Motivation at Work - how to increase workplace motivation

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Charismatic & Democratic Leadership Style on i news Hyderabad by Syed Rafi

Syed Rafi Corporate Trainer from Hyderabad discussing various Leadership Styles on I News Channel. More details about Syed Rafi can be found at http//www.atcs.in



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A leader is... (Kinetic Typography)

Kinetic Typography; First project I worked on in After Effects



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Leadership style and logical levels of influence and change

When seeking to get more creativity and innovation into an organization, it is important to have an understanding of the different levels of influence and at what level you are operating. The language that people use and the emphasis that they put on certain words reflect these different levels.

The emphasis on different parts of a sentence can cover all different logical levels: Identity, Belief, Capacity, Behaviour and Environment. It is often important to identify and separate at which level you wish to communicate with someone.

Creative a vision of the future

Giving people a sense of purpose in what they and the organization are doing.

Linking individuals thought that vision to their environment, releasing energy and enthusiasm.

Creating a successful organization through path finding and culture building.

Path finding the way to a successful future.

Culture building-drawing people into a purposeful organization and building commitment.

Linking individuals to the organization.
Managing tasks-directing people in the accomplishment of specific tasks.
Managing relationship creating an efficient working atmosphere.
Obtaining willing cooperation in getting the job done by adjusting one's leadership style-balancing task and relationship behaviour.

Leadership skills are considering as these types: Self-skills, Relational skills, Strategic thinking skills and Systemic thinking skills.
There are some experience in life:

1. Choose an area of your life that you would like to explore, where you would like to be more creative.

2.Walk through the logical level step by step in the present state.

3.Now,step away from the tiles and take a look at what you have discovered.

4.Assign the label role identity to this right place.

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mission command.mov

Short website introducing the concept of mission command to help businesses innovate and improve leadership and management styles to improve team efficiency and increase revenues.



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What is leadership?

A short viral-style video I created for school. Thanks for all the submissions!



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Leadership Lessons From President Obama

In our examinations of various leadership styles and leadership qualities, none could possibly be more apt than Barack Obama as a case study. His refreshing ideology and brilliant execution certainly bestows us with many leadership lessons to draw from.

Who is He?

Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th President of the United States. As an African American born in Hawaii, Obama took interest in being a community organiser in a low income neighbourhood, and served as a church based community organiser before studying Law at Harvard Law School. He was eventually sworn in as senator of Illinois in 2004 and inaugurated as the President of the United States in 2009. He was also awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples".

Leadership Style

Among the most apparent style of leadership that can be seen from President Obama is its transformational nature. Being highly charismatic and exceedingly eloquent, President Obama is easily able to influence the people he lead to work towards a common goal and achieve something larger than themselves. His persuasive and diplomatic style contrasts starkly with the more aggressive and confrontational measure of his predecessor President Bush, and it would definitely play an important role in forging international cooperation and inspiring action at home.

As much as it is ideological, President Obama's leadership is also highly pragmatic, focusing on concrete issues such as non-insurance of healthcare and relationship with the Muslim world. This leadership trait is integral in his success in translating his noble ideas into reality.

President Obama's leadership is also characterised by strong communication with the citizens of America and the people of the world. In this new world of information and knowledge, President Obama is able to capitalise on the media to communicate his views and messages to the American citizens. This fact is evident from his presence in talk shows. Being at the top of the any large organisation, it is crucial that messages and ideas get translated clearly right down to the last man so as to ensure congruency in intent. In this aspect, Obama has excelled in his keeping the people he governs in the know.

Leadership Qualities

Being one of a kind, President Obama epitomises several leadership qualities and these can be valuable leadership lessons to take away.

Foremost, he listens. One would think that for such an outstanding orator, speaking well would be his key tool to influence and gain consensus. However, we must realise that communication starts with listening, and President Obama proves to be as good at listening as he is at speaking. As he proves to the world that he, along with the United States is finally willing to listen, the flame is reignited for further relationships to be forged and diplomacy to take place. When asked by a German reporter about his designs for the NATO in 2009, he humbly replied, "I don't come bearing grand designs, I'm here to listen, to share ideas and to jointly, as one of many NATO allies, help shape our vision for the future."

This leads to the second quality of empathy. The ability to put himself in the shoes of others so naturally allows President Obama to be able to feel for his people, and this helped shape many of his policies, such as his healthcare reform. The president once said, "The world doesn't just revolve around you." This highlights his strong belief that one need to learn to see things through the eyes of others. As leaders, it is pertinent to be able to see issues via the eyes of those we work with in order to understand their concerns. The ability to do so would certainly allow us to become a more understanding and empathetic leader.

President Obama also scores well in terms of being able to delegate tasks to more capable hands, and concerns himself more wit the direction setting and visioning of the nation. In higher management, delegation is a crucial skill to master in order to be effective. It allows us to focus on what we are paid to do, that is to LEAD and MANAGE our team, rather than to micromanage and be take on the jobs of our whole team.

President Obama's frankness is also another key that sets him apart from countless other politicians. By communicating his goal honestly and clearly, listeners are able to sense his sincerity and will tend to trust him more. This is opposed to many others who choose not to come clean regarding certain ulterior motives, apparent as they may be, and this only mean that listeners are less willing to trust them wholeheartedly.

The last and certainly not the least of his qualities is his willingness to make tough decisions. Despite preaching cooperation and mutual agreement, President Obama is aware that gaining a majority of consensus is not possible and economic, and tough calls may have to be made at times. Right or wrong, it is more important to make a decision and take action, rather than to delay and shriek the responsibility to successors.

