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“I Appreciate the Job You Are Doing!”

John Whitehead
September 16, 2021

This week’s vlog continues our series looking at the final practice in Kouzes & Posner’s book The Leadership Challenge, Encourage the Heart. This practice is all about recognizing and appreciating staff, their skills and the abilities they bring to their roles! How often do you recognize, compliment and reward your team?

John K Whitehead & Associates coaches individuals and organizations in becoming more effective by helping them improve their interpersonal communications, emotional intelligence, and resiliency.

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Executive Coaching, Leadership, Leadership Coaching, Leadership Development

Encourage the Heart: Recognition is the key

John Whitehead
September 8, 2021

We’ve come to the final practice, the final practice in Kouzes and Posner’s, The Leadership Challenge. Over the last number of weeks, I have been going through the different practices, the five practices, and then the six behaviors that go with each of those practices. And now we come to the final one which is encourage the heart. And for me, this is the fun one. Recognizing and rewarding those we work with. In this week’s vlog we explore a couple of ways of doing that…

 

 

John K Whitehead & Associates coaches individuals and organizations in becoming more effective by helping them improve their interpersonal communications, emotional intelligence, and resiliency.

You can read my blog at https://johnkwhitehead.ca

If you have enjoyed reading these posts, please Follow Me – and if you sign up for my Blog I will send you a copy of my eBook, “What Are These Things Called Soft Skills?”

Executive Coaching, Leadership, Leadership Coaching, Leadership Development

Are You Allowing Your Team Members to Grow?

John Whitehead
September 1, 2021

Leaders who make extraordinary things happen in their organizations ensure that people grow in their jobs by learning news skills and developing themselves. What to know more on how you might be able to accomplish this? Watch this week’s vlog post and then let me know what you think

John K Whitehead & Associates coaches individuals and organizations in becoming more effective by helping them improve their interpersonal communications, emotional intelligence, and resiliency.

You can read my blog at https://johnkwhitehead.ca

If you have enjoyed reading these posts, please Follow Me – and if you sign up for my Blog I will send you a copy of my eBook, “What Are These Things Called Soft Skills?”

Executive Coaching, Leadership, Leadership Coaching, Leadership Development

Enabling Others to Act: Give others the opportunity to find their own solutions

John Whitehead
August 25, 2021

This is not easy. As the boss you may believe it is your job, your responsibility to come up with, and then implement solutions to problems. That’s the difference between being a “boss” and being a “leader” – a “boss” commands and controls, a leader gets others involved, encourages and shares ideas, create an environment of commitment. Why is this not easy? Ego maybe? The expectations of others higher up in the organization? However, creating an environment where you enable others to act, create collaboration, getting the team involved and you act more of a coach can lead to a supercharged, productive environment. My thoughts anyway in this video….

 

John K Whitehead & Associates coaches individuals and organizations in becoming more effective by helping them improve their interpersonal communications, emotional intelligence, and resiliency.

You can read my blog at https://johnkwhitehead.ca

If you have enjoyed reading these posts, please Follow Me – and if you sign up for my Blog I will send you a copy of my eBook, “What Are These Things Called Soft Skills?”

Executive Coaching, Leadership, Leadership Coaching, Leadership Development

Becoming A Great Leader, Let Others Come Up with The Solutions

John Whitehead
August 18, 2021

Having people reporting to me, means having the opportunity to use them as a resource with ideas, and solutions they can bring to the table.  I’m not necessarily the one that must have all the ideas and solutions.  To do this I need to give people the freedom and choice in deciding how to do their work. This is the fifth behaviour that Kouzes & Posner aspire in the practice of Enabling Other to Act. How are you helping your staff as a leader to grow? Watch this week’s video for some ideas…

John K Whitehead & Associates coaches individuals and organizations in becoming more effective by helping them improve their interpersonal communications, emotional intelligence, and resiliency.

You can read my blog at https://johnkwhitehead.ca

If you have enjoyed reading these posts, please Follow Me – and if you sign up for my Blog I will send you a copy of my eBook, “What Are These Things Called Soft Skills?”