Turbo Charge Your Career With The Most Powerful Leadership Tool Of All: The Leadership Talk. (Part Two)

Written by Brent Filson


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However, their committing to take leadership involves your establishing a special relationship with them.

For instance, going back torepparttar example I used in Part One, if one is a floor sweeper, one doesrepparttar 105629 best floor sweeping, not simply by doing it but by taking leadership of floor sweeping.

Such leadership might entail: takingrepparttar 105630 initiative to order and manage supplies; evaluatingrepparttar 105631 job results and raising those results to ever higher levels; having floor sweeping be an integral part ofrepparttar 105632 general cleaning policy; hiring, training, developing other floor sweepers; instilling a "floor sweeping esprit"that can be manifested in training; special uniforms and insignias; behavior, etc.; setting floor sweeping strategy and goals.

Otherwise, in a "doing" mode, one simply pushes a broom.

You may say, "Listen, Brent, a job is a job is a job. This leadership thing is making too much of not much!"

Could be. But my point is that applying leadership to a task changesrepparttar 105633 expectations ofrepparttar 105634 task. It even changesrepparttar 105635 task itself. Think of it, when we ourselves are challenged to lead and not simply do, our world is, I submit, changed. Furthermore, though you may order people to do a job, you can't order anybody to take leadership of it. It's their choice whether they take it or not.

This is whererepparttar 105636 Leadership Talk comes in. Using it, you set uprepparttar 105637 environment in which they make that choice.

The Leadership Talk is not onlyrepparttar 105638 most important way to get cause leaders; it isrepparttar 105639 only way to get them on a consistent basis.

Inrepparttar 105640 final part of this three part series, I'll show you how to develop and deliver a great Leadership Talks.

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The author of 23 books, Brent Filson's recent books are, THE LEADERSHIP TALK: THE GREATEST LEADERSHIP TOOL and 101 WAYS TO GIVE GREAT LEADERSHIP TALKS. Sign up for his free leadership e-zine and get a free white paper: "49 Ways To Turn Action Into Results," at http://www.actionleadership.com. For more on the Leadership Talk: http://www.theleadershiptalk.com


Turbo Charge Your Career With The Most Powerful Leadership Tool Of All: The Leadership Talk. (Part Three)

Written by Brent Filson


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As to you why you are there. There is only one answer to why you are there: They must know that you are there to help them solverepparttar problems of their needs.

Without communicating strong belief on both counts, who you are and why you are there, you cannot give a Leadership Talk to motivate them to be your cause leader.

(3) Action. It's not so much what you say that's important when giving a Leadership Talk, it's whatrepparttar 105628 audience does after you have had your say. The function of The Leadership Talk is to have people take action that gets results -- and more results than simply average results, more results faster, and "more faster" on a continual basis.

Once you begin to see your leadership interactions in terms of physical action, you'll see your leadership, andrepparttar 105629 way you get results, in fresh ways. Challenge your cause leaders to take physical action by asking them, ‘What three or four leadership actions, PHYSICAL ACTIONS, will you take to achieverepparttar 105630 results we need?'

Having people move from simply saying they will do things to actually takingrepparttar 105631 physical action to do them will dramatically increase repparttar 105632 effectiveness of your Talk.

I've been teachingrepparttar 105633 Leadership Talk to thousands of leaders worldwide duringrepparttar 105634 past 21 years. Many of them have found thatrepparttar 105635 difference betweenrepparttar 105636 Leadership Talk and presentations/speeches isrepparttar 105637 difference between typewriters and wordprocessors. I remember using a typewriter. I was happy using it. I had no idea that I needed a wordprocessor. But when I bought a wordprocessor and went throughrepparttar 105638 trouble of learning how to use it, I saw how badly I had needed it all along. I saw that it was a quantum leap in terms of speed, efficiency, and productivity over a typewriter. So it is withrepparttar 105639 Leadership Talk and presentations/speeches. Once you go throughrepparttar 105640 trouble of learning how to use Leadership Talks then applying them consistently on a daily basis, you will find they can transform your leadership effectiveness and boost your career in ways presentations and speeches could never do.

Such transformations won't happen immediately. It will take you awhile to learnrepparttar 105641 processes and be comfortable using them. Since you're not in one of my seminars, whererepparttar 105642 participants learn tested processes to create and deliver Leadership Talks in a relatively short period of time, you'll have to rely on putting them together piecemeal.

But in these initial stages of developing and delivering Leadership Talks, putting them together piecemeal is an effective way of beatingrepparttar 105643 learning curve. After all, leadership is long and careers are short. You are not learning to give Leadership Talks as a short term endeavor. It should be a career-endeavor. Step by step, be constantly aware ofrepparttar 105644 three triggers, Need, Belief, Action. Speak from and to those triggers. You may discover that giving Leadership Talks consistently isrepparttar 105645 best thing that ever happened to your career.

2005 © The Filson Leadership Group, Inc. All rights reserved.



The author of 23 books, Brent Filson's recent books are, THE LEADERSHIP TALK: THE GREATEST LEADERSHIP TOOL and 101 WAYS TO GIVE GREAT LEADERSHIP TALKS. Sign up for his free leadership e-zine and get a free white paper: "49 Ways To Turn Action Into Results," at http://www.actionleadership.com. For more on the Leadership Talk: http://www.theleadershiptalk.com


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