Leaders today have many challenges when it comes to guiding and influencing performance of their team members. In past, productivity and success depended on sheer muscle and sweat. Competition, technology and desire of employees to be meaningfully involved in their work are powerful forces shaping leader’s destiny and future role. The need for service, quality, and effectiveness in organizations is stimulating a demand for employees who think, act, and feel like responsible partners in enterprise. Now and in future, reinvigorating employees, managers, and peers through coaching will be critical to success of both leaders and business. More than ever, leaders need to inspire employees with contagious enthusiasm in order to deliver quality services and products. In CMOE’s coaching book, “The Coach: Creating Partnerships for a Competitive Edge,” it provides refreshing ideas and strategies to help leaders cope with demands and challenges of their calling.

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Summary: Results don't happen unless people take action. But there are right and wrong ways to take action. Here are eight ways of right action that every leader must challenge people they lead to take.

In Leadership, The Eight Ways Of Right Action. (Part 1) by Brent Filson

The ancient Greeks had a saying: "When Aschines speaks, people say, 'How well he speaks,' but when Demosthenes speaks, people say, 'Let's march against Philip!'".

To get best results as a leader, people you lead should be saying in one way or other after you speak, "Let's march!"

When you speak to people as a leader, it's not what you say that's really important, what's important is action people take after you have had your say. And if you are not having people you lead take right action, you're giving short shrift to your leadership, their trust in you, and their desire to take action for you.

Here are 8 ways of right action to get people marching in right way for right purpose at right time in right direction.

I'll delineate first four ways in part one of this two-part article then in part two, I'll describe last four ways.

Action must be: (1) PHYSICAL. Action is not what audience thinks or feels. It is what audience actually does. Usually, audience takes action with their feet and hands and tools. When thinking of what action you want your audience to take, imagine their actually doing something physical, and you are on track. Getting your audience to take right action involves challenging them to do one specific thing. When Ronald Reagan said in his speech at Berlin Wall, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" he was delivering a call-to-action that was a stunning turning point in Cold War. In your day to day leadership activities, you are probably not meeting such daunting challenges as winning a war, but you can use principle to raise effectiveness of your leadership to much higher levels.