Category Archives: Leadership Tips

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Am I Holding People Accountable For Performance?

The Harvard Business School says that a team is a small number of people with complimentary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, an approach for which they hold each other mutually accountable.

What a leader does not inspect, the team member will not respect!

For a group of people to come together as a team to accomplish their goal, they need to move from great potential to great performance. High performance expectations are constantly the best indicators of successful teams – Clay Carr

3 Reasons why people do not do what they are supposed to do•TRAINING – We have not adequately trained our Team••CAPACITY – They do not have the ability To Perform At This Level••ATTITUDE – A company is known by the company they keep

Shepherds Advantage provides Servant Leadership that helps people close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Shepherds Advantage closes that gap by providing Leadership Development, Keynote Speaking, and Executive Coaching. 

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Do My People Understand Why What We Do Is Important?

Connecting The WHAT and the WHY

This is what the company does – CORPORTATE Picture

This is what you do – PERSONAL Picture

This is what we do together – TEAM Picture

This is why we do it – BIG Picture

Help the Team Know Why What They Do Is Important

Tell Them Company Stories So They Can See The Big Picture

Give Them Exposure So They Can See The Big Picture

Connect Them With Results So They Can See The Big Picture

Express To Them Gratefulness So They Can See The Big Picture

Let your Team know that you value them until you know that they know you value them!

Shepherds Advantage provides Servant Leadership that helps people close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Shepherds Advantage closes that gap by providing Leadership Development, Keynote Speaking, and Executive Coaching. 

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Are My Expectations Crystal Clear?

We all deal with the impact of expectations in 3 dimensions:

•Expectations that we have for ourselves

•Expectations we have of others

•Expectations that others have of us

Have an understanding so that you do not have a misunderstanding! – Charles Blair

The 2 words, information and communication are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things! – Sydney Harris

INFORMATION is getting out

COMMUNICATION is getting through

Clarify Your Expectations NOW!

Shepherds Advantage provides Servant Leadership that helps people close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Shepherds Advantage closes that gap by providing Leadership Development, Keynote Speaking, and Executive Coaching. 

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Do I Understand What It Takes To Be A Team?

Do I Understand What It Takes To Be A Team?

•Tolerance of each other’s weaknesses (We all have them)

•Encouragement toward each other’s success (We all need it

)•Acknowledgement that each of us have something to offer

•Mindfulness that we need each other•

Tolerance, Encouragement, Acknowledgement, and Mindfulness all require MATURITY!

Teamwork is not a performance; It is a REQUIREMENT!

The true measure of a successful Leader is not getting people to work!

The true measure of a successful Leader is not getting people to work hard!

The true measure of a successful Leader is getting people to work hard together!

Shepherds Advantage provides Servant Leadership that helps people close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Shepherds Advantage closes that gap by providing Leadership Development, Keynote Speaking, and Executive Coaching. 

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Am I Moving Closer To My Dream?

LEARN IT

  • The mere possession of a dream is not the same as living it
  • Rule #1 – Take one more step; Rule #2 – When you can’t take one more step refer to Rule #1
  • Does your dream make you stronger or weaker? The majority of men are bundles of beginnings – Emerson

LIVE IT

  • Recognize that quitting is more about who you are that where you ae
  • The only guarantee of failure is to stop trying
  • To move closer to your dream, improve your vocabulary and self-talk speech
  • To move closer to your dream, recognize that waiting for everything to be right is wrong
  • To move closer to your dream, change your thinking from scarcity to abundance

LEAD IT

  • Will you change your thinking? Are you convinced you can’t succeed?
  • Will you change your perspective? The biggest dreams are not accomplished in a week
  • Will you change your work habits? What are five things that you can do daily that will move you in the direction of your dreams. TODAY MATTERS!

Shepherds Advantage provides Servant Leadership that helps people close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Shepherds Advantage closes that gap by providing Leadership Development, Keynote Speaking, and Executive Coaching. 

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Am I Willing To Pay The Cost For My Dream?

LEARN IT

  • Always remember that Striving and Struggle precede Success – even in the dictionary
  • Dreams are personal and so are the sacrifices
  • Most people are unwilling to answer the cost question: Am I willing to pay the price for my dream
  • Every journey toward a dream is personal and so is the price that must be paid for it
  • At some point you have to shift from being a believer of the dream to a buyer of the dream. Dreams do not come true until someone pays for it

LIVE IT

  • The Dream is free, but the journey isn’t
  • The price for your dream must be paid sooner than you think – Dream believers are in abundance; dream buyers are rare
  • The price of your dream will be higher than you expected
  • The price must be paid more than once
  • It is possible to pay too much for the dream

LEAD IT

  • Pay the price of criticism from people who matter
  • Pay the price for overcoming your fears
  • Pay the price of hard work
  • It is hard to be 100% better than your competition, but I can be 1% better in 100 ways – Rich Melman

Shepherds Advantage provides Servant Leadership that helps people close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Shepherds Advantage closes that gap by providing Leadership Development, Keynote Speaking, and Executive Coaching. 

