{"id":357,"date":"2011-09-25T14:58:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T18:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cld\/?p=357"},"modified":"2011-09-25T14:59:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T18:59:14","slug":"three-minute-leadership-on-leadership-a-commitment-to-what-hasnt-happened-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2011\/09\/three-minute-leadership-on-leadership-a-commitment-to-what-hasnt-happened-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: On Leadership – A Commitment to What Hasn’t Happened Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

To:\u00a0 The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning
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\nAn unknown author writes:\u00a0 \u201cThe language we use to communicate with one another is like a knife. In the hands of a careful and skilled surgeon, a knife can work to do great good. But in the hands of a careless or ignorant person, a knife can cause great harm. Exactly as it is with our words.\u201d These words are poignant reminds of the power and importance of the leader’s communication as they guide and give inspiration to their organization and the people they serve. Jill Rosenfeld in her article, Lead Softly, But Carry a Big Baton<\/em>, shares symphony conductor Roger Nierenberg’s thoughts on how effective leaders bring people to new levels of performance.<\/p>\n

“By giving direction, not criticism.\u00a0 Direction points to the way things could be.\u00a0 Criticism, on the other hand points to way things were.\u00a0 It doesn’t enlighten people.\u00a0 Direction tells people what to do, whereas criticism tell people what not to do.\u00a0 Here’s a criticism:\u00a0 ‘The percussion section is playing too loudly.\u00a0 A direction is, ‘Make sure the audience can hear the woodwinds.’\u00a0 It’s much harder to process a ‘do not’ instruction that a ‘do’ instruction, because the ‘do not’ means you have to locate a behavior, inhibit it, figure out what to replace it with, and then replace it.\u00a0 The ‘do’ instruction means something more direct. ‘Do this.’\u00a0 You’re offering a new vision, a different tool.\u00a0 Leadership is about preparation.\u00a0 It means actually inventing a whole new experience and then communicating it to the people you work with.\u00a0 If your team executes your direction and the results improve, then people begin to put their trust in you.\u00a0 That’s how you gain credibility as a leader.”<\/p>\n

Nierenberg writes “No one wants to underperform, yet so many people do.”\u00a0 To achieve a higher level of performance great leaders “communicate a sense of how things could be, and show people how to achieve that vision.”\u00a0 Great leaders guide and inspire people to see greater possibilities within themselves.\u00a0 John Wooden, renowned Ohio State basketball coach, reminds us: “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” Re-energize yourself and those whom you serve this week with messages that focus on ‘doing’, what needs to be done and change the world. As William Shakespeare wrote:\u00a0 “Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.”\u00a0 And have fun doing it!<\/p>\n

Have a beautiful day and a magnificent week!!!<\/p>\n

Mike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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