Your Leadership Voice

There are many voices that you use in your day.

Your Leadership Voice is strong and clear.

But what does that voice really say.

Find out about the Voices of Change at Leadercast 2011.

Windsor, Ontario Event Details - click here.

Other sites - click here.

Can You Adapt?

Change is happening all around us.  The world of work, the world of play, our communities are constantly changing.  How are you prepared to handle change?
Do you:

• take a moment each week to step back and look at where you have been?
• take a moment each week to look at where you are going and determine if that still makes sense?
• talk to people in your industry, including competitors to understand how change is affecting them?
• listen to your customers or clients and their needs so that you can help to create solutions to their problems?

These are 4 quick and easy ways to get ahead of change, or at least not get broad-sided by it.  Try it out and see what happens.

New Things

New routines and plans can cause stress on the team and for yourself.  Taking a risk to implement new things - routines, schedules, reports, creates change to the status quo.

This action now becomes about change - improvement and innovation, new ideas and following up on the suggestions/input of others.  Getting people on board with the change is where leadership is required.

Questions to consider when taking a risk:

• why am I taking this risk?  what will the results be?
• what is the difference between new and old?
• who will be impacted?
• what education and follow up is required to make the new 'thing' stick?

If you have considered this during your plan, you have mitigated some of the risk in introducing new things to your team.

Go ahead - take that risk - you will learn from it no matter what!

Voices of Change

Every year, Giant Impact presents the Chik-fil-A Leadercast.
A fabulous full-day simulcast with world-class speakers on leadership.

The theme this year:  Voices of Change will inspire us to use our voice to tell our story and change the world in which we live and work.

This phenomenal day will leave you uplifted, ready to move in new directions and change the way you think and act.

To participate in a Leadercast event near you visit www.leadercast.com.
If you are in the local Essex County Area - visit Windsor Essex Leadercast 2011