Creating Tomorrow

“…Establishing your authenticity as a leader is a two-part challenge.

You consistently have to match your words and deeds; otherwise, followers will never accept you as authentic. To get people to follow you, though, you also have to get them to relate to you. This means presenting different faces to different audiences-a requirement that many people find hard to square with authenticity. But authenticity is not the product of manipulation. It accurately reflects aspects of the leader’s inner self, so it can’t be an act. Authentic leaders seem to know which personality traits they should reveal to whom, and when.

Highly attuned to their environments, authentic leaders rely on an intuition born of formative, sometimes harsh experiences to understand the expectations and concerns of the people they seek to influence. They retain their distinctiveness as individuals, yet they know how to win acceptance in strong corporate and social cultures and how to use elements of those cultures as a basis for radical change…”

(Source: Managing Authenticity - The Paradox of Great Leadership by Rob Goffee & Gareth Jones)

 

Dear Friends,

We’re coming down to the wire with 2007 now. Time for me to reflect on the challenges and victories of the past year, as well as focus on the goals I will set for myself in 2008.

For me 2007 meant the 2nd full year of living my dream of self-employment, and - because of that - leading a life extremely different from the one I had lead for the previous 20-odd years.

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“For every nine people who denounce innovation, only one will encourage it… For every nine people who do things the way they have always been done, only one will ever wonder if there is a better way. For every nine people who stand in line in front of a locked building, only one will ever come around and check the back door.

Our progress as a species rests squarely on the shoulders of that tenth person. The nine are satisfied with things they are told are valuable. Person 10 determines for himself what has value.”

 (source: Za Rinpoche and Ashley Nebelsieck)

Dear Friends,

It’s almost Christmas, so I feel no shame in sharing this new technical “toy” I’ve discovered. 

In 2008 anyone interested in having a look at my upcoming (complimentary) teleseminars and open workshops can simply have a look at the CT_Calendar listed under the “Pages” along the sidebar at the right.

You’ll find a copy of this widget there. It allows you to access the descriptions of all of my upcoming events in a click, as well as register for any event relevant for you.

Trina

Online Event Registration - Powered by www.eventbrite.com

 

Dear Friends,

One of the regular stops on my blog tour is Penelope Trunk’s “Brazen Careerist“.

Penelope also writes a blog for Yahoo! Finance. That’s where I discovered this list of ways to be(come) a better delegator:

1. Get over your perfectionist streak.

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Dear Friends, 

In the May 6th entry on the weblog he co-hosts, Diversity Matters™, Richard Friend outlined six diversity essentials for people in leadership positions:

1. Inspire a shared vision of inclusion by knowing about others.

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Dear Friends,

The following insightful tips are from the regular newsletter of time management expert Rodger Constandse. If you’d like to leave a comment re these tips on his blog, click here.

Trina

Key #1 - You Interview For Your Next Job Every Day

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Dear Friends,

1. Limit the overall number of resolutions you make! Having a long list of resolutions does not mean you are more serious about manifesting change in your personal or professional life. It just puts more stress on you, and unnecessarily distracts energy from the things you really want (or need) to accomplish. 
2. Be honest with yourself about why you really want to achieve each specific goal. Make sure the issues you choose to focus on truly reflect your values and beliefs in life, as well as the purpose you would like to fulfill.
3. Be sure you are addressing the real issues in your life in defining your goals, and not simply doctoring a symptom for something much larger that you are reluctant to confront.
4. Make sure all your goals are S.M.A.R.T. In other words, all your goals should be Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Time-Based.
5. Divide your goal(s) into tangible steps and concrete phases. This will give you significant short- and mid-term milestones - and plenty of motivation all along the way.
6. Decide beforehand how YOU define success for each step/phase/overall goal. Remember that you are doing what you are doing for yourself, so do not measure your progress using someone else’s measuring stick.
7. Based on the type of person you are, decide what tools and strategies will be most effective in helping you stay on course to reach your goals
8. Recruit personal or professional “cheerleaders” who will constructively encourage and motivate you along the way.
9. Do not be afraid to “fall off the wagon” from time to time during the coming twelve months - just do not forget to get back on it again!
10. Things will happen during the year that you can’t foresee right now, so do not hesitate to adjust/revise your goals accordingly.

Trina 

* This list was taken from my upcoming teleseminar, “From Resolutions to Results in 2008″

Dear Friends,Last Friday I had the opportunity to attend a forum on diversity management in Cologne here in Germany.Germany has historically been a much more racially and culturally homogenic country than the USA, and has its own troubled history to come to terms with. Therefore, the concrete challenges with which people are faced here vary somewhat from the situation in the States.

In the end, however, exclusion has the same innate sources no matter what the backstory, as well as the same negative impact on the groups that are marginalized by the mainstream - and on society as a whole.

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