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Sarah Martin

When you feel very deeply about a cause, a petition is one way in which you can show those in authority that you are not the only one that feels this way. Through the signatures on the petition, you can show that others do support you.

Starting a petition is not a difficult process, but it is one for which you do need to have a valid reason. You not only have to identify the issue of the petition, but you also need to know the best person to whom you can address the petition.

Depending on the issue you want to address, some of the recipients of your position could be:

Laura Garrison

We all desire recognition for a job well done, especially as members of a team. As a team, each person works together toward a common goal. Now instead of working together, imagine a team where each person was only interested in their own, separate, little interests….

Wow.

Would you–or anyone around you–really ever be able to get anything done?

Of course not! Yet isn’t this how so many workplace teams attempt to operate?

When we are working within a team we have to put personal interests aside and focus on the collective good. If we don’t, tempers flare and trouble naturally ensues. Teams composed of members who cannot put differences aside don’t win. Put simply: you won’t achieve the success you want if you aren’t focused on the common goal.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. ~Hugh Downs

United We Stand - Teamwork Tips

The key strategy to boost office and workplace morale and team productivity is to stand strong behind your common goal. A unified front is only accomplished by working together.

Joshua Virkler

Becoming a Spirit-anointed leader demands the integration of knowledge, wisdom, and insight, along with other godly character traits and qualities. Coming to a broad-based knowledge and integration of the truth is no easy task, as is exemplified by the thousands of denominations as well as the many other philosophies which exist in the world.

Each institution embraces its own methodology for discovering truth. Most institutions do not state this methodology in their public literature. Currently embraced methodologies include rationalism, mysticism, humanism, empiricism, hedonism, and biblicism, among others.

The more sound your paradigm for discovering truth, the more truth you have the opportunity to discover. What is your system for discerning truth? Many have not thought theirs out. Many find theirs grows and changes as they grow and change. Personally, I teach and utilize the “Leader’s Paradigm for Discovering Truth”. It is composed of six pillars.

Ray Subs

The secret to successful leadership development is often pondered by young would-be executives just beginning to climb the ladder of success. The climb up the corporate ladder is intimidating, lined with both ambition and peril.

What does it take to make it all the way to the C-Suite, and how do I get there?

What most of these individuals don

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Dike Drummond MD CPC

Let’s face it … Business is a Team Sport … with the Entrepreneur as the Team Leader.

Consistently growing your Team’s capabilities is a high priority. Over time, a growing Team will become more productive and efficient … accelerating the growth of your business and producing clear changes in your bottom line.

As the Leader you also get asked a LOT of questions.

One sure way to slow the growth of your business is to develop the habit of answering them.

Clients tell us that their Teams sometimes drive them crazy by asking for decisions on even minor things. There is only one way they learned to do that - YOU TRAINED THEM TO. You trained them by answering their questions in the first place.

And that habit of answering questions and making all the decisions will slow the growth of your people and the growth of your business.

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Here’s are some examples:

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“Boss, Chuck and I just noticed the last bunch of widgets came off the line without flanges - there’s 200 in the box already - what should we do?”

“We posted that article on http://EZineArticles.com last week and it didn’t get any hits at all … what should we do?”

Now you probably have a real good idea what you would like them to do

AND

What happens if you tell them?

What happens if you “Fix” the “Problem”?

You feel great - a real problem solver… take charge kinda person… a decision maker … perhaps even a bit of a HERO.

AND at the same time …

- They learn to come to You for all problems in the future

- They are taught Not to think for themselves

- They take actions based on only one person’s ideas - Yours

- The possibility for professional growth and Team problem solving is eliminated

- If your solution does NOT work, you get blamed and morale suffers

- In many larger business, over time the employees become “Sheep”, just waiting passively to be told what to do

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What else could you do? Try out this scenario.

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“O.K. let’s have a Team Meeting ASAP”

- Ask the whole team for ideas on how to respond to the critical issue

- Listen to everyone’s ideas without evaluating or interrupting and, if you give your input at all, make sure to GIVE YOUR THOUGHTS LAST

- Help the TEAM decide the most appropriate response for the TEAM to take

** WHAT HAS HAPPENED? **

- The Team has learned to solve its own problem

- The entire Team’s talents and experience were applied to the challenge

- Since the Team participated in creating the action plan, they are automatically bought in to putting it in place

- The whole Team has grown

- You didn’t have to work so hard now and you will be able to count on the Team’s expanding problem solving capabilities in the future!!

You just accelerated the growth and profitability of your company by NOT answering that question.

NOW THAT’S LEADERSHIP !!!

Challenge:

For the next month, keep a tally of the number of questions you DIDN’T answer and problems you DIDN’T solve. It just might be a tally of how much your Team grew in that same time frame.

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Jen Blackert

Last week, one of my clients called me

Chris Farmer

The art of clear thinking is a learnable technique that will help you to sharpen your mind and allow you to cut through rhetoric and evaluate the reasoning (if any) behind the words.

To initiate this process, I want to show you six common fallacies, which blur accurate analysis of ideas.

Learn them and apply them every day.

Democratic fallacy

Unreliable reasoning that stems from the idea that the “majority opinion” is a source of truth and a reliable guide for action.

This is a very dodgy way to discover “Truth”

For example;

Imagine a passenger aircraft is having engine trouble.

Would it be right for the pilot to hold a vote as to whether they should attempt an emergency landing?

If not, why not?

