Coaching Book Review: The Coach: Creating Partnerships for a Competitive Edge

Written by CMOE Development Team


Leaders today have many challenges when it comes to guiding and influencingrepparttar performance of their team members. Inrepparttar 142210 past, productivity and success depended on sheer muscle and sweat. Competition, technology andrepparttar 142211 desire of employees to be meaningfully involved in their work are powerful forces shapingrepparttar 142212 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 inrepparttar 142213 enterprise. Now and inrepparttar 142214 future, reinvigorating employees, managers, and peers through coaching will be critical torepparttar 142215 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 withrepparttar 142216 demands and challenges of their calling.



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

Written by Brent Filson


PERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in newsletters and on web sites provided attribution is provided torepparttar author, and it appears withrepparttar 142209 included copyright, resource box and live web site link. Email notice of intent to publish is appreciated but not required: mail to: brent@actionleadership.com

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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 challengerepparttar 142210 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,repparttar 142211 people say, 'How well he speaks,' but when Demosthenes speaks,repparttar 142212 people say, 'Let's march against Philip!'".

To getrepparttar 142213 best results as a leader,repparttar 142214 people you lead should be saying in one way orrepparttar 142215 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 isrepparttar 142216 action people take after you have had your say. And if you are not havingrepparttar 142217 people you lead takerepparttar 142218 right action, you're giving short shrift to your leadership, their trust in you, and their desire to take action for you.

Here arerepparttar 142219 8 ways of right action to get people marching inrepparttar 142220 right way forrepparttar 142221 right purpose atrepparttar 142222 right time inrepparttar 142223 right direction.

I'll delineaterepparttar 142224 first four ways in part one of this two-part article then in part two, I'll describerepparttar 142225 last four ways.

Action must be: (1) PHYSICAL. Action is not whatrepparttar 142226 audience thinks or feels. It is whatrepparttar 142227 audience actually does. Usually,repparttar 142228 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 atrepparttar 142229 Berlin Wall, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" he was delivering a call-to-action that was a stunning turning point inrepparttar 142230 Cold War. In your day to day leadership activities, you are probably not meeting such daunting challenges as winning a war, but you can userepparttar 142231 principle to raiserepparttar 142232 effectiveness of your leadership to much higher levels.

(2) PURPOSEFUL. People who take action are useless to an organization. It is only those people who take action for results who are useful. Make sure their action has purpose. The secret of success is constancy of purpose. When your audience does take action, they should know exactly what they are doing and why they are doing it. Purpose in leadership talk has three aspects: reason, feeling and awareness. People should understandrepparttar 142233 rational justification forrepparttar 142234 action; they should have an emotional commitment torepparttar 142235 action; and be fully mindful that they are taking action.

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