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Our Intentions Leadership coach John G. Agno believes that most people need to develop their leadership skills to achieve the success they seek. Coach Agno helps people really know themselves and discover their leadership style. To pay attention to their intentions and gain greater self-awareness, be on-purpose, build strengths and gain a sense of well-being. What is Leadership? Leadership is not just for people at the top. Leadership is a competency that you can learn to expand your perspective, set the context of a goal, understand the dynamics of human behavior and take the initiative to get to where you want to be. The One Thing You Need to Know: ... About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success Leadership Passages: The Personal and Professional Transitions That Make or Break a Leader “The crux of leadership development that works is self-directed learning: intentionally developing or strengthening an aspect of who you are or who you want to be, or both.” Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence Don't Fake It. In today's environment of changing technology and evolving complexity, we don't have to fake it. Yet, we must keep growing our abilities to grasp the success we seek. Learning what we don't know helps us to understand why we do what we do. As we become more self-aware and our perceptions evolve, we can consciously choose how we want to live and work. Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things Right The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior Now, Discover Your Strengths SQ: Connecting With Our Spiritual Intelligence The Leadership Development Paradox Although the debate still rages on whether leadership is learned or innate, there is no doubt that the subject is being taught. When BusinessWeek published its annual survey of executive education in its Oct. 20, 2003 issue, 134 companies from 20 nations reported enrolling more than 21,000 employees in leadership programs, at a cost of $210 million. That's a significant investment in an activity that may or may not produce authentic leaders, or even better managers. A survey of 3,000 leaders and associates in 117 organizations reports that 63% plan to increase spending on leadership development programs that 75% of HR executives surveyed don't give a high quality rating to. The paradox of spending more on what's not working is due to leadership development being seen as a classroom event. Yet, you don't fix people by sending them off to training. Managers need ongoing coaching to get in the habit of being good leaders. Harvard Business Review on Leadership (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) The survey reported that two-thirds of the respondents said leaders at their company exhibited at least one potentially fatal flaw or "derailer"--a personality attribute that interferes with leadership effectiveness. Derailers are more personality-oriented than skill-based and are more difficult to change than teaching someone a new skill. For all the money spent on them, we still don't know if leadership programs work. Nor do we know which ones are successful. Leadership development is still in its infancy. We are only beginning to look in a truly scientific way at how leaders develop-we have virtually no longitudinal studies on leadership comparable to long-term healthcare studies. Still, there is no question about the importance of educating leaders. For the most part, leadership education programs receive positive reviews from the people who participate in them, and companies seem to feel the investment is worthwhile. Bottom Line: Leadership development is self-development. Learning how to not micromanage, not be overly concrete, not fail to explicitly state expectations and other unproductive inter-personal behavior only happens through the increased self-awareness gained in a personal coaching or mentoring relationship. You, too, can increase your chances of succeeding in business and life when you learn from a coach or mentor – someone who once stood in your place and overcame all obstacles to earn success and happiness. The common thread thoughout history has been that you learn mastery performance from the master. Whatever quality or skill you want to develop, you "get it" by hanging out with people who have it. What is Leadership Development? Albert Einstein once said, 'We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles but no personality. It cannot lead; it can only serve.' Leaders know and science has discovered emotionality's deeper purpose: the timeworn mechanisms of emotion allow two human beings to receive the contents of each other's minds. Emotion is the messenger of love; it is the vehicle that carries every signal from one brimming heart to another. Leadership happens in a series of interactive conversations that pull people toward becoming comfortable with the language of personal responsibility and commitment. That is why leadership development is not an event. It is a process of participating in respectful conversations where the leader recognizes his or her own feelings and those of others in building safe and trusting relationships. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't For more information, please visit: www.MentoringandCoaching.com Sources: -Leadership Paradox by Warren Bennis in October 1, 2004, CIO/Insight -Assessment of the state of corporate leadership by Bridgeville, PA-based Development Dimensions International You're in Charge--Now What?: The 8 Point Plan The Leadership Challenge, 3rd Edition Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader Leadership and Self Deception: Getting Out of the Box Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead... But Gutsy Girls Do: Nine Secrets Every Working Woman Must Know The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable PeopleSmart The On-Purpose Business: Doing More of What You Do Best More Profitably Spiral Dynamics : Mastering Values, Leadership, and Change (Developmental Management) Products mentioned include:
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