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In Other News Quote of the month: "Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple. " *John C. Maxwell* Resource Tip This is a website with essential skills for your excellent career! Read more free articles about leadership and other related business topics by clicking the following link "Complimentary" Coaching Session This is a no-pressure, no obligation conversation about your goals. There is no charge for our first session together. Call Clint Best today at 250-860-0466 or email clint@kbdkelowna.com
2009 - 2010 "President's Forum" UPDATE We are pleased to announce and welcome 18 "NEW" members to our first "President's Forum" Group. The event was kicked off on October 13th 2009, and we are excited to get this prestigious group of business people off and running in fine format. Thanks to all the attendees. ..It's going to be a great year of collaborating! Pass it on Know anyone who might be interested in our newsletter? Click here to forward this email to up to 5 friends at once. |
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Think of a leader as having 16 cylinders, like a high performance engine. Ask yourself, how many cylinders he and the people he is leading are running on. Some are running on four, some on eight. Now, in order to get each and every one of them running on all 16, we need to understand how human beings are built. We all have four main segments; body, mind, heart and spirit. The average organization only recognizes the first two in their leaders. Some even tell them to leave their emotional stuff at home. Body and mind, in my scenario only represent 3 cylinders each. This would mean in this type of organization the leaders are only firing on 6 cylinders and not all 16. These cover the sorts of things you read about people on their resumes. But if you think about it, the more important things are heart and spirit, which, in my analogy, have 5 cylinders each. They are the attributes that tell you whether a person has the drive, the passion and the get-up-and-go for the job. When you have a leader running on all 16 cylinders you will have synergy on the team, and synergy is one of the things that will jump your business to a level you never expected. Managers tend to concentrate more on the technical side of business, making sure tasks are done to predetermined standards and ensuring deadlines are met. However, as a manager develops and grows, with coaching and mentoring, they can become leaders. Their roles change dramatically. They will delegate many technical responsibilities to others. This won’t come easy. They will first have to learn to let go, and trust someone else. This “grey area” or uncertain territory they move into will be outside their comfort zone. They will find themselves in an unhappy and worried mental state. This is known as perturbation. The symptom of the shift from Manager to Leader is perturbation. The treatment is to work through it until the breakthroughs, break with, or break apart occurs, from old habits, old ways of thinking, or old beliefs that keep them where they are. This can be a very confusing and emotional period, and many give up. The difference between the Manager and Leader is really that the Leader takes a far greater interest in the emotional aspects of the team members as they account for the other 10 cylinders in our analogy. A strong leader fires on all 16 cylinders, and gets others to do the same. To read more articles on "Continuous Improvement" in your business, click the following link www.kbdkelowna.com/ to visit our website. "Continuous Improvement" with Clint Best 
How many times have you felt very uneasy before a great break through? It’s critical to stick through the pain to get to the gain. One of the biggest challenges with this is that we only know what we already are. In order to breakthrough we need to aspire to be something new. That's important to some people. To others it's not. To most people I meet it is. I often talk about opening up the possibilities side of our brain. What if wanting to understand it all before we have it is what keeps us stuck? When we become comfortable with aspiring for something, without having all the answers up front, we can become unstuck. What would be possible if you were to become a much stronger leader than you already are? Would that be important to you? I'd be happy to help you with that. If you would like to contact Clint, please feel free to email him at clint@kbdkelowna.com
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C Maxwell What would happen if a top expert with more than thirty years of leadership experience were willing to distil everything he had learned about leadership into a handful of life-changing principles just for you? It would change your life. John C. Maxwell has done exactly that in The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. He has combined insights learned from his thirty-plus years of leadership successes and mistakes with observations from the worlds of business, politics, sports, religion, and military conflict. The result is a revealing study of leadership delivered as only a communicator like Maxwell can. John C. Maxwell is an internationally respected leadership expert, speaker, and author who has sold more than 18 million books. Dr. Maxwell is the founder of EQUIP, a non-profit organization that has trained more than 5 million leaders in 126 countries worldwide. Each year he speaks to the leaders of diverse organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies, foreign governments, the National Football League, the United States Military Academy at West Point, and the United Nations. A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Business Week best-selling author, Maxwell has written three books that have sold more than a million copies: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, Developing the Leader Within You, and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader. Click the following link to buy this great book today www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/search Can you refer a Business Friend to our "Free Seminar"? 
Do you know someone that might benefit from our FREE "Continuous Improvement" Seminar? Why not tell them about it? On November 18th we will be hosting our free "Continuous Improvements" Seminar at the Ramada Inn. This seminar is designed to help business owners understand how to organize the elements necessary to grow their business. Everyone will benefit from this cutting edge seminar of free business knowledge. We've even had past clients come to the seminar again only to remind themselves of how many things they could be doing better. Is there a business friend that you care enough about to share this information with? Send them the following link so the can register today kbdkelowna.com/business_solutions_seminar.php....hurry seats are limited! |
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