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Kamis, 29 September 2011

4 GAYA KEPEMIMPINAN

Gaya kepemimpinan memiliki empat kerangka kerja yaitu perilaku direktif, perilaku suportif, perilaku partisipatif dan perilaku orientasi prestai. Berikut ini adalah penjelasan dari empat kerangkakerja yang sudah disebut di atas:
a.       - Perilaku direktif
Perilaku direktif meliputi perencanaan, pengoraganisasian, pengawasan, dan koordinasi kegiatan karyawan yang dilakukan oleh atasannya.
b.      - Perilaku suportif
Perilaku suportif meliputi memberikan pertimbangan terhadap kebutuhan dari karyawan, menunjjkan perhatiannya pada kesejahteraan, dan menciptakan lingkungan yang menyenangkan.
c.       - Perilaku partisipatif
Perilaku partisipatif dicirikan oleh pemberian informasi dan menekankan pada konsultasi dengan karyawan, dan menggunakan gagasan bawahan dalam memutuskan keputusan yang berkaitan dengannya meskipun pengambilan keputusan masih berada ditangan pimpinan.
d.      - Peilaku berorientasi prestasi
Peilaku berorientasi prestasi meliputi menetapkan tugas-tugas yang menantang dengan harapan agar karyawan bekerja dengan kinerja yang tinggi dan secara terus-menerus berupaya meningkatkan kinerja.

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Emotional Reactions Can Sabotage Teamwork
The pressure of work, deadlines and interpersonal conflict can cause employees and managers to react negatively toward each other. And when those reactions are emotionally charged, they can serve to sabotage teamwork. Your team members are intelligent and capable, but are they emotionally intelligent? It's difficult to measure emotional intelligence during the interview process, and many otherwise-competent managers and employees have low Emotional Intelligence Quotient (EQ) levels, which can result in poor teamwork, low morale and excessive employee turnover.
Emotional Intelligence is Learned Behavior
Reactive behavior tends to be destructive, but it can be understood and changed. Emotional intelligence entails learning to convert destructive emotional reactions into constructive responses that build relationships and teamwork. Our emotional intelligence workshops create awareness and provide tools for breaking old patterns and learning new behaviors. Anyone can become more emotionally intelligent with the right training and practice.
Training Managers & Supervisors to Manage Intelligently
Emotionally intelligent managers and supervisors are your greatest assets. They solve problems, resolve conflict and build teamwork. On the other hand, managers and supervisors with low EQs continually sabotage their own efforts to build teamwork. Low-EQ managers fail to tune into the emotions of their employees, and in their efforts to solve problems and improve productivity, they tend to alienate the members of their teams. Often, the place to begin emotional intelligence training is with managers and supervisors.
Many "tough" managers pride themselves on their firmness and directness. While some elements of their style may work well, these managers are generally unaware of how their low-EQ style alienates employees and actually serves to lower productivity. Conversely, "soft" managers often pride themselves on their empathy and caring leadership styles. But they often fail to realize how their failure to address difficult situations directly and their tendency to avoid conflict reduce employee respect and lower team morale.
Emotional Intelligence
Our emotional intelligence training workshops and coaching programs for managers and supervisors are designed to increase awareness and break the behavioral habits that sabotage team productivity.
Four Components of Emotional Intelligence
The four primary components of emotional intelligence are self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management. People with high EQs possess strong skills in each of these four areas, and they practice these skills daily. Our emotional intelligence workshops and coaching programs build a solid framework for understanding each component, and they provide effective tools for daily practice.
Speaking the Language of Emotional Intelligence
For many people, emotional intelligence is an unfamiliar concept. Along with a new framework for thinking about intelligence, we introduce concepts and terminology that view emotionally-intelligent behaviors as essential workplace skills. We discuss many of the new discoveries in the field of neurology and brain research and relate these ideas to daily workplace behavior. After participating in our training and coaching programs, your managers and employees will have the tools to improve their EQ, and to communicate effectively about the process and their progress.

I AM THE LEADER,,,,,!!!!