President Obama's leadership style is certainly a fresh beginning for further realignment of the United States in terms of political, economic and social aspects. For aspiring leaders, his leadership qualities can be likened to valuable gems that we can model from, adapt, and use as our own, allowing us to take ourselves to greater heights.

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Leadership and Project Management

The topic of leadership is a lengthy subject, ranging from academic research to published works and articles. The discussion of leadership can be found in Greek and Roman texts, as well as works in the new millennia. In the project management field, however, leadership has been a sleeping giant, which is just emerging as a topic of research and publication.

Project management material in the 20th century consisted of work investigating the mechanics of the process of managing a temporary endeavor. The items of concern were: (1) cost, (2) schedule, and (3) resources. Later work recognized the need to incorporate deliverables, or scope into the project equation. The author finds these items to be the "hard" aspects of managing a project, subject to analysis, with a spreadsheet or other computer software package.

Effective administration of these project factors is not enough to guarantee success. Project managers need to be skilled in "soft" areas, such as change management, emotional intelligence, and leadership. The leader needs to have experience as a project manager, and to recognize how the needs of the project change over the life of the effort.

Leader behaviors will consist of a task or relationship focus. Task focused leaders will keep an eye on the mechanics of the project, and seek to drive their team toward achieving a project that has positive schedule, budget and deliverable outcomes. Relationship leaders seek to achieve team harmony through consensus building, and to communicate with their external stakeholders, such as the project sponsor and executive committee.

The successful leader recognizes how their style-orientation will change over the life of the project. During the early phases of the work, the leader will score high on relationship factors, as the need to sell, tell and motivate others is paramount. In the middle part of the project, the leader will concentrate on task factors, such as monitoring cost, schedule, resource and deliverables. At the final third of the project, the leadership style will oscillate between both that task and relationship leader behaviors, as the need to monitor the project continues in its importance and the added need of obtaining additional assistance during project completion and closeout occurs.

Rodger has over 20 years of experience in Military Aviation, Manufacturing, Medical and Education Sectors. He is experienced in all phases of software development, deployment, maintenance and support. He has international experience on software systems that have been used worldwide. He is a skilled modeler, and is adept at Business Process Reengineering (BPR) techniques.

With over 18 years of experience in program and project management, he has managed diverse teams in multi-million dollar efforts creating mission-critical applications running 24x7. A Program Manager for a Fortune 100 organization, he has also assisted non-profit organizations in developing and implementing strategic plans.

Currently he teaches at a four year institution and consults to industry. He is a Principal Consultant at Contemporary Consultants specializing in Business and Technology Management consulting. He is a PhD student planning to research project success factors for his dissertation.

The Coaching Leadership Style

Imagine this scenario. You go to your manager or supervisor at work because you have a problem. This is no ordinary day-to-day sort of problem. You go there for his or her help because it's perplexing. You get one of two responses. The first is a 'pat' response suggesting a course of action and so you leave very quickly with 'the answer'; the second response is a querying interaction where your supervisor listens to understand then asks some thought-provoking, challenging, probing questions. You leave challenged even perhaps a little uncomfortable.

Given the choice, how would you rather be led in the workplace? To be told what to do as per the first response or to be asked what we should do as per the second? The coaching leadership style is characterised by the second method of asking and is much more akin to contemporary leadership. The former method is a more directive style, and is not favoured for a bunch of reasons, mainly because it is a form of telling.

Coaching: Problem Solver or Merely Helper?

The coaching style of leadership helps people solve their own problems through astute and targeted questions, driving them to push themselves regarding 1) motivation, and 2) direction as most problems emanate from poor prioritisation, lethargy or procrastination, or from a lack of insight or creativity.

Telling Usually Doesn't Work

It's quite often linked with simplistic answers to complex problems. Most mature adults (and younger people for that matter) appreciate a more affiliative or collaborative approach. The very nature of coaching is asking more and more targeted questions the longer the interaction goes; the coach must therefore achieve understanding before he or she can help the person being coached.

Coaching Challenges Sensitive Issues In Safer Ways

For the leader who coaches there are less issues of courage required. Sure, the questions we might ask might perhaps skate the thin ice and probe issues that are difficult to discuss, but whilst we have a questioning mindset and approach the employee can't really feel intruded upon. Therefore, sensitive issues can be approached from a position of relative safety.

A Threat With The More Directive Style Of Leadership

One of the threats with direct leadership is the response we get if we give an untenable answer; consider that it is easy to get it wrong if we don't understand the core issues. We won't have helped the person who came to us; they could leave even more frustrated.

The coaching leadership style is perhaps best for the fact that it assists without taking any of the ownership of the problem. There's no better outcome in leadership than for the subordinate to come up with their own answers. That's an inspiring outcome. They will love us for it!

Think about this. How many genuine coaching styled leaders have you seen? And how good are your coaching/questioning skills? Remember that in some respects, skill equals application. What we use we develop.

Copyright © 2008, S. J. Wickham. All Rights Reserved Worldwide.

Steve Wickham is a safety and health professional (BSc) and a qualified lay Christian minister (GradDipDiv). He is also has training and leadership Diplomas. His key passion is work / life balance and re-creating value for living, and an exploration of the person within us.

Types of Leaderships - Discussion by Syed Rafi from Hyderabad

Syed Rafi Corporate Trainer from Hyderabad discussing various Leadership Styles on I News Channel. More details about Syed Rafi can be found at http//www.atcs.in



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