Is the majority opinion in the office a reliable guide to intelligent action?

Can a million people be wrong?

Be careful if you are tempted to reinforce your argument with the cry “everyone else thinks so, too.”

Correlation-cause confusion

Correlation-Cause confusion is a common trap that people fall into. Just because two things occur at the same time does not necessarily mean that one caused the other.

It is a mistake to treat a correlation as a causal connection

If I put on my lucky ring, and I go out and find a ten pound note, did the ring cause it to happen?

If a new boss comes to work and the sales next month go down, what does it mean?

Getting personal

Getting personal is the mistake of dismissing an idea because of the person suggesting it.

Imagine an overweight scientist has done research to prove that exercise reduces the risk of heart disease.

You could be tempted to say, “What does he know? Look at the state of him!”

Or you could say “He should practice what he preaches” and dismiss the valuable idea.

Halo effect

Halo effect is the reverse of the above. It means that you give extra credibly to an idea because of the person.

For example Elvis Presley was asked whether he thought the Americans were right to be at war in Vietnam.

He wisely answers ” I don’t want to get into that. I am an entertainer. Ask me about my music”

I remember a radio programme asking agony-aunt Claire Raynor what she thought about the state of the criminal justice system in England and Wales.

What specialised knowledge does her opinion carry?

Separate ideas from the person proposing them and evaluated an idea as a “thing” in its own right. Determine if the idea can act as a guide to intelligent action.

Arbitrary assertion

Is an unsubstantiated statement of belief with no principle, reasoning or sensory evidence to support it.

It is a mistake to grant plausibility to an assertion simply because it is forcefully delivered or repeated.

Frequency and volume should never take the place of logic in your decision to accept an idea as true.

Napoleon once quipped “Repetition is my strongest argument” (and then lost 250,000 in his disastrous Russian campaign)

Equally, it follows that you should avoid trying to convince someone else by simply becoming louder and more passionate. Instead strive to make your reasoning inescapable.

Gamblers fallacy

Is the mistaken belief that your chances of winning increases the longer you play.

This is a false idea.

If you are doing the wrong thing it makes no difference how long you do it. It still will not work.

If your current plan has not been yielding any meaningful results, it will not change fortunes tomorrow.

* Change your ideas.

* Change the plan.

* Change the actions.

* The results must and will change.

Critical reasoning to develop clarity of thought will cause you to do three things:

You will:

* Listen more intently

* Ask more questions

* Think more before you make your decision

All of these will help you get better results

Four step formula for constructing an argument

1. Make sure that the reasons/evidence you offer are relevant to the conclusion. (Ensure your reasoning has no fallacies).

2. Is your conclusion the best based on the reasons or evidence? Ask, Is this conclusion justified.

3. If your conclusion is for some new action or policy, can the policy be carried out practically?

4. Consider the counter arguments that could weaken your position. Make sure you have accessed all relevant information.

Chris Farmer is the leader of The Corporate Coach Group, and a publichsed author in Business Coaching. His training courses through the Corporate Coach Group have helped hundreds of managers become immediatly more effective.

Jessica Parklanes

When projects do not make it to deadlines, there are many things going on behind the scenes. As an accidental manager, you are tasked to keep the boat on an even keel with few resources and people. Project management training can help you man the ship effectively and take on more projects.

When Do You Need Project Management Training?

The boss has tossed you a small scale project, which turns out to be a titanic assignment for you because you do not have the skills to manage different capabilities and organize the whole show. Yet you take on the task hoping you pass muster and reap accolades for a job well done. You are one of the thousands of befuddled managers needing project management training.

Here is why you need project management training:

* You cannot produce a credible project plan

* Your project goes helter-skelter in different directions

* Your risk management techniques are outdated or implausible

* You cannot estimate work schedule confidently

* Your monitoring tools are inadequate or inapplicable

* You cannot run a motivated team

* You lack leadership skills

Can tell your boss no? Or do you take the project and hit the books because your boss expects you to effectively run a project with few people and resources, on a tight schedule, and get maximum results?

What Is Project Management Training?

The project management training educates project managers to foresee dangers that may derail project plans and activities. They should be able to minimize risks and solve problems head on to make sure that the project is completed successfully notwithstanding the risks. If you had the opportunity to have this training early on, no projects would be too big or difficult to handle.

The training also takes up management of IT skills when overseeing a project. This is a convenient and faster way to keep tabs of what is happening to all actors participating in the project. Instead of lugging journals, logbooks, and calendars, you log on to your PC and look at the worksheets of everybody to check how the work is going.

Knowing the IT part of project management training is just an aspect, but the bigger picture is effectively managing resources and meeting the project deadline because extended or delayed project activities incur more expenses, and the company loses revenues.

Why is the Project Management Training Important?

Projects, big or small, need a good manager to keep the project going on schedule. There is the competition to think about and the revenues to be earned from the project. During the course of the project, there will be slip ups or the project may go full steam ahead; a good manager will answer the following questions:

* What factors contributed to the success and failure of the project?

* What were the frequent problems that cropped up and why?

* How much resources were used and how were these used?

* Were resources available at the right time or not, and why?

* Were the skills required available and competent?

* What were the lessons learned?

* Were all aspects of project implementation documented accurately?

* Did management respond to issues quickly?

Project management training will help you see the big picture. The questions mentioned earlier are your guideposts to become an effective manager; hence, the training is important on two counts - career advancement and project success. Need you ask more?

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Tim Kennedy

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