speaking skills. Public speaking is
Leadership courses are worth it if you make them work. Not all leadership courses are equal. Some leadership courses worth every centavo you invest. Others cause migraines as speakers drone for hours talking about nonsense.
Today, we need creative leaders. In the olden days, people worry about how to divide the economic pie among themselves. People discovered that they don’t have to wage war against each other over a single pie. Thanks to innovation. We can bake more pies. We
Develop leadership competencies to get the job done. A common problem of many organizations is that they don’t have “competent” people. To solve this, organizations invested gazillions of pesos in employee training and development. Unfortunately, many of these training programs are hit-and-miss. Develop competency strategies,
Every interaction we have is an opportunity to build trust, forge relationships, and demonstrate respect. By consciously working on our ability to pay attention, we are not only enhancing our interpersonal skills but also creating an atmosphere of civility and mutual respect. Whether it’s in
Filipinos want the typical game-oriented team building programs because they are afraid to hold courageous conversations. As a team leader, you can handle conflict by showing people how to communicate and collaborate.
I hold short programs to teach intrapreneurship for one to three days. You may include Design Sprint, Design Thinking, and Customer Journey Mapping here. I will add two more. Business Model Generation Business Model Generation will help employees understand how a business becomes profitable. They
The best managers and supervisors are not bosses. They are transformational leaders. They understand that their job in your company is not to report for work. Their main job is to help you develop leaders within the organization.
Promote a culture of malasakit if you want to encourage excellent customer care, innovation, teamwork, and passion. Leaders who show malasakit care for your people and your business. Think about the admirable Filipino values. Practicing these values in the workplace is necessary and desirable. Filipinos
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What does it really mean to create value? Transform the lives of people who you intend to use your products and services. As a teacher, you can help the uneducated to learn what matters, those afraid learners to become confident, and the uncertain to thirst
Loyalty is a function of respect and allegiance to you… and it is the glue that ties your people to the jobs.
More and more business owners and organizational leaders contact me to train their people to be loyal. They want me to change their attitudes. They want me to make them realize that it is to the employees ultimate benefit to be loyal.
Bored at work? It’s more common than you think. You’re watching the clock, every minute feels like an hour. Your tasks, once interesting, now feel like a drag. You’re not alone. This boredom? It’s a silent alarm. It’s telling you something’s off. Your creativity, usually
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I learned about kusang-palo from my Lolo Pedro. He was a hard-working fisherman and farmer. He plowed his cornfield with his carabao. He told me that lazy ones need to be hit with a stick before they move. My lolo is gone for many years
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I thanked him for his courage to ask that question which almost everyone wanted to ask but never did.
Management guru Peter Drucker said that as soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word. You must illustrate what they do not see, give reasons to actions, and
Vital behaviors are the smallest set of actions that lead to the results you want. They are the few high-leverage actions that if you keep doing, produce the outcomes you’re after.
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