Challenge 80: The Art of Leadership

Challenge 80: The Art of Leadership
Leaders should be fit for duty.

• In your journal, make a plan to:
• Meditate/reflect daily.
• Eat well.
• Exercise.
• Implement your plan.

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IGNITE: Giving Thanks

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"Gratitude helps us remember what is good in our lives." - Dr. Robert Schachter, "Mindfulness for Stress Management 

Share your expressions of gratitude here. 

We will start with ours: We are grateful for the support and encouragement we get from our followers. 

Message of Gratitude

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"Gratitude helps us remember what is good in our lives." - Dr. Robert Schachter, "Mindfulness for Stress Management 

Share your expressions of gratitude on our Facebook page or Twitter feed. Respond to the similar post.

We will start with ours: We are grateful for the support and encouragement we get from our followers. 

Red Cup - Yellow Cup - Green Cup

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During the 1990s, I taught business education in a jr./sr. high school in a small Idaho town. It was during that time that I took a Dr. Harry Wong. Dr. Wong was renowned for classroom management techniques. One of the techniques I learned from him was the use of colored party cups as a communication technique. (I would see this communication technique years later at our local Brazilian grill.)

Challenge 79: The Art of Leadership

Challenge 79: The Art of Leadership
Effective leaders are good followers.

• Read Col. Phillip S. Meilinger’s article “The Ten Rules of Good Followership." [http://bit.ly/2o2d5z6]
• Write the 10 rules in your journal.
• Share the rules with your team.

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IGNITE: The Virtue of Kindness

“Kindness is the virtue that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

[Photo: Kyle Miller/Wyoming IHC]

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Challenge 78: The Art of Leadership

Challenge 78: The Art of Leadership

Successful leaders lead change to leave the organization stronger than they found it.

• Are you or have you been an agent of change?
• Is the organization stronger because of your efforts.

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DANG ANGER DANGER

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[This blog first ran on December 22, 2015.]

Much of what we are shown our culture about leadership is depicted usually by a person which you don’t want to disappoint. We’re shown examples of leadership from many sources directly and indirectly. The common representations are a leader that has a short fuse ready to blow up and belittle our esteem being so easily triggered by our mistakes. This is what is accepted as normal and all we can expect. Is it effective? Somewhat, but is it ideal?

Challenge 77: The Art of Leadership

Challenge 77: The Art of Leadership
Reflect on the last year by reviewing your journal.

• Do you feel you have advanced your leadership art?
• Are there unfinished challenges you would like to complete?

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IGNITE: Learn from Others

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.” ♦ Matthew Syed, “Black Box Thinking” ♦
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Challenge 76: The Art of Leadership

Challenge 76: The Art of Leadership

Leaders lead by example. In your journal:

• Make a list of the top five attributes you expect your team to exhibit.
• What behaviors might YOU practice that display the attributes you expect from others?

Adapted from Dan Rockwell’s Leadership Freak blog @ http://bit.ly/2mGKqi7

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IGNITE: Being Better

"True leaders do not work to do better than anyone else, they work to do better than themselves. And that's what makes them better leaders.” ♦ Simon Sinek ♦

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Dressing Up Leadership

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Most of us learned about liquid density from grade school science experiments.

The physical property of density helps scientists separate liquids. When two liquids are placed in a container, the denser liquid will fall to the bottom. The less dense liquid will rise to the top. (PowerKnowledge - Physical Science)

Challenge #75: The Art of Leadership

Challenge #75: The Art of Leadership
Bring out the best in others. Dan Rockwell suggests:

• Participate.
• Expect more from yourself than you expect from others.
• Treat everyone the same.
• Walk around.
• Always do what you say.
• Apologize when you screw up.
• Clarify commitments.

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IGNITE: In Honor of Our Veterans

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." ♦ John Fitzgerald Kennedy ♦

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Challenge #74: The Art of Leadership

Challenge #74: The Art of Leadership
Self-care is vital for a leader’s well-being.

• Spend 30 minutes to 1 hour disconnected from electronic devices.
• Engage is physical activity.
• Spend time with friends and family. 

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IGNITE: Assistance Is Okay

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 could do alone. ♦ Andrew Carnegie ♦
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It Is About You

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I recently took an emotional intelligence in the workplace course. My intent of attending the course was to ensure I was passing along the most current information to our followers. Many times these course are less than stellar. Even though I failed at the registration process, the course coordinator allowed me to attend. Little did I know, the course was more about me in the workplace than others in the workplace. This course turned out to be one of the best leadership courses I have attended (and it came with a personal counseling session with the instructor).

Challenge #73: The Art of Leadership

Challenge #73: The Art of Leadership
Leaders are readers and writers.

• Read Daryl Chen’s article “Helpful Advice for Aspiring Writers of All Ages.” 
• In your journal, write down a plan for becoming a better writer.

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IGNITE: Success

Coming together is a beginning.

Keeping together is progress.

Working together is success.

♦ John C. Maxwell ♦

[Photo: Kyle Miller/Wyoming IHC]
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Challenge 72: The Art of Leadership

Challenge 72: The Art of Leadership

Leaders pay forward the good they have received.

• In your journal, document the good others have done for you.
• Make a plan to pay forward those good deeds.

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