Your Leaders Are Your Organization's Role Models
Are your managers and supervisors setting the right example as role models for the organization? Many organizations today are experiencing a leadership gap within their management team. Managers and supervisors may possess the job skills to get things done and the control skills to keep employees in line, but if they don't have strong leadership skills the leadership gap can have devastating effects on the organization. An Us vs. Them attitude can develop between employees and management, resulting in the Dilbert Syndrome. When managers lack effective leadership skills, then teamwork, motivation and productivity always suffer. The solution: a leadership training program for your managers and supervisors.
Management vs. Leadership
Management vs. Leadership
Management is the science of getting the job done efficiently through people. It involves coordinated processes, controls and the execution of tasks and projects to accomplish the organization's mission. Leadership is the art of inspiring and empowering people to see the vision and do their jobs effectively. Not all managers are leaders and not all leaders are managers.
Managers and leaders
The best managers are also great leaders, effectively applying the science of management along with the art of leadership. People naturally follow leaders out of trust, respect and personal motivation. Leaders set the right example and bring out the best in the people who follow them.
Growing a winning team
Effective leaders are connected, engaged and have a passion for their mission. They build teams and instill a vision, motivation and passion in the teams they lead. Leaders are coaches, helping the members of their teams to excel and grow. They freely give positive & negative feedback to team members, building skills and confidence. Effective leaders build winning teams that take pride in their performance.
Our role is to help each of your managers and supervisors to develop effective leadership skills. We provide the training and tools to equip your management team to lead your organization to new levels of performance, motivation and productivity. Contact us to schedule a leadership development workshop to make every manager and supervisor in your organization an effective leader.
 
The Value of Leadership Training
Managers are often promoted through the ranks because they have strong job skills and they have a proven track record for getting results. But unless they have received effective leadership training, their people skills and their team-building skills may be sorely lacking. Typical in-house management training programs tend to focus on EEO issues and the need for upholding policies and procedures. What is often missing in these training programs is a focus on leadership and the skills necessary to build a strong, motivated and productive team. When you consider the results that strong leader-managers can achieve vs. managers who lack leadership skills, the value of effective leadership training is extremely high.
Customized Leadership Training for Your Team
We can customize a leadership development workshop to specifically meet the needs of your management team. In designing the workshop, Roger Reece will work with you on the phone to gather information about your organization, your managers, and your training objectives. You will then receive a complete proposal, including a detailed workshop outline and agenda. The cost is surprisingly low when compared to sending individuals to canned, public seminars, but the value is significantly higher. Your managers and supervisors are your management team, and by giving them focused, customized training together as a group, it ensures consistency and targeted effectiveness.
A One-Time Training Seminar / Workshop
or an Ongoing Leadership Development Program
We can design a single leadership development workshop for all your managers and supervisors, or we can design different workshops for managers at different levels. The members of your executive team have different training needs than your front-line supervisors, so in designing a program for you, we take the size of your organization, management levels and management experience into account. If you are looking for a comprehensive training program, we can structure a five-day workshop, or an ongoing program with half or full-day sessions on a quarterly basis.
Start Small and Let it Grow
If you're not sure you're ready for a comprehensive leadership training program, schedule a half-day workshop and then measure the results. You can make it a standalone event, or make it a part of an annual management meeting. When you see the positive results, we believe you will want to build on the foundation we create in that initial workshop. Your managers and supervisors have developed habits over the course of their careers. Some of those habits are actually serving to sabotage teamwork and productivity. Reverse the trend and start building effective leadership habits in your management team. Even a single half-day workshop will bring immediate payback. Let it grow into multiple sessions and you'll see even greater results.
Build a Cohesive Leadership Team
In some organizations the managers have formed a strong, cohesive leadership team, working together to lead the organization to greatness. In other organizations, they are simply a group of managers, running their departments, and don't possess the characteristics of a team. If you want to build a great organization, your managers must function as a team of leaders. Let us help you build that leadership team. We can structure a workshop or a series of workshops designed to pull your managers together and give them the vision and skills to become a cohesive leadership team, leading your organization to greatness.
Leadership Training is a Sound Investment
Your managers and supervisors are the role models for your organization. Give them the training and the tools to model leadership and to build the spirit of teamwork throughout your organization. Your investment in a leadership development seminar / workshop is a sound investment, and is perhaps the best investment you can make. Contact us today for a price quote and a detailed outline for a customized training program for your management team.