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Have I Included Others In My Dream?

LEARN IT

  • It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you can do alone – Andrew Carnegie
  • You are going to work with other people, learn the art of Teamwork. Unless you are going to work in a vacuum!
  • Your dream should be a compelling vision you see in your heart that’s too big to accomplish without the help of other people

LIVE IT & LEAD IT

Develop your DREAM TEAM!

  • Dare to focus on your significance and not your success
  • Respond to others ideas with respect not contempt
  • Expect the best
  • Affirm others talents and abilities
  • Maximize learning and growth opportunities to improve the dream and the team
  • Take time to give honest feedback to the Team
  • Encourage others unconditionally so that everyone can persevere
  • Accept only excellence since mediocrity kills dreams
  • Make the most of your mistakes and failures

Shepherds Advantage provides Servant Leadership that helps people close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Shepherds Advantage closes that gap by providing Leadership Development, Keynote Speaking, and Executive Coaching. 

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Do I Have A Strategy To Reach My Dream?

LEARN IT

  • We need to look for ways to be an active force in our own lives
  • Begin designing a life of substance and truly begin to live out your dreams – Les Brown
  • Develop a strategy to reach your dreams – If you don’t know where you are going any road will take you there
  • There is no magic power in having a dream. You can’t just wait for it. You have to work for it

LIVE IT

  • Understand your current position – Where am I presently on the road toward accomplishment?
  • Understand your future position – Where do I want to be? You cannot begin to achieve your best unless you set some aim in life?
  • Define all of the all of the choices to be made between where you are and where you are going. Learn the art of “bit size pieces” of accomplishment
  • Daily work toward your dreams – Persistence is the name of any game you seek to win

LEAD IT

  • Successful Generals make plans to fit circumstances but do not try to create circumstances to fit plans – George Patton
  • However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results
  • Remove all nonessentials – Do you understand the cost of your dream? In order to go where you are being called you must leave something behind
  • Embrace all of your challenges. It has been said those who lose visualize the penalties of failure and those who win visualize the rewards of success

Shepherds Advantage provides Servant Leadership that helps people close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Shepherds Advantage closes that gap by providing Leadership Development, Keynote Speaking, and Executive Coaching. 

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Does My Dream Compel Me To Follow It

LEARN IT

  • If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you – Steve Jobs
  • The Passion question – Does my dream compel me to follow it?
  • Passion is a critical element for anyone who wants to achieve a dream.
  • Passion is the starting point for all achievement

LIVE IT

  • Passion pulls us up enabling us to overcome adversity
  • Passion pushes us out – giving us initiative
  • Passion positions us to have the greatest odds for success
  • Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful – Albert Schweitzer

LEAD IT

  • Where are you between these two points on the passion scale
    • I would rather have a root canal without anesthesia or
    • My passion is so hot that it sets other people on fire
  • Consider your natural temperament
  • Keep your eyes on what is most important to you
  • Overcome the fear of being different from others
  • Resist the apathy that comes with aging

Shepherds Advantage provides Servant Leadership that helps people close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Shepherds Advantage closes that gap by providing Leadership Development, Keynote Speaking, and Executive Coaching. 

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Am I Depending On Factors Within My Control To Accomplish My Dream

LEARN IT

  • Reality is the enemy of fantasies but not of dreams – Rudy Ruettiger
  • Dreams by definition are not supposed to start with reality
  • Is a dream worth pursuing if it has no chance? NO!

LIVE IT

  • If you are depending on luck, then all I can say is “Lots of Luck!”
  • If your dream depends on luck you are in trouble.
  • If your dream depends entirely on luck you are living in Fantasyland
  • Shallow men believe in luck – strong men believe in cause and effect – Emerson
  • Ann Landers once stated that Rose-colored glasses do not come in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams

LEAD IT

  • Building on your strengths activates the Law of Least Effort
  • Building on your strengths enables consistently good results
  • Building on your strengths gives you the highest return

If your habits do not line up with your dream then you need to change your habits or get a new dream