Rabu, 28 September 2011

7 secrets to a great life

7 SECRETS To a Great Life

By Kathy Gates
A great life doesn’t happen by accident. A great life is the result of
allocating your time, energy, thoughts, and hard work towards what you want
your life to be. Stop setting yourself up for stress and failure, and start
setting up your life to support success and ease. A great life is the result
of using the 24/7 you get in a creative and thoughtful way, instead of just
what comes next. Customize these “secrets” to fit your own needs and style,
and start creating your own great life today!
1. S – Simplify. A great life is the result of simplifying your life.
People often misinterpret what simplify means. It’s not a way to remove work
from your life. When you focus on simplifying your life, you free up energy
and time for the work that you enjoy and the purpose for which you are here.
In order to create a great life, you will have to make room for it in yours
first.
2. E – Effort. A great life is the result of your best effort. Creating a
great life requires that you make some adjustments. It may mean
re-evaluating how you spend your time, or choosing to spend your money in a
different way. It may mean looking for new ways to spend your energy that
coincide with your particular definition of a great life. Life will reward
your best effort.
3. C – Create Priorities. A great life is the result of creating
priorities. It’s easy to spend your days just responding to the next thing
that gets your attention, instead of intentionally using the time, energy and
money you have in a way that’s important to you. Focus on removing the
obstacles that get in the way of you making sure you are honoring your
priorities.
4. R – Reserves. A great life is the result of having reserves – reserves of things,
time, space, energy, money. With reserves, you acquire far more than you need
- not 6 months living expenses, but 5 years worth; not 15 minutes of free time, 1 day.
Reserves are important because they reduce the
fear of consequences, and that allows you to make decisions based on what you
really want instead of what the fear decides for you.
5. E – Eliminate distractions. A great life is the result of eliminating
distractions. Up to 75% of your mental energy can be tied up in things that
are draining and distracting you. Eliminating distractions can be a difficult
concept to many people, since they haven’t really considered that there is
another way to live. Look around at someone’s life you admire. What
do they do that you would like to incorporate into your own life? Ask them
how they did it. Find ways to free up your mental energy for things that are
more important to you.
6. T – Thoughts. A great life is the result of controlling your thoughts so
that you accept and allow for the possibility that it actually can happen to
you! Your belief in the outcome will directly dictate how successful you
are. Motivated people have specific goals and look for ways to achieve them.
Believing there is a solution to the same old problems you encounter year
after year is vitally important to creating a life that you love. Whatever
you think and believe, you create. Listen to what you’re telling yourself,
and adjust that voice if you need to.
7. S – Start! A great life is the result of starting. There’s the old
saying everyone’s familiar with “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a
single step.” In order to even move from the couch to the refrigerator, you
have to start. There’s no better time to start than today. Don’t wait for a
raise, or until the kids get older, or the weather is better. Today, right
now, is the right day to start to take a step in the direction of your
heart’s desires. It’s what you do TODAY that will make a difference in your
life tomorrow.

And than get goal setting ...in power,

Goal Setting – Powerful Written Goals In 7 Easy Steps!

by Gene Donohue
The car is packed and you’re ready to go, your first ever cross-country trip. From the White Mountains of New Hampshire to the rolling hills of San Francisco, you’re going to see it all.
You put the car in gear and off you go. First stop, the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
A little while into the trip you need to check the map because you’ve reached an intersection you’re not familiar with. You panic for a moment because you realize you’ve forgotten your map.
But you say the heck with it because you know where you’re going. You take a right, change the radio station and keep on going. Unfortunately, you never reach your destination.
Too many of us treat goal setting the same way. We dream about where we want to go,
but we don’t have a map to get there.
What is a map? In essence, the written word.
What is the difference between a dream and a goal? Once again, the written word.
But we need to do more then simply scribble down some ideas on a piece of paper. Our
goals need to be complete and focused, much like a road map, and that is the purpose
behind the rest of this article.
If you follow the 7 steps I’ve outlined below you will be well on your way to becoming an
expert in building the road maps to your goals.
1. Make sure the goal you are working for is something you really want, not just something that sounds good.
I remember when I started taking baseball umpiring more seriously. I began to set my sites on the NCAA Division 1 level. Why? I new there was no way I could get onto the road to the major leagues, so the next best thing was the highest college level. Pretty cool, right. Wrong.
Sure, when I was talking to people about my umpiring goals it sounded pretty good, and many people where quite impressed. Fortunately I began to see through my own charade.
I have been involved in youth sports for a long time. I’ve coached, I’ve been the President of leagues, I’ve been a treasurer and I’m currently a District Commissioner for Cal Ripken Baseball. Youth sports is where I belong, it is where my heart belongs, not on some college diamond where the only thing at stake is a high draft spot.
When setting goals it is very important to remember that your goals must be consistent with your values.

2. A goal can not contradict any of your other goals.

For example, you can’t buy a $750,000 house if your income goal is only $50,000 per year. This is called non-integrated thinking and will sabotage all of the hard work you put into your goals. Non-integrated thinking can also hamper your everyday thoughts as well. We should continually strive to eliminate contradictory ideas from our thinking.

3. Develop goals in the 6 areas of life:

Family and Home
Financial and Career
Spiritual and Ethical
Physical and Health
Social and Cultural
Mental and Educational
Setting goals in each area of life will ensure a more balanced life as you begin to examine and change the fundamentals of everyday living. Setting goals in each area of live also helps in eliminating the non-integrated thinking we talked about in the 2nd step.

4. Write your goal in the positive instead of the negative.

Work for what you want, not for what you want to leave behind. Part of the reason why we write down and examine our goals is to create a set of instructions for our subconscious mind to carry out. Your subconscious mind is a very efficient tool, it can not determine right from wrong and it does not judge. It’s only function is to carry out its instructions. The more positive instructions you give it, the more positive results you will get.
Thinking positively in everyday life will also help in your growth as a human being. Don’t limit it to goal setting.

5. Write your goal out in complete detail.

Instead of writing “A new home,” write “A 4,000 square foot contemporary with 4 bedrooms and 3 baths and a view of the mountain on 20 acres of land.
Once again we are giving the subconscious mind a detailed set of instructions to work on. The more information you give it, the more clearer the final outcome becomes. The more precise the outcome, the more efficient the subconscious mind can become.
Can you close your eyes and visualize the home I described above? Walk around the house. Stand on the porch off the master bedroom and see the fog lifting off the mountain. Look down at the garden full of tomatoes, green beans and cucumbers. And off to the right is the other garden full of a mums, carnations and roses. Can you see it? So can your subconscious mind.

6. By all means, make sure your goal is high enough.

Shoot for the moon, if you miss you’ll still be in the stars. Earlier I talked about my umpiring goals and how making it to the top level of college umpiring did not mix with my values. Some of you might be saying that I’m not setting my goals high enough. Not so. I still have very high goals for my umpiring career at the youth level. My ultimate goal is to be chosen to umpire a Babe Ruth World Series and to do so as a crew chief. If I never make it, everything I do to reach that goal will make me a better umpire and a better person. If I make it, but don’t go as a crew chief, then I am still among the top youth umpires in the nation. Shoot for the moon!

7. This is the most important, write down your goals.

Writing down your goals creates the roadmap to your success. Although just the act of writing them down can set the process in motion, it is also extremely important to review your goals frequently. Remember, the more focused you are on your goals the more likely you are to accomplish them.
Sometimes we realize we have to revise a goal as circumstances and other goals change, much like I did with my umpiring. If you need to change a goal do not consider it a failure, consider it a victory as you had the insight to realize something was different.
So your goals are written down.
Now what?
First of all, unless someone is critical to helping you achieve your goal(s), do not freely share your goals with others. The negative attitude from friends, family and neighbors can drag you down quickly. It’s very important that your self-talk (the thoughts in your head) are positive.
Reviewing your goals daily is a crucial part of your success and must become part of your routine. Each morning when you wake up read your list of goals that are written in the positive. Visualize the completed goal, see the new home, smell the leather seats in your new car, feel the cold hard cash in your hands. Then each night, right before you go to bed, repeat the process. This process will start both your subconscious and conscious mind on working towards the goal. This will also begin to replace any of the negative self-talk you may have and replace it with positive self-talk.
Every time you make a decision during the day, ask yourself this question, “Does it take me closer to, or further from my goal.” If the answer is “closer to,” then you’ve made the right decision. If the answer is “further from,” well, you know what to do.
If you follow this process everyday you will be on your way to achieving unlimited success in every aspect of your life

how to get success our goal

Creating S.M.A.R.T. Goals

Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Realistic
Timely
Specific: A specific goal has a much greater chance of being accomplished than a general goal. To set a specific goal you must answer the six “W” questions:
*Who:      Who is involved?
*What:     What do I want to accomplish?
*Where:    Identify a location.
*When:     Establish a time frame.
*Which:    Identify requirements and constraints.
*Why:      Specific reasons, purpose or benefits of accomplishing the goal.
EXAMPLE:  A general goal would be, “Get in shape.” But a specific goal would say, “Join a health club and workout 3 days a week.”

Measurable - Establish concrete criteria for measuring progress toward the attainment of each goal you set.
When you measure your progress, you stay on track, reach your target dates, and experience the exhilaration of achievement that spurs you on to continued effort required to reach your goal.
To determine if your goal is measurable, ask questions such as……
How much? How many?
How will I know when it is accomplished?


Attainable – When you identify goals that are most important to you, you begin to figure out ways you can make them come true. You develop the attitudes, abilities, skills, and financial capacity to reach them. You begin seeing previously overlooked opportunities to bring yourself closer to the achievement of your goals.
You can attain most any goal you set when you plan your steps wisely and establish a time frame that allows you to carry out those steps. Goals that may have seemed far away and out of reach eventually move closer and become attainable, not because your goals shrink, but because you grow and expand to match them. When you list your goals you build your self-image. You see yourself as worthy of these goals, and develop the traits and personality that allow you to possess them.

Realistic- To be realistic, a goal must represent an objective toward which you are both willing and able to work. A goal can be both high and realistic; you are the only one who can decide just how high your goal should be. But be sure that every goal represents substantial progress.
A high goal is frequently easier to reach than a low one because a low goal exerts low motivational force. Some of the hardest jobs you ever accomplished actually seem easy simply because they were a labor of love.

Timely – A goal should be grounded within a time frame. With no time frame tied to it there’s no sense of urgency. If you want to lose 10 lbs, when do you want to lose it by? “Someday” won’t work. But if you anchor it within a timeframe, “by May 1st”, then you’ve set your unconscious mind into motion to begin working on the goal.
Your goal is probably realistic if you truly believe that it can be accomplished. Additional ways to know if your goal is realistic is to determine if you have accomplished anything similar in the past or ask yourself what conditions would have to exist to accomplish this goal.
T can also stand for Tangible – A goal is tangible when you can experience it with one of the senses, that is, taste, touch, smell, sight or hearing.
When your goal is tangible you have a better chance of making it specific and measurable and thus attainable

Selasa, 27 September 2011

3 tip tentang "pentingnya VISI dalam dunia bisnis"

Agar bisnis anda sukses, anda butuh visi. Visi ini yang akan mengarahkan kemana bisnis atau perusahaan anda melangkah. Tidak hanya untuk bisnis offline, bisnis internet pun perlu memiliki visi. Supaya tujuan yang ingin dicapai menjadi jelas. Sehingga anda bisa mengerahkan segenap tenaga, fokus, dan kemampuan anda untuk menuju ke visi tersebut.
Visi adalah tujuan yang ada di depan sana. Yang membuat anda terus tersenyum dan optimis bahwa anda akan sampai di sana, sehebat apapun tantangannya. Visi tersebut yang akan terus membakar semangat anda agar terus maju dan ACTION. Ya, terus ACTION sampai tercapai…
Sebelum masuk ke tips membuat visi bisnis, saya ingin cerita. Saat awal saya merintis bisnis internet  saya memiliki visi agar banyak orang bisa memiliki bisnis internet dan menikmati hasil dari internet. Mereka menikmati betapa menyenangkannya membangun dan menjalankan bisnis di internet. Bisa menikmati kehidupan yang bebas tanpa terkerangkeng oleh jarak, tempat, dan waktu. Bisa menjalankan bisnis dari manapun dan kapanpun.
Sekarang visi itu mulai tercapai. Sudah ribuan pebisnis internet baru yang lahir dari mengikuti program pembelajaran bisnis internet yang saya buat. Hal ini sangat membahagiakan. Namun visi ini belum selesai. Masih banyak orang yang belum mengalami hal yang saya inginkan tersebut. Masih banyak orang yang jangankan untuk menjalankan bisnis internet, membuka internet pun tidak bisa.
Mungkin anda, saya, dan kawan anda senang memiliki bisnis di internet. Bisa terus berbisnis tanpa harus capek kemana-mana. Namun masih banyak lagi lainnya yang tak bisa senikmat kita. Karena itu, kita wajib bersyukur atas nikmat yang sudah kita terima dan tak henti berupaya untuk terus ACTION agar visi bisnis yang sudah dibuat bisa lekas tercapai. Harapannya, dengan begitu makin banyak orang yang bisa kita bantu untuk bisa memperbaiki kualitas hidupnya.

Bagaimana Membuat Visi Bisnis Internet

Pertanyaan mengenai “bagaimana membuat visi bisnis?” ini sering ditanyakan oleh mereka yang punya bisnis atau perusahaan. Mereka ingin membuat visi perusahaan atau visi organisasi. Namun tak hanya mereka sebenarnya yang membutuhkan visi. Setiap orang harus memiliki visi dalam hidup supaya lebih terarah tujuan hidupnya.
Visi yang jelas sangat membantu anda untuk membuat keputusan yang searah dengan tujuan anda. Makin anda lekatkan visi itu dalam keseharian ACTION anda, saya jamin visi itu pasti tercapai. Berikut cara atau tips untuk membuat visi.  Tiga tips membuat visi ini tidak hanya terbatas untuk membuat visi bisnis atau perusahaan, namun bisa juga diterapkan untuk membuat visi organisasi atau visi hidup anda bahkan.
Pertama, tetapkan jangka waktu. Visi perlu memiliki batasan waktu yang jelas. Apakah satu tahun, lima tahun atau bahkan 10 tahun mendatang.
Kedua, bayangkan ingin seperti apa bisnis internet anda di masa mendatang. Pencapaian apa yang ingin diraih bisnis anda di masa mendatang? Kalau untuk bisnis, tolak ukur pencapaiannya bisa dari sisi profit, pendapatan, jumlah konsumen, atau market share. Upayakan secara jelas untuk menyebutkan angkanya. Misal, dalam satu tahun mendatang visi perusahaan anda adalah meraih pendapatan Rp 100 Milyar.
Ketiga, diskusikan dengan orang di sekitar anda. Bisa dengan partner bisnis atau orang-orang kepercayaan anda. Mintalah pendapat mereka dan diskusikan juga apa yang harus di-ACTION-kan untuk mencapai visi tersebut.
Tidak sulit kan?
Berikutnya, ACTION!
Visi adalah kompas anda dalam melangkah. Makin jelas visi anda, dan konsisten anda mengarahkan ACTION anda pada visi tersebut, pasti visi itu akan terlaksana. Visi ibarat doa yang selalu anda panjatkan pada-Nya saat beribadah. Yang selalu anda idamkan dan wajib anda usahakan dengan tindakan